| | 1 | 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: | 10.0 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. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | 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 | |
| 2 | 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: | 2.5 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: | Fort Augusta (Pa.) | Fort Duquesne | Fort Hunter | Fort Pitt (Pa.) | Fort William Henry (N.Y.) | Iroquois Indians | Lancaster County (Pa.)--History | Meteorology--Pennsylvania--Observations | Pennsylvania --History --French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce | Shippenburg Library Company | United States--History--French and Indian war, 1755-1763 | United States. Army. Supplies and stores | |
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