| | Creator: | Ellis, John,1710?-1776. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Ellis letters, 1753-1771
| | | | Dates: | 1753-1771 | | | | Abstract: | These are copies in an unknown hand [the name "Meriel Nevill Watt" appears in the front of the volume] of letters, primarily from Ellis, that were published in the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society in London. Most relate to botanical topics, and many are written to Peter Collinson. A few are written by Peter Woulfe. Included are contemporary engravings from the "Transactions," as well as original wash drawings copied from the engravings. | | | | Call #: | Mss.580.EL5 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Drawings. | Ellis, John,1710?-1776. | Engravings. | Natural history. | Watt, Meriel Nevill | Woulfe, Peter, -- ca. 1727-1803. | |
| | Creator: | Ettawageshik, Jane Willets, 1915-1996 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ottawa material
| | | | Dates: | 1947-1948 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists of Ottawa songs, interviews, word lists, legends, Nanabojo stories, autobiographical stories, and information on Ottawa history. Some of the material is given in both Ottawa and English, some in Ottawa only. Recorded by Jane Ettawageshik in Michigan from 1947 to 1948. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.1 | | | | Extent: | 14.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ants--Folklore | Bears | Bears--Folklore | Birch | Birds--Folklore | Brothers--Folklore | Burt Lake (Mich.) | Catholic Church--Hymns | Chingwa, Joe | Conversation | Cooper, Victoria | Corn | Corn--Folklore | Courtship--Songs and music | Cranes (Birds)--Folklore | Crickets--Folklore | Cross Village (Mich.) | Dogs--Folklore | Ducks--Folklore | Eagle dance | Ettawageshik, Fred, 1896-1969 | Ettawageshik, Jane Willets, 1915-1996 | Fasts and feasts | Fish | Forced marriage | Future life | Gambling--Songs and music | Ghost dance | Great Lakes (North America) | Harbor Springs (Mich.) | Harbor Springs (Mich.) | Herbs | Human-animal relationships | Hunters--Folklore | Hunting | Indians of North America--Michigan--Music | Insects--Folklore | Interviews | Kidnapping | Love songs | Lynx--Folklore | Mackinac Island (Mich. : Island) | Marriage--Folklore | Michigan | Nanabush (Legendary character) | Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends | Native American histories | North Manitou Island (Mich.) | Ottawa Indians--Biography | Ottawa Indians--Folklore | Ottawa Indians--History | Ottawa Indians--Legal status, laws, etc. | Ottawa Indians--Music | Ottawa Indians--Religion | Ottawa Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Ottawa Indians--Social life and customs | Ottawa dance | Ottawa language | Petoskey (Mich.) | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Puberty rites | Rabbits--Folklore | Racing--Folklore | Robins--Folklore | Seasons--Folklore | Sisters | Skeleton--Folklore | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Mich.) | Snakes | Sound recordings | South Manitou Island (Mich.) | Spring--Folklore | Trees--Folklore | Trials (Murder) | Visions | Weddings--Songs and music | Whistles | Winter--Folklore | Witchcraft--Folklore | Witches--Folklore | |
| | Creator: | Eugenics Record Office . | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugenics Record Office Records
| | | | Dates: | 1670-1964 | | | | Abstract: | In 1910, the Eugenics Record Office was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, as a center for the study of human heredity and a repository for genetic data on human traits. It merged with the Station for Experimental Evolution in 1920 to become the Department of Genetics at the Carnegie Institution, and under the direction of Charles B. Davenport and later of Albert Blakeslee and Milislav Demerec, it became the most important center for eugenic research in the nation. However with intellectual currents shifting, the Carnegie Institution stopped funding the office in 1939. It remained active until 1944, when its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota. When the Dight closed in 1991, the genealogical material was filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and given to the Center for Human Genetics; the non-genealogical material was not filmed and was given to the American Philosophical Society Library.
Following the original order, the ERO Records are organized into thirteen series: I. Trait Files, 1670-1964 ; II. Trait Card Boxes, 1904-1939 ; III. Family Traits Card Boxes, 1920-1939 ; IV. RFT Submitters Card Catalog, 1910s-1930s ; V. Record of Family Traits, 1911-1940 ; VI. Fitter Family Studies, 1913-1936 ; VII. Field Worker Files, 1911-1926 ; VIII. Volunteer Collaborators, 1912-1939 ; IX. Pedigrees, 1828-1926 ; X. Harry H. Laughlin Files, 1915-1938 ; XI. Bibliographia Eugenica, 1734-1934 ; XII. Midget Schedules, 1919-1964 ; XIII. Index Card Boxes, 1910s-1930s. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.77 | | | | Extent: | 330.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquin Indians | American Eugenics Society | Apache Indians | Aztecs. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Carib Indians | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution. Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Cuna Indians | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Eskimos | Eugenics | Eugenics Record Office | Evolution | Gelatin silver prints | Genetics | Heredity | Human genetics | Indians of Central America--Panama | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943 | Photomechanical prints | Plains Indians | Pueblo Indians | Race, race relations, racism | Sioux Nation | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.. | Station for Experimental Evolution | |
| | Creator: | Evans, David, 1681-1751 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Aliquot rudimenta philosophiae sive pauca introductoria compendia, technologiae, logicae, rhetoricae et physicae
| | | | Dates: | 1747 | | | | Abstract: | An early Welsh emigrant to Pennsylvania, David Evans was educated at Yale (1713) before answering the call to Presbyterian pulpits in the Welsh Tract of Delaware and Pennsylvania, and to the church at Pilesgrove, N.J. Written entirely in Latin in 1747 when Evans was 66 years old, the Aliquot Rudimenta Physicae consists of four separate compendia bound together, the Compendium Technologiae, Logicae, Rhetoricae, and Physicae. The work is an interesting and thorough attempt to summarize a system of knowledge with impeccable American provenance. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.Ev5 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Education | Educational Material | Evans, David, 1681-1751 | Foreign Language | Logic--Early work to 1800 | Manuscript Essays | Natural History | Natural theology--Early works to 1800 | Physics--Early work to 1800 | Religion and science | Rhetoric--Early work to 1800 | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | |
| | Creator: | Evans, Harriet Verena, 1782- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Harriet Verena Evans Diary
| | | | Dates: | 1827-1844 | | | | Abstract: | Harriet Verena Evans was born in Lancaster, Pa., on April 28, 1782, the daughter of John and Sarah Musser. On May 21, 1807, Harriet married Cadwalader Evans (1762-1841), a former surveyor who went on to a distinguished career in politics, as one of the directors of the Bank of the United States, a promoter of the Schuylkill Canal, and president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. The couple had nine children, including a set of twins.
The diary of Harriet Verena Evans is an unusual example of a woman's spiritual diary from early national Philadelphia. Beginning on her 46th birthday in 1827, the same day her seventeen year-old son John died, Evans made sporadic entries in her diary for seventeen years, marking birthdays, holidays, special events, and anniversaries of various kinds. Fixated upon praying (or fretting) over her spiritual state and future, Evans continued to mourn over John's loss for many years, remembering him regularly on the date of his birth, death, and burial. She was also particularly prone to composing (or copying) religious poetry, and in sections, the diary verges on a poetical commonplace book. Other entries reveal Evans' concern for her other children, three of whom were students at the University of Pennsylvania, and on July 25, 1832, she made a particularly long entry discussing the arrival of the cholera in Philadelphia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ev5 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cholera--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Commonplace Book | Death | Diaries | Diaries. | Evans family | Evans, Harriet Verena, 1782- | Evans, John Glendour, 1810-1827 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mourning customs | Poetry | Religion | Social Life and Custom | Spiritual life | Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | |
| | Creator: | Ewing, James Hunter,1798-1827. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Hunter Ewing lecture notes, December 22, 1818 - January 19, 1819
| | | | Dates: | 1818-1819 | | | | Abstract: | These notes were kept by Ewing of medical lectures he attended, given by Drs. Nathaniel Chapman, John R. Coxe, and Philip S. Physick. The lectures concern fevers, materia medica, surgery, and diagnosis. | | | | Call #: | Mss.610.7.L49 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853 | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 | Diagnosis. | Education | Educational Material | Ewing, James Hunter,1798-1827. | Fever. | Materia medica. | Medicine | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 19th century. | Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837 | Science and Technology | Surgery -- United States -- 19th century. | University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine. | |
| | Creator: | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Campbell Eyton correspondence, 1836-1874
| | | | Dates: | 1836-1874 | | | | Abstract: | These letters cover subjects in natural history, especially birds and mollusks. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ey83 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ball, Robert, -- 1802-1857. | Birds. | Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 | Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 | Buckland, Francis T., (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880 | Crelle, A. L., (August Leopold), 1780-1855 | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Mollusks. | Natural history. | Patterson, Robert, 1802-1872 | Strickland, H. E., (Hugh Edwin), 1811-1853 | Yarnell, William, 1784-1856 | |
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