| | Author: | Alexander, William, 1726-1783 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Variation of the compass, 1773
| | | | Dates: | 1773 | | | | Abstract: | This slender volume is an essay by William Alexander, a prominent figure in New Jersey politics and business. Alexander wrote this essay with the hope that it would spur the American Philosophical Society to support the study of variations in compasses. Alexander’s interest in this subject likely had to do with his background as a merchant. He realized compass variations created inefficiencies and risks for captains and the merchants that relied on them. Alexander appeals specifically to the APS’s mission by stating that such a study would be “useful to mankind.” Alexander’s essays shows that he is conversant in many of the current theories about variations. He also proposed a plan for the APS to facilitate a systematic study of compass variations that he believed would produce a clear general law for variations in compasses.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.522.76.Al2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Item(s) | | | | Topics: | Science and Technology | Surveying and Maps | Trade | | | | Genre: | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific Data | | | | Subjects: | Astronomy -- 18th century | Compass. | Learned institutions and societies. | |
| | Author: | Castiglioni, Luigi, 1757-1832 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell'America Settentrionale intrapreso negli anni 1785, 86, 87 da L. C., 1785-1787
| | | | Dates: | 1785-1787 | | | | 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.1322 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Genre: | Microfilm Collection | | | | Subjects: | Voyages and travels. | |
| | Author: | Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Victor Marie Du Pont de Nemours correspondence, 1795-1797
| | | | Dates: | 1795-1797 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains photocopies of correspondence from Victor Marie Du Pont Nemours, the brother of the patriarch of the DuPont family. Victor was a French diplomat who immigrated to Delaware in the early nineteenth century and became involved in politics and the family business. The correspondence is primarily from Dupont. The originals are held at Longwood Library, now the Hagley Museum.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D938v | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Topics: | Beyond Early America | Early National Politics | International Affairs | | | | Genre: | General Correspondence | |
| | 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 | |
| | Author: | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularies of the Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages, [and] Vocabularies of the languages of Indians inhabiting N.W. America, 1834-1836
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1836 | | | | Abstract: | This dictionary, compiled during John Kirk Townsend’s travels between 1834 and 1836, contains English translations for some words in Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.T66 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Language and Linguistics | Native America | | | | Genre: | Language Material | Native American Materials | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Languages | Salishan languages | Walla Walla Indians | |
| | Author: | Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala.. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabulario de la lengua Cakchiquel
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1675 | | | | 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.497.43.V85 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Beyond Early America | | | | Subjects: | Cakchikel language | Mayan languages | |
| | Author: | Sack, William | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A vocabulary in the Mingo tongue taken from the mouth of William Sack, a Canistogo Indian. . . and memorandum book
| | | | Dates: | 1757-1771 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains a short vocabulary and an extended memorandum book. The vocabulary was taken from Will Sack, a Conestoga Indian, in January 1757 at Fort Augusta in the midst of the Seven Years' War. Sack would later become a controversial figure in Pennsylvania history. The Paxton Boys claimed he was a murderer and used his presence in the Conestoga's camp as pretext for their assault on the Conestoga Indians. The memorandum book contains the financial transactions of an unknown individual during the 1760s, although some evidence suggests that Edward Burd kept this memorandum book and vocabulary.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.V852m | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Seven Years' War | | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Language Material | Native American Materials | |
| | Author: | Voltaire,1694-1778. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voltaire letters, 1751-1778
| | | | Dates: | 1751-1778 | | | | 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.693 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Genre: | Microfilm Collection | |
| | Author: | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voyage en Angleterre, 1785 April 3-May 27
| | | | Dates: | 1785 April 3 - 1785 May 27 | | | | 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.B.M291 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Beyond Early America | | | | Subjects: | Gardens -- England. | Palaces -- England. | |
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