| Author: | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Elisha Kent Kane Papers
| | | Dates: | 1810-1953 | | | Abstract: | This large collection contains the papers of Elisha Kent Kane, a prominent Philadelphian who led the U.S. Exploring Expedition.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.K132 | | | Extent: | 6.75 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | Americans Abroad | Exploration. | International Travel | Marriage and Family Life | Social Life and Custom | | | Genre: | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Travel Narratives and Journals | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Africa | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions-Pictorial works | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | Colonization, repatriation | Exploration | Explorers -- United States | Geometry -- Study and teaching | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | Inuit -- Canada | Inuit -- Greenland | Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island | Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania | Meteorology -- Arctic Regions | Mineralogy -- Study and teaching | Northwest Passage | Obstetrics | Plantations | Slave trade -- Africa | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States. Navy | |
| Author: | Keith, William, 1680-1749 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Letter. . . To Mr. James Logan. . . On occasion of Mr. Logan's having sent to Sir William a copy of his printed paper called the Antidote
| | | Dates: | 1725 | | | Abstract: | This bound volume contains a long letter – more like an essay – from Sir William Keith, the governor of Pennsylvania, to James Logan, the secretary for the proprietors. The letter discusses Logan's recent pamphlet, "The Antidote." The letter was printed by Andrew Bradford in Philadelphia, and this handwritten copy was likely made of this printed pamphlet.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.K26 | | | Extent: | 1 volume(s) | | | Topics: | Colonial Politics | Pennsylvania History | | | Genre: | Manuscript Essays | |
| Author: | Kinloch, Francis,1755-1826. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Letters, 1776-1809, to Johannes von Müller
| | | Dates: | 1776-1809 | | | Abstract: | This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.Film.556 | | | Extent: | 1 microfilm_reel(s) | | | Genre: | Microfilm Collection | |
| Author: | Konig, John Gerhard. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | A treatise on white ants, Madras, April 1777.
| | | Dates: | 1777 | | | Abstract: | This manuscript collection falls outside the geographic scope of the Early American guide (British North America and the United States before 1840). It may be of interest to scholars interested in global history, international relations, imperialism, or the U.S. in the world.
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| | | Call #: | MSS.Temp1.Misc Ms.Coll | | | Extent: | 1 volume(s) | | | Topics: | Beyond Early America | | | Subjects: | Insect societies. | Termites. | White ants | |
| Author: | Kramer, Matthias | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Italiaenisch-teutsches dictionarium
| | | Dates: | Circa 1694 | | | Abstract: | This manuscript collection falls outside the geographic scope of the Early American guide (British North America and the United States before 1840). It may be of interest to scholars interested in global history, international relations, imperialism, or the U.S. in the world.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.453.K86 | | | Extent: | 1 volume(s) | | | Topics: | Beyond Early America | |
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