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1	Author:	Fox family	Requires cookie*
	Title:	William Temple Franklin-Charles Pemberton Fox Legal Records
	Dates:	1692-1881
	Abstract:	This portion of the Fox Family Collection at the APS contains information on their land holdings in western and northern Pennsylvania during the 19th century, some of which relate to the interests of William Temple Franklin. View finding aid for a full description
	Call #:	Mss.B.F86L
	Extent:	2 Linear Feet
	Topics:	Land and Speculation \| Law \| Surveying and Maps
	Genre:	Business Records and Accounts \| Legal Records \| Maps and Surveys
	Subjects:	Real property -- Pennsylvania

2	Author:	Fox, George, 1759-1828	Requires cookie*
	Title:	George Fox letterbook, 1786-1797
	Dates:	1786-1797
	Abstract:	This letter book contains the correspondence of George Fox, a prominent Philadelphian and associate of William Temple Franklin, for the years 1786-1797. Fox corresponded with William Temple Franklin extensively and discussed financial and political matters. Lands owned by Franklin and Fox in western Pennsylvania were frequently discussed, as were other investments and speculations. For much of this period, Franklin was in Europe and Fox served as Franklin's business representative in Pennsylvania. View finding aid for a full description
	Call #:	Mss.B.F832
	Extent:	1 volume(s)
	Topics:	Land and Speculation
	Genre:	Business Records and Accounts \| Legal Records
	Subjects:	Real property -- Pennsylvania.

3	Author:	Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Benjamin Rush memorandum book, 1805-1813
	Dates:	1805-1813
	Abstract:	The Benjamin Rush memorandum book documents a variety of Rush's financial transactions and investments. The book often contains specific details on lands Rush owned in Pennsylvania. Other transactions recorded include payments to schoolmasters for his children and the loans of books he made to people. View finding aid for a full description
	Call #:	Mss.B.R89m
	Extent:	1 volume(s)
	Topics:	Land and Speculation \| Pennsylvania History \| Philadelphia History
	Genre:	Business Records and Accounts
	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| Real property -- Pennsylvania.

4	Author:	Fox, George, 1759-1828	Requires cookie*
	Title:	William Temple Franklin-George Fox Collection
	Dates:	1791-1800
	Abstract:	This collection of correspondence complements the much larger collection of William Temple Franklin Correspondence and the records and correspondence of George Fox, Franklin's business agent and executor. This collection contains a series of letters from William Temple Franklin to George Fox that begins in the 1791 when W.T. Franklin was in London and ends in 1800. Most of the letters deal with Franklin's business, especially his land speculations. There are two documents from Goveneur Morris that deal with business. View finding aid for a full description
	Call #:	Mss.B.F86f
	Extent:	0.25 Linear Feet
	Topics:	Americans Abroad \| Land and Speculation \| Pennsylvania History \| Philadelphia History
	Genre:	Business Records and Accounts
	Subjects:	Real property -- Pennsylvania \| Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

5	Author:	Shippen, Edward	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Edward Shippen letters and papers, 1727-1781
	Dates:	1727-1781
	Abstract:	The Edward Shippen Collection is composed of two discrete sections: two boxes of manuscripts and ten letter books. What follows is an overview of some of the most notable documents and themes in the correspondence. View finding aid for a full description
	Call #:	Mss.B.Sh62
	Extent:	10 volume(s)
	Topics:	American Revolution \| Americans Abroad \| Business and Skilled Trades \| Colonial Politics \| Education \| International Travel \| Marriage and Family Life \| Military History \| Pennsylvania History \| Philadelphia History \| Seven Years' War \| Social Life and Custom \| Surveying and Maps \| Trade \| Travel
	Genre:	Business Records and Accounts \| Family Correspondence \| General Correspondence \| Maps and Surveys \| Military Records \| Political Correspondence \| Travel Narratives and Journals
	Subjects:	Business and politics -- Pennsylvania. \| Military supplies. \| Real property -- Pennsylvania.

6	Author:	Voight family.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Voight family papers 1788-1839
	Dates:	1788-1839
	Abstract:	The Voight Collection is a relatively small collection reflecting the interests of this Philadelphia family of clockmakers. It has documents relating to the property owned by the Voight family and their business interests. There is a series of documents relating to scales that banks asked the Voights to make. There is also a detailed order from Elias Boudinot, director of the U.S. Mint, on what to do should the Mint be closed because of fever. View finding aid for a full description
	Call #:	Mss.B.V87
	Extent:	0.25 Linear Feet
	Topics:	Business and Skilled Trades \| Early National Politics \| Philadelphia History
	Genre:	Business Records and Accounts \| Miscellaneous
	Subjects:	Banks and banking -- Equipment and supplies. \| Real property -- Pennsylvania. \| Scales (Weighing instruments) -- Pennsylvania. \| Weights and measures. \| Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

7	Author:	Various authors	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Broadside Collection, 1638-1980
	Dates:	1638-1980, Undated
	Abstract:	This collection includes printed broadsides from early America. Most are official government documents. View finding aid for a full description
	Call #:	Mss.973.C683
	Extent:	760 item(s)
	Topics:	Freemasons \| Travel
	Genre:	Business Records and Accounts \| Official Government Documents and Records \| Printed Material
	Subjects:	Abenaki language \| Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| Abolitionists. \| Acquisitions (Libraries) \| Actors \| Aeronautics -- History \| Agricultural exhibitions \| Agriculture -- Missouri \| Air -- Purification -- Equipment and supplies \| Albert Medal \| Alcoholic beverage industry -- United States \| Alphabets \| American Anti-Vivisection Society \| American Philosophical Society \| American Philosophical Society -- Prizes \| American Philosophical Society. Library \| American loyalists. \| Anatomy -- Study and teaching. \| Animal magnetism. \| Anthropology \| Antiquities -- Collection and preservation \| Aquariums. \| Archaeology -- Mexico \| Archaeology -- United States. \| Architecture \| Archives \| Arithmetic. \| Art -- Exhibitions \| Astronomical instruments. \| Astronomy \| Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 \| Balloons. \| Bank notes -- Forgeries \| Bank notes -- Great Britain \| Banks and banking -- Pennsylvania \| Barometers. \| Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) \| Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company \| Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. \| Bible. New Testament \| Bible. O.T. Psalms, II, 1 -- Sermons \| Biology. \| Birds \| Birds -- North America \| Birds -- Pictorial works \| Birmingham (Pa.) \| Bookbinding \| Books -- Auction catalogs \| Booksellers and bookselling \| Boston Port Bill, 1774 \| Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773 \| Botany \| Botany -- Catalogs -- France \| Botany -- Catalogs -- Great Britain \| Botany -- Catalogs -- United States \| Botany -- New York (State) \| Braddock's Campaign, 1755. \| Brandywine, Battle of, 1777 \| Bridges. \| Building materials \| Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 \| Business cards \| Cables -- Atlantic Ocean \| Calculators. \| Calendars \| Campus Martius (Marietta, Ohio) \| Canada -- Description and travel \| Canada -- Maps \| Canals -- Pennsylvania \| Capture at sea \| Carriages and carts \| Cements, Adhesive \| Cetacea \| Charities -- England -- London \| Chemicals \| Chemistry \| Chemistry -- History \| Chemistry -- Nomenclature \| Chemistry -- Study and teaching \| Cherokee language -- Alphabet \| Cherokee language -- Texts \| Chesapeake and Delaware Canal \| China -- Medical care \| Chinese language \| Chipewyan language \| Christian calendars \| Christianity \| Christmas \| Chronometers \| Church buildings -- Pennsylvania-Philadelphia \| Church of Scotland \| Civilization -- Early works to 1800 \| Clocks and watches. \| Coinage. \| Coins \| Colombia -- Census \| Columbia (Symbolic character) \| Comets -- Orbits \| Congratulations, greetings, thanks \| Conjoined twins \| Conservation of natural resources. \| Constitutional history -- United States \| Cotton \| Cotton -- Diseases and pests \| Cotton -- Statistics \| Counting \| Court summons \| Courtship -- Songs and music \| Criticism -- History \| Crucero Iberia \| Crusades \| Cuba -- Statistics, Vital \| Cutlery \| Cyclopedia \| Dance cards \| Darwinism. \| Daylight saving \| Delaware Indians \| Delaware Indians -- Religion \| Democratic National Convention (1864 : Chicago, Ill.) \| Design \| Dickinson College -- History -- Sources \| Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation \| Earth (Planet) \| Eclipses. \| Education \| Education -- Congresses \| Education -- South Carolina \| Education -- Study and teaching -- England. \| Education -- United States. \| Eidouranion \| Electricity \| Electrotherapeutics \| Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French \| English language \| Entomology -- United States. \| Episcopal Church -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia \| Eskimo languages \| Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) \| Fire extinction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia \| Fisheries -- Great Britain \| Fishes -- Catalogs and collections \| Fishes -- Italy \| Flags -- United States. \| Flight \| Flour \| Forests and forestry -- United States -- Maps \| Forests and forestry -- United States. \| Foundries \| France. Chambre des pairs \| France. Code civil \| Franklin (Aircraft carrier) \| Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History \| Franklin Journal \| Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 \| Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Imprints \| Freemasonry -- France -- History. \| Freemasons -- Pennsylvania \| French language \| Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures \| Fruits \| Furnaces \| Gas-lighting. \| Genetics -- History. \| Genetics -- Societies, etc. \| Geodesy \| Geography -- Europe \| Geology \| Geology -- Great Britain. \| Geology -- Pennsylvania. \| Geology -- Tables \| Geology, Stratigraphic. \| Girard College \| Girls' Schools -- France -- Paris \| Gorlitz (Dresden, Germany). Gymnasium \| Grapes \| Great Britain -- Colonies -- America \| Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 Sept. 3 \| Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.) \| Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 \| Haiti -- History -- Sources \| Harvard University -- Students \| Hessians \| Historic buildings -- Canada \| Historic buildings -- United States \| History of the earth and animated nature \| History. \| Hollywood (Md.) \| Honors -- Royal Society (Great Britain) \| Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. \| Hospitals -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Human beings -- Origin \| Hybridization \| Hymns \| Hypnotism \| Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) \| Indians of North America \| Indians of North America -- Antiquities \| Indians of North America -- Government relations \| Indians of North America -- History \| Indians of North America -- Languages \| Indulgences \| Inland navigation -- United States \| Insurance -- Great Britain \| Iron and steel bridges \| Iroquois Indians -- Agriculture \| Jena, Battle of, Jena, Germany, 1806 \| Jesus Christ \| Kings and rulers \| Laboratories \| Lamps \| Land use -- Ohio \| Landscape architecture \| Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling \| Latin language \| Law -- Periodicals \| Law -- Virginia \| Lectures, public speaking \| Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company \| Liberty Bell \| Library rules and regulations \| Library science -- Congresses \| Life preservers \| Light \| Lightning \| Lightning conductors \| Lions \| Lippincott's magazine of literature, science and education \| Locks and keys \| Locusts \| London (England) -- Maps \| Longitude. \| Lord's prayer \| Lotteries \| Lowell Observatory \| Lumadrama \| Lyceums. \| Machinery. \| Magic squares \| Magna Carta \| Mammoths. \| Martial law -- Philadelphia (Pa.) \| Massachusetts -- Finance \| Mastodon \| Mastodon -- Exhibitions \| Mathematical instruments \| Maxims \| Medical sciences -- Periodicals \| Medicine -- Congresses \| Medicine -- Humor \| Medicine -- Study and teaching. \| Menageries -- Boston (Mass.) \| Menageries -- Great Britain \| Menageries -- Philadelphia \| Mercantile Library of Philadelphia \| Merino sheep \| Mesmerism. \| Meteorology \| Meteorology - Observations \| Meteorology -- Observations -- England -- London \| Meteorology -- Observations. \| Meteorology -- Tables \| Meteors. \| Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861 \| Mexico -- History -- Sources \| Microscopy. \| Mineralogy \| Missionaries -- China. \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Missourium \| Mohawk Indians \| Mohawk language -- Texts \| Mohegan Indians -- Religion \| Mollusks. \| Money \| Moral philosophy \| Moravians -- Missions \| Morphology. \| Mosquitoes. \| Mothers \| Mound-builders -- United States \| Mounds -- United States \| Mount Vernon School (Boston, Mass.) \| Museums \| Museums -- New York (State) -- New York. \| Museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century. \| Mustard \| Mysticism \| National Academy of Sciences \| National songs -- United States \| Natural Philosophy \| Natural history \| Natural history -- Periodicals \| Natural history -- Societies, etc. \| Natural history -- South America \| Natural history -- Technique \| Natural history -- United States. \| Nebulae \| New Orleans Canal and Banking Company \| Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia \| Occultism \| Odometers \| Oneida Community \| Optical instruments \| Orators \| Ordnance \| Ozone \| Painting -- Exhibitions \| Paleontology \| Paleontology -- Missouri \| Paper money -- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 \| Patent medicines \| Patriotische Martyrer \| Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) \| Pennsylvania -- History \| Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 \| Perpetual calendars \| Perpetual motion \| Pharmacology. \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Finance \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Statistics, Vital \| Philadelphia (Pa.). Militia \| Phrenology. \| Physical geography -- Canada \| Physical instruments \| Physicians \| Phytogeography -- United States -- Maps \| Planets \| Planets -- Observations \| Plants -- Collection and preservation. \| Plows. \| Polarization (Light) \| Political geography \| Political satire \| Poor laws -- Great Britain \| Portraits. \| Portsmouth (N.H.) -- Statistics, Vital \| Postal service -- History \| Postal service -- United States. \| Presidents -- United States -- Autographs \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1804 \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1840 \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864 \| Prices \| Prices -- France \| Prices -- Italy -- Trieste \| Prices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia \| Prices -- United States \| Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777 \| Printing machinery and supplies \| Printing presses \| Prisons \| Privateering \| Prizes \| Processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia \| Promissory notes \| Propaganda, American \| Prophecies \| Quakers. \| Railroads -- Mexico \| Railroads -- Pennsylvania \| Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History \| Railroads. \| Real property -- Pennsylvania. \| Real property. \| Redwood family \| Reigate and Godstone Railway \| Religious education -- Massachusetts \| Retired women -- France -- Paris \| Rewards programs (Criminal investigation) \| Roads -- Pennsylvania \| Roots, Numerical \| Royal College of Physicians of London \| Royal Humane Society (London, England) \| Rutgers College \| Salt industry and trade \| Scales (Weighing instruments) \| Schools -- Denmark \| Science \| Science -- Congresses \| Science -- History -- Study and teaching \| Science -- Philosophy -- Study and teaching \| Science -- Societies, etc. \| Science -- Study and teaching. \| Scientific apparatus and instruments. \| Scientific expeditions. \| Seals and labels (Philately) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia \| Seeds -- Catalogs \| Seneca Indians \| Serpents \| Sheffield (England) \| Shipbuilding \| Shippensburg (Pa.) \| Ships, Iron and steel -- Great Britain \| Signals and signaling \| Silk \| Slavery -- Pennsylvania. \| Slavery -- United States. \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Slavey language \| Smallpox \| Smallpox -- Vaccination \| Social cards \| Societies. \| Society of Friends \| Society of Friends -- Great Britain. \| Solar eclipses. \| South Carolina -- Politics and government \| Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.) \| Spelling reform \| Stamp Act, 1765 \| Stars. \| Steam \| Steam-carriages \| Steam-engines. \| Steam-navigation \| Steamboats -- United States. \| Stoves \| Strikes and lockouts \| Success \| Sugar beet \| Sun \| Susquehanna County (Pa.) \| Sweden. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 April 3 \| Tariffs \| Taxation -- Massachusetts \| Taxation -- United States \| Te Deum laudamus (Music) \| Telegraph \| Telescopes \| Temper \| Temperature -- Newfoundland -- St. John's \| Temperature measurements. \| Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846 \| Texas. Navy \| Theology \| Thermometers \| Tobacco -- Commerce \| Tobacco industry -- Bermuda Islands \| Tobacco industry -- Virginia \| Tornadoes \| Trains -- Central Europe \| Transactions of the American Philosophical Society \| Transylvania University \| Treaties. \| Trees -- North America. \| Trees. \| Trieste (Italy) -- Commerce \| Trust indentures. \| Tunnels -- England -- Thames River \| Type and type-founding -- Specimens \| Typhus fever. \| U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey \| United Nations \| United States - Politics and government \| United States - Politics and government - 1783-1809 \| United States -- Anniversaries, etc. \| United States -- Foreign relations -- China \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music \| United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- American forces \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, German \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prisoners and prisons \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources \| United States -- Military policy \| United States -- Statistics \| United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Caricatures and cartoons \| United States. Army \| United States. Congress (2nd, 1st session : 1791-1792) \| United States. Constitution \| United States. Continental Army -- Organization \| United States. Continental Army -- Staff -- Biography \| United States. Declaration of Independence \| United States. Navy -- Warrant officers \| Uruguay -- History \| Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 \| Virginia. Declaration of Rights \| Vivisection \| Vivisection -- 19th century \| Volapük \| Warships \| Washington Hall \| Water -- Purification \| Water -- Purification -- Filtration \| Water mills \| Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 \| Weights and measures. \| Whales \| Wharton School \| Wine and wine making \| Women -- Education \| Women -- Employment \| Wood -- Preservation \| Yale University \| Zoology \| Zoology -- India \| Zoology -- Italy \| Zoology -- Pictorial works \| Zoology -- Study and teaching.