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Title:

Ephraim Dyer IV Collection, ca. 1842, of the sketches of Sherman Day

Dates:

Circa 1842

Abstract:

These are the original sketches used for the engravings in Day's 1843 publication, "Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia). They are finely detailed renderings of public and private structures and landscape throughout Pennsylvania. Accompanying these sketches are 150 pages of photocopied letters of Day, from originals at Yale University. These were used by Smith in his book.

Call #:

Mss.917.48.D33

Extent:

0.5 Linear feet

Subjects:

Architecture -- Pennsylvania. | Art | Day, Sherman,1806-1884. | Delaware Indians | Engravings. | General Correspondence | Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania | Landscape -- Pennsylvania. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Penn, William, 1644-1718 | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania History | Seneca | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Social Life and Custom

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Title:

William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865

Dates:

1840-1865

Abstract:

A product of the distinctive culture of reform in antebellum Philadelphia, William Parker Foulke was the scion of the old elite who put a conservative stamp on social change. Trained as an attorney, Foulke spent much of his adult life engaging his deep amateur interest in natural history and mental philosophy and devoting himself to a variety of civic and philanthropic causes, including the colonization of formerly enslaved persons, penal reform, and cultural institutions in his native Philadelphia. The Foulke Papers are the product of the diverse social and intellectual interests of the Philadelphia attorney and philanthropist William Parker Foulke. Consisting primarily of correspondence, notes, and essays, the collection touches on Foulke's many interests. The collection includes numerous lectures delivered by Foulke along with material on the Lancaster County Prison, New York Prison Association, and the Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons; notebooks concerning prisons and prisoners, including a 1846-1852 diary, and a listing of prisoners, their race, age, crime, sentence, and observations; a diary concerning the American Colonization Society (1852); a copy of an arctic diary (1853-1854) by John Wall Wilson, in the hand of Isaac Israel Hayes, which recounts much of the journey aboard the brig Advance, commanded by Elisha Kent Kane. There is also a list of buildings (1820-1841) designed by John Haviland, and material on the American Academy of Music, Philadelphia.

Call #:

Mss.B.F826

Extent:

3.75 Linear feet

Subjects:

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West -- Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Archaeology -- Pennsylvania | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration | Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bringhurst, ----- | Cadwalader, John | Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Cassin, John, 1813-1869 | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs -- New Jersey | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilwor | Grinnell, Henry | Hart, George H. | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Landis, Henry D. | Law | LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Legal Records | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Liberia -- Description and travel | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyceums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Miscellaneous | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Native America | New York Prison Association | Olden, Charles Smith | Packard, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus) (1794-1867) | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Political Correspondence | Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania | Prisons -- Design and construction | Prisons -- New York (State) | Prisons -- Pennsylvania | Reformers -- Pennsylvania | Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1808-1866 | Science and technology | Sheafer, P. W. (Peter Wenrick), 1819-1891 | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Wilson, John Wall

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Title:

Jasper Yeates Papers

Dates:

1738-1910

Abstract:

Jasper Yeates (1745-1817) was a lawyer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, one of the state's most successful colonial-era legal practitioners. After moving to Lancaster County in 1765, he became active in colonial and early federal affairs, first by supporting the Revolutionary struggle and later by serving as one of Lancaster's delegates to the State Convention of 1787, which ratified the U.S. Constitution. The Jasper Yeates Papers (1728-1910, bulk 1760-1816) consist mainly of correspondence and business and court/legal records related to the Yeates family. The bulk of this three linear foot collection reflect Yeates' personal life as husband, father, son, and friend, as well as his professional life as lawyer and judge in Pennsylvania; much of the material dated after Yeates' death was created by children and/or grandchildren.

Call #:

Mss.Ms.Coll.151

Extent:

3 Linear feet

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Title:

Lambert Cadwalader Papers

Dates:

1779-1798

Abstract:

This collection of letters, while tiny, is actually quite rich in content. Cadwalader wrote to Samuel Meredith, a politician and fellow Revolutionary War soldier, concerning the war, his real estate holdings in Philadelphia, and the local political climate. The seven items are dated from October 5, 1779 to March 9, 1798, during which Cadwalader served in the military, reentered politics, got married, and then retired from public service.

Call #:

Mss.B.C625.1

Extent:

0.25 Linear feet

Subjects:

American Revolution | Business and Skilled Trades | Cadwalader, Lambert | Estaing, Charles Henri, Comte d', 1729-1794 | General Correspondence | Inoculation | Land and Speculation | Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Pennsylvania. Militia | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Smallpox | Taxation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century

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Title:

Kane Family Papers

Dates:

1745-1955

Abstract:

A collection of letters, legal papers and financial records of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia family. Spanning 1745-1955, detailed are the legal cases and political advocacy work of John Kintzing Kane (1795-1858), Robert Patterson Kane (1827-1906), and Francis Fisher Kane (1866-1955). Also includes correspondence, architectural drawings, and photograph albums of the Cope family. Robert Patterson Kane's daughter Eliza Middleton Kane (1863-1952) married the Philadelphia architect Walter Cope (1860-1902) in 1893. The APS papers of Elisha Kent Kane are in call no. B K132.

Call #:

Mss.Ms.Coll.115

Extent:

56 Linear feet

Subjects:

Antebellum Politics | Architects. | Architectural drawings. | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. | Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bills (financial). | Biographies. | Briefs. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. | Commonplace Book | Cope, Eliza Middleton Kane, 1863-1952 | Cope, Walter, 1860-1902 | Deeds. | Diaries. | Diplomas. | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Girard Bank. | Haiti | Indian Rights Association. | Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. | Institutional Records | Insurance policies. | Italy -- Commerce. | Kane, Robert Patterson, 1827-1 | Law | Law firms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Lawyers -- Pennsylvania. | Lawyers. | Legal Records | Letterbooks. | Manuscripts (for publication). | Marriage and Family Life | Mormons -- Utah -- History. | Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Expulsion of the Mormons. | Notebooks | Notes. | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Photograph albums | Political Correspondence | Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Prison reformers -- United States. | Prisons -- Pennsylvania. | Receipts. | Religion | Reports. | Saint George Society -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Social Life and Custom | Social reformers -- United States. | Trade | Trials (Espionage) -- United States. | Trials. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | United States -- Commerce. | Ute Indians | Ute Indians -- Removal | Various authors

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Title:

Burd-Shippen Papers

Dates:

1708-1792

Abstract:

James Burd (1726-1793) was well-known in colonial Pennsylvania through his role in the French and Indian War, as well as his connections to many of the colony's leading families (most notably the Shippen family). Initially starting out as a merchant in Philadelphia, Burd became increasingly involved with colonial affairs after moving to Lancaster County with his family in 1752. It would be on the frontier where Burd would make his mark first as a soldier, and later as a magistrate. The Burd-Shippen Papers consist mainly of letters and business documents sent to James Burd, with the bulk of the collection relating to the French and Indian War, 1754-1763, in which Burd served as an officer commanding troops at Fort Augusta and elsewhere. The collection reflects all aspects of Burd's life in Pennsylvania as a merchant, soldier, and magistrate; as well as his involvement with the Shippen family professionally and personally. Intermixed with items sent to Burd are receipts to his wife Sarah Shippen Burd, and correspondence between Edward Shippen and James Hamilton regarding land matters and Indian affairs in Lancaster.

Call #:

Mss.B.B892

Extent:

6.5 Linear feet

Subjects:

Account books. | Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Colonial Politics | Court calendars -- Pennsylvania. | Diaries | Family Correspondence | Fort Augusta (Pa.) | Fort Duquesne | Fort Granville (Pa.) | Fort Hunter | Fort Pitt (Pa.) | Fort William Henry (N.Y.) | Fortification -- Pennsylvania. | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Hambright, John | Huntar, Alexander. | Iroquois Indians | Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History | Land and Speculation | Lardner, Lynford, 1715-1774 | Meteorology -- Pennsylvania -- Observations | Military History | Military supplies. | Miscellaneous | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Equipment and supplies. | Pennsylvania History | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce | Political Correspondence | Seven Years' War | Shippenburg Library Company | Surveying and Maps | Tilghman, James, 1716-1793 | Trade | Travel Narratives and Journals | Trent, William, 1715-1787? | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States. Army. Supplies and stores

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Title:

Thomas Penn correspondence, 1747-1771, with James Hamilton

Dates:

1747-1771

Abstract:

This volume contains approximately 175 letters written by Thomas Penn and Richard Penn on public business. A few are copies of letters by James Hamilton, a member of the Provincial Council and lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, and by or to Abraham Taylor.

Call #:

Mss.974.8.P36c

Extent:

1 volume(s)

Subjects:

American Revolution | Business Records and Accounts | Colonial Politics | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Land and Speculation | Military History | Official Government Documents and Records | Penn, Richard, 1706-1771 | Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Political Correspondence | Seven Years' War | Taylor, A. (Abraham)

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Title:

Timothy Horsfield Papers

Dates:

1684, 1733-1771

Abstract:

An early settler and prominent citizen in the Moravian heartland near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Timothy Horsfield was named justice of the peace when Northampton County was formed out of Bucks in 1752, and was one of those given responsibility for the defence of the local white and Christian Indian populations during the French and Indian War. The Horsfield Papers offer a window onto the tumultuous history of northeastern Pennsylvania during the 1750s and 1760s. Comprised largely of correspondence and related documents between Horsfield, William Parsons, and provincial and military authorities, the collection includes important information on the Native tribes' actions (previously described as "Indian assaults") in the region in 1756 and 1757 and the military and diplomatic response of settlers.

Call #:

Mss.974.8.H78

Extent:

0.5 Linear feet

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Title:

David Rittenhouse Papers

Dates:

1774-1932

Abstract:

David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) was one of the most prominent American men of science of the 18th Century. A skilled instrument maker, Rittenhouse was the an astronomer, playing a major role in recording the 1769 Transit of Venus, among many accomplishments. Rittenhouse also conducted important survey work for the state of Pennsylvania, establishing the state's western border, as well as overseeing the completion of the Mason-Dixon survey. In addition to his scientific endeavors, Rittenhouse's work for American independence places him among the important founding fathers. Subordinating his scientific interests for the greater good of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution, Rittenhouse served as a member of both the Pennsylvania Assembly and the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, and held powerful positions on the Pennsylvania Council of Safety and the subsequent Committee on Safety. Rittenhouse also served as the first director of the United States' Mint, at the behest of President George Washington. Rittenhouse was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1768 and played a major role in placing the Society on the scientific map. He held many positions in the Society, including serving as its President from 1791 until his death in 1796. The Rittenhouse papers span 1774 to 1932, and consist of 61 items, over 0.25 linear feet. The collection is comprised mainly of correspondence, but also includes receipts, genealogies and broadsides.

Call #:

Mss.SMs.Coll.11

Extent:

0.25 Linear feet

Subjects:

Abbott, Fanny D. | American Revolution | Barton family | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869 | Broadsides. | Business Records and Accounts | Colonial Politics | Genealogies. | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Rittenhouse family. | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796

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Title:

George Clymer Papers, 1745-1848

Dates:

1745-1848

Abstract:

George Clymer was a successful merchant, well-known politician, and a generous philanthropist, but is today most famous for being a signer of the Declaration of Independence. As a proponent of independence, he joined various local political committees including six of the seven Philadelphia resistance committees. From there, he entered the national political arena and in 1776 was elected to the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence. The George Clymer Collection is a small one and not reflective of his varied pursuits. There are twenty-seven documents, most of which are not signed by Clymer; those that are signed by Clymer are dated between May 3, 1800 and January 22, 1813. The items represent not Clymer's political activities but his ordinary legal and real estate transactions.

Call #:

Mss.B.C625

Extent:

0.25 Linear feet

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Title:

Joseph Carson papers, 1810-1877

Dates:

1810-1877

Abstract:

This collection contains material relating to his legal affairs, medical publications, receipts for books purchased, and information on botany. Important correspondents include Edward H. Clarke, George Mifflin Dallas, Samuel David Gross, and Joseph Henry. There is also family history in these papers.

Call #:

Mss.B.C239

Extent:

0.25 Linear feet

Subjects:

Americans Abroad | Botany. | Business Records and Accounts | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Clarke, Edward H. (Edward Hammond), 1820-1877 | Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 | Education | Educational Material | General Correspondence | Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Medical publishing | Medicine | Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Notebooks | Receipts. | Trade

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Title:

Dawes Collection of Documents on American History

Dates:

1681-1921

Abstract:

These documents are principally of Pennsylvania interest, 1757-1809, including letters to Richard I. Manning from John C. Calhoun, Marquis de Lafayette, George McDuffie, and William Wirt. There are also letters of Clement C. Biddle, James Buchanan, Francis J. Grund, James Madison, Timothy Pickering, and William H. Seward. In addition, there are several musical scores (n.d.) and 19 cancelled checks (1861-1871) drawn by Ticknor and Fields in Boston, to the order of various American authors.

Call #:

Mss.973.D32

Extent:

0.25 Linear feet

Subjects:

American Revolution | Biddle, Clement C. (Clement Cornell), 1784-1855 | Business Records and Accounts | Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 | Colony and State Specific History | Dawes, Elizabeth F. | Early National Politics | General Correspondence | Miscellaneous | Musical scores. | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century. | Pennsylvania History | Publishers and publishing. | Ticknor and Fields

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Title:

Joseph Shippen letterbook, 1763-1773

Dates:

1763-1773

Abstract:

These letters relate principally to provincial business and comment on the Indians of Pennsylvania, the French and Indian War, a survey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary, and the Stamp Act. Correspondents include James Burd, Jeremiah Dixon, Joseph Galloway, Humphry Marshall, Charles Mason, Edward Shippen of Lancaster, and Edward Shippen, Jr.

Call #:

Mss.B.Sh62.j

Extent:

1 volume(s)

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Title:

Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858

Dates:

1764-1858

Abstract:

Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.).

Call #:

Mss.B.H22

Extent:

3 Linear feet

Subjects:

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- 19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics -- United States | Essays. | Federalist Party -- Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money -- United States -- 19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism -- Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century

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Title:

Correspondence and accounts of the Mason and Dixon survey, 1758-1769

Dates:

1758-1769

Abstract:

Correspondence from Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to Thomas Birch, and Nevil Maskelyne to Charles Mason, relating to the survey, and the transits of Venus (1761,1769).

Call #:

Mss.B.M381

Extent:

0.25 Linear feet

Subjects:

Birch, Thomas | Colonial Politics | Dixon, Jeremiah | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Maps and Surveys | Maryland -- Boundaries. | Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 | Mason-Dixon Line. | Meteorology. | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- Boundaries. | Pennsylvania History | Science and technology | Surveying and Maps | Surveys. | Transits. | Venus (Planet)

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Title:

John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871

Dates:

1834-1871

Abstract:

Principal correspondents in the lettes of John Fries Frazer include Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale who discuss mainly general scientific topics, although personal and family matters are discussed with Bache. Topics include the University of Pennsylvania, boiler explosions, chemistry, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, the American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications.

Call #:

Mss.B.F865

Extent:

3 Linear feet

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Title:

Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection

Dates:

1783-1817

Abstract:

A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research. The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

Call #:

Mss.B.B284d

Extent:

10 Linear feet

Subjects:

Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century | Botany -- Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry -- 18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Education | Electricity -- 18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology -- 18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Agriculture | Indians of North America -- Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals -- Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural history | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | New Jersey -- Description and travel -- 18th century | New York (State) -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F. (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 | Zoology -- 18th century

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Title:

Edward Shippen letters and papers, 1727-1781

Dates:

1727-1781

Abstract:

These letters and papers include ten small volumes of letterbooks (1752-1781), and ca. 100 pieces of correspondence with Joseph Shippen (1750-1778). Topics discussed are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs.

Call #:

Mss.B.Sh62

Extent:

10 volume(s)

Subjects:

Allen, William, 1704-1780 | Alricks, Harmanus, 1764-1840 | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Armstrong, John | Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765 | Brockden, Charles | Burd, Edward. | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Business and politics -- Pennsylvania. | Chew, Benjamin, 1722-1810 | Coleman, William, 1704-1769 | Colonial Politics | Croghan, George | Education | Family Correspondence | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | General Correspondence | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Harris, John, 1726-1791 | International Travel | Jameson, David | Lawrence, Thomas, 1744-1823 | Letterbooks. | Logan, William, 1718-1776 | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Military History | Military Records | Military supplies. | Morris, Robert Hunter, 1713-1764 | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Seven Years' War | Shippen family | Shippen, Edward, circa 1703-1781 | Shippen, William, 1712-1801 | Social Life and Custom | Surveying and Maps | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763. | Willing, Charles

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Title:

Muhlenberg Family Papers, 1769-1866

Dates:

1769-1866

Abstract:

The papers include miscellaneous letters, letterbooks, books, certificates, and diplomas of various members of the Muhlenberg family. Among them are photostats of letters and papers of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and officers of the Continental Army on military affairs in the Southern Department during the American Revolution (1772-1804); photostats of letters to Albert Gallatin, Nathanael Greene, Edward Hand, Winthrop Sargent, Baron von Steuben, William Alexander, and George Washington; photostat of General Muhlenberg's journal of trips to the Ohio (1784, 1797); photostats of letters and notes of Gotthilf H. E. Muhlenberg, including a diary kept at Halle (1771) and extracts of thirty letters to Stephen Elliott of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina (1808-1815); photostats of letters of Henry A. Muhlenberg about his biography of General Muhlenberg (1848-1849); and photostats of letters of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). Also included is an original letterbook of Peter Muhlenberg, paymaster of the United States Army, kept at Augusta and Savannah, Georgia (1836-1842). Henry Muhlenberg's notebooks (1784-1813), written in Latin or German script, in a small hand, includes a wealth of botanical observations, with a focus on Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Henry Muhlenberg journals are a record of daily occurrences, with many features of a commonplace book, containing prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, and the plan of a barn. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787).

Call #:

Mss.B.M891

Extent:

4.25 Linear feet

Subjects:

Agriculture -- United States. | Alexander, William, 1726-1783 | American Revolution | Barns. | Botany | Certificates. | Delaware Indians | Diaries. | Diplomas. | Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830 | Family Correspondence | Foreign Language | Fungi. | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | General Correspondence | Grasses. | Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 | Hand, Edward, 1744-1802 | Herbaria. | Journals (notebooks). | Lancaster (Pa.) -- Description and travel. | Letterbooks. | Lichens. | Lutheran Church -- Clergy. | Meteorology - Observations | Military History | Military Records | Muhlenberg family. | Native America | Natural history | Natural history. | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania History | Plants. | Religion | Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 | Shrubs. | Sketches. | Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794 | Travel Narratives and Journals | Trees. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Washington, George (1732-1799) | Zoology -- Vermont.

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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Title:

The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s

Dates:

Circa 1760s-1850s

Abstract:

This rich collection of letters and documents, which was assembled by Sol Feinstone (1888-1980) over a period of fifty years, includes material on almost all notable Americans from before the Revolution to the 1850's, as well as prominent Europeans, and there are documents relating to military affairs. There are substantial groups of letters from: John Adams, Henry Dearborn, Alexander Hamilton, Jedediah Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, George Washington, and a long run of letters from a Massachusetts military surgeon named Samuel Adams. Many letters, though written by Revolutionary figures, relate to events that occurred before or after the War.

Call #:

Mss.B.F327

Extent:

27 Linear feet

Subjects:

1775-1783 | 1783-1850 | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Adams, Samuel | Agriculture | Agusta, GA | Albany (N.Y.) | Albany, N.Y. | Albany, NY | Albemarle Barracks, VA | Alexandria, VA | Algiers (Algeria) | Ambassadors | American Revolution | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Annapolis (Md.) | Annapolis, MD | Antigua, WI | Au Cap, France | Augusta County (Va.) | Bagshot, England | Baltimore (Md.) | Bank of Albany (Albany, N.Y.) | Belmont, VA | Bennington, VT | Bonston, MA | Books | Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) | Boston (Mass.) | Boston Massacre, 1770 | Boston, MA | Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837. Storia della guerra dell'independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America. English | Bound Brook (N.J.) | Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777 | Bristol County (Mass.) | Brown, Elias, 1793-1857 | Buckingham, PA | Bucks County (Pa.) | Bucks County (Pa.) | Business and Skilled Trades | Cabanis, P. J. G. (Pierre Jean Georges), 1757-1808 | Cadwalader, Lambert, 1742-1823 | Cambridge, MA | Cambridge, Mass | Camden (N.J.) | Camp Tappan, NY | Cape Henry (Virginia Beach, Va.) | Carlisle, PA | Catskill Landing, NY | Champlain, Lake | Charleston (S.C.) | Charleston Harbor, SC | Charleston, SC | Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) | Charlotte County, VA | Charlottesville (Va.) | Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) | Chester County (Pa.) | Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Clothing | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Conde, France | Connecticut | Conneticut | Constitution | Court at St. James, London | Crown Point, NY | Cádiz (Spain) | Danbury (Conn.) | Dartmouth College | Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829 | Delaware | Detroit, MI | Diplomacy | Diplomacy--History | Diplomatic History | Dobbs Ferry, NY | Dublin (Ireland) | Dueling | Early National Politics | Eastham, MA | Easton, Massachusetts | Education | Edwardsville (Ill.) | Egg Harbor City (N.J.) | Elizabethtown, NJ | England | Englishtown, NJ | Essex, England | Family Correspondence | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Fenner, NY | Fishkill (N.Y.) | Fort Mifflin (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fort Ticonderoga | France | France. Marine | France. Navy | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Frederick County (Va.) | Fredericksburg (Va.) | Fredericksburg, NY | Fredericksburg, VA | Freight and freightage | French Revolution | Gazette de Leyde (Netherlands, Leiden) | General Correspondence | Georgia | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Goshen, NC | Great Britain. Parliament | Great Britain. Royal Navy | Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) | Great Cumberland Place, London | Greenwich, CT | Haiti | Halifax, NS | Hamburg (Germany) | Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 | Hamoze, England | Hanover, NJ | Havana (Cuba) | Haverhill, MA | Hessian mercenaries | Hessian soldiers in the American Revolution | Hillsboro (N.C.) | Hingham, MA | Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) | Huntington, Andrew, 1745-1824 | Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818 | Inoculation | Ireland | Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Kentucky | Kingston, NC | L'Orient, France | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Lamb, John, 1735-1800 | Lancaster (Pa.) | Land titles | Langdon, John, 1741-1819 | Law | Law of the Sea | Legal correspondence | Legal documents | Levy, Levy Andrew, 1746-1829 | Liberty Pole, NJ | Lisbon (Portugal) | Litchfield, CT | Livorno (Italy) | Logistics | London | London, England | Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) | Luzerne County (Pa.) | Madeira wine | Manheim, PA | Marshfield, MA | Maryland | Maryland. Council of Safety | Massachusettes | Massachusetts | Medfield, MA | Middlebrook, NJ | Middleton, MA | Middletown, CT | Military History | Military Records | Miscellaneous | Missouri | Missouri compromise | Monmouth County (N.J.) | Monticello, VA | Montreal, Canada | Montréal (Québec) | Morristown (N.J.) | Morristown, NJ | Mount Independence, NY | Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) | Mount Vernon (Va.) | Mount Vernon, VA | Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750-1801 | Naples (Italy : Province) | Naples, Italy | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Negotiation | Netherlands | Netherlands | New Brunswick (N.J.) | New Hampshire | New Haven, Connecticut | New Jersey | New Jersey -- History -- 1775-1865. | New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | New London (Conn.) | New Orleans, LA | New Port, RI | New Windsor, NY | New York | New York | New York (N.Y.) | New York (State) | New York (State). Committee of Safety | New York, N.Y. | Newburgh (N.Y.) | Newburgh, NY | Newport (R.I.) | Newtown, PA | North Carolina | Northampton County (Pa.) | Norwich, CT | Nova Scotia | Official Government Documents and Records | Ohio | Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) | Orland, ME | Paramus, NJ | Paris, France | Parish, Louisa County, VA | Passy, France\ | Pawtuxet, RI | Peekskill, NY | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania State Lottery | Pennsylvania--Politics and government | Pennsylvania. Committee of Safety | Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council | Pennsylvania. War-Office | Penobscot Expedition, 1779 | Pensions | Perth Amboy (N.J.) | Perth Amboy, NJ | Petitions | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia, PA | Philipsborough, NY | Philipsburg, NY | Pittsfield (Mass.) | Plymouth Ropeyard, England | Plymouth Yard, England | Political Correspondence | Pompton (N.J.) | Poplar Forest, VA | Portsmouth (Va.) | Portsmouth, NH | Preakness, NJ | Presidents. | Prince William County (Va.) | Princeton (N.J.) | Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777 | Princeton, NJ | Printed Material | Prizes (Property captured at sea) | Proclamations | Promissory notes | Providence (R.I.) | Providence, R.I. | Providence, RI | Quartermasters | Quebec, Canada | Quincy, MA | Receipts | Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785 | Rhinebeck, NY | Rhode Island | Rhode Island | Richmond (Va.) | Richmond, VA | Roxborough, PA | Rutland, MA | Saint Petersburg (Russia) | Salem County (N.J.) | Saratoga (N.Y.) | Saratoga, NY | Sartine, Antoine de, Comte d'Alby, 1729-1801 | Savannah (Ga.) | Savannah, GA | Schuylkill River (Pa.) | Scotch Plains, NJ | Seminary, Quebec | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Shay's rebellion | Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 | Shrewsbury, MA | Slavery | Smallpox | Society of Friends | Society of the Cincinnati | Sons of Liberty | South Carolina | Spain | Springfield (Mass.) | Springfield (Union County, N.J.) | Springhill, VA | St. John's Church (Portsmouth, N.H.) | Stamford, CT | Stamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.) | Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) | Statesmen. | Steuben County (N.Y.) | Stony Point (N.Y.) | Taxation | The Culper spy ring | The Hague, Netherlands | The will of General George Washington | Throgs Neck (New York, N.Y.) | Tobacco | Totowa, NJ | Treaties | Trenton (N.J.) | Trenton, Battle of, Trenton, N.J., 1776 | Trenton, NJ | Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.) | Tuckerton, NJ | United States -- Armed Forces -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | United States -- History -- 1775-1865. | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | United States -- History, Military. | United States Lottery | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, German | United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department | United States. Articles of Confederation | United States. Congress | United States. Constitution | United States. Continental Army | United States. Continental Army. Massachusetts Regiment, Fourth | United States. Continental Congress | United States. Declaration of Independence | United States. Department of the Treasury | United States. Supreme Court | United States. War Department | Vaccination | Vaccines | Valley Forge, PA | Vaughan, John, Sir, 1756-1841 | Vermont | Virginia | Washington (D.C.) | Washington, DC | Washington, George (1732-1799) | Watertown (Mass.) | Watertown, MA | West Indies | West Point (N.Y.) | West Point, NY | Westminster (Vt.) | Westminster, England | Westmoreland County (Pa.) | Wethersfield (Conn.) | White Plains, New York | Williamsburg, VA | Wills | Wilmington (Del.) | Wilmington, DE | Winchester, England | Winchester, VA | Worcester, MA | Wyoming County (Pa.) | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | York County (Pa.) | York, PA | Yorktown (Va.)

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