| | Creator: | Weir, John Arnold, 1916- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J. A. Weir papers papers
| | | | Dates: | 1929-1997 | | | | Abstract: | An agricultural geneticist with the Department of Zoology at the University of Kansas, Jack A. Weir began work on a history of Bussey Institute at Harvard during the late 1960s, collecting information about its faculty, students, researchers and research. The collection includes his research notes, copies of correspondence in a variety of collections and a copy of Weir's unpublished manuscript "Genetics and Agriculture at the Bussey Institution of Harvard. " Weir deposited another copy of this manuscript at the University of Kansas Archives. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.92 | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | 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: | Smith, J. Russell, (Joseph Russell), 1874-1966 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J. Russell (Joseph Russell) Smith papers, [ca. 1888]-1966
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1888-1966 | | | | Abstract: | A collection of letters (family and professional), notebooks, diaries, lectures, articles, and photographs, of Smith, a noted American geographer who influenced the teaching of geography after 1920 through his many elementary texts. There is much material relating to these writings. His contributions to the rise of human geography and the related areas of conservation and ecology, are documented. His study in Europe under Friedrich Ratzel, at Leipzig in 1901-1912, is touched on in his journal for those years; included are many interesting observations on German university life. There is also much material on his nursery business in Virginia. Organizational files are numerous, e.g. Association of American Geographers, Columbia University, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Much of the correspondence is limited to only a few letters from each correspondent. Among the names included are: Willard G. Bixby, Isaiah Bowman, John W. Hershey, Emory R. Johnson, Walter C. Lowdermilk (of particular note is his 1926 paper, written while at the University of Nanking, "Forest Conservation in Shansi, China"), and Lewis Mumford. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sm59 | | | | Extent: | 11.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Articles. | Association of American Geographers. | Bixby, Willard G. | Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 | Columbia University -- Faculty. | Conservation of natural resources. | Diaries. | Ecology. | Forest conservation -- China -- Shanxi Sheng. | Geography -- Societies, etc. | Geography. | Germany -- Universities and colleges. | Hershey, John W. | Human geography. | Johnson, Emory Richard, 1864-1950 | Lectures. | Lowdermilk, W. C. , (Walter Clay), 1888-1974 | Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 | Notebooks. | Nurseries (Horticulture) -- Virginia. | Photoprints. | Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 | Smith, J. Russell, (Joseph Russell), 1874-1966 | United States. -- Dept. of Agriculture. | |
| | Creator: | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J. S. (John Stevens) Henslow papers, 1825-1867
| | | | Dates: | 1825-1867 | | | | Abstract: | This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, and a few documents, concerning botany, gardening, agriculture, Darwin and evolution, and the herbarium at the University of Edinburgh. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H382 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 | Evolution. | Gardening -- England -- 19th century. | Graham, Robert, 1786-1845 | Henslow, Ann | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Herbaria -- Scotland -- 19th century. | Jardine, William, Sir, 1800-1874 | Mechi, John Joseph, 1802-1880 | Nihill, Daniel, 1791-1867 | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Shaw-Lefevre, John George, Sir, 1797-1879 | University of Edinburgh. | Wedgwood, Hensleigh, 1803-1891 | |
| | Creator: | Schultz, Jack,1904-1971. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jack Schultz papers, 1920-1971
| | | | Dates: | 1920-1971 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence (18.5 boxes), manuscripts (lectures and articles), research grant material, research data, and some personal notes from his graduate school days. There is significant material relating to his participation in professional organizations such as the American Society of Naturalists (President, 1968), Genetics Society of America (President, 1963), National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.27 | | | | Extent: | 27.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alava, Aloha Margaret Hannah | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Institute of Biological Sciences | American Philosophical Society | American Society of Human Genetics | American Society of Naturalists. | Articles. | Bacterial genetics -- Nomenclature | Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989 | Becker, Hans Joachim | Biochemical genetics. | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Bridges, Calvin B. | Biographical and personal data -- Krivshenko, Jakov D. | Biology. | Bridges, Calvin B. | Briggs, R. W., (Robert W.) | Business | California Institute of Technology | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carlson, Elof Axel | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Caspersson, Torbjorn | Caspersson, Torbjörn, (Torbjörn Oskar), 1910-1997 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Columbia University. | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 70th birthday | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- National Academy of Sciences | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Nobel Prize | Cooper, Kenneth Willard | Crow, James F. | Cytochemistry. | Cytogenetics | Cytology. | Darlington, C. D., (Cyril Dean), 1903-1981 | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Demerec, Milislav | Displaced German scholars | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila Information Service | Drosophila genetics | Drosophila. | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Embryology, developmental genetics | Ephrussi, Boris, 1901-1979 | Fabergé, Alexander C. | Fellowships, assistantships | Genetics | Genetics -- Guinea pigs | Genetics Society of America | Genetics Society of America. | Genetics of plants | Genetics. | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Graduate study | Hadorn, Ernst | Hadorn, Ernst, 1902- | Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964 | Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson | Hecht, Selig, 1892-1947 | History of biology, especially genetics | Honors -- Kimber Award | Honors -- National Medal of Science | Human Genetics Society of America | Human chromosomes. | Human genetics | Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Instituto Agronomico do Norte | International Congress of Genetics | Invitations | Karlinska Institutet | Kerkis, Julius J. | Klein, George, 1925- | Krivshenko, Jakov D. | L'Heritier, Philippe | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Mendelian Society, Sweden | Lectures. | Lewis, Edward B., 1920- | Lewontin, Richard Charles | Mampell, Klaus | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Medical research | Miller, Dwight D. | Molecular genetics | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 | Mouse genetics | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Muller, Hermann Joseph | National Academy of Sciences | National Research Council | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex. | National Science Foundation | National Science Foundation -- Solicitations for support or contribution | National Science Foundation, U.S. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Oster, Irwin | Pauling, Linus | Physiology | Political issues -- Environment | Political issues -- Germany | Political issues -- Loyalty oaths | Population genetics | Publication | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- BioScience | Publication -- Genetics | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Davidson, R. L. | Recommendations -- Kodani, Masuo | Recommendations -- Lewis, Edward B. | Recommendations -- Stern, Curt | Referee's report | Requests for aid in finding positions | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Reviews -- Grant proposals | Rudkin, George T. | Russian politics and science | Schultz, Jack,1904-1971. | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Solicitations for support or contribution -- Thomas Hunt Morgan memorial | Stadler, L. J., (Lewis John), 1896-1954 | Stadler, Lewis John | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Stern, Curt | Sturtevant, Alfred Henry | Travel -- Brazil | Travel -- France | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Sweden | University of California, Berkeley -- Miller Research Professorship | University of Missouri | University of Pennsylvania | University of Rochester | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Ward, George | World War II -- Impact on science | World War II -- Sweden | Zea (maize) genetics | |
| | Creator: | Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jackson Laboratory Oral History Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1986 | | | | Abstract: | In 1929, the geneticist C. C. Little founded the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, a major center for the study of mammalian genetics, cancer, and related areas in basic biomedical research. An independent institution, the Lab has maintained a consistent scientific reputation both as a supplier of inbred strains of mice for genetic and biomedical research and for the scientific achievements of its researchers.
Conducted by Susan Mehrtens in 1986, the Oral History Collection includes transcripts of extensive interviews with fifty scientists, administrators, and staff members of the Jackson Laboratory. At greater or lesser length depending on the subject, the interviews provide a detailed picture of the operations and administration at the laboratory, the culture of research, the sometimes contentious staff relations, and the research itself. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.53 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbott, Mary | Abbott, William | Bunker, Helen | Bunker, Lester | Cancer--Research | DeLaitre, William | Genetics | Laboratories | Little, Ann | Little, Clarence C., (Clarence Cook), b. 1888 | Little, Robert | Mehrtens, Susan | Mice--Genetics | Oral histories | Robbins, Watson | Salisbury, Allen | Women geneticists | Women in science | |
| | Creator: | Harvey, Jacob. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacob Harvey papers,1808-1847
| | | | Dates: | 1808-1847 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes ca. 200 letters to and from Harvey's family, concerning Quakers, the Missouri Compromise, slavery, the depression of 1819-1820. There is also a commonplace book (1819-1820, 1821 Aug.), with observations on a balloon ascension of 2 Aug. 1819 from Vauxhall Gardens in England, slavery, Indians, and descriptions of Washington and Baltimore. There are also journals of trips to Niagara Falls and Canada in 1820 and to the American West, from Baltimore to Louisville and back, with an added description of a voyage around Long Island aboard the Robert Fulton in August 1821. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1111 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Balloons. | Baltimore (Md.) -- Description and travel. | Canada--Description and travel. | Depressions -- 1819 -- United States. | Harvey, Jacob. | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Microfilm Collection | Missouri compromise. | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel. | Quakers. | Robert Fulton (Ship). | Shakers. | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Voyages and travels. | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | |
| | Creator: | Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 1729?-1798 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacob Hiltzheimer Diaries
| | | | Dates: | 1765-1798 | | | | Abstract: | Jacob Hiltzheimer, farmer and assemblyman, emigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1748 and lead a moderately active political and social life. He was a successful farmer and raised select livestock in the city of Philadelphia. He also boarded horses including those of John Penn and George Washington. He served in the Pennsylvania Assembly for 11 consecutive years beginning in 1786. He was an active contributor in civil affairs and took a remarkable enthusiastic interest in events, in persons, and in every day life all of which he wrote down in his diary. As a result of his Revolutionary War and political acquaintances his contacts were numerous.
Hiltzheimer's record of social affairs are for the most part routine daily events such as buying and trading horses, attending barbecues and funerals, and drinking punch. However it is his every day accounts that also records significant events such as the Revolutionary War, transactions of the Pennsylvania Assembly, and Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemics, as well as the dealings of significant people including George Washington, Thomas Mifflin, and John Hancock. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H56d | | | | Extent: | 28.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Diaries | Diaries. | Francis, Tench, 1730-1800 | German Society of Pennsylvania. | Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 1729?-1798 | Horses | Medicine | Meteorological Data | Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 | Miles, Samuel, 1740-1805 | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs | Philadelphia History | Social Life and Custom | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States--Politics and government--1775-1783 | United States--Politics and government--1783-1809 | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | |
| | Creator: | Stauffer, Jacob,b. 1808. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacob Stauffer Papers, 1844-1879
| | | | Dates: | 1844-1879 | | | | Abstract: | These letters concern various scientific subjects, such as fishes, insects, snakes, mice, fossils, and mosses. Other subjects include learned institutions, notably the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and men of science. Correspondents include S. S. Haldeman, Walter J. Hoffman, Spencer F. Baird, Edward D. Cope, and Leo Lesquereux. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.St15 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. | Botany. | Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Cresson, Ezra Townsend | Durand, Elie M. | Farlow, W. G., (William Gilson), 1844-1919 | Le Conte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Learned institutions and societies. | Natural history. | Paleontology. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientists. | Smithsonian Institution. | Stauffer, Jacob,b. 1808. | Zoology. | |
| | Creator: | Canisius, Mary,Sister. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James A. McMaster (1820-1886): pioneer Catholic journalist, 1935
| | | | Dates: | 1935 | | | | Abstract: | This thesis summarizes the opinions of James A. McMaster, editor of "Freeman's Journal," a leading Catholic weekly during the last half of the nineteenth century, on education, Irish immigration, slavery, and secession and the Civil War. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.772 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Biographies. | Canisius, Mary,Sister. | Catholic literature. | Freeman's Journal. | Journalism, Religious -- United States. | Journalists -- Biography -- United States. | McMaster, James A., -- 1820-1886. | Theses. | |
| | Creator: | Murphy, James Bumgardner, 1884-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Bumgardner Murphy Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1918-1950 | | | | Abstract: | A pathologist and cancer specialist, James B. Murphy spent most of career associated with the Rockefeller Institute (1911-1950) investigating the role of lymphocytes in tuberculosis, x-ray mutagenesis, and the nature of malignant tumors in fowls. The Murphy Papers contains professional correspondence and research notes relating to James B. Murphy's cancer research at the Rockefeller, and information on several of the organizations to which he contributed or belonged, including the American Association for Cancer Research; American Bureau for Medical Aid to China; American Cancer Society; Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital; Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory; Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer (New York City, ca. 1932-1950); National Advisory Cancer Council; and the New York Academy of Medicine (1923-1950). Murphy helped to develop mobile laboratories for hospitals in France during World War I. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M956 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for Cancer Research. | American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. | American Cancer Society. | Aub, Joseph Charles, 1890-1873 | Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital | Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970 | Bloodgood, Joseph Colt, 1867-1935 | Bronson, Margaret L. | Cancer--Research | Casey, Albert Eugene, 1903- | Caspari, Ernst W. | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chesney, Alan M., (Alan Mason), 1888-1964 | Cowdry, E. V., (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 | Cramer, Charles | Duran-Reynals, Francisco | Dyott, G. M. , (George Miller), 1883-1972 | Erdman, Rhoda | Ewing, James | Favilli, Giovanni | Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946 | Gasser, Herbert Spencer, 1888-1963 | Gates, Frederick L. | Goldfeder, Anna | Hogeboom, George | Hospitals--New York (State)--New York | Immunology | Jacobs, John L. | Kennaway, Ernest L. | Lathrop, Abbie E. C. | Leddy, Percy Allen | Lewis, Margaret Reed | Lewis, Richard H., 1918- | Little, Clarence C., (Clarence Cook), b. 1888 | Loeb, Leo, 1869-1959 | Longcope, Warfield T., (Warfield Theobald), 1877-1953 | Lymphocytes | MacNider, William de Berniere, 1881-1951 | Maisin, Joseph | Medical sciences | Medicine, Military | Medicine--Research | Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer | Mice as laboratory animals | Minot, George Richards, 1885-1950 | Morton, John T. | Murphy, James Bumgardner, 1884-1950 | Nakahara, Warso, 1896-1976 | National Advisory Cancer Council (U.S.). | New York Academy of Medicine. | Osterhout, W. J. V., (Winthrop John Van Leuven), 1871-1964 | Pathology | Porter, Keith R. | Radiation--Physiological effect | Rhoads, Cornelius Packard, 1898-1959 | Rockefeller Institute. | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory. | Rous, Peyton, 1879-1970 | Russell, Frederick Fuller, 1870-1960 | Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953 | Schram, Mildred W. S. | Shope, Richard E., (Richard Edwin), 1901- | Smith, Edric B | Sokoloff, Boris, 1893- | Spies, John W. | Strong, Leonell C., (Leonell Clarence), 1894- | Sturm, Ernest, 1878-1936 | TenBroeck, Carl, 1885-1966 | Tuberculosis--Research | Tumors in animals | Warren, Shields, 1898- | Weed, Lewis H., (Lewis Hill), 1886-1952 | Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War, 1914-1918--Medical care | X-rays | Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940 | |
| | 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: | Hutchinson, James, 1752-1793 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Hutchinson papers, 1771-1928
| | | | Dates: | 1771-1928 | | | | Abstract: | The collection includes letters between Hutchinson and his uncle Israel Pemberton, written while Hutchinson was a student of medicine in London. There are also 12 tickets of admission to medical lectures in Philadelphia and London, including one given by William Hunter, and 3 unused cards of admission to Hutchinson's own lectures. Miscellaneous items include Hutchinson's marriage certificate; genealogical data on the Hutchinson, Hare, and Pemberton families; and stock certificates, 1857-1872, of the McKean and Elk Land and Improvement Company. Materials dated post-1793 are to and from Hutchinson family members. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H97p | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798 | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Bartram, Isaac, 1725-1801 | Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 | Education | Educational Material | Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820 | Family Correspondence | Genealogies. | General Correspondence | Hare family. | Hunter, William, 1718-1783 | Hutchinson family. | Hutchinson, Charles Hare, 1833-1902 | Hutchinson, James, 1752-1793 | Marriage and Family Life | Marriage certificates. | McKean and Elk Land and Improvement Co. | Medicine | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- England -- London -- 18th century. | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century. | Miscellaneous | Paulmier, Charles Francois Adrien le,chevalier d'Annemours,1742-1809. | Pemberton family. | Philadelphia History | Religion | Stock certificates. | Townsend, John, 1759-1826 | |
| | Creator: | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Logan letters, 1736-1744
| | | | Dates: | 1736-1744 | | | | Abstract: | Copies by Mrs. Deborah Norris Logan of letters from Logan, while president of the Council, to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, the Duke of Newcastle, and Ferdinand John Paris, on province business. The letters relate to the choice of Logan's successor, his retirement, crown-proprietor relations, and the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary. | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.L82 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Colonial Politics | Government Affairs | Logan, Deborah Norris, 1761-1839 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, -- Duke of, -- 1693-1768. | Official Government Documents and Records | Paris, Ferdinand John | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Political Correspondence | |
| | Creator: | Crawford, James Mack, 1925-1989 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James M. Crawford Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1906-1988 | | | | Abstract: | James M. Crawford was a linguist who mainly studied Native American languages, including Cocopa, Yuchi, and Mobilian trade language. He came to the field of linguistics halfway through his lifetime after pursuing a career in forestry in the West and Southwest. After receiving his PhD in 1966 from the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to his birthplace, Georgia, where he taught in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia at Athens.
The collection is organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1964-1986; II. Subject Files, 1949-1987; III. Works by Crawford, 1962-1986; IV. Research NOtes & Notebooks, 1906-1988; V. Card Files, 1960s-1980s; VI. Course Material, 1961-1986; VII. Photographs, 1963-1978. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.66 | | | | Extent: | 68.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alabama language | American Council of Learned Societies | Catawba language | Choctaw language | Cocopa language | Crawford, James Mack, 1925-1989 | Drafts (preliminary versions). | Field notes. | Gelatin silver prints | Hayes, Lillian | Hayes, Victor | Keyaite, Ilona Mae | Kiliwa language | Linguists | Manuscripts (for publication) | Mobilian trade language | National Science Foundation | Newari language | Nitrate negatives | Notebooks | Photoprints | Portrait photographs | Reviews (Criticism) | Wolof language | Yavapai language | Yuchi language | |
| | Creator: | Muir, James,of Philadelphia. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Muir ledger, 1782-1795
| | | | Dates: | 1782-1795 | | | | Abstract: | This ledger is a record of Muir's work for Robert Bell, Francis Bailey, Joseph Crukshank, Mathew Carey, Thomas Dobson, William Prichard, William Young, and Charles Varlo, including other accounts. | | | | Call #: | Mss.657.M88 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bailey, Francis, 1735?-1815 | Bell, Robert | Book industries and trade -- Pennsylvania. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Crukshank, Joseph, 1746?-1836 | Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823 | Ledgers. | Muir, James,of Philadelphia. | Philadelphia History | Prichard, William. | Varlo, Charles, -- ca. 1725-ca. 1795. | Young, William, 1755-1829 | |
| | Creator: | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James S. and Frances M. Bradford Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1749-1898 | | | | Abstract: | The James S. and Frances M. Bradford Collection contains a wealth of letters to and from Polly Stevenson Hewson, intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin. At the heart of the collection are approximately 40 letters from Mary Stevenson to Franklin with a smaller number in return. Friendly, increasingly intimate, these provide a glimpse of the domestic life of Franklin and his warm personal relations with the Stevensons and Hewsons. Among the noteworthy individual items is the manuscript "Craven Street Gazette" (Sept. 22-26, 1770), the mock newspaper Franklin produced while in London. The collection also contains a series of unrelated miscellaneous manuscripts that includes correspondence from William Bradford, Patrick Henry, and George Washington. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F85.bra | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Bradford, Frances Mary | Bradford, James S. | Cadwalader, John, 1742-1786 | Colonial Politics | Craven Street Gazette | Family Correspondence | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | General Correspondence | Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century | Hewson, Mary Stevenson, 1734-1795 | International Affairs | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Marriage and Family Life | Social Life and Custom | |
| | Creator: | Wilson, James,1742-1798. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Wilson account book and diary, 1773-1786
| | | | Dates: | 1773-1786 | | | | Abstract: | This is a volume of "Aitken's General American Register" for 1773, with entries dated 1774, and 1782-1786. The notes are in two different hands, and record receipts, expenses, and activities, the last probably not Wilson's. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W6915 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | Business Records and Accounts | Diaries | Diaries. | Philadelphia History | Social Life and Custom | Wilson, James,1742-1798. | Women's History | |
| | Creator: | Winner, James,fl. 1854. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Winner daybook, 1854-1855
| | | | Dates: | 1854-1855 | | | | Abstract: | This volume is the account book of a Philadelphia machine shop ("screws, taps and dies") operated by Winner and N. Barrows, which made such items as bolts, iron rods, pins, and rivets. Also included are charges and time requirements for the work done. | | | | Call #: | Mss.671.3.W72 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barrows, N. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Daybooks. | Machine shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Winner, James,fl. 1854. | |
| | Creator: | Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jan Ingenhousz letterbook, 1774-1793
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany. | Coffyn, Francis | Elmsley, Peter, 1734 or 5-1802 | Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Huck-Saunders, Richard, 1720-1785 | Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 | Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, -- Freiherr von, -- 1727-1817. | Le Bègue de Presle, Achille-Guillaume, -- ca. 1735-1807. | Microfilm Collection | Natural history. | Plant physiology. | Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782 | Schubert, Friedrich Theodor. | Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800 | Williams, Jonathan. | |
| | Creator: | Aitken, Jane, 1764-1832 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jane Aitken Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1784-1814 | | | | Abstract: | Jane Aitken (1764-1832) is a significant historical figure for several reasons. One of the first American female printers, Jane Aitken was also a bookseller, bookbinder, businesswoman, and employer during the early nineteenth century, a time when the independence of women was actively discouraged. There is a dearth of personal information about Jane Aitken, an unfortunate fact that is reflected in her surviving papers.
This small collection, 145 items, is representative of her severely compromised financial situation and her constant failed efforts to rectify the situation. Her correspondence consists primarily of appeals to John Vaughan, a member and librarian of the American Philosophical Society, for loans. Vaughan was evidently a reliable and sympathetic supporter. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ai9 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aitken, Jane, 1764-1832 | Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802. | American Philosophical Society | Bookbinding | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Finance, Personal | Philadelphia History | Printers--Pennsylvania--History | Printing and Publishing | Printing--Pennsylvania--History | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Women Printers | Women's History | |
| | Creator: | Oppenheimer, Jane M., (Jane Marion), 1911- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jane M. Oppenheimer Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1936-1962 | | | | Abstract: | The embryologist and historian of science Jane M. Oppenheimer was a graduate and long term member of the faculty at Bryn Mawr College. Her research centered on the early development of the killifish
Fundulus heteroclitus and on the history of embryology.
The Oppenheimer Papers are a small collection consisting of Oppenheimer's correspondence with a small number of colleagues regarding her publications in the history of science and medicine and various other topics. With one exception, all letters in the collection are addressed to Oppenheimer. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Op5 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Embryology--History | Oppenheimer, Jane M., (Jane Marion), 1911- | Tennent, David Hilt, 1873- | Todd, Thomas Wingate, 1885- | Ubisch, Leopold von, 1886-1965 | White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899- | Women embryologists | |
| | Creator: | Tyson, George | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Japanese Flora
| | | | Dates: | 1865 | | | | Abstract: | From 1856 to 1868, George Tyson was a partner of Russell and Company, a firm that had engaged in the tea and opium trade, and the most powerful American commercial house in China. Originally from Boston, Tyson is credited with helping to introduce steamboats to the Yangtze River, and like John Murray Forbes, his better-known predecessor in Russell and Co., when he returned to the United States he joined the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, eventually rising to become Director and General Auditor.
Prior to October 1865, Tyson collected these 300 exquisitely detailed watercolors of Japanese plants painted by local artists in Nagasaki. Each watercolor is identified by name and month of blooming, some with brief additional descriptive notes. An index at the front of the volume provides transliterations of the Japanese names. | | | | Call #: | Mss.581.952.J27 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany--Japan | Botany--Pictorial works | Tyson, George | Watercolors | |
| | Creator: | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jared Sparks selected papers, 1819-1863 Franklin Bache S. D. Bradford William Duane Peter S. Du Ponceau J. Francis Fisher George Gibbs Henry D. Gilpin Edward D. Ingraham James Mease William B. Reed Henry Stevens, Sr. Henry Stevens, Jr. Benjamin Vaughan Petty Vaughan William Vaughan There are also extracts from Sparks's journal, 1831-1841, relating to his Franklin researches. Table of contents (11 pp.). (Film 570)
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1863 | | | | Abstract: | Letters and papers relating to Sparks's research on Benjamin Franklin and the publication of an edition of the latter's writings. There are also extracts from Sparks's journal, 1831-1841, relating to his Franklin researches. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.570 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Bradford, Samuel Dexter | Correspondence. | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Duane, William, 1760-1835 | Fisher, J. Francis, (Joshua Francis), 1807-1873 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Gibbs, George | Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860 | Ingraham, Edward D., (Edward Duncan), 1793-1854 | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Reed, William B. , (William Bradford), 1806-1876 | Research notes. | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Stevens, Henry | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Vaughan, Petty, 1788-1854 | Vaughan, William | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jasper Yeates Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1760-1816 | | | | Abstract: | Jasper Yeates (1745-1817) was a lawyer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, one of the state's most successful colonial-era legal practitioners. After moving to Lancaster County in 1765, he became active in colonial and early federal affairs, first by supporting the Revolutionary struggle and later by serving as one of Lancaster's delegates to the State Convention of 1787, which ratified the U.S. Constitution. The Jasper Yeates Papers (1728-1910, bulk 1760-1816) consist mainly of correspondence and business and court/legal records related to the Yeates family. The bulk of this three linear foot collection reflect Yeates’ personal life as husband, father, son, and friend, as well as his professional life as lawyer and judge in Pennsylvania; much of the material dated after Yeates’ death was created by children and/or grandchildren. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.151 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | African American | Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 | Burd, Elizabeth | Burd, Joseph | Business Records and Accounts | Cox, Tench | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Lancaster County (Pa.)--History | Law | Legal Records | Marriage and Family Life | Pennsylvania --History --French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania Supreme Court | Political Correspondence | Seven Years' War | Shippen, Edward Jr. | Shippen, Joseph Jr. | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Social Life and Custom | Tilghman, Edward, 1750-1815 | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | Whelan, William | Yeates, Elizabeth | Yeates, Jasper | Yeates, John | Yeates, Margaret | Yeates, Sarah Burd | |
| | Creator: | Traube, J.,b. 1860. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J.B. Traube autobiography, 1930, 1942
| | | | Dates: | 1930-1942 | | | | Abstract: | These pages include a brief autobiographical sketch written by Traube in 1930 (11 p.), a longer version written in 1942 (101 p.), and a bibliography (28 p.). Also included are notes on Traube's life written in English (3 p.) by John T. Edsall. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T69 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies. | Chemists. | Edsall, John T., (John Tileston), 1902-2002 | Traube, J.,b. 1860. | |
| | Creator: | J. F. W. , (Joel Fisk Whitney), b. 1843 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joel F. Whitney Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1871-1878 | | | | Abstract: | Papers of Joel F. Whitney, missionary on the island of Ebon, Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Includes linguistic material, mission press publications, one tintype, realia, letters, and diaries. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.98 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | J. F. W. , (Joel Fisk Whitney), b. 1843 | |
| | Creator: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Alden Mason Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1904-1967 | | | | Abstract: | An archaeological anthropologist and linguist, John Alden Mason spent the majority of his career at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his undergraduate degree at Penn in 1907, Mason received a doctorate at Berkeley (1911) for his ethnographic work on the Salinan Indians of California, but his diverse interests in later years ran the gamut from Puerto Rican folklore to Piman languages and cultures (including Pima, Papago, Pima Bajo, Northern and Southern Tepehuan, and Tepecano), Mayan, Aztec, and Incan archaeology, and the languages of South American Indians. Mason was curator of the University Museum at Penn from 1926 until his retirement in 1958.
The Mason Papers include both in-coming and outgoing correspondence, linguistic material, notes, and photographs relating to Mason's work in the southwestern U.S., northern Mexico, and South America. Centered on the years after Mason's return to Philadelphia in 1926, the collection covers all aspects of Mason's professional life, from reports on field work to answering casual questions referred to him through the University Museum to data and analyses on Piman and other languages. The collection also contains voluminous files relating to the Mason's editorship of the
American Anthropologist (bulk: 1945-1948). Of special note are a series of class notes (1908-1910) kept by Mason for course work in ethnology, archaeology, and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania under Edward Sapir and Frank Speck. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M384 | | | | Extent: | 26.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agogino, George | American Anthropological Association--Publishing | American Anthropological Association. | American Anthropologist | Anthropology--Societies, etc. | Archaeology | Bascom, Burton W. | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Birge-Smith, Kaj, 1893- | Black, Fred L | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bororo language (Brazil) | Butler, Mary | Cadzow, Donald S. | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico) | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 | Cross, Dorothy | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Diagrams. | Durango (Mexico) | Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 | Egyptology. | Ethnology | Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963 | Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960 | Ge language | Gelatin silver prints | Greywacz, Kathryn B. | Herskovits, Melville J. , (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Indians of Mexico | Indians of Mexico--Languages | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Southwest, New | Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities | Indians of South America--Languages | Jalisco (Mexico) | Judd , Neil Merton, 1887-1976 | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Latin-American Institute for Race and Culture Studies | Linguistics | Madeira, Percey Child, Jr. | Malali language | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | Maps. | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Mayas--Antiquities | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Mexico--Antiquities | Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948 | Negatives | Nuttall, Zelia, -- 1858-1933. | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) | Photoprints | Phrenology | Pima Bajo language | Pima Indians | Pima language | Piman Indians | Piman languages | Quechua language | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Recordings | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Satterthwaite, Linton, 1897- | Sketches. | Sonora (Mexico : State) | Southwest Indians | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Symbols | Tepecano Indians | Tepehuan language | Tohono O'Odham Indians | Tohono O'Odham dialect | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | University of Pennsylvania. | University of Pennsylvania. University Museum | Uto-Aztecan languages | Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Yaqui Indians | |
| | Creator: | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1894-2008
| | | | Dates: | 1894-2008 | | | | Abstract: | There are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. Herzfeld's student at Johns Hopkins, he studied nuclear fission with Bohr. The twenty-eight volumes of notebooks, which are his daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. They cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity (18 vols. total). The correspondence contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century. There are also two boxes of council and committee records (1964-1966) of the American Physical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W564 | | | | Extent: | 125.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Barschall, H. H. , (Henry Herman), 1915- | Braginskiĭ, V. B., (Vladimir Borisovich) | Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 | Buchdahl, H. A., (Hans Adolph), 1919- | Cethovic, Dragoljub Savo | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Feshbach, Herman | Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988 | Gingerich, Owen | Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 | Johns Hopkins University. Students. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -- Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel. | Notebooks. | Nuclear physics. | Particles (Nuclear physics) | Photographs | Photographs. | Physics. | Quantum electrodynamics. | Recordings. | Relativity (Physics) | Reports. | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | |
| | Creator: | John Bartram Association. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram Association archives, 1929-1932
| | | | Dates: | 1929-1932 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains correspondence, chiefly that of Francis W. Pennell, concerning the observance of the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of the first botanical garden in the American colonies by John Bartram. There is correspondence concerning the publication resulting from this observance as well. There is also one brief life of Bartram, and the list of the men on the program: review of book on Bartram and typescripts of three letters in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, from John Bartram to Peter Collinson; 1757-1759. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B283ja | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanical gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Centennial celebrations, etc. | Pennell, Francis W., (Francis Whittier), 1886-1952 | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775
| | | | Dates: | 1735-1775 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence compiled by Edward E. Wildman and Francis D. West, chiefly from original letters in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other depositories, 1956. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B28.w | | | | Extent: | 719.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanists. | Botany. | Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Colony and State Specific History | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | General Correspondence | Horticulture. | Horticulturists. | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Natural History | Natural history. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plant collectors. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Scientific Correspondence | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Wildman, Edward, (Edward Embree), 1874-1956 | Witt, Christopher, 1675-1765 | |
| | Creator: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram diary, 1765-1766, of a journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida
| | | | Dates: | 1765-1766 | | | | Abstract: | Journal written between July 1, 1765 and April 10, 1766 on a trip through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with observations about flora, fauna, geography, and social life. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.801 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanists -- United States. | Diaries. | Exploration and discovery | Florida -- Description and travel. | Florida -- Social life and customs -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Georgia -- Description and travel. | Georgia -- Social life and customs -- To 1775. | Harper, Francis | Microfilm Collection | North Carolina -- Description and travel. | North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- To 1775. | South Carolina -- Description and travel. | South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. | United States - Social life and customs - To 1775 | |
| | Creator: | Belling, John, 1866-1933 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Belling Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1928-1933 | | | | Abstract: | The cytogeneticist John Belling (1866-1933) developed the iron-acetocarmine staining technique, which facilitated detailed study of chromosomal structures. In his work with Arthur F. Blakeslee at Cold Spring Harbor on
Datura (1920-1927) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1928-1933) on lilies, hyacinths, and other plants, Belling made accurate estimates of chromosomal numbers, helped to demonstrate the interchange of segments between non-homologous chromosomes, and proposed that the chromomeres (small condensations of stain that appeared along the length of chromosomes) represented individual, physical genes. Although he was a gifted technician and insightful cytologist, his career was hampered by mental instability and curtailed by frequent hospitalizations before his sudden death in 1933.
The Belling Collection consists of four photograph albums, 38 glass slides and approximately 75 glass negatives and positive prints of chromosome preparations made by Belling, primarily during the years at Berkeley, along with an annotated bibliographic card file. The images in the albums are fully identified, but most of the glass slides are not. | | | | Call #: | Mss.581.35.B41 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Belling, John, 1866-1933 | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Cytology | Gall, Joseph | Glass negatives | Lantern slides | Photograph albums | Photographs | Photomicrographs | Plant genetics | |
| | Creator: | Bigelow, John, 1817-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bigelow correspondence, 1888-1906
| | | | Dates: | 1888-1906 | | | | Abstract: | This correspondence is between Albert H. Smyth, Constantia Abert, W. Benjamin and Bigelow, and concerns the Ceracchi bust of Benjamin Franklin, and other Franklin topics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B482 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abert, Constantia | Bigelow, John, 1817-1911 | Ceracchi, Giuseppe, 1751-1802 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 - Portraits | Sculpture, Modern. | Smyth, Albert Henry, 1863-1907 | |
| | Creator: | Bohlen, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bohlen Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1889-1912 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Schiffdorf (near Bremerhafen), John Bohlen became one of Philadelphia's most prominent merchants at the turn of the nineteenth century. Running a profitable concern in partnership with his brother Bohl (1754-1836), John Bohlen imported commodities from their native Holland. Thanks to an insatiable American thirst for gin, Bohlen amassed an immense fortune that enabled him to travel in the same social circles as Stephen Girard and others among the mercantile elite and to win a spot in 1816 as one of the Directors of the Bank of the United States. By the time of his death, he was one of only eleven Philadelphians whose personal estates exceeded one million dollars in value.
The Bohlen Collection contains a scant ten letters that appear to have been retained, as much as anything, for their autograph interest. Although they shed relatively little light on the life of John Bohlen, they do offer interesting glimpses into the personalities of Bohlen's famous correspondents, including Stephen Girard, Francis Scott Key, Meriwether Lewis, Virgil Maxcy, Oliver Hazard Perry, and Timothy Pickering. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B63 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bank of the United States | Bohlen, John | Business and Skilled Trades | Dorsey, Elizabeth | General Correspondence | International Trade. | Murray, Daniel | Philadelphia History | Religion | Trade | |
| | Creator: | Slater, John C., (John Clarke), 1900-1976 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Clarke Slater, excerpts from letters, 1924
| | | | Dates: | 1924 | | | | Abstract: | These excerpts were brought together by Slater from his files, at the request of Dr. Leon Rosenfeld, to document Slater's visit to Copenhagen, and Bohr's Lab. In general, the letters concern quantum physics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.530.1.Ar2x | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962 | Physics. | Quantum theory. | Rosenfeld, L., (Leon), 1904-1974 | Slater, John C., (John Clarke), 1900-1976 | |
| | Creator: | Slater, John C., (John Clarke), 1900-1976 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Clarke Slater Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1908-1976 | | | | Abstract: | After receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1923, the physicist John Clarke Slater did postgraduate work at Cambridge University and on the continent working n quantum theory with both Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Slater was appointed to the head of the department of physics at MIT in 1930, which he and Karl Compton worked effectively to transform into one of international stature. His own work on the electromagnetic theory of microwaves was fundamental to the development of radar systems. During the Second World War, he was affiliated with the radiation laboratory and after he helped found the solid state and molecular theory group, the interdisciplinary Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science. After his retirement from MIT in 1966, Slater moved to the University of Florida, remaining active until his death in 1976.
The Slater Papers contains a wealth of information on the development of physics at MIT, as well as Slater's post-1966 work at the University of Florida. There are about 133 (7 linear ft.) research notebooks, 1944-1976, and a long series (30 linear ft.) of folders, containing lectures, scientific notes, drafts of manuscripts and papers, correspondence during his collaboration with the Los Alamos Labs, 1966-1970, and extensive correspondence relating to the National Academy of Science. Information about American-Swedish exchange in quantum science is located in the correspondence with Per-Olov Löwdin. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.SL2p | | | | Extent: | 81.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Allen, Leland C. | Ballard, Stanley S. | Barnett, Michael P. | Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962 | Boring, A. Michael | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Cambridge University | Clark, W. Mansfield (William Mansfield), 1884-1964 | Clementi, Enrico | Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Connolly, John W. D. | Coulson, C. A., (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974 | Darrow, Karl K., (Karl Kelchner), 1891-1982 | Debye, Peter J. W., (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966 | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Frank, Nathaniel Herman, 1903-1984 | Grimaldi, Francois | Harrison, George Russell, 1898-1979 | Hartree, Douglas R., (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958 | Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. | Herman, Frank | Hove, L. van (Leon) | Howarth, D. J. | Jaeger, Zeev | Johnson, Keith H. | Koster, George F. | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. | Loucks, T. L. (Terry L.) | Löwdin, Per Olov, 1916-2000 | Manning, Millard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | Mattheiss, Leonard F. | Morse, Philip M., (Philip McCord), 1903-1985 | Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, 1896-1986 | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | Nesbit, Robert K. | Norton, C. L. | Nottingham, Wayne B. (Wayne Buckles), 1899- | Parr, Robert G., 1921- | Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 | Pegram, George B. | Pepinsky, Ray, 1912- | Physics--20th century | Physics--Study and teaching--20th century | Quantum theory | Ransil, Bernard J., (Bernard Jerome), 1929- | Roothaan, C. C. J. | Segall, Benjamin | Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 | Shockley, William, 1910- | Slater, John C., (John Clarke), 1900-1976 | Slater, John Rothwell, b. 1872 | Smith, Darwin W. | Smith, Robert Allan | Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901- | Stratton, Samuel Wesley, 1861-1931 | Swann, W. F. G., (William Francis Gray), 1884-1962 | Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert, 1893-1986 | Tate, John Torrence, 1925- | Teller, Edward, 1908-2003 | Ufford, Charles Wilbur, 1900- | University of Florida. Department of Physics | Vallarta, Manuel Sandoval | Van Vleck, J. H., (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 | Waals, J. D. van der (Johannes Diderik), 1837-1923 | Waber, James T. (James Thomas), 1920- | Waerden, B. L. van der, (Bartel Leendert), 1903-1996 | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | Zacharias, Zerrod R. | |
| | Creator: | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Eatton Le Conte correspondence,1829-1851
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1851 | | | | Abstract: | There are letters to and from Thaddeus W. Harris, Frederick E. Melsheimer, Levi W. Leonard, Henry McMurtrie, and Margaretta Hall Morris, on topics in natural history. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.554.1,.2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856 | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Leonard, L. W. , (Levi Washburn), 1790?-1864 | McMurtrie, Henry | Melsheimer, Friedrich Ernst, 1782-1873 | Microfilm Collection | Morris, Margaretta Hall | Natural history. | |
| | Creator: | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Eatton Le Conte papers, 1816-1877
| | | | Dates: | 1816-1877 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily papers relating to the work of the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, with special reference to surveys of harbors of the eastern United States. Some papers and letters relate to natural history and are addressed to John Lawrence LeConte. Correspondents include Rutherford B. Hayes, Joseph Henry, Daniel Parker, and E.G. Squier. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L493.3 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Education | Exploration. | General Correspondence | Harbors -- United States. | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Military History | Military Records | Military topography. | Natural history. | Official Government Documents and Records | Parker, Daniel | Science and Technology | Squier, E. G., (Ephraim George), 1821-1888 | Topographical surveying -- United States. | United States. -- Army. -- Corps of Topographical Engineers. | |
| | Creator: | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1884 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily letters to Gray on various aspects of natural history, with many references to collections at the British Museum of Natural History. There are numerous letters from British scientists and from European colleagues. There are letters from Americans too, such as those from Agassiz which relate to his Florida expeditions and the creation of natural history collections. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G784 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acland, Henry W., (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900 | Allman, George James, 1812-1898 | Assyria -- Antiquities. | Autographs. | Balard, Antoine-Jérôme, 1802-1876 | Bate, C. Spence , (Charles Spence), 1818-1889 | Berkeley, M. J., (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889 | Beyond Early America | Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de, (Henri-Marie Ducrotay), 1777-1850. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Bonomi, Joseph | Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850 | British Museum (Natural History) -- Natural history collections. | Brookes, Joshua, -- 1754-1821. | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Duméril, C., (Constant), 1774-1860 | Fitch, Asa, 1809-1879 | Florida -- Discovery and exploration. | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Geological Society of London | Geology. | Gray, John Edward | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Hoeven, Jan van der | Lefèvre, Jean-Jacques, 1779-1858 | Mollusks. | Müller, Joh., 1801-1858 | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- England. | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- United States. | Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Antiquities. | Pfeiffer, Ludwig Georg Karl, 1805-1877. | Schomburgk, Robert H., Sir, (Robert Hermann), 1804-1865 | Shells. | Société des sciences naturelle de France. | Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865 | |
| | 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: | Fenton, John F. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John F. Fenton Day Books
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1844 | | | | Abstract: | Beginning in about 1830, John F. Fenton began a thriving business as a wheelwright in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ann Ring, also of Newtown, on November 26, 1834, and was elected a County Commissioner in the late 1850s.
These Day Books provide a detailed record of work performed by Fenton between 1830 and 1844, primarily the manufacture or repair of wagons and wheels (double trees, wagon tongues, sideboards, spokes, rims), with very occasional reference to carriages. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F351 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Carriage and wagon making--Pennsylvania--Bucks County | Daybooks. | Fenton, John F. | Wheelwrights--Pennsylvania--Bucks County | |
| | Creator: | Mifflin, John F.(John Fishbourne),1759-1813. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John F. (John Fishbourne) Mifflin receipt book, 1800-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1800-1813 | | | | Abstract: | This volume includes receipts for payments of taxes, ground rents, rents, judgements, bills of exchange, and settlements of estates. Some are for monies collected for the American Philosophical Society, and for Major Zebulon Pike's expedition (1811). The names of Samuel Breck, James Mease, Robert Millegan, and John Vaughan appear. Under date of Feb. 11, 1804 is receipt signed by Jn. Vaughan for admission fee to the American Philosophical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M585 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Legal documents. | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Mifflin, John F.(John Fishbourne),1759-1813. | Millegan, Robert | Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | Receipts. | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
| | Creator: | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Fothergill letters, 1737-1778
| | | | Dates: | 1737-1750 | | | | Abstract: | All but one of these letters are to Charles Alston, the professor of botany at Edinburgh University, and concern medicine, botany, and science in general. They are dated between 1737 and 1750. One letter is to George Whately, dated 1778. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F82 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 | Botany. | Education | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | General Correspondence | Medicine | Medicine. | Science. | Scientific Correspondence | University of Edinburgh. | |
| | Creator: | Lewis, John Frederick,1860-1932. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Frederick Lewis papers, 1878-1932
| | | | Dates: | 1878-1932 | | | | Abstract: | Although most of this large collection consists of papers of Lewis's legal practice, there are important groups which relate to the furnishing and maintenance of his city and country houses and the management of his farm, to the assembling of his outstanding collections of Oriental and medieval illuminated manuscripts and of Babylonian clay tablets (now at the Free Library of Philadelphia), and to institutions with which he was closely associated, such as the American Philosophical Society, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Many letters and papers are about business (mortgages, rents, directorships in banks and insurance companies, and investments) and about the social and cultural life of Philadelphia (operas, libraries, museums, and schools for the handicapped). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L585 | | | | Extent: | 45.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Art -- Collectors and collecting. | Lawyers. | Lewis, John Frederick,1860-1932. | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Practice of law. | University of Pennsylvania. | |
| | Creator: | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1871 | | | | Abstract: | Principal correspondents in the lettes of John Fries Frazer include Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale who discuss mainly general scientific topics, although personal and family matters are discussed with Bache. Topics include the University of Pennsylvania, boiler explosions, chemistry, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, the American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F865 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Barnard, Frederick A. P. -- (Frederick Augustus Porter), -- 1809-1889. | Boilers. | Davidson, George, 1825-1911 | Education | Education -- United States. | Electricity. | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | General Correspondence | Geology -- United States. | Magnetism. | Natural history. | Paleontology. | Philadelphia History | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific apparatus and instruments. | Scientists -- United States. | Solar eclipses. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | United States Mint. | University of Pennsylvania. | Weights and measures. | Wetherill, Charles Mayer, 1825-1871 | |
| | Creator: | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters and manuscripts, 1741-1822
| | | | Dates: | 1741-1822 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include letters, reports, and journals relating to Indians, Moravian missions, and communities at Salem (N.C.), Bethlehem (Pa.), and Gnadenhütten, Muskingum, and Fairfield in Upper Canada. Also included are personal correspondence and an autobiography. Contains 86 letters, journals, reports, etc., pertaining to the travels and missionary activities of Heckewelder, mostly in German. 7 journals, memoranda, and miscellaneous materials of David Zeisberger, pertaining to his years with Indians. Many of the former materials were utilized and published by Paul A. W. Wallace (1958); the latter includes Zeisberger's Memoranda on Indians; Journey to the Six Nations, Nanticokes and Shawanees in April, 1752, to July, 1752; Conrad Weiser, Observations made on the pamphlet entitled "An enquiry ... [1759]"; Birth records for the 1780's at Friedenshutten and Gnadenhütten; Catalogue of Indians baptized by the United Brethren, 1765-1814 (721 names); and a memorandum of Zeisberger on the Onondaga. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.514 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies. | Canada -- Social life and customs. | Ettwein, John. | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Indians of North America--Missions | Journals (notebooks). | Loskiel, George Henry, 1740-1814 | Microfilm Collection | Moravians. | North Carolina -- Social life and customs. | Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs. | Seidel, Nathaniel | Steiner, Abraham | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 | |
| | Creator: | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John James Audubon Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1821-1845 | | | | Abstract: | John James Audubon (1785-1851), the American Woodsman, is a legendary naturalist and bird artist. His technique of painting North American birds dramatically as they appeared in their natural habitat was a major contribution to the emerging discipline of ornithology in the nineteenth century. His masterpiece,
The Birds of America (1827-1838), elephant folio, was followed by a companion text edition,
Ornithological Biography (1831-1849), a smaller octavo edition of
Birds (1840-1844) and
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, published posthumously.
This collection of original letters of publication information, ornithology, and some personal notes was sent primarily to Lucy Bakewell Audubon, his wife, from 1826-1834, and to Victor Gifford Audubon, his son, from 1833-1834, 1840-1844, with some sporadic contact with both between 1836-1839. Items in the collection relate to Audubon's Florida, Great Egg Harbor, and Great Pine Forest expeditions but not to his final expedition up the Missouri River. Of particular note, letters of 1833 and 1834 contain references to his response to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia president George Ord's attacks on his credibility. A partial journal entry from New Orleans in 1821 and a few letters to other correspondents, including John Bachman, round out the material. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Au25 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abert, John James, 1788-1863 | Art | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862 | Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874 | Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860 | Bachman, John, 1790-1874 | Bakewell, William | Berthoud, Nicholas | Birds--North America | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian Jule | Brewster, Thomas | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chetwynd, Henry John, Earl of Shrewsbury | Children, John George, 1777-1852 | Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 | Family Correspondence | Gaston, William | General Correspondence | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Harris, Edward | Havell, Robert, Jr. 1793-1878 | Lehman, George | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859 | Martin, Maria, 1794-1863 | McCulloch, Thomas, Jr. | McMurtry, Henry | Natural History | Natural History--North America | Naturalist | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Ornithologist | Ornithology--North America | Printing and Publishing | Rathbone, William | Rothschild, Baron Nathan Mayer de | Science and Technology | Waller, J. Walthen | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | |
| | Creator: | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897
| | | | Dates: | 1812-1897 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains mostly entomological material, with much information on the description and identification of particular insects, entomological collections, and the study of entomology in Europe and the United States. In addition, there are materials on medicine and hospitals during the American Civil War, on the Corps of Topographical Engineers, the United States Army, on natural history in the United States, and on the LeConte's family. Some letters are written to President Rutherford B. Hayes and concern the Commissionership of Agriculture, for which LeConte was considered, but not appointed. Letters of John Eatton LeConte and Joseph LeConte are included. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L493 | | | | Extent: | 7.7 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Barnard, Frederick A. P. -- (Frederick Augustus Porter), -- 1809-1889. | Billings, John S., (John Shaw), 1838-1913 | Chapman, Henry C., (Henry Cadwalader), 1845-1909 | Education | Educational Material | Emory, William H., (William Hemsley), 1811-1887 | Entomology -- Europe. | Entomology -- United States. | Exploration. | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Hayden, F. V., (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887 | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 -- Correspondence | Hospitals -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Insects. | LeConte family. | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908 | Medicine | Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Melsheimer, Frederick Valentine, 1749-1814 | Miscellaneous | Natural history -- United States. | Notebooks | Osten-Sachen, Carl Robert, -- freiherr von der, -- 1826-1906. | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Sketchbooks | Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910 | United States. -- Army. | United States. -- Army. -- Corps of Topographical Engineers. | Walsh, Benjamin Dann, 1808-1869 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 | |
| | Creator: | Leacock, John,1729-1802. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Leacock commonplace book
| | | | Dates: | 1768-1781 | | | | Abstract: | Having made his fortune as a goldsmith and silversmith, John Leacock (1729-1802) became one of Philadelphia's most energetic entrepreneurs in viticulture and a playwright and parodist in the cause of American Independence.
Despite bearing the title, "Observations, Experiments etc. extracted from the
Philosophical Transactions respecting farming, gardening, etc.," the notebook kept by the silversmith, viticulturist, and writer, John Leacock, is actually a combination of commonplace book, notebook, and receipt book. Consisting of 58 folio pages, the book contains a hodgepodge of entries reflecting Leacock's varied interests from 1768 through at least 1781, including not only material copied from other sources on viticulture, agriculture, engraving and etching, but medicinal and culinary receipts and two original poems, a "Song [of] the Stamp Act" and "A parody on the Tempest, by R. H. Esq." It also mentions diet drinks made by James Logan and Cadwallader Evans. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L463 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture--Pennsylvania | Commonplace Book | Commonplace books. | Evans, Cadwalader, 1716-1773 | Grapes | Leacock, John,1729-1802. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Miscellaneous | Poetry | Receipt books | Silversmiths--Pennsylvania | Stamp Act, 1765 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Viticulture--Pennsylvania | Yellow fever | |
| | Creator: | Haney, John Louis,1877-1960. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Louis Haney papers, 1887-1959
| | | | Dates: | 1887-1959 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include diaries (1887-1959), lists of books read (1887-1904), scrapbooks relating to Haney, his family, friends, and Central High School, and original and revised drafts of Haney's autobiography entitled "Days of My Years" (1954). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H196 | | | | Extent: | 36.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies. | Central High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Diaries. | Educators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Haney, John Louis,1877-1960. | Scrapbooks. | |
| | Creator: | Hohlfeld, John Maurice, 1909-1973 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Maurice Hohlfeld Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1950-1972 | | | | Abstract: | The educator and linguist John Maurice Hohlfeld received his doctorate in education at the University of Pennsylvania in 1950 for a dissertation focused on the teaching of foreign languages. Throughout his career as professor of linguistics at the Kennedy School of Missions at the Hartford Theological Seminary, Hohlfeld maintained an interest in the teaching of languages, and during the 1960s, he developed an interest in the linguistics of jokes and humor.
The Hohlfeld Papers consist of a small assemblage of materials related to the linguistic interests and teaching of John Maurice Hohlfeld. The most valuable materials in the collection are an assortment of student papers regarding the pedagogical materials used in teaching missionaries, including materials on three African languages, Fulani, Senoufo, and Bemba, as well as Machiguenga and Asmat. The collection also includes outlines and background materials for two works by Hohlfeld that never appeared in print, "Linguistic Structure of Jokes" and "Introduction to Applied Linguistics." The former consists of numerous jokes and comics culled by Hohlfeld from newspapers and the popular media for their linguistic implications. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.46 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Asmat language | Bemba language | English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers | Fulani language | Hartford Theological Seminary | Hohlfeld, John Maurice, 1909-1973 | Language and languages--Study and teaching | Linguistics--United States | Machiguenga language | Senoufo language | Structural linguistics | Syllabi | Wit and humor | |
| | Creator: | McKesson, John, 1734-1798 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John McKesson papers, 1714-1791, pertaining to Indian affairs
| | | | Dates: | 1714-1791 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include correspondence and reports of proceedings concerning Indian affairs. Miscellaneous materials, mostly 1778-1791, of Timothy Pickering, Henry Knox, William Hardenburgh, John Taylor and others. Includes 94 pages, account of meeting with the Indians at Fort Stanwix, New York, June 1, 1790, and 47 pages of miscellaneous material. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.641 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cayuga Indians | Indians of North America--Government relations--To 1789 | McKesson, John, 1734-1798 | Microfilm Collection | Onondaga Indians | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Morgan correspondence, 1763-1788
| | | | Dates: | 1763-1788 | | | | Abstract: | Nine of these letters are addressed to Sir Alexander Dick of Edinburgh (1763-1768), and relate to Morgan's medical studies, his travels on the Continent, and the founding of the medical department of the College of Physicians. These are copies of originals in possession of Mrs. Dick Cunyngham, Prestonfield House, Edinburgh. In addition there are letters from Morgan to: Petrus Camper, William Smith, Samuel Vaughan, Jr.; and from Peter Collinson to Camper; Camper to Morgan; S. Vaughan Jr. to Camper; and an exchange between Christian F. Michaelis and Camper. These concern Morgan, with mentions of fossils (mastodon bones in America), natural history, comments on Franklin, Jefferson, and Angelica Kauffmann. These are from originals in the P. Camper Papers, on deposit (1976) at the University of Amsterdam Library. These letters are individually indexed in the card catalog in the library. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M82 | | | | Extent: | 27.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | College of Physicians of Philadelphia. | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Dick, Alexander, Sir, 1703-1785 | Education | Educational Material | Europe -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807 | Medicine | Medicine -- Study and teaching. | Michaelis, Christian Friedrich, 1727-1804 | Morgan, John,1735-1789. | Natural History | Natural history. | Paleontology -- North America. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Smith, William | Vaughan, Samuel, 1762-1827 | |
| | Creator: | Neagle, John, 1796-1865 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Neagle Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1817-1865 | | | | Abstract: | John Neagle was among the better known portrait painters in Philadelphia during the first half of the nineteenth century and was the husband of Thomas Sully's niece, Mary C. Sully.
The Neagle Papers is a small assemblage of personal correspondence, documents, and notes assembled by Neagle during his career. The letters are primarily of a personal nature, but along with the five bound volumes, offer insight into Neagle's study of painting and the techniques he employed. Included among the bound volumes are recipes for varnish, megellup, and drying oils and notes on watercolor painting. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.N125.p | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Artists' materials | Artists--Pennsylvania | Autobiographies. | Autobiography | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Landscape painting | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Neagle family | Neagle, John, 1796-1865 | Neagle, Mary Chester Sully | Notebooks | Painting--Study and teaching | Recipes | Sketchbooks | Sully family | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Valentines | Varley, John, 1778-1842 | Watercolor paintings | Whist | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Pershouse correspondence and papers, 1749-1899
| | | | Dates: | 1749-1899 | | | | Abstract: | This correspondence is principally concerned with business between Pershouse and his brother James in England, with comments on conditions and events in the United States, including anti-British feeling, Thomas Paine's return to America, Jefferson's administration, and immigration. The papers include Pershouse's journal (1800-1838), which includes accounts of travels in England, France, and the United States, letterbooks (1836-1862) of Henry Pershouse, nephew of John, chiefly on business matters, and two volumes of Pershouse genealogical data, compiled by B.M. Pershouse Bayley (1899). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P43 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 volumes; 62 items. | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bayley, B. M. Pershouse | Business Records and Accounts | Diplomatic History | Early National Politics | England -- Description and travel. | Family Correspondence | Genealogies. | General Correspondence | International Travel | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Letterbooks. | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Pershouse, Henry | Pershouse, James. | Pershouse, John,1769-1841. | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Social Life and Custom | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Description and travel. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809. | |
| | Creator: | Quekett, John,1815-1861. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Quekett papers, 1849-1922
| | | | Dates: | 1849-1922 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence, drawings, and publications of Quekett. He became the conservator at the College of Surgeons, and through his microscopial research had a wide influence on anatomical studies as conducted by the medical profession in Great Britain. These papers concern Quekett's studies and medical matters in general. The correspondents include James Hilton, Julian S. Huxley, John Pethereck, Sir James South, and Thomas Wormald. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Q2 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Drawings. | Hilton, James | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | Medicine -- Research -- Great Britain. | Pethereck, John | Quekett, John,1815-1861. | South, James, Sir | Wormald, Thomas | |
| | Creator: | Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Quincy Adams material from the administrative and chancellery files, 1809-1816
| | | | Dates: | 1809-1816 | | | | Abstract: | The papers, from originals in the Archives of Foreign Ministry, U.S.S.R., contain mostly correspondence, with a few printed statements and articles. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.695.1 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Microfilm Collection | Monroe, James, 1758-1831 | Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1801-1825. | United States Foreign relations 1809-1817 | |
| | Creator: | Reynell, John,1708-1784. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Reynell daybook, 1731-1732
| | | | Dates: | 1731-1732 | | | | Abstract: | This daybook records purchases and payments for sugar, tobacco, clothing, nails, and shipments of goods to the West Indies, by John Bard, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Hamilton, Israel Pemberton, William Rawle, and Charles Read. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R33 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bard, John, 1716-1799 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Commerce. | Daybooks. | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Hamilton, Andrew, -- d. 1741. | International Trade. | Merchants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Pemberton, Israel, 1715-1779 | Philadelphia History | Rawle, William, 1759-1836 | Read, Charles, 1715-1774 | Reynell, John,1708-1784. | Trade | |
| | Creator: | Rutty, John,1698-1775. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Rutty letters, 1732-1774, to William Clark
| | | | Dates: | 1732-1774 | | | | Abstract: | These are sixty letters to William Clark, a physician in London and Bradford, Wiltshire. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.448 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Clark, William, 1698-ca. 1780 | Medicine. | Microfilm Collection | Physicians | Rutty, John,1698-1775. | |
| | Creator: | Carré, John Thomas, ca.1744-ca.1825 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Thomas Carré diary
| | | | Dates: | 1807-1809 | | | | Abstract: | Twice a refugee from the revolutionary violence in the French colony of Saint Domingue, John Thomas Carré became head of the Clermont Seminary in Philadelphia from 1804-1825, a select boarding school for boys.
Carré's diary from 1807-1809 provides a basic chronology of his life at the Clermont Seminary, with a few comments on his students and their families. The entries are typically very brief and are confined to a relatively limited range of topics, including the weather, Carré's poor health, his visitors, and correspondents. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C232 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Carré, John Thomas, ca.1744-ca.1825 | Clermont Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Diaries | Diaries. | Education | Educational Material | Griffith, Mary, 1772-1846 | Philadelphia History | Refugees--Saint Domingue | Teachers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Thomas Gulick papers, 1853-1898
| | | | Dates: | 1853-1898 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence on natural history and evolution, and especially on his collection and study of shells from Japan and the Pacific islands. Principal correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Charles Robert Darwin, Sir William Henry Flower, Alpheus Hyatt, George Newbold Lawrence, George J. Romanes, Alfred R. Wallace, and the Linnean Society of London. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G96 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Evolution. | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Gulick, John Thomas, 1832-1923 | Lawrence, George N.(George Newbold),1806-1895. | Linnean Society of London. | Mollusks -- Japan. | Natural history. | Shells -- Japan. | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Torrey papers, 1819-1864
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1864 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include letters on natural history, metals and mineralogy, botany, insects, the geological survey of New York, and analyses of distilled liquors in the cause of temperance. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T63.1 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany. | Buckley, S. B., (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884 | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Delavan, Edward C., (Edward Cornelius), 1793-1871 | Durand, Elie M. | Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842 | Geology -- New York (State) -- Surveys. | Insects. | Mineralogy. | Natural History | Natural history. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Temperance. | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 | |
| | 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: | Tukey, John Wilder, 1915- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John W. Tukey Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1937-2000 | | | | Abstract: | One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1939 from Brown University, he joined the faculty at Princeton; in 1945, he also began work at Bell Laboratories. Equally committed to both Princeton and Bell Labs, Tukey chose to work concurrently at both institutions. He was also a consultant for many companies, such as Merck and Company, Xerox Corporation, and the Educational Testing Service, and was a frequent advisor to the government for such programs as the US Census. From 1960 to 1980 he led the statistical component of NBC’s election night projections. Among other projects Tukey analyzed Alfred Kinsey's research and examined data on ozone depletion. Tukey made many important contributions to the field of statistics, such as work in time series analysis, exploratory data analysis, and multiple comparisons. Through his work, Tukey developed statistical applications including the Box-and-Whisker Plot, the Stem-and-Leaf Diagram, Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transforms, Tukey’s Paired Comparisons and citation and permutated indices. Tukey's influence extends beyond statistics to everyday language: he was the first to use the word "software" in print and coined words such as "bit" and "linear programming." A prolific writer, John W. Tukey penned more than 500 technical papers and reports and published, among numerous other works. His collected papers amount to eight volumes of work.
The Tukey Papers provides a comprehensive perspective into Tukey’s professional activities from his days as a graduate student until his death in 2002. Among the material is his correspondence and his published and unpublished works. There is abundant material from Tukey’s long careers at Bell Laboratories and Princeton University, including extensive lecture notes and syllabi. Also included are copious materials relating to his professional activities with such agencies as the National Research Council, the Army Records Office, Xerox PARC, Merck and Company, the President’s Science Advisory Committee, and the National Academy of Sciences. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.117 | | | | Extent: | 169.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abelson, Robert P. | Academy of Sciences of the USSR | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Association of Scientific Workers | American Chemical Society | American College Testing Program | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | American Institute of Physics | American Mathematical Society | American Medical Association | American Petroleum Institute | American Philosophical Society | American Psychological Association | American Society for Information Science | American Society for Quality Control | American Statistical Association | American Telephone and Telegraph Company | Anderson, Edgar, 1897- | Archibald, Raymond Clare, 1875-1957 | Basford, Kaye E., 1952- | Batson, Herbert Clifford | Beale, E. M. L. (Evelyn Martin Landsdowne) | Beaton, Albert E. | Bechhofer, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1919- | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Belsley, David A. | Beniger, James R. (James Ralph), 1946- | Bennett, Carl A. (Carl Allen), 1921- | Blackman, R. B. (Ralph Beebe), 1904- | Bliss, Chester Ittner, 1899- | Bloomfield, Peter, 1946- | Boas, Ralph Philip | Bode, Hendrik W. (Hendrik Wade), 1905- | Bolt, Bruce A., 1930- | Bowker, Albert Hosmer, 1919- | Braun, Henry I., 1949- | Brown University | California Institute of Technology | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, Calif.) | Chlorofluoromethanes-Environmental concerns | Cochran, William G., (William Gemmell), 1909-1980 | Cressie, Noel A. C. | Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900- | Dempster, Arthur Pentland, 1929- | Disarmament. | Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915- | Dodge, Harold French, 1893- | Educational Testing Service | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Flood, Merrill Meeks, 1908- | Fourier transformations | Gnanadesikan, Ramanathan, 1932- | Halocarbons | Hamming, R. W. (Richard Wesley), 1915- | History of computing | Hoaglin, David C. (David Caster), 1944- | Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Kruskal, William, 1919-2005 | Logarithms | Massachusettes Institute of Technology | Mathematics - Tables | Meyerhoff, Howard A., (Howard Augustus), 1899- | Mike, Valerie, 1934- | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Moments method (Statistics) | Mosteller, Frederick, 1916- | Mosteller, Frederick, 1916-2006 | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Assessment of Educational Progess (Project) | National Research Council (U.S.) | National Science Foundation, U.S. | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 | Nuclear Weapons - Testing | Parzen, Emanuel, 1929- | Pearson, E. S., (Egon Sharpe), 1895-1980 | Press, Harry | Princeton University | Princeton University. | Rao, C. Radhakrishna (Calyampudi Radhakrishna), 1920- | Rousseeuw, Peter J. | Scheffé, Henry, 1907- | Security clearances - United States | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Statistics--Study and teaching | Suppes, Patrick, 1922- | Time-series analysis | Tukey, John Wilder, 1915- | Tukey, Paul | U.S. Census Bureau | United States. Army Research Office | Velleman, Paul F.,1949- | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Wilks, S. S. (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Wilks, S. S., (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Xerox Corporation | Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center | |
| | Creator: | Francis, John Wakefield, 1789-1861 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Wakefield Francis papers, 1808-1861
| | | | Dates: | 1808-1861 | | | | Abstract: | Physician John Wakefield Francis (1789-1861) cofounded the New York Academy of Medicine. He served as the second president of the Academy, taught at Bellevue Hospital, wrote medical texts, and edited professional journals. Collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, writings, by-laws and minutes, and related papers of Francis and others. Correspondence of others include letters to Francis's associates and family members. Financial documents, 1798-1851, are accounts, receipts, receipt books, checks, and collection notices. Writings are speeches, lectures and notes of Francis and others. Also, minutes and by-laws, 1807-1810, of the Medical and Surgical Society of the University of New York State; and printed material. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1568 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Correspondence. | Francis, John Wakefield, 1789-1861 | Lectures. | Microfilm Collection | Receipts. | Speeches. | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Warner letters and papers, 1850-1864
| | | | Dates: | 1850-1864 | | | | Abstract: | The major portion of this correspondence deals with the controversy which arose when Benjamin Peirce, after having seen the manuscript of Warner's "Studies in Organic Morphology" (Philadelphia, 1857), read a paper on morphology before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1855). Other topics discussed include the alleged "Harvard clique," the administration of the Dudley Observatory (Albany, N.Y.), and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W243 | | | | Extent: | 255.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Africa--Description and travel | American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | Asia -- Description and travel. | Diaries. | Dudley Observatoy | Europe -- Description and travel. | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Fraley, F., (Frederick), 1804-1901 | Greeley , Horace, 1811-1872 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Morphology. | Science. | Sketches. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. | Warner, John,d. 1873. | Winslow, C. F. | |
| | Creator: | Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Wesley Powell correspondence, 1869-1879, of the Powell Survey
| | | | Dates: | 1869-1879 | | | | Abstract: | This correspondence concerning the survey of western lands was received by the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Also includes a selection of letters sent by the Survey (1876-1878). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.736 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 | Ayres, E.W. | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Dutton, Clarence E., (Clarence Edward), 1841-1912 | Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914 | Garfield, James A., (James Abram), 1831-1881 | Gatschet, Albert S., (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 | Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.) | Gibbs, George C., 1812-1886 | Guyot, A., (Arnold), 1807-1884 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hewitt, Abram S., (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903 | King, Clarence, 1842-1901 | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 | Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 | Meek, Fielding B. | Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926 | Morgan, Thomas H. | Newberry, J. S., (John Strong), 1822-1892 | Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895 | Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 | Stevenson, J. J., (John J.) | Thompson, A. H., (Almon Harris), 1839-1906 | Vasey, G. W. | Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913 | Weatherby, A. G. | Wheeler, George M. (George Mantague), 1842-1905 | Wheeler, Olin D. | Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 | |
| | Creator: | Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Wesley Powell correspondence and diary, 1871-1907
| | | | Dates: | 1871-1907 | | | | Abstract: | Contents: diary kept by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh of the Colorado River Expedition (1871-1873); J. F. Steward's "Through the Canyons of the Colorado" (1871); letters of John Wesley Powell and James C. Filling from records of the geological survey, Rocky Mountain survey, letters sent, 1877, 1878, 1879; Bureau of American Ethnology letters sent, J. W., Powell, 1897-1902; correspondence of Robert B. Stanton and Jack Sumner about Powell (1907). Includes references to Ute Indians. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.736.1 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 | Diaries. | Discoveries in geography. | Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 | Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922 | Steward, John F., (John Fletcher), 1841-1915 | Sumner, Jack | |
| | Creator: | Joint Committee for the Survey of Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joint Committee for the Survey of Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology project archives, 1975-1979
| | | | Dates: | 1975-1979 | | | | Abstract: | This includes project correspondence with individuals and groups, autobiographical questionnaires of biochemists, information on sources in China, and files relating to the project's search for sources. In addition, there is information concerning the computer system created to produce the guide. | | | | Call #: | Mss.574.19.Su | | | | Extent: | 18.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | American Philosophical Society. | Bearman, David, -- comp. | Biochemistry -- History -- Bibliography -- Computer programs. | Biochemistry -- History -- Bibliography. | Biochemistry -- Manuscripts -- Indexes. | Biochemists. | Edsall, John T., (John Tileston), 1902-2002 | Molecular biology -- History -- Bibliography -- Computer programs. | Molecular biology -- History -- Bibliography. | Molecular biology -- Manuscripts -- Indexes. | |
| | Creator: | Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jonathan Couch Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1839-1891 | | | | Abstract: | In many ways, Jonathan Couch was a prototype of the Victorian provincial naturalist, a trained physician whose eclectic, but intensely local interests ran from the life sciences to geology, Cornish folk beliefs, and local history. His major works included a three-volume translation of
Pliny's Natural History (London, 1847-1849) published by the Wernerian Club of London,
The History of Polperro (Truro, 1871), and the exhaustive four-volume
A History of the Fishes of the British Islands (London, 1862-1868).
The remnants of a wide-ranging mind, the Couch Papers contain a sampling of correspondence, rough drafts of articles, and notes on a variety of topics of interest to the Cornish naturalist and antiquarian, Jonathan Couch. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Couch's translation of Pliny's Natural History, published by the Wernerian Club of London between 1847 and 1849. The notes are highly diverse, but include some systematic descriptions of fishes, probably used in his
A History of the Fishes of the British Islands and notes Cornish folk beliefs. Of particular interest are his "Notes connected with instinct and reason" and three manuscripts relating to evolutionism: "Enquiry into the circumstances...," "On the history and development of man," and "The Natural History of the Creation of the World, with its changes to the subsidence of the flood and Noah." | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C831 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy--Great Britain--18th century | Beyond Early America | Conchology--Great Britain | Cornwall--Description and travel | Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 | Creationism. | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Developmental biology--Great Britain | Dreams | Evolution (Biology) | Fisheries--Great Britain | Fishes--Great Britain | Human evolution | Instinct | Natural history--Great Britain--19th century | Pen works | Photographs | Pliny the Younger | Superstition--Great Britain | Wernerian Club (London, England) | Zoology--Great Britain | |
| | Creator: | Williams, Jonathan. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jonathan Williams Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1763-1802 | | | | Abstract: | Born May 26, 1750, to the niece of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Williams was a prominent merchant, scientist and soldier. Elected to the APS in 1787 as a result of his observations on temperature and barometrical readings, as well as work on sugar production, Williams had a distinguished military career highlighted by his appointment as first superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point.
The Jonathan Williams Papers consists of 46 letters and documents, written by or to Jonathan Williams Sr. and Jr., dealing primarily with financial and legal matters. The collection includes five letters written by Benjamin Franklin and many of the others are signed by Williams' father-in-law and brother-in-law, William and Robert Alexander. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W6765 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alexander, Robert | Alexander, William | Engineering | Family Correspondence | Law | Legal Records | Military History | Political Correspondence | Williams, Jonathan Sr | Williams, Jonathan. | Wine and wine making | |
| | Creator: | Williams, Jonathan. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jonathan Williams selected papers, 1771-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1771-1813 | | | | Abstract: | These papers related to Benjamin Franklin and the American Philosophical Society, and include correspondence among Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, Jonathan Williams, Sr., and Jonathan Williams, Jr. Also included is Williams' journal of a trip through England with Benjamin Franklin, Jan Ingenhousz, and John Canton (1771), memoranda and essays by Williams on trade, meteorology, and sugar refining, and notes and drawings. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.455 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Canton, John | Commerce. | England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Essays. | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 | Journals (notebooks). | Memoranda. | Meteorology. | Microfilm Collection | Sugar -- Manufacture and refining. | Williams, Jonathan. | Williams, Jonathan. | |
| | Creator: | Magalhães, João Jacinto de, 1722-1790 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | João Jacinto de Magalhães (Jean-Hyacinthe Magellan) Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1774-1788 | | | | Abstract: | Better known to the English-speaking world by the name under which he published most of his works, Jean-Hyacinthe Magellan, João Jacinto de Magalhães was born on November 4, 1722. His work focused primarily on scientific instruments, and is credited with introducing English scientific instruments, and the work of Joseph Priestley (APS member 1785) to the scientific community in France.
The João Jacinto de Magalhães Collection consists of eleven letters written by Magalhães in French, and addressed to correspondents in France dealing primarily with the manufacture and distribution of telescopes and optical instrumentation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M25 | | | | Extent: | 11.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy--Observations | Baudouin de Guemadeuc, 1744-1817 | Beyond Early America | Boscovich, Roger Joseph, 1711-1787 | Chemistry | Dollond, Peter | Edwards, John | Garrellon, L. | Grand, Ferdinand | Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822 | Magalhães, João Jacinto de, 1722-1790 | Messier, Charles, 1730-1817 | Optics | Telescopes | |
| | Creator: | Corrêa da Serra, Edward J. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1823 | | | | Abstract: | These are letters to and from Correia da Serra collected by Richard Beale Davis. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.884 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844 | Corrêa da Serra, Edward J. | Davis, Richard Beale | Diplomats -- Portugal. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Microfilm Collection | Natural history. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | United States - Politics and government - 1809-1817 | United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861 | |
| | Creator: | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | José Francisco Correia da Serra papers, 1772-1827
| | | | Dates: | 1772-1827 | | | | Abstract: | Transcripts and photocopies of Correia de Serra correspondence, made by Richard B. Davis for "The Abbé Correa in America," APS
Transactions 45, 2 (1955). Seven mss. letters are also included. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C81.1 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | Beyond Early America | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Corrêa da Serra, Edward J. | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Linnaeus , Carl | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Monroe, James, 1758-1831 | Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henrich Ernst, 1753-1815 | Natural history. | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Rawle, William, 1759-1836 | Rush, Richard | Skipwith, Fulwar, 1765-1839 | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| | Creator: | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseoph Priestly correspondence, 1766-1803
| | | | Dates: | 1766-1803 | | | | Abstract: | These letters are to Rev. Theophilus Lindsay and Rev. Thomas Belsham pertaining to natural history, science, and theology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1328 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Belsham, Thomas, 1750-1829 | Lindsay, Theophilus, 1723-1808 | Microfilm Collection | Natural history. | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Science. | Theology -- History -- 18th century. | |
| | Creator: | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858
| | | | Dates: | 1789-1858 | | | | Abstract: | These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1116 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alison, Francis, 1705-1779 | American Philosophical Society. Membership. | Bard, John, 1716-1799 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bond, Thomas, 1712-1784 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Clayton, John, 1686-1773 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Currie, William, 1754-1828 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | Hewson, William, 1739-1774 | McClurg, James, ca. 1746-1823 | Medical education -- United States. | Medicine | Microfilm Collection | Middleton, Peter, 1752-1781 | Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831 | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Physicians | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Ramsay, David, 1749-1815 | Scientists. | Smith, William, 1727-1803 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| | Creator: | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Carson papers, 1810-1877
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1877 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains material relating to his legal affairs, medical publications, receipts for books purchased, and information on botany. Important correspondents include Edward H. Clarke, George Mifflin Dallas, Samuel David Gross, and Joseph Henry. There is also family history in these papers. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C239 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Botany. | Business Records and Accounts | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Clarke, Edward H., (Edward Hammond), 1820-1877 | Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 | Education | Educational Material | General Correspondence | Gross, Samuel D., (Samuel David), 1805-1884 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Medical publishing | Medicine | Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Notebooks | Receipts. | Trade | |
| | Creator: | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Henry letters, 1836-1878
| | | | Dates: | 1836-1878 | | | | Abstract: | The letters in this small collection concern the Smithsonian Institution, the Colorado Territory, and Humboldt's observations, among many other topics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H39p | | | | Extent: | 48.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Brewer, T. M., (Thomas Mayo), 1814-1880 | Buren, John van | Colony and State Specific History | Colorado -- History -- To 1876. | General Correspondence | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Humphreys, A. A., (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883 | King, Charles, 1789-1867 | Maclean, John, 1800-1886 | Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879 | Natural history. | Physics. | Ranlett, Charles E | Science and Technology | Smithsonian Institution. | |
| | Creator: | Lister, Joseph Jackson,1786-1869. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Jackson Lister account books, 1810-1849
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1849 | | | | Abstract: | These account books record receipts and expenditures, interest, profit and loss, repairs, stock shares, wages, income tax, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L693 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | Beyond Early America | Lister, Joseph Jackson,1786-1869. | Scientists -- Great Britain. | |
| | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Priestley Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1771-1803 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence of Joseph Priestley, scientist, Unitarian minister, and republican theorist. The collection includes 41 letters written to John Vaughan, 1791-1800, 5 letters to other correspondents, and manuscripts and photostats of 68 items in the Municipal Library, Warrington, England, on theological issues, the internal development of the United States, the French Revolution and its aftermath, Unitarianism, science, his publications, and American Philosophical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P931 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society | Belsham, Thomas, 1750-1829 | Business Records and Accounts | Cardale, Paul | Chemistry--18th century | Church and State--Great Britain--18th century | Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 | Early National Politics | France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799 | Great Britain--Politics and government--1789-1820 | Legal Records | Lindsey, Theophilus | Mansell, Judith | Oxygen | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Phlogiston | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Riots--England--Birmingham | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Taxation | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Wilkinson, John, 1789-1802 | Withering, William, 1741-1799 | |
| | Creator: | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Priestly correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802
| | | | Dates: | 1765-1802 | | | | Abstract: | The correspondence is written chiefly from Priestley in America (1790-1802). The printed works include Priestley's "Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Study of History" (1765), John Aikin's "Heads of Chemistry" (1781), and a catalog of books belonging to the Warrington Academy (1775). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1300 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aikin, John, 1747-1822 | Catalogs. | Chemistry | Essays. | History -- Outlines, syllabi, etc. | Microfilm Collection | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Syllabi. | |
| | Creator: | Roberts, Joseph,1793-1835. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Roberts philosophical and mathematical papers, 1812-1814
| | | | Dates: | 1812-1814 | | | | Abstract: | The first volume contains mathematical problems, which appear to be college exercises (1814); the second volume is an essay on the projection of the sphere and spherical trigonometry, including an appendix on astronomy (1812); and the third volume is a lecture on natural philosophy, apparently prepared for delivery [n.d.]. | | | | Call #: | Mss.510.R54 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy. | Education | Educational Material | Essays. | Lectures. | Manuscript Essays | Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc. | Notebooks | Physics. | Roberts, Joseph,1793-1835. | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Spherical trigonometry. | |
| | Creator: | Shippen, Joseph,1732-1810. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Shippen letterbook, 1763-1773
| | | | Dates: | 1763-1773 | | | | Abstract: | These letters relate principally to provincial business and comment on the Indians of Pennsylvania, the French and Indian War, a survey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary, and the Stamp Act. Correspondents include James Burd, Jeremiah Dixon, Joseph Galloway, Humphry Marshall, Charles Mason, Edward Shippen of Lancaster, and Edward Shippen, Jr. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sh62.j | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | African American | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Colonial Politics | Dixon, Jeremiah | Family Correspondence | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | General Correspondence | Great Britain. -- Stamp Act (1765) | Indians of North America | Letterbooks. | Maps and Surveys | Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801 | Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 | Mason-Dixon Line. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Political Correspondence | Shippen, Edward, -- Jr. | Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781 | Shippen, Joseph,1732-1810. | Social Life and Custom | Surveying and Maps | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763. | |
| | Creator: | Shippen, Joseph,1706-1793. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Shippen waste book, 1749-1750
| | | | Dates: | 1749-1750 | | | | Abstract: | This waste book contains accounts with various persons in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey for dry-goods, notions, rum, cutlery, glassware, and medicines. | | | | Call #: | Mss.657.Sh6 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Shippen, Joseph,1706-1793. | Trade | |
| | Creator: | Winlock, Joseph,1826-1875. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Winlock letterbook, 1857-1875
| | | | Dates: | 1857-1875 | | | | Abstract: | This item contains much information about his various posts and about conflicts, personalities, and the politics of science. There are also many references and comments about scientific technology of the day, and of such people as Matthew F. Maury. There are numerous letters to A. D. Bache, James Henry Coffin, Charles Henry Davis, and William H. Willcox. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W721 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Ballard, John T. | Bowditch, Henry I., (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892 | Chauvenet, William, 1820-1870 | Cochran, Thomas Childs, 1902- | Coffin, James Henry, 1806-1873 | Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877 | Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Harvard College Observatory. | Harvard University--Faculty | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hill, Thomas, 1818-1891 | Hubbard, Joseph Stillman, 1823-1863 | Jenkins, Thornton A., (Thornton Alexander), 1811-1893 | Langley, S. P., (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 | Letterbooks. | Makepeace, William. | Mathematics. | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 | Silsbee, Nathaniel | Technology. | United States Naval Academy. -- Dept. of Mathematics -- Faculty. | Waller, William J. | Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 | Willcox, William Henry, 1821-1904 | Winlock, Joseph,1826-1875. | |
| | Creator: | Welch, George,fl. 1671. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal, 1671, of a voyage to the West Indies
| | | | Dates: | 1671 | | | | Abstract: | This journal describes Welch's journey from his home in England to the coast, the long wait for the wind, the voyage, preparations against possible attack by pirates, visits to Barbados, Nevis, and other islands, and his arrival at Port Royal in Hispaniola. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.29.W46j | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Hispaniola. | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Manuscript Essays | Pirates. | Religion | Travel Narratives and Journals | Voyages and travels. | Welch, George,fl. 1671. | West Indies -- Description and travel. | |
| | Creator: | Post, Christian Frederick,1710?-1785. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal, 1760, of the great council of the different Indian nations
| | | | Dates: | 1760 | | | | Abstract: | This journal of Post's, who was in the company of Teedyuscung, John Hays, Isaac Still, and Moses Tattamy, relates to the Indian conference held near the Ohio River. Copy in clerk's hand. Concerning message carried to Mingoes and other Ohio Indians. Includes description of conjuring ceremony. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.204 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Hays, John | Indian councils | Journals (notebooks). | Microfilm Collection | Post, Christian Frederick,1710?-1785. | Still, Isaac | Tattamy, Moses | Teedyuscung, ca. 1700-1763 | |
| | 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: | Potocki, Jan,hrabia,1761-1815. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal, 1797-1798, of travels in Russia
| | | | Dates: | 1797-1798 | | | | Abstract: | Part of Potocki's journey was made to search for the origins of the ancient Scythians. In 1828 the German Orientalist and traveler Heinrich Julius Klaproth asked the American Philosophical Society's permission to have an additional copy made of this manuscript, from which he prepared the work for publication, entitled "Voyage dans les steps dAstrakhan et du Caucase . . . Histoire primitive des peuples qui ont habité anciennement ces contrées (2 v., Paris, 1829). | | | | Call #: | Mss.914.79.P85 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Journals (notebooks). | Klaproth, Julius von, 1783-1835 | Potocki, Jan,hrabia,1761-1815. | Scythians. | Soviet Union -- Description and travel. | |
| | Creator: | Trudeau, Jean Baptiste,1748-1827. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal among the Arikara Indians, and other papers, 1794-1796
| | | | Dates: | 1794-1796 | | | | Abstract: | Includes "Description abrègée du Haut-Missouri adressé: a Monsieur don Zénon Trudeau," an account of a journey up the Missouri River, with descriptions of the life and manners of the Indian tribes, prepared for Don Zenon Trudeau, Lieutenant Governor of the Country East of the Illinois (n.d., [after 1795]). Extracts from journals, June 7, 1794-June 1796 (part printed from copy in Department of State Archives, Washington), 190 pages. Approximately 200 pages of letters. Materials contain descriptions of the culture of the Plains Indians (Cheyenne, Arikara, Mandan, Pawnee, Gros Ventres, Sioux, Poncas), dress, customs, marriage, birth; calumet dance, sun dance, buffalo dance; warfare. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1036 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Social life and customs | Journals (notebooks). | Microfilm Collection | Missouri River. | Trudeau, Jean Baptiste,1748-1827. | Trudeau, Zenon | United States -- Discovery and exploration. | |
| | Creator: | Bénard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, 1683-1765 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal historique concernant l'établissement des Francais à la Louisianne, 1699-1723
| | | | Dates: | 1699-1723 | | | | Abstract: | Journal ("Journal historique concernant l'établisement des français à la Louisianne; tiré des mémoires de Mrs. D'Iberville & de Bienville") from first French contact through failure of settlement at St. Bernard, commanded by La Harpe. Includes brief essays at end, including a summary of various theories of the origins of the American Indians. | | | | Call #: | Mss.976.3.B43 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bénard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, 1683-1765 | Darby, William, 1775-1854 | Exploration. | France -- Colonies. | Le Moyne d'Iberville, Pierre, 1661-1706 | Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean Baptiste, 1680-1767 | Louisiana -- History -- To 1803. | Manuscript Essays | Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803. | Native America | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| | Creator: | Crawford, John Lindsay,Earl of,1702-1749. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal of a campaign with the Russian army against Turkey, 1737-1739
| | | | Dates: | 1737-1739 | | | | Abstract: | This volume includes a journal of a campaign in Hungary (1737), and a diary (1738-1739) written in German. | | | | Call #: | Mss.947.J82 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Crawford, John Lindsay,Earl of,1702-1749. | Diaries. | Hungary -- History -- 1699-1848. | Journals (notebooks). | Manuscript Essays | Maps. | Military History | Military Records | Military maneuvers. | Russia -- History, Military -- To 1801. | Russo-Turkish War, 1736-1739. | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turkey -- History, Military. | |
| | Creator: | Sullivan, Thomas, 1755- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal of the operations of the American War
| | | | Dates: | 1778-1779 | | | | Abstract: | An Irish-born non-commissioned officer in the 49th Regiment of Foot, Thomas Sullivan served with the British Army in North America from the siege of Boston in 1775 through the last days of the Philadelphia Campaign in 1778. He deserted in June, 1778, and became steward to Continental Army Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene. | | | | Call #: | Mss.973.3.Su5 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Autobiographies. | Autobiography | Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel--18th century | Boston (Mass.)--History--Siege, 1775-1776 | Brandywine, Battle of, 1777 | Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 | Diaries | Elizabethtown (N.J.)--Description and travel--18th century | Germantown, Battle of, 1778 | Great Britain. Army--Regiment of Foot, 49th (1743- ) | Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 | Halifax (N.S.)--Description and travel | Irish--United States | Long Island, Battle of, 1776 | Military History | Military Records | Monmouth, Battle of, 1778 | Mud Island (Pa.) | New Jersey Campaign, 1776-1777 | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel--18th century | Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 | Red Bank, Battle of, 1777 | Sullivan, Thomas, 1755- | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States--History--Revolution, 1776-1783 | White Plains, Battle of, 1776 | |
| | Creator: | Boykin, John | Requires cookie* | | | | Lee, Francis P. | | | | Title: | Journal of the travels of Colonel John Boykin and Francis P. Lee from Morristown, New Jersey to Camden, South Carolina, August 15, 1833 - September, 1833
| | | | Dates: | 1833 | | | | Abstract: | This is an account of overland and water travel between Morristown, New Jersey and Camden, South Carolina. It includes interesting information on the travel conditions of the time. The name Francis P. Lee appears at the end of the last journal entry. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.B69 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Baltimore (Md.) -- Description and travel. | Boykin, John | Camden (S.C.) -- Description and travel. | Charlotte (N.C.) -- Description and travel. | Journals (notebooks). | Lee, Francis P. | Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel. | Morristown (N.J.) - Description and travel | South Atlantic States -- Description and travel. | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Travel. | United States - Description and travel | Voyages and travels. | |
| | Creator: | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal of the Vine Company of Pennsylvania
| | | | Dates: | 1803-1827 | | | | Abstract: | Initially proposed by Peter Legaux at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in 1793, the Vine Company of Pennsylvania was a stock company that encouraged the domestic production of grapes, wines, and brandy, and dissemination of knowledge about viticulture. After its incorporation in 1802, the Company operated vineyards on Legaux's farm at Spring Mill, 13 miles northwest of Philadelphia, until it failed in 1822. The three volumes of Journals of the Vine Company of Pennsylvania record the daily operations of America's first commercial vineyard bewteeen 1803 and 1814. Kept by the superintendent, Peter Legaux, the journals provide careful records of weather, planting, harvesting and other field work, as well as some of the doings of the officers and shareholders of the Company. The fourth volume is essentially a weather diary kept by Legaux at Spring Mill from 1822 until his death in 1827. The last volume of Vine Company records covering the last eight years of its operation, 1814-1822, has been lost. | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.L52 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Grapes | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | McMahon, Bernard, ca.1760?-1816 | Meteorology--Pennsylvania--Observations | Natural History | Pennsylvania--Climate | Vine Company of Pennsylvania. | Viticulture--Pennsylvania | Weather | Weather diaries | |
| | Creator: | Andrews, Emma B., 1837-1922 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Journal on the Bedawin
| | | | Dates: | 1889-1913 | | | | Abstract: | A wealthy retired businessman and art collector from New York and Newport, R.I., Theodore M. Davis financed a series of archeological excavations in Egypt between 1889 and 1912. Avid, but not necessarily disciplined in his approach, he supported a remarkably productive series of excavations at Thebes and, in the work for which he is best remembered, in the Valley of the Kings. On many of these expeditions, Davis was accompanied by his relative, Emma B. Andrews.
The diary that Andrews kept during these expeditions is valuable on two scores. First, at its best, it provides a literate and often detailed record of an adventurous American woman traveling in fin de siecle Egypt and (to a lesser degree) Italy and her encounters with life in the colonial British settlements along the Nile. Second, it provides some important details on the appearance of tombs in the Valley of the Kings as they were first unearthed, with interesting comments upon Davis and a number of his fellow Egyptologists. | | | | Call #: | Mss.916.2.An2 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Andrews, Emma B., 1837-1922 | Archaeology--Egypt | Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 | Bissing, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von,, 1873-1956 | Carter, Howard, 1874-1939 | Davis, Theodore M., 1837-1915 | Diaries. | Egypt--Antiquities. | Egypt--Description and travel | Egyptology. | Italy--Description and travel | Luxor (Egypt)--Antiquities | Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 | Newberry, Percy E. (Percy Edward), 1869-1949 | Nile River--Description and travel | Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 | Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934 | Winlock, Herbert E. | |
| | Creator: | Billings, William, 1746-1800 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journals of the Ship Apollo, 1789-1791
| | | | Dates: | 1789-1791 | | | | Abstract: | These logbooks record two voyages (to Corunna, Spain, 1789-1790, and to Oporto, Portugal, 1791, and returns to Philadelphia), with observations of differences in temperature between air and water, especially when passing the Gulf Stream or any land or banks. | | | | Call #: | Mss.656.B49 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Apollo (Ship). | Billings, William, 1746-1800 | Business and Skilled Trades | Charts. | International Travel | Logbooks. | Meteorological Data | Meteorology -- Observations. | Scientific Data | Trade | Voyages and travels. | |
| | Creator: | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J.P. Lesley Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1826-1898 | | | | Abstract: | After a brief career in the Congregational church, J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) left the ministry in 1852 to work full-time as a geologist. Having gained experience in structural geology and stratigraphy with the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1836-1842), Lesley became an expert in the geology of coal, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations and conducting some of the first systematic studies of the state's hydrocarbon resources. A long-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he was elected to the APS in 1856, serving variously as its librarian, secretary, and vice president, and he was selected as Director of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1875-1889).
The Lesley Papers include letters to and from Peter Lesley and his wife, Susan on geology, coal and iron mining, abolition, educational reform, organized charity, and Unitarianism. The collection offers important insight into academic and applied geology in late 19th century Pennsylvania, the development of the coal and iron industries, as well as into the Lesleys' progressive social and intellectual milieu. It is divided into three series: Lesley's general correspondence, his correspondence with his brother Joseph, and microfilms of Lesley's research notes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L56 | | | | Extent: | 7.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Americans Abroad | Avesta | Biographies. | Cartography. | Charities -- United States. | Clippings. | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Desor, E. (Edouard), 1811-1882 | Diaries. | Education--United States | Egypt--Antiquities. | Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Family Correspondence | Flint, Austin | France--Description and travel | Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt | Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology--Maps | Geology--Nova Scotia--Surveys | Geology--Pennsylvania | Germany--Description and travel | Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 | Hale, Lucretia P., (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 | Hawaiian language | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | International Travel | Javanese language | Journals (notebooks) | Lesley, Allen | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lesley, Joseph, 1831-1889 | Lesley, Susan I., (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | M'Kim, J. Miller, (James Miller), 1810-1874 | Marriage and Family Life | Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 | McKinley, Alexander | Nova Scotia--Surveys | Obelisks | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology--Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania--Surveys | Philology | Photographs | Poems | Scientific Data | Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate , 1841-1906 | Sketches. | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Switzerland--Description and travel | Thomson, J. Edgar, (James Edgar), 1808-1874 | Transcendentalism | Travel Narratives and Journals | Unitarianism | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 | Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 | Wright, Chauncey,1830-1875. | |
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