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Political Correspondence

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Dates:
1808-1840
Abstract:  

The correspondence is principally to Zaccheus Collins (1810-1840), with bills, receipts, and notes on Rafinesque vs. Parker; letters from Collins, L.A. Tarascon, Lewis C. Beck, John Torrey, and Charles W. Short (1817-1835); and miscellaneous correspondence and documents relating to Rafinesque vs. Parker, with an account of the Felician Society of Feliciana County, Illinois (1820). The writings are chiefly on botanical topics, and include notes and essays on Indians, Blacks, grapes and wine-making, banking, and speculation. Rafinesque's growing interest in Indian antiquities, linguistics, and history is apparent in letters after 1820. There is an account of Rafinesque's scientific travels in North America and southern Europe (1800-1832), and a bibliography. The botanical notes include descriptions of specimens collected by Lewis and Clark, Patrick Gass, and Henry Muhlenberg.
Call #:  
Mss.B.R124
Extent:
1.75 Linear feet



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Dates:
1775-1853
Abstract:  

Robert Maskell Patterson (1787-1854, APS 1809) was a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1812-1828) and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia (1828-1835). He was director of the U.S. Mint from 1835 to 1851. His father, Robert Patterson, was a revolutionary soldier, professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania (1779-1814), and director of the U.S. Mint (1805-1824).
Call #:  
Mss.B.P274
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



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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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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