| | Creator: | Van Cleef, Eugene, 1887-1973 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugene Van Cleef Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1906-1973 | | | | Abstract: | A geographer from Ohio State University, Eugene Van Cleef was a specialist on Finns and Finnish immigrants to the United States, on the applications of geography to foreign trade and international commerce, and a pioneer in urban geography.
The Van Cleef Papers contain 5 linear feet of personal and professional correspondence and other materials reflecting Van Cleef's varied interests in applied geography, foreign trade, and Finns. Of particular note is an autobiographical manuscript, discussing the intellectual origins of his interests in geography and giving a concise perspective on his views of the discipline. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.61 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | City planning. | Finland | Finns--United States | Geography--Study and teaching | International trade | Photographs | Van Cleef, Eugene, 1887-1973 | |
| | Creator: | Van Vleck, J. H., (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J. H. (John Hasbrouck) Van Vleck papers, 1923-1959
| | | | Dates: | 1923-1959 | | | | Abstract: | These contain a few notes and memoranda by Van Vleck, but the bulk of the collection is letters to and from him. Correspondents include Raymond T. Birge, Gerhard H. Dieke, Paul A. M. Dirac, Edwin C. Kemble, and Robert S. Mulliken. | | | | Call #: | Mss.530.1.Ar2.2 | | | | Extent: | 189.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Education | Educational Material | Kemble, Edwin C., (Edwin Crawford), 1889-1984 | Notebooks | Physics. | Quantum theory. | Science and Technology | Van Vleck, J. H., (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 | |
| | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Meteorology Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1748-1822 | | | | Abstract: | Featuring the work of at least ten different authors, this collection includes several, unrelated meteorological observations from the mid-18th Century to the early 19th Century. While the majority of these records depict weather patterns in Philadelphia, there are also descriptions for Delaware, New England, London, and South America among others. | | | | Call #: | Mss.551.5.M56 | | | | Extent: | 30.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Haines, Reuben, 1786-1831 | Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870 | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | Meteorological Data | Meteorology - Delaware - Observations | Meteorology - New England - Observations | Meteorology - Observations | Meteorology - Pennsylvania | Meteorology - South America - Observations | Science and Technology | Various | Weather | Williams, Samuel, 1743-1817 | |
| | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Pennsylvania Stamp Act and Non-Importation Resolutions Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1765-1775 | | | | Abstract: | From the Sugar Act of 1764 through the Tea Act of 1773, the British Parliament imposed a variety of taxes upon their American colonies in an effort to raise revenue to offset the enormous debts incurred during the Seven Years' (French and Indian) War. Far more efficiently than raising revenue, these duties raised the indignation of the colonits, contributing more than their share to the alienation that fueled the independence movement
The two volumes that comprise the Pennsylvania Stamp Act and Non-Importation Resolutions Collection contain 34 manuscript and printed items relating to the political crisis over taxation on goods imported into the American colonies between 1765 and 1773, with a focus on Philadelphia. The first volume is concerned exclusively with agitation over the Stamp Act of 1765 and its repeal, while the second volume relates more specifically to the Non-Importation agreements of the 1760s, the Townshend Duties, and the Tea Act of 1773. Among these are letters of Governor John Penn, correspondence between the Sons of Liberty at Philadelphia and those of New York, 1766, an address of the committee of Boston merchants to a committee of Philadelphia merchants, 11 August 1768. Among the more dramatic letters are those from John Hughes, the would-be Stamp Officer for Pennsylvania who resigned bis commission in the face of public protest, and a seies of threatening letters addressed to James and Drinker, consignees for the sale of tea in Pennsylvania in 1773. | | | | Call #: | Mss.973.2.M31 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | American Revolution | Bradford, William, 1719-1791 | Broadsides. | Colonial Politics | Government Affairs | Great Britain--Commerce--Pennsylvania | Hawker, James | Hughes, John | Legal Records | Non-Importation agreements, 1768-1769 | Official Government Documents and Records | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania--Commerce--Great Britain | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Printed Material | Sons of Liberty | Stamp Act, 1765 | Tea tax (American colonies) | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes | Various | Wharton, Isaac | |
| | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Scientists Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1563-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology.
Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.L56 | | | | Extent: | 5.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abeille, Louis Paul, 1719-1807 | Akademiia Nauk S.S.S.R. | Animal magnetism. | Astronomy | Astronomy--Early works to 1800 | Azores--Description and travel | Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983 | Beadle, Elias R. | Bertrand, J. (Joseph), 1822-1900 | Beyond Early America | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Clarke, Frieda | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Conchology | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 | Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853 | Evolution (Biology) | Geology | Gray, Joseph Alexander, 1884-1966 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Lynge, Herman Henrik Julius, 1822-1897 | Natural history | Paleontology | Perisco, Enrico | Photographs | Physicists. | Physics | Physics--Early works to 1800 | Science | Segrè, Emilio Gino, 1905-1989 | Shells. | Silkworms | Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 | Various | Vulliamy, Benjamin Lewis, 1780-1854 | Wien, W. , (Wilhelm), 1864-1928 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Volapük Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1888-1891 | | | | Abstract: | Created by the German priest Johann Martin Schleyer in 1879, Volapük ("World's Speech") was the first artificial language to gain wide spread popularity as a prospective form of universal communication. During the 1880s, Volapük clubs were formed throughout Europe and the Americas, with a particularly active center in eastern Massachussetts, however it was gradually replaced by its somewhat less elaborate rival, Esperanto.
The Volapük Collection includes printed materials, ephemera, and small number of letters and postcards written in Volapük. Assembled by F. L. Hutchins of Worcester, Mass., a leading American Volapükist, the collection reflects the brief, but intense international interest in the potential of Volapük to become a lingua franca of business and a medium for exchange across borders, and it conveys some of the excitement its adherents felt at its potential. | | | | Call #: | Mss.408.9.Ar7v | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Broadsides. | Circular letters | Languages, Artificial | North American Association for the Propagation of Volapük | Postcards | Various | Volapük | Volapükaklub Nolumelopik | Volapükaklub de Worcester | |
| | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Deeds, 1703-1798, for land in Pennsylvania
| | | | Dates: | 1703-1798 | | | | Abstract: | This is a miscellaneous collection of deeds, indentures, and land surveys. Many names are represented, including James Claypole, Joseph Harrison, John Penn, Richard Penn, Thomas Penn, Zachariah Poulson, and William Shippen, Jr. | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.D363 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Claypoole, James, 1640-1694 | Deeds -- Pennsylvania. | Deeds. | Harrison, Joseph | Indentures. | Land and Speculation | Legal Records | Official Government Documents and Records | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Penn, Richard, 1706-1771 | Penn, Thomas,1702-1775. | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania. | Poulson, Zachariah, 1761-1844 | Shippen, William, 1736?-1808 | Surveys (land). | Various authors | |
| | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | English Scientific Autograph Collection, [ca. 19th century]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 19th century | | | | Abstract: | The collection is a miscellaneous group of letters of mainly British scientists and physicians, purchased as an existing autograph collection. There are a few American signatures. The letters are primarily from the nineteenth century and focus on medical and geological topics, but also there are some earlier and later dates. In addition to the letters are anatomical drawings of surgery, sketches of bones, and one geological notebook. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.En3 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adler, Joshua | Allen, William | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Bather, F. A. | Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857 | Bell, Alfred | Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868 | Chaversworth, J. Kaye | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Cuming, Hugh, 1791-1865 | Dalton, John | Damon, Robert | Drawings. | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Geology. | Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932 | Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898 | Knight, T. A., (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838 | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir, (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Leslie, John | Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 | Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 | Medicine. | Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899 | Physicians -- Great Britain. | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Scientists -- Great Britain. | Sketches. | Various authors | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, -- Duke of, -- 1769-1852. | Whewell, William, 1794-1866 | Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889 | |
| | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Genetics Collection, 1884-1971
| | | | Dates: | 1884-1971 | | | | Abstract: | This miscellaneous collection relates to numerous topics in genetics: cattle breeding (especially the American Jersey Cattle Club), longevity, radiation, International Congress of Genetics (the 10th, 11th, and 13th), Gregor Mendel, aid for refugee scientists, and the records of the Genetics Society of America (1947-1974). | | | | Call #: | Mss.575.109.C67 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Jersey Cattle Club. | Bacterial genetics | Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Bateson, William, 1861-1926 | Biographical and personal data | Biology--Research | Breeding. | Bridges, Calvin B. (Calvin Blackman), 1889-1938 | Buzzati-Traverso, Adriano A. | Cattle -- Breeding. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Conferences and symposia | Cytogenetics | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Dempster, Everett R., (Everett Ross), 1903- | Displaced German scholars | Drosophila genetics | Genetics | Genetics -- Cattle | Genetics -- Mutation rates | Genetics -- Research. | Genetics Society of America | Genetics Society of America -- Committee on Aid to Geneticists Abroad | Genetics Society of America. | Genetics of plants | Gowen, John Whittemore, 1893-1967 | History of biology, especially genetics -- Mendel, Gregor | Hollaender, Alexander, 1898-1986 | Human genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Sixth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Tenth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Thirteenth Congress | Lederberg, Joshua | Longevity -- Genetic aspects. | Mendel, Gregor | Mendel, Gregor, 1822-1884 | Molecular genetics | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Photographs | Political issues | Political refugees. | Publication | Publication -- International Congress of Genetics Proceedings | Radiation -- Physiological effects. | Radiation genetics | Requests for aid in finding positions | Russian politics and science | Russian politics and science -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich | Savicki, Wieczeslav | Schindler, Alois | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific refugees | Solicitations for support or contribution | Stadler, Janice B., 1912- | Umaersus, Magnhild | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Various authors | Virtanen, A. I., (Artturi Ilmari), 1895-1973 | |
| | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Kane Family Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1745-1955 | | | | Abstract: | A collection of letters, legal papers and financial records of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia family. Spanning 1745-1955, detailed are the legal cases and political advocacy work of John Kintzing Kane (1795-1858), Robert Patterson Kane (1827-1906), and Francis Fisher Kane (1866-1955). Also includes correspondence, architectural drawings, and photograph albums of the Cope family. Robert Patterson Kane's daughter Eliza Middleton Kane (1863-1952) married the Philadelphia architect Walter Cope (1860-1902) in 1893. The APS papers of Elisha Kent Kane are in call no. B K132. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.115 | | | | Extent: | 56.0 lin. feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 | American Friends Service Committee. | American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia Chapter. | American League to Abolish Capital Punishment. | Antebellum Politics | Architects. | Architectural drawings. | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. | Bache, A.D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Baynard, Edward | Bills (financial). | Biographies. | Brewster, Benjamin Harris, 1816-1888 | Briefs. | Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Cadwalader, Sophia Francis | Cadwalader, Thomas | Cain family. | Caldwell, Thomas | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. | Collegiate Anti-Militarism League. | Commonplace Book | Cope & Stewardson | Cope, Anne Francis, 1900-1982 | Cope, Eliza Middleton Kane, 1863-1952 | Cope, Elizabeth Frances, 1898-1977 | Cope, Elizabeth Waln | Cope, Oliver, 1902-1994 | Cope, Thomas Pim, 1768-1854 | Cope, Thomas Pim, 1897-1977 | Cope, Walter, 1860-1902 | Coxe, Sophia | Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 | Deeds. | Devries, William Levering | Diaries. | Diplomas. | Dow, Margaret Elder | Early National Politics | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Family Correspondence | Fisher, Eliza Middleton | Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873 | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | General Correspondence | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Girard Bank. | Giretti, Edoardo, b. 1864 | Green, John P. | Green, Rowland | Grier, Robert Cooper, 1794-1870 | Grinnell, Cornelius | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Guillon, Constant | Haiti | Harding, George | Heazlett, Charles T. | Henry, Morton P., (Morton Pearson), 1826-1901 | Hood, Samuel, 1800?-1875 | Hubbell, Horace | Indian Rights Association. | Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc. | Ingersoll, Joseph R. (Joseph Reed), 1786-1868 | Institutional Records | Insurance policies. | Italy -- Commerce. | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elizabeth Francis Fisher | Kane, Elizabeth Wood, 1836-1909 | Kane, Florence Bayard, 1868-1943 | Kane, Francis Fisher, 1866-1955 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kane, John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Kane, John Kintzing, Jr. | Kane, Robert Patterson, 1827-1906 | Kane, Thomas Leiper, 1822-1883 | Laird, Warren Powers, 1861-1948 | Law | Law firms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Lawrence, William | Lawyers -- Pennsylvania. | Lawyers. | Legal Records | Leiper, Samuel M. | Leiper, William J. | Letterbooks. | Manuscripts (for publication). | Marriage and Family Life | McAllister, Richard | Miller, Jesse | Mitchell, S. Weir, (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 | Molzhan, Kurt -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Mormons -- Utah -- History. | Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 | Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Expulsion of the Mormons. | Notebooks | Notes. | Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1948 | Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Patterson, Robert, 1802-1872 | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania Prison Society. | Pennsylvania--Politics and government | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor. | Philadelphia Voluntary Defender Association. | Phillips, Henry M., (Henry Myer), 1811-1884 | Photograph albums | Political Correspondence | Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849 | Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Princeton University. | Prison reformers -- United States. | Prisons -- Pennsylvania. | Purviance, John N. | Receipts. | Religion | Reports. | Ritter, Frank M. | Robinson, Henry Mauris, 1868-1937 | Saint George Society -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Saunders, R. M. | Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813 | Shields, James K. | Shunk, Francis R. | Snowden, James R. | Social Life and Custom | Social reformers -- United States. | St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.) | Strickland, William, 1787-1854 | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | T Square Club. (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Taylor, John | Taylor, Robert | Tilghman, Benjamin, 1785-1850 | Trade | Trials (Espionage) -- United States. | Trials. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. | United States -- Commerce. | University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Architecture. | Ute Indians | Ute Indians--Removal | Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 | Various authors | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Walnut, T. Henry | Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922 | Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928 | Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 | Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889 | Wharton, Geo. M. (George Mifflin), 1808-1870 | Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 | Woodward, George W., (George Washington), 1809-1875 | Workers' Defense League. | |
| | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1668-1983
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1750-1850 | | | | Abstract: | Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.200 | | | | Extent: | 25.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Arctic Indians | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Cayuga Indians | Colonial Politics | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Fitch, John | Gelatin silver prints | General Correspondence | Genth, F. A. , (Frederick Augustus), 1820-1893 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Greeley , Horace, 1811-1872 | Harding, Warren G. | History of science and technology. | Inuit--Canada | Iroquois Indians | Isleta Indians | Miscellaneous | Mohawk Indians | Natural History | Negatives | Newcomb, Simon | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Ojibwa Indians | Oneida Indians | Onondaga Indians | Penobscot Indians | Photomechanical prints | Physics -- History. | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Scientific Correspondence | 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 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Various authors | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wayne, Anthony | |
| | Creator: | Vater, Johann Severin,1771-1826. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An enquiry into the origin of the population of America from the old continent, [ca. 1820]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1820 | | | | Abstract: | This work was translated by Peter S. Du Ponceau from Vater's "Untersuchungen über Amerikas Bevölkerung aus dem alten Kontinente" (Leipzig, 1810). It was Du Ponceau's opinion that Vater was moved to write this book by Benjamin Smith Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America," which Vater often quoted. Contains bibliographical notes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.572.97.V45d | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | America -- Antiquities. | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Manuscript Essays | Native America | Population -- History. | Vater, Johann Severin,1771-1826. | |
| | Creator: | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Vaughan Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1746-1900 | | | | Abstract: | Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | American Revolution | Animal magnetism. | Architecture | Astronomy | Beyond Early America | Blake, Anne Susannah | Bowdoin College | Breeding. | Colonial Politics | Diplomacy. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Diseases | Dueling. | Early National Politics | Electricity | Family Correspondence | Genealogies | General Correspondence | Hallowell (Me.) | Harlowe, Harris | Hunter, John, 1728-1793 | Hunter, John, d. 1809 | Land and Speculation | Lectures | Littlefield, William B. | Locke, John, 1632-1704 | Manufactures | Maps and Surveys | Medicine | Mesmerism | Meteorology | Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831 | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Notes | Pennell, Jacob | Plantations | Punctuation | Raymond, Edward | Religion | Science and Technology | Silk industry. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Taxation | Unitarianism | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
| | Creator: | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936
| | | | Dates: | 1768 - Circa 1936 | | | | Abstract: | The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V462 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Commonplace books. | Diaries. | Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 | Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 | Family Correspondence | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | General Correspondence | Harrison, Richard | Hollinshead, Benjamin M | Institutional Records | Jay, John, 1745- 1829 | Madeira family. | Medicine. | Natural History | Norris, William, 1802-1867 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Planetariums. | Political Correspondence | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Sampson (Ship). | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Snider, Jacob | Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, -- prince de Bénévent, -- 1754-1838. | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Verses. | Williams, Jonathan. | |
| | Creator: | Vaughan, Samuel,18th cent. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal, 1787, of a tour through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia
| | | | Dates: | 1787 | | | | Abstract: | This journal begins with a visit to Germantown (Pa.), and continues through Pennsylvania to Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Also included are expenses on the road for Vaughan, his horse, and servants. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V464 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Journals (notebooks). | Maryland -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Vaughan, Samuel,18th cent. | Virginia -- Description and travel. | |
| | Creator: | Vaux, George | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Vaux papers, 1738-1985
| | | | Dates: | 1738-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The 18th century material includes the trans-Atlantic correspondence of James, Richard, and George V, along with domestic correspondence relating to family and business affairs. Several letters discuss Philadelphia during the British occupation, and seven discuss yellow fever in 1797-1798, with a particularly fine letter by Ann Warder discussing the epidemic of 1798. The participation of George Vaux VII in a Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians in 1803 is well documented. Later correspondence, almost all personal and familial in nature, documents the interest of George Vaux VIII in mineralogy, his travels abroad, and Vaux genealogy. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.73 | | | | Extent: | 3.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Business Records and Accounts | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Genealogy. | General Correspondence | Institutional Records | Land speculation | Legal Records | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Mineralogy. | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Quakers -- Missions. | Seneca Indians | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Surveying and Maps | Travel | Vaux, George | Vaux, George, VI | Vaux, George, VII | Warder , Ann Head, 1758-1829 | Yellow fever. | |
| | Creator: | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Address on the impolicy of slavery, 1824
| | | | Dates: | 1824 | | | | Abstract: | This address was delivered in Philadelphia before an "association formed for the education of men of colour." Vaux shows how slavery adversely affects the interest, happiness, and safety of the owner, slave, society, and government. | | | | Call #: | Mss.371.974.As7 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | Antebellum Politics | Association for the Education of Men of Colour.. | Manuscript Essays | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Speeches. | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
| | Creator: | Vermont. Attorney General's Office. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vermont. Attorney General. State of Vermont's Response to Petition for Federal Acknowledgment of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of Vermont.
| | | | Dates: | 2002 | | | | Abstract: | Reponse of the State of Vermont disputing the application of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenaki Indians application for federal recognition as a tribe based on lack of continuous residency and cultural continuity. | | | | Call #: | Mss.ms.un.cat | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | Creator: | Viereck, H. L.(Henry Lorenz),1881-1926. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | H. L.(Henry Lorenz) Viereck, papers, 1894-1926
| | | | Dates: | 1894-1926 | | | | Abstract: | These papers offer an extensive correspondence, which include copies of outgoing letters, on topics such as entomology, natural history, and zoology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.973 | | | | Extent: | 7.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bird, Henry | Bradley, J. Chester, (James Chester), b. 1884. | Britton, Wilton E. | Brues, Charles T., (Charles Thomas), 1879-1955 | Carriker, Melbourn A. | Classen, Arthur | Clements, Frederic E., (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945 | Entomology. | Howard, L. O.(Leland Ossian),1857-1950. | Natural history. | Skinner, Henry | Viereck, H. L.(Henry Lorenz),1881-1926. | Zoology. | |
| | Creator: | Vigny, Alfred de,1797-1863. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alfred de Vigny manuscripts, 1822
| | | | Dates: | 1822 | | | | Abstract: | These manuscripts include versions of "Cinq-Mars," "Stello," and "Poemes." The manuscripts on these microfilm reels were compiled by Irving Massey from originals in the Musee Condé, and in a private collection in France. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1224 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Essays. | French poetry -- 19th century. | Massey, Irving | Microfilm Collection | Novelists, French. | Vigny, Alfred de,1797-1863. | |
| | Creator: | Voegelin, C.F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | C. F. Voegelin Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1934-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Trained as an anthropologist at Berkeley under A.L. Kroeber and Robert Lowie, Carl Voegelin spent the majority of his career as a structural linguist specializing in Algonquian languages, including Delaware, Potawatomi, Fox, Menominee, and Shawnee, and on the Seneca, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Blackfoot (Siksika). His most significant contributions came through his studies of Delaware, Shawnee, and Hopi, but he is also credited with reviving the
International Journal of American Linguistics after the death of its founder, Franz Boas, and with nurturing the program in anthropology at Indiana University, where he was on faculty from 1941 until his retirement in 1976.
The Voegelin collection contains field notes, lexical files, notebooks, papers, correspondence, and other materials relating to Voegelin's work on Native American languages. The bulk of the collection concerns Delaware and Shawnee, but there is significant material for Blackfoot, Menominee, Ojibwa and Potawatomi, Seneca, and Penobscot. Notes on Turkish, kept during the Second World War, are also present. Among other important series in the collection are Voegelin's correspondence and notes concerning two of his major projects: the translation and interpretation of the Walam Olam and his study of Shawnee law. Correspondents include Leonard Bloomfield, Eli Lilly, and Morris Swadesh. A portion of the collection is indexed in Kendall (1982). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.68 | | | | Extent: | 34.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquian Indians | Algonquian languages | Blackfoot language | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Card files. | Chippewa language | Delaware language | Field notes. | Fox language | Gelatin silver prints | Hamp, Eric P. | Hodge, C. T., (Carleton Taylor), 1917-1998 | Indians of North America--Delaware | Indians of North America--Illinois | Indians of North America--Indiana | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--New England | Indians of North America--New Mexico | Indians of South America | Kenneth L. Hale, (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001 | Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977 | Linguistics | Maps. | Menominee language | Nitrate negatives | Notebooks | Ojibwa language | Potawatomi language | Seneca language | Shawnee language | Siksika language | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Turner, Glen | Voegelin, C.F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Walam Olum | Witthoft, John | Wonderly, William Lower | |
| | Creator: | Voight family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voight family papers 1788-1839
| | | | Dates: | 1788-1839 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters, deeds, receipts. There are several letters concerning the ordering and delivery of scales and weights to various banks, including the Farmers Bank of Virginia, and the U.S. Bank in Savannah, Georgia. There are numerous documents relating to the Voights, namely deeds, real estate transactions, and indenture contracts. There is also a copy of a letter from Elias Boudinot of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia concerning directions for closing the Mint in case of a yellow fever outbreak (1803). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V87 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Banks and banking -- Equipment and supplies. | Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Deeds. | Early National Politics | Early, Eleazer | Farmers Bank of Virginia. | Indentures. | Miscellaneous | Philadelphia History | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Scales (Weighing instruments) -- Pennsylvania. | U.S. Bank (Savannah, Ga.). | United States Mint. | Voight family. | Voight, Henry | Voight, Thomas | Voigt, Henry | Voigt, Thomas. | Weights and measures. | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
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