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 Author:  Jennings, H. S. (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947Requires cookie*
 Title:  H. S. (Herbert Spencer) Jennings Papers     
 Dates:  1886-1947 
 Abstract:  The Jennings Papers contain at least one item which may be of interest to naval historians: Navy Department Intelligence Office, 11th Naval District. Letter to Herbert S. Jennings. 1945 February 26. Asking for information on his foreign residence. 1 page.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.J44 
 Extent:  30 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Alexander, Jerome | Animal behavior. | Autobiographies. | Aydelotte, Frank (1880-1956) | Biology. | Biometry. | Blumer, Herbert, 1900-1987 | Brennemann, Joseph, 1872-1944 | Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 | Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan) | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Certificates. | Chen, Tze-tuan | Commonplace books. | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | Correlation (Statistics) | Cowdry, E. V. (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Diplomas. | Emigration and immigration law -- United States. | Eugenics. | Evolution. | Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947 | Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1890-1983 | Genetics. | Harrison, Ross G. (Ross Granville), 1870-1959 | Heredity. | Japanese language | Jennings, H. S. (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947 | Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937 | Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950 | Lectures. | Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947 | Mast, Samuel Ottmar, 1871-1947 | Metcalf, Maynard M. (Maynard Mayo), 1868-1940 | Metz, Carl W., 1889-1975 | Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Natural selection. | Notebooks. | Osterud, Hjalmar Laurits | Paramecium -- Physiology. | Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 | Philosophy of science | Photoprints. | Pomeroy, Fred Elmer | Protozoa -- Physiology. | Raffel, Daniel | Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954 | Sonneborn, T.M. (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981 | Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolai Ivanov | Vitalism. | Watson, John B. (John Broadus), 1878-1958 | Whitney, Leon Fradley (1894-) | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | Zoologists -- United States. 
 Author:  Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857Requires cookie*
 Title:  Elisha Kent Kane journal, 1853-1855     
 Dates:  1853-1855 
 Abstract:  This journal may be of interest to naval historians.

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 Call #:  Mss.Film.1244 
 Extent:  1 microfilm_reel(s) 
 Subjects:  Advance (Ship) | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Microfilm Collection | Northwest Passage. | Voyages and travels. 
 Author:  Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857Requires cookie*
 Title:  Elisha Kent Kane letters     
 Dates:  1853-1857 
 Abstract:  This collection may be of interest to naval historians.

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 Call #:  Mss.Film.1296 
 Extent:  1 microfilm_reel(s) 
 Subjects:  Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795- | Voyages and travels. 
 Author:  Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857Requires cookie*
 Title:  Elisha Kent Kane Papers     
 Dates:  1810-1953 
 Abstract:  The diverse Kane Papers include the arctic explorer's correspondence, sketches of arctic and other scenes (there are many sketches scattered throughout the numerous bound volumes), notebooks of polar exploration, journals of trips to North Carolina, the Philippines, Africa, the Near East, Egypt, Mexico, logbooks, etc. The logbooks are catalogued separately and can be viewed at: Kane Logbooks (Mss.B.K132a). The Kane papers also include printed materials which may be of interest to naval historians. Printed sources include: The diverse Kane Papers include the arctic explorer's correspondence, sketches of arctic and other scenes (there are many sketches scattered throughout the numerous bound volumes), notebooks of polar exploration, journals of trips to North Carolina, the Philippines, Africa, the Near East, Egypt, Mexico, logbooks, etc. The logbooks are catalogued separately and can be viewed at: Kane Logbooks (Mss.B.K132a). The Kane papers also include printed materials which may be of interest to naval historians. Printed sources include:

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 Call #:  Mss.B.K132 
 Extent:  6.75 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Africa | Africa -- Description and travel | Americans Abroad | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration | Arctic regions-Pictorial works | Asia Minor -- Description and travel | Bills. | Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | Colonization, repatriation | Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 | Egypt -- Description and travel | Engravings. | Exploration | Exploration. | Explorers -- United States | Family Correspondence | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 | General Correspondence | Geometry -- Study and teaching | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | International Travel | Inuit -- Canada | Inuit -- Greenland | Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island | Journals (notebooks) | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795- | Lectures | Letterbooks | Liberia -- Description and travel | Logbooks | Maps. | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania | Meteorology -- Arctic Regions | Mexico -- Description and travel | Mineralogy -- Study and teaching | North Carolina -- Description and travel | Northwest Passage | Notebooks | Obstetrics | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Hospitals | Philadelphia. General Hospital | Plantations | Receipts | Silhouettes | Sketches. | Slave trade -- Africa | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States. Navy | Watercolors 
 Author:  Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857Requires cookie*
 Title:  Kane logbooks, 1844-1857     
 Dates:  1844-1857 
 Abstract:  Important source material in antebellum American naval history.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.K132a 
 Extent:  12 volume(s) 
 Subjects:  Americans Abroad | International Trade. | International Travel | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Miscellaneous | Travel Narratives and Journals | Various authors 
 Author:  Ord, George, 1781-1866Requires cookie*
 Title:  George Ord Collection     
 Dates:  1831-1864 
 Abstract:  The Ord Collection contains a few items which may be of interest to naval historians:

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 Call #:  Mss.B.Or2 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Abolitionists -- United States -- Attitudes | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | American Philosophical Society | Animals -- Habits and behavior of | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America | Banks and banking -- United States. | Biddle, Alexander, 1819-1899 | Birds -- Study and teaching | Birds. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. | Brown, John, 1800-1859 | Cholic Acid | Church buildings -- Pennsylvania-Philadelphia | Cicada (Genus) | Columbidia | Cuba -- Insurrection, 1849-1851 | Cuckoos | Daguerreotypes | Darlington, William, 1781-1863 | Dictionary of the English language. Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 | Dove | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Early National Politics | English language -- Dictionaries | Exploration. | Famines -- Ireland | France -- 19th century | Frogs -- United States | Frost -- Great Britain | Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 1807-1882 | Geese | General Correspondence | Gold mines and mining -- California -- 19th century | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Russia | Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 | Heatstroke | Hunter, John Dunn | Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Influenza -- United States | Irish -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Italy -- Revolution of 1848 | Italy -- War of 1859 | Jardine, William, Sir, 1800-1874 | Kagoshima-shi (Japan) | Kane, Paul, 1810-1871 | Memorials -- Great Britain | Mercury | Mexican War, 1846-1848 | Monk, Maria, d. 1850 | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) | National Institute for the Promotion of Science | Natural history | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Partridges | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 -- Art collections. | Philadelphia History | Philological Society (Great Britain) | Potatoes | Railroads -- 19th century | Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. | Rattlesnake | Religion | Reptiles | Roux de Rochelle, Jean Baptiste Gaspard, 1762-1849 | Royal Society (Great Britain) | Russia -- Foreign relations -- Germany-Prussia | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sea monsters | Secession -- Southern States | Skin -- Diseases-Treatment | Slaves -- Emancipation-America | Smithsonian Institution | Smoking -- Health aspects -- United States | Soap trade -- Pennsylvania | St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Steam-navigation -- Atlantic Ocean | Steamboat disasters | Stout Family | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's Cabin. | Telegraph | United States -- Civil War 1861 1865 -- Participation Foreign | United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects | United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). | United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). | Vaughan, William | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1872 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1872. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition. | Williams, Eleazer, 1787-1858 
 Author:  Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809Requires cookie*
 Title:  Colonel Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers     
 Dates:  1692 - Circa 1921 
 Abstract:  The Paine Papers contain at least one item which may be of interest to naval historians: Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Thomas Paine. 1788 July 28. Discusses a battle between Admiral Paul Jones and the Prince of Nassau on the 18th of June, the "forerunner of the great decissive action... which took place on the 26th..." Mentions also a "less bloody war" between the Pope and the King of Naples. 4 pages.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.P165 
 Extent:  176 items 
 Subjects:  Adams, Samuel | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Bridge Company of Philadelphia | Bridges -- 18th century | Clinton, George, 1739-1812 | Clymer, George, 1734-1813 | Colonial Politics | Cope, Thomas Pim, 1768-1854 | Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 | Early National Politics | Engineering | Few, Kitty Nicholson | France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815 | General Correspondence | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820 | Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 | Hall, John | International Affairs | Ireland -- Foreign relations | Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 | Lotteries -- New York (State) | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | McIntere, Archibald | Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Parke, Thomas, 1749-1835 | Printing and Publishing | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Roofing, Slate | Schuylkill River Bridge | Science and technology | United States -- Politics and government -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 | Wolfe, James, 1727-1759 
 Author:  Peale-Sellers families.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963     
 Dates:  1686-1963 
 Abstract:  There are at least two letters in the Peale-Sellers Correspondence which may be of interest to naval historians:

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 Call #:  Mss.B.P31 
 Extent:  19 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Art -- United States. | Business and Skilled Trades | Cassatt, Alexander J. (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906 | Civil engineering -- United States. | De Peyster, John | Drawing. | Early National Politics | Edison , Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Engineering. | Family Correspondence | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | Genealogies. | General Correspondence | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Locomotives. | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine, Military. | Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 | Natural history. | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Patterson, , Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Peale family. | Peale, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1849-1914 | Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. | Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825 | Peale-Sellers families. | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Portraits, American. | Sketches. | Social Life and Custom | Stetson, Charles Augustus, 1810-1888 | Technology. | United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical personnel. | United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865. | United States -- Civilization -- To 1783. | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Washington, George (1732-1799) | Washington, George, 1732-1799 
 Author:  Pennsylvania.Provincial Council.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Pennsylvania. Provincial Council. Records, 1748-1758, 1819     
 Dates:  1748-1819 
 Abstract:  Contains minor information regarding naval activities.

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 Call #:  Mss.974.8.Sa7 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Subjects:  Colonial Politics | Diplomatic History | Government Affairs | Military History | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Political Correspondence | Sargeant, Thomas | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763. 
 Author:  Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864Requires cookie*
 Title:  Benjamin Silliman correspondence, 1808-1859     
 Dates:  1808-1859 
 Abstract:  The Silliman Correspondence contains at least one item which may be of interest to naval historians: Silliman, Benjamin. Letter to Captain Charles Wilkes. 1845 December 20. Wants sample of spring water for study. Dr. C. T. Jackson's analysis of sea water has been published. 2 pages.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.Si4 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Berzelius, Jons Jakob, Friherre, 1779-1848 | Blowpipe. | Bonhams (Firm) | Brongniart, Alexandre-Theodore, 1739-1813 | Bronn, H. G., (Heinrich Georg), 1800-1862 | Chemistry | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Education | Educational Material | Ether | Geological Society of America. | Geology. | Green, Ashbel, 1762-1848 | Lowell Institute. | Mather, W. W., (William Williams), 1804-1859 | Natural history. | Orr, Andrew | Richards, John S. | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Telegraph | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 
 Author:  Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865Requires cookie*
 Title:  W. H. (William Henry) Smyth correspondence, 1820-1864     
 Dates:  1820-1864 
 Abstract:  Naval historians may be interested in correspondence relating to nautical almanacs and submarine expeditions, and in Thomas Graves' account of the voyage of HMS Beagle.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.Sm98 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892 | Almanacs. | Arnold, Thomas (1795-1842) | Astronomical instruments. | Astronomy. | Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857 | Beyond Early America | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Dawes, William, 1762-1836 | Dollond, George, 1774-1852 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Graves, Thomas. | Grove, W. R. (William Robert), 1811-1896 | Hartwell Observatory. | Henderson, Thomas, 1798-1844 | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Hopkins, William, 1793-1866 | Kater, Henry, 1777-1835 | Lassell, William, 1799-1880 | Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 | Maclear, Thomas, 1794-1879 | Microscopy. | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Nautical almanacs. | Petermann, A. (August Heinrich), 1822-1878 | Royal Astronomical Society. | Royal Observatory, Greenwich. | Royal Society (Great Britain) | Sheepshanks, R. (Richard), 1794-1855 | Smyth, Annarella Warington | Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865 | Smyth, Warington Wilkinson, Sir, 1817-1890 | Somerville, Mary (1780-1872) | Submarines (Ships) | Tindal, Nicholas Conyngham, Sir, 1776-1846 | Vulliamy, Benjamin Lewis, 1780 | Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von (1754-1832 ) 
 Author:  Various authorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Broadside Collection, 1638-1980     
 Dates:  1638-1980, Undated 
 Abstract:  The Broadsides Collection contains a few items which may be of interest to naval historians:

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 Call #:  Mss.973.C683 
 Extent:  760 item(s) 
 Subjects:  Abbott Family | Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan, 1830-1890 | Abbott, Edward, 1841-1908 | Abbott, Gorham D., 1807-1874 | Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 | Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 | Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 | Abenaki language | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Abolitionists. | Acquisitions (Libraries) | Actors | Aeronautics -- History | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Agricultural exhibitions | Agriculture -- Missouri | Air -- Purification -- Equipment and supplies | Albert Medal | Alcoholic beverage industry -- United States | Alden, Ebenezer, 1788-1881 | Alexander, Stephen, 1806-1883 | Alphabets | America -- Antiquities. | American Anti-Vivisection Society | American Asylum, at Hartford, for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb | American Meteor Society | American Philosophical Society | American Philosophical Society -- Prizes | American Philosophical Society. Library | American loyalists. | Anatomy -- Study and teaching. | Animal magnetism. | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration. | Anthropology | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation | Aquariums. | Archaeology -- Mexico | Archaeology -- United States. | Architectural drawings. | Architecture | Archives | Arithmetic. | Art -- Exhibitions | Astronomical instruments. | Astronomy | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 | Atlases | Audouard, Olympe, 1830-1890 | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Balloons. | Bank notes -- Forgeries | Bank notes -- Great Britain | Banks and banking -- Pennsylvania | Barometers. | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, Anna | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Baudry des Lozières, Louis Narcisse, 1761-1841 | Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company | Bergius, Peter Jonas, 1730-1790 | Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Bible. New Testament | Bible. O.T. Psalms, II, 1 -- Sermons | Biology. | Birds | Birds -- North America | Birds -- Pictorial works | Birmingham (Pa.) | Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813 | Bonds (financial instruments). | Bookbinding | Bookplates | 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. | Broadsides. | Broom, Robert, 1866-1951 | Brown, John, 1800-1859 | Bryn Mawr College | Building materials | Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 | Business Records and Accounts | 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 | Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 | Cements, Adhesive | Cetacea | Charities -- England -- London | Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 | Chemicals | Chemistry | Chemistry -- History | Chemistry -- Nomenclature | Chemistry -- Study and teaching | Cherokee language -- Alphabet | Cherokee language -- Texts | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal | Chile | China | 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) | Columbus, Christopher | Comets -- Orbits | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Conjoined twins | Connecticut | Conservation of natural resources. | Constitutional history -- United States | Cook, James, 1728-1779 | Cornell University | Cotton | Cotton -- Diseases and pests | Cotton -- Statistics | Counting | Court summons | Courtship -- Songs and music | Criticism -- History | Cross, E. | Crucero Iberia | Crusades | Cuba -- Statistics, Vital | Cutlery | Cyclopedia | Dance cards | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Darwinism. | Daylight saving | Delaware Indians | Delaware Indians -- Religion | Democratic National Convention (1864 : Chicago, Ill.) | Design | Dickinson College -- History -- Sources | Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848 | Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation | Earth (Planet) | Eclipses. | Ecton (Northamptonshire, England) | Education | Education -- Congresses | Education -- South Carolina | Education -- Study and teaching -- England. | Education -- United States. | Egypt -- Civilization. | Eidouranion | Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 | Electricity | Electrotherapeutics | Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French | English language | Entomology -- United States. | Episcopal Church -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Eskimo languages | Essays. | Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Ferguson, James, 1797-1867 | 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 | Fox, Robert Were, 1789-1877 | France -- History. | 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 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Imprints | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Freemasonry -- France -- History. | Freemasons | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | French language | French, Daniel | Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures | Fruits | Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | Furnaces | Gallaudet, T. H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1787-1851 | Gas-lighting. | Genetics -- History. | Genetics -- Societies, etc. | Geodesy | Geography -- Europe | Geologists. | Geology | Geology -- Great Britain. | Geology -- Pennsylvania. | Geology -- Tables | Geology, Stratigraphic. | Girard College | Girls' Schools -- France -- Paris | Goldsmith, Oliver | Gollini, Massimiliano | Gordon, Patrick | Gorlitz (Dresden, Germany). Gymnasium | Grapes | Great Britain -- Colonies | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America | Great Britain -- Commerce -- West Indies. | 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 | Gruber, Michael A. (Michael Alvin), 1855-1943 | Gulf Stream | Haiti | Haiti -- History -- Sources | Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742 | Harvard University -- Students | Haupt, Herman, 1817-1905 | Hays, Isaac, 1796-1879 | Hays, William D. | 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.) | Independence National Historical Park (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 | International Medical Congress (9th : 1887 : Washington, D.C.) | Invitations. | Iron and steel bridges | Iroquois Indians -- Agriculture | Jena, Battle of, Jena, Germany, 1806 | Jesus Christ | Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792 | Jones, William, 1746-1794 | Jupiter (Planet) | Kane Family | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Thomas Leiper, 1822-1883 | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 | Kings and rulers | Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817 | L'Epee, Charles-Michel de, 1712-1789 | Laboratories | Labrador (N.L.) | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Lamps | Land use -- Ohio | Landscape architecture | Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 | Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling | Lannes, Jean, Duc de Montebello, 1769-1809 | Latin language | Law -- Periodicals | Law -- Virginia | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures. | Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company | Liberty Bell | Library rules and regulations | Library science -- Congresses | Life preservers | Light | Lightning | Lightning conductors | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Lions | Lippincott's magazine of literature, science and education | Locke, John, 1632-1704 | Locks and keys | Locusts | London (England) -- Buildings. | London (England) -- Maps | Longitude. | Lord's prayer | Lotteries | Lowell Observatory | Lumadrama | Lyceums. | Machinery. | Magic squares | Magna Carta | Malherbe, Francois de, 1555-1628 | Mammoths. | Maps | Maps. | Martial law -- Philadelphia (Pa.) | Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811 | Massachusetts -- Finance | Massachusetts. General Court | Mastodon | Mastodon -- Exhibitions | Mathematical instruments | Mauritius | Maxims | McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 | McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817 | Medical sciences -- Periodicals | Medicine -- Congresses | Medicine -- Humor | Medicine -- Study and teaching. | Membership cards | Menageries -- Boston (Mass.) | Menageries -- Great Britain | Menageries -- Philadelphia | Mendel, Gregor, 1822-1884 | Menus. | Mercantile Library of Philadelphia | Mercer, Hugh, 1726-1777 | 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 | Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 | Mohawk Indians | Mohawk language -- Texts | Mohegan Indians -- Religion | Mollusks. | Money | Montgomery, Richard, 1738-1775 | 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. | Music -- Scores. | Musical scores. | 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. | Naturalists. | Nebulae | New Orleans Canal and Banking Company | New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Occultism | Odometers | Official Government Documents and Records | Olivier, Charles P. (Charles Pollard) | Oneida Community | Optical instruments | Orators | Ordnance | Oregon | Orton, James, 1830-1877 | Ozone | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Painting -- Exhibitions | Paleontology | Paleontology -- Missouri | Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 | Paper money -- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Paris (France) -- Description and travel. | Paris (France) -- History -- 1715-1789. | Passports. | Patent medicines | Patriotische Martyrer | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Peale, Caroline Girard | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 | Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865 | Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889 | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania -- History | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Perkins, Jacob, 1766-1849 | Perpetual calendars | Perpetual motion | Pharmacology. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Finance | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Statistics, Vital | Philadelphia (Pa.)-History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.). Militia | Philadelphia School of Design for Women | Philip, Prince, Consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain | Phrenology. | Physical geography -- Canada | Physical instruments | Physicians | Physicians. | Phytogeography -- United States -- Maps | Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788 | Planck, Max, 1858-1947 | Planets | Planets -- Observations | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Plows. | Poetry | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Polarization (Light) | Political geography | Political satire | Polito, S. | Poor laws -- Great Britain | Portraits. | Portsmouth (N.H.) -- Statistics, Vital | Postal service -- History | Postal service -- United States. | Pourtales, L. F. de (Louis Francois de), 1824-1880 | Presidents -- United States -- Autographs | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1804 | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1840 | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864 | Presidents -- United States. | Prices | Prices -- France | Prices -- Italy -- Trieste | Prices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Prices -- United States | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777 | Printed Material | Printing machinery and supplies | Printing presses | Prisons | Privateering | Prizes | Processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Procter, George | Promissory notes | Propaganda, American | Prophecies | Quakers. | Railroads -- Mexico | Railroads -- Pennsylvania | Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History | Railroads. | Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-François, Abbé, 1713-1796 | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Real property. | Redwood family | Reigate and Godstone Railway | Religious education -- Massachusetts | Retired women -- France -- Paris | Rewards programs (Criminal investigation) | Richardson, Philip L. (Philip Livermore) | Roads -- Pennsylvania | Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de, 1725-1807 | Rolfe, Josiah | Roosevelt, Clinton, 1804-1898 | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | Roots, Numerical | Royal College of Physicians of London | Royal Humane Society (London, England) | Royal Society (Great Britain) | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Rutgers College | Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) | Salt industry and trade | Scales (Weighing instruments) | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | 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. | Scientists. | Seals and labels (Philately) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Seeds -- Catalogs | Seneca Indians | Serpents | Sheffield (England) | Shipbuilding | Shippen, William | Shippensburg (Pa.) | Ships, Iron and steel -- Great Britain | Shorthand. | 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. | Song sheets | South America -- Discovery and exploration -- 19th century. | South Carolina -- Politics and government | Southern States -- Description and travel. | 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 | Tickets. | Tobacco -- Commerce | Tobacco industry -- Bermuda Islands | Tobacco industry -- Virginia | Tornadoes | Trains -- Central Europe | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | Transylvania University | Travel | 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 -- Centennial celebrations, 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 -- Causes | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, German | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | 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 | University of Pennsylvania | Uruguay -- History | Various authors | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Vaughan, Samuel, 1720-1802 | Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 | Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 | Virginia. Declaration of Rights | Vivisection | Vivisection -- 19th century | Volapük | Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775 | Warships | Washington Hall | Water -- Purification | Water -- Purification -- Filtration | Water mills | Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 | Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 | Weights and measures. | Whales | Wharton School | Wickersheimer, John | Wills. | Wine and wine making | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Wolf, Edwin, 1911-1991 | Women -- Education | Women -- Employment | Wood -- Preservation | Yale University | Zoology | Zoology -- India | Zoology -- Italy | Zoology -- Pictorial works | Zoology -- Study and teaching. 
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 Title:  Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1668-1983     
 Dates:  1668-1983 
 Abstract:  There are numerous items in this collection which may be of interest to students of naval history:

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 Call #:  Mss.Ms.Coll.200 
 Extent:  25 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Anishinaabe | Appointments, Military | Arctic Indians | Autopsy. | Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Brasseur | Cayuga Indians | Charles J., Rosenberg | Colonial Politics | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Cytology. | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Early National Politics | Edison , Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Egyptians | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Gelatin silver prints | General Correspondence | Genetics. | Genth, F. A. (Frederick Augustus), 1820-1893 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Greeley , Horace, 1811-1872 | Harding, Warren G. | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | History of science and technology. | History, Ancient. | Inuit -- Canada | Iroquois Indians | Isleta Indians | Micmac language | Miscellaneous | Mohawk Indians | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Mythology, Egyptian. | Natural history | Negatives | Newcomb, Simon | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwa Indians -- Folklore | Ojibwa language | Ojibwe people | Oneida Indians | Onondaga Indians | Ottawa language | Penobscot Indians | Photomechanical prints | Physics -- History. | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Sacco-Vanzetti case | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific apparatus and instruments. | Seneca Indians | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Slides. | Southwest Indians | Sparks, Jared (1789-1866) | Stevens, Henry | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Tuscarora Indians | Tyrrhenians | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- History -- Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) | Various authors | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 | Women -- Education | World War, 1939-1945 | Wyoming Valley (Pa.) 
 Author:  Vaughan, John, 1756-1841Requires cookie*
 Title:  John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936     
 Dates:  1768 - Circa 1936 
 Abstract:  There is at least one item in the Vaughan Papers which may be of interest to naval historians: Biddle, James. Letter to John Vaughan. 1826 May 11. Naval appointments. 3 pages.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.V462 
 Extent:  5 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Commonplace books. | Diaries. | Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 | Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 | Family Correspondence | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | General Correspondence | Hollinshead, Benjamin M | Institutional Records | Madeira family. | Medicine. | Natural history | Norris, William, 1802-1867 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Planetariums. | Political Correspondence | Sampson (Ship) | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Snider, Jacob | Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Mauric | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Verses. | Williams, Jonathan 
 Author:  William & George PanterRequires cookie*
 Title:  Sale catalogue of prize cargo of the Marquis de Lafayette     
 Dates:  1781-1782 
 Abstract:  This manuscript may prove of interest to naval historians of the revolutionary era.

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 Call #:  Mss.347.7.P19 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Subjects:  American Revolution | Business Records and Accounts | Catalogs. | International Trade. | Military History | Miscellaneous 
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