Subject| • | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
(5)
| | • | Africa |
(1)
| | • | African American churches -- United States |
(1)
| | • | Agriculture |
(2)
| | • | Agriculture -- United States. |
(2)
| | • | American loyalists. |
(1)
| | • | Americans -- China -- Social life and customs. |
(1)
| | • | Animal magnetism. |
(1)
| | • | Architecture |
(1)
| | • | Arctic Indians |
(1)
| | • | Arctic regions-Pictorial works |
(1)
| | • | Art -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Artists -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Artists' materials |
(1)
| | • | Astronomy |
(1)
| | • | Aurora (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
(2)
| | • | Avesta |
(1)
| | • | Balloons -- Early works to 1800 |
(1)
| | • | Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 19th century. |
(1)
| | • | Barns. |
(1)
| | • | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
(1)
| | • | Bees. |
(1)
| | • | Birds -- North America |
(1)
| | • | Botanical gardens -- New Jersey. |
(1)
| | • | Botanists |
(1)
| | • | Botany |
(1)
| | • | Botany -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century |
(1)
| | • | Botany -- Virginia |
(1)
| | • | Botany. |
(1)
| | • | Bowdoin College |
(1)
| | • | Breeding. |
(1)
| | • | British -- China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912. |
(1)
| | • | Business and politics -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| | • | Cartography. |
(1)
| | • | Charities -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Chemistry -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Cherokee Indians |
(1)
| | • | Cherokee language |
(1)
| | • | China -- Foreign relations -- United States |
(1)
| | • | Choctaw Indians |
(1)
| | • | Civil engineering -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Colonization, repatriation |
(1)
| | • | Court calendars -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| | • | Craven Street Gazette |
(1)
| | • | Culture, community, organizations |
(1)
| | • | Delaware Indians |
(1)
| | • | Diplomacy. |
(1)
| | • | Diseases |
(1)
| | • | Drawing. |
(1)
| | • | Dueling. |
(1)
| | • | Dysentery. |
(1)
| | • | Education -- United States |
(1)
| | • | Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic |
(1)
| | • | Electricity |
(1)
| | • | Electricity -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 |
(1)
| | • | Engineering. |
(1)
| | • | Entomology -- Europe. |
(1)
| | • | Entomology -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Ethnobotany |
(1)
| | • | Exploration |
(2)
| | • | Explorers -- United States |
(1)
| | • | Fort Augusta (Pa.) |
(1)
| | • | Fort Duquesne |
(1)
| | • | Fort Granville (Pa.) |
(1)
| | • | Fort Hunter |
(1)
| | • | Fort Pitt (Pa.) |
(1)
| | • | Fort William Henry (N.Y.) |
(1)
| | • | Fortification -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| | • | France -- Description and travel |
(1)
| | • | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt |
(1)
| | • | Fungi. |
(1)
| | • | Gardening -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Genealogies |
(1)
| | • | Genealogy. |
(2)
| | • | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Geology -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Geology -- Maps |
(1)
| | • | Geology -- Nova Scotia -- Surveys |
(1)
| | • | Geology -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Geometry -- Study and teaching |
(1)
| | • | Germany -- Description and travel |
(1)
| | • | Gout |
(1)
| | • | Grasses. |
(1)
| | • | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 |
(1)
| | • | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 |
(1)
| | • | Hallowell (Me.) |
(1)
| | • | Hawaiian language |
(1)
| | • | Herbaria. |
(1)
| | • | Home economics -- United States -- Accounting |
(1)
| | • | Horticulture |
(1)
| | • | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Hospitals -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
(1)
| | • | Indians of North America |
(2)
| | • | Indians of North America -- Agriculture |
(1)
| | • | Indians of North America -- Languages |
(1)
| | • | Indians of North America -- Nunavut |
(1)
| | • | Insects. |
(1)
| | • | Insurance agents -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Inuit -- Canada |
(1)
| | • | Inuit -- Greenland |
(1)
| | • | Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island |
(1)
| | • | Iroquois Indians |
(1)
| | • | Jackson, Andrew -- 1767-1845 -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| | • | Javanese language |
(1)
| | • | Kaigana Indians |
(1)
| | • | Kaskaskia Indians |
(1)
| | • | Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History |
(2)
| | • | Land speculation |
(3)
| | • | Landscape painting |
(1)
| | • | Lichens. |
(1)
| | • | Locomotives. |
(1)
| | • | Lutheran Church -- Clergy. |
(1)
| | • | Mammals -- Classification |
(1)
| | • | Mandan Indians |
(1)
| | • | Manufactures |
(1)
| | • | Mastodons |
(1)
| | • | Materia medica |
(1)
| | • | Medicine |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- England -- London -- 18th century. |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century. |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century. |
(1)
| | • | Medicine -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Medicine, Military. |
(1)
| | • | Medicine. |
(1)
| | • | Mesmerism |
(2)
| | • | Meteorology |
(1)
| | • | Meteorology - Observations |
(1)
| | • | Meteorology -- Arctic Regions |
(1)
| | • | Meteorology -- Observations -- Europe. |
(1)
| | • | Meteorology -- Pennsylvania -- Observations |
(1)
| | • | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Meteors |
(1)
| | • | Military supplies. |
(2)
| | • | Mineralogy |
(1)
| | • | Mineralogy -- Study and teaching |
(1)
| | • | Mineralogy. |
(1)
| | • | Natural history -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Natural history -- 19th century |
(1)
| | • | Natural history -- North America |
(1)
| | • | Natural history -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Natural history. |
(3)
| | • | Naturalist |
(1)
| | • | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
(1)
| | • | Northwest Passage |
(1)
| | • | Notes |
(1)
| | • | Nova Scotia -- Surveys |
(1)
| | • | Obelisks |
(1)
| | • | Obstetrics |
(1)
| | • | Ornithologist |
(1)
| | • | Ornithology -- North America |
(1)
| | • | Osage language |
(1)
| | • | Painting -- Study and teaching |
(1)
| | • | Paleontology -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Papermakers. |
(1)
| | • | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
(1)
| | • | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 |
(2)
| | • | Pennsylvania -- Surveys |
(1)
| | • | Pennsylvania Supreme Court |
(1)
| | • | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce |
(1)
| | • | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs |
(1)
| | • | Philology |
(1)
| | • | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
(1)
| | • | Physics |
(1)
| | • | Planetariums. |
(1)
| | • | Plantations |
(2)
| | • | Plants. |
(1)
| | • | Poems |
(1)
| | • | Portraits, American. |
(1)
| | • | Postal service -- United States |
(1)
| | • | Presidents -- United States -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| | • | Printers -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| | • | Punctuation |
(1)
| | • | Quaker businesspeople |
(1)
| | • | Quakers |
(1)
| | • | Quakers -- Missions. |
(1)
| | • | Race, race relations, racism |
(1)
| | • | Real property -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| | • | Reconstruction |
(1)
| | • | Religion |
(1)
| | • | Religion, religious organizations |
(2)
| | • | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 |
(1)
| | • | Schools -- Connecticut. |
(1)
| | • | Schools -- Maine. |
(1)
| | • | Schools -- Massachusetts. |
(1)
| | • | Science -- United States -- 19th century. |
(1)
| | • | Science. |
(1)
| | • | Seminole Indians |
(1)
| | • | Seneca Indians |
(2)
| | • | Shippenburg Library Company |
(1)
| | • | Shrubs. |
(1)
| | • | Silk industry. |
(1)
| | • | Slave trade -- Africa |
(1)
| | • | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| | • | Slavery -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Slaves, slavery, slave trade |
(5)
| | • | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform |
(5)
| | • | Social problems. |
(1)
| | • | Steam-engines. |
(1)
| | • | Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820) |
(1)
| | • | Switzerland -- Description and travel |
(1)
| | • | Taxation |
(1)
| | • | Technology. |
(1)
| | • | Titantic (Steamship) |
(1)
| | • | Transcendentalism |
(1)
| | • | Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, with the United States of America (1794 November 19) |
(1)
| | • | Trees. |
(1)
| | • | Trust indentures. |
(1)
| | • | Tuscarora Indians |
(1)
| | • | Unitarianism |
(2)
| | • | United States -- Foreign relations -- China |
(1)
| | • | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 |
(2)
| | • | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 |
(1)
| | • | United States -- History -- War of 1812 |
(1)
| | • | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809 |
(1)
| | • | United States. Army. Supplies and stores |
(1)
| | • | United States. Navy |
(1)
| | • | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty |
(1)
| | • | Venereal disease |
(1)
| | • | Voyages and travels. |
(1)
| | • | Washington, George, 1732-1799 |
(1)
| | • | West (U.S.)-Description and travel |
(1)
| | • | Whist |
(1)
| | • | Wine and wine making |
(1)
| | • | World War I |
(1)
| | • | World War II |
(1)
| | • | Yellow fever |
(1)
| | • | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
(1)
| | • | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 |
(1)
| | • | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century. |
(1)
| | • | Yellow fever. |
(1)
| | • | Zoology -- 18th century |
(1)
| | • | Zoology -- Vermont. |
(1)
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| | | Author: | Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Franklin Bache papers, 1779-1793
| | | | Dates: | 1779-1793 | | | | Abstract: | The Benjamin Franklin Bache Collection is composed primarily of correspondence sent from B.F. Bache. The vast majority dates to his time in Europe during the American Revolution while a young child under the care of his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, who was then serving as one of America's ambassadors to France. These letters consist of B.F. Bache writing from his school in Switzerland to his grandfather in Paris (often in French) and to his parents in America (in English). Most of the letters relay information on B.F.'s formal education and his experience learning the printing trade. The only letter dated after Bache's time in Europe is a personal letter mourning the loss of Benjamin Franklin that he wrote to his soon-to-be-wife, Margaret Markoe. The letter contains one of the most detailed accounts of Franklin's last days.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B122 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Diplomatic History | Education | Printing and Publishing | | | | Genre: | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | | | | Subjects: | Aurora (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, with the United States of America (1794 November 19) | |
| | Author: | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Catharine Wistar Bache Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1788-1822 | | | | Abstract: | This relatively small collection contains rich correspondence often directed to Catherine Wistar Bache, the daughter of prominent doctor Caspar Wistar and wife of Richard Bache's son. The collection is one of the many to the Bache-Franklin collections at the APS. This specific collection contains numerous letters from other women, often wives and mothers, to Catherine. There are a few letters to Caspar Wistar and William Bache (Catherine's husband), which often discuss current events, specifically Anthony Wayne's victory at Fallen Timbers in 1794 and the Whiskey Rebellion. The letters to Catherine discuss current affairs, such as the Yellow Fever epidemic and the War of 1812. More often, however, the letters relate family and personal matters. The letters primarily discuss husbands, family activities, children, and other such topics. Some of the early letters also touch upon gender relations and courtship. For instance, a male correspondent wrote Catherine that he has not received any letters from his "female correspondents" and was thus hoping "to renew the friendly intercourse," and Mary Eddy discussed flirtations. The correspondence in this collection spans more than thirty years, and therefore also provides insight on the changing concerns of Catherine as a young single woman, wife, and mother. William Bache was sent to Louisiana in 1803 in an official post overseeing a hospital. Discussion of moving to Louisiana is included in the collection, during which references to "Captain Lewis" are made, likely Meriwether Lewis. Because of her position in society, these letters often provide portraits and anecdotes of prominent figures.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B124 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | Early National Politics | Marriage and Family Life | Native America | Philadelphia History | Social Life and Custom | War of 1812 | Women's History | | | | Genre: | Family Correspondence | | | | Subjects: | United States -- History -- War of 1812 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809 | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | |
| | Author: | Bancker, James A. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James A. Bancker papers, 1842-1849
| | | | Dates: | 1842-1849 | | | | Abstract: | This collection of letters (40+) consists primarily of James Bancker writing to his family from Asia in the 1840s. The collection offers a vivid depiction of an American's life abroad in the nineteenth century. The letters convey quotidian information, such as the type of food he is eating, to more remarkable events, such as witnessing a comet. Bancker also witnessed a number of significant political events while in China, including the acquisition of Hong Kong by Great Britain and resistance to this takeover from the Hong Kong residents (1842-1843). These events, the rioting in particular, are recounted in his often long and detailed correspondence to his Philadelphia-based family. Bancker spent much of his time in Canton, but he also described visits to the Philippines and voyage to and from China. Combined, the collection provides a lens in the experiences of a wealthy American traveling abroad in the midst of the nineteenth century.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B22 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | Americans Abroad | Beyond Early America | Business and Skilled Trades | International Trade. | International Travel | Marriage and Family Life | Trade | Travel | | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | | | | Subjects: | Americans -- China -- Social life and customs. | British -- China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912. | Voyages and travels. | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | | Abstract: | The extensive Benjamin Smith Barton collection contains six sections: Correspondence, Bound Volumes (including notebooks), Subject Files, and Graphic Materials. The material includes numerous images, sketches, notes, printed material, and other correspondence. The collection also has numerous copper plates that were used to print images drawn by Barton. Although a collection this large touches on a variety of interesting and important subjects, the collection's strength is its wealth of data on nineteenth century medical, botanical, and Native American studies.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | | Extent: | 10 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | Business and Skilled Trades | Education | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Medicine | Native America | Natural history | Printing and Publishing | Science and technology | Travel | | | | Genre: | Art | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Language Material | Notebooks | Political Correspondence | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | | | | Subjects: | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Botanists | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century | Botany -- Virginia | Chemistry -- 18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Dysentery. | Electricity -- 18th century | Ethnobotany | Geology -- 18th century | Gout | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Agriculture | Indians of North America -- Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Mammals -- Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | Osage language | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Physics | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty | Venereal disease | Yellow fever | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 | Zoology -- 18th century | |
| | Author: | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Burd-Shippen Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1708-1792 | | | | Abstract: | This collection is one of the largest early American collections the APS holds. Its breadth of sources provides insight into colonial Pennsylvania history, especially that of Lancaster County. Although largely material composed of material from James Burd, there are also significant documents relating to the Shippen family. Documents touch on matters financial, political, and social. While the collection is of wide ranging material, its strength lies in three main parts: the Seven Years' War and Pontiac's Rebellion in Pennsylvania, Burd's business records, and life in Lancaster County from 1754-1776.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B892 | | | | Extent: | 6.5 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | Business and Skilled Trades | Colonial Politics | Government Affairs | Land and Speculation | Military History | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Seven Years' War | Surveying and Maps | Trade | | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Diaries | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Miscellaneous | Official Government Documents and Records | Political Correspondence | Travel Narratives and Journals | | | | Subjects: | Court calendars -- Pennsylvania. | Fort Augusta (Pa.) | Fort Duquesne | Fort Granville (Pa.) | Fort Hunter | Fort Pitt (Pa.) | Fort William Henry (N.Y.) | Fortification -- Pennsylvania. | Iroquois Indians | Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History | Meteorology -- Pennsylvania -- Observations | Military supplies. | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce | Shippenburg Library Company | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States. Army. Supplies and stores | |
| | Author: | Cassin, Charles Luke, 1846-1878 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Luke Cassin papers, 1745-1878
| | | | Dates: | 1745-1878 | | | | Abstract: | The Cassin Collection is heavily focused on Charles Luke Cassin's correspondence in the late nineteenth century. Charles Cassin was a physician in the U.S. Navy in the late-nineteenth century. His family's roots date to the colonial era. There are approximately seven documents from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, however. This portion of the collection includes three legal documents from colonial Pennsylvania that were likely handed down through the family: one is a will for Aaron Thompson dated 1745, another is an indenture from 1758, and another is a copy of a court decision in Berks County in 1774. There are two letters from James Mullins to Eliza Cassin relating to their past affairs and children. Finally, there are official documents relating to Joseph Cassin, Charles Luke's father, including a commission in the U.S. Navy signed by James Madison.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C274 | | | | Extent: | 70 item(s) | | | | Topics: | Marriage and Family Life | Military History | | | | Genre: | Family Correspondence | Legal Records | Military Records | Official Government Documents and Records | | | | Subjects: | Medicine -- United States. | Trust indentures. | |
| | Author: | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Franklin Papers, 1642-1841
| | | | Dates: | 1642-1841 | | | | Abstract: | The Papers of Benjamin Franklin are a rich source as varied and expansive as Dr. Franklin's storied life. The Collection has been calendared, catalogued, and much of it is transcribed in printed volumes and online at www.franklinpapers.org.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F85 | | | | Extent: | 85.5 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Business and Skilled Trades | Diplomatic History | Government Affairs | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Marriage and Family Life | Military History | Pennsylvania History | Printing and Publishing | Social Life and Custom | | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Diplomatic Material | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Manuscript Essays | Political Correspondence | Printed Material | Scientific Correspondence | | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 | Postal service -- United States | Printers -- Pennsylvania | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | |
| | Author: | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Temple Franklin Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1775-1819 | | | | Abstract: | This is a large collection of William Temple Franklin papers, most of which were written while he was serving alongside his grandfather in France as the secretary of the American mission there. The bulk of the collection is correspondence written to William Temple Franklin during the American Revolution. Franklin had a wide network of friends and associates, and this correspondence captures the range of dealings Franklin had in France. As secretary, he received intelligence, requests, reports of military actions, especially those pertaining to naval actions in the Atlantic, and various other communications. As a private individual, Franklin had relations with many merchants, traders, and land speculators and continued to cultivate these relationships while in Europe. The Collection also includes a diary kept in an almanac for much of 1785, catalogued separately in MOLE.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F86 | | | | Extent: | 4.75 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Business and Skilled Trades | Diplomatic History | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Marriage and Family Life | Military History | | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Diplomatic Material | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Political Correspondence | | | | Subjects: | Balloons -- Early works to 1800 | Mesmerism | |
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