| | Creator: | Alexander, William, 1726-1783 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Variation of the compass, 1773
| | | | Dates: | 1773 | | | | Abstract: | Written by William Alexander at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, March 27, 1773, this essay appeals to the American Philosophical Society to collect and publish astronomical observations. It was sent to the American Philosophical Society, where it was duly read in May 1773. | | | | Call #: | Mss.522.76.Al2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alexander, William, 1726-1783 | American Philosophical Society. | Astronomy -- 18th century | Compass. | Learned institutions and societies. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific Data | Surveying and Maps | Trade | |
| | Creator: | Vermont. Attorney General's Office. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vermont. Attorney General. State of Vermont's Response to Petition for Federal Acknowledgment of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of Vermont.
| | | | Dates: | 2002 | | | | Abstract: | Reponse of the State of Vermont disputing the application of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenaki Indians application for federal recognition as a tribe based on lack of continuous residency and cultural continuity. | | | | Call #: | Mss.ms.un.cat | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | Creator: | Lushington, Vernon,1832-1912. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vernon Lushington letters, 1861-1870, to Harry Govier Seeley
| | | | Dates: | 1861-1870 | | | | Abstract: | These letters are to the British geologist, Harry Govier Seeley. Lushington was apparently a friend or mentor, and he advises Seeley to become a geologist, and praises his poetry. Some of the letters concern paleontology, university education at Cambridge, and an observation on Robert Browning. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L97 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 | Geologists. | Geology. | Lushington, Vernon,1832-1912. | Paleontology. | Seeley, Harry Govier, 1839-1909 | University of Cambridge. | |
| | Creator: | Dupaix, Guillermo, 1748 or 1750-1817 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas
| | | | Dates: | 1805-1807 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Austro-Hungary in either 1748 or 1750, Guillermo Dupaix became one of the first Europeans to observe and describe the archaeological riches of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Yucatan. Between 1805 and 1807, he lead three Royal expeditions to survey major Mexican archaeological sites, working in close concert with Jose Luciano Castañeda, an artist with the National Museum. Among the sites they visited were the Mayan ruins at Palenque, the Zapotec/Mixtec site at Mitla, and several Aztec sites.
The APS version of Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas is one of several contemporary manuscript copies of Dupaix's seminal work on Mexican archaeology. The work consists of two volumes, the first containing the text, the second, copies of Castañeda's illustrations, which here lack the distortions introduced in King's edition. | | | | Call #: | Mss.913.72.D92v | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Archaeology--Mexico | Aztecs--Antiquities | Beyond Early America | Castaneda, Jose Luciano | Dupaix, Guillermo, 1748 or 1750-1817 | Ethnology--Mexico | Indians of Mexico | Mayas--Antiquities | Mexico--Antiquities | Mitla Site (Mexico)--Antiquities | Mixtec Indians--Antiquities | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) | Pen works | Rubbings | Sketches. | Southwest Indians | Watercolors | |
| | Creator: | Jacquemont, Victor, 1801-1832 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Victor Jacquemont Papers, 1822-1833
| | | | Dates: | 1822-1833 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Paris on August 8, 1801, the youngest of four sons of Venceslas and Rose Laisné Jacquemont, Victor Jacquemont became one of the rising stars of French natural history and an archetype for the scientist in the Romantic era. Combining youth, genius, and a rhapsodic love of nature with a life filled with masculine affection, star-crossed romance, and exotic climes, Jacquemont epitomized the romantic intellectual right up to the time of his untimely death in the Himalayas. In a career in which ill fortune and good fortune walked hand in hand, the figure of Jacquemont has all but overshadowed his substantial scientific accomplishments. The surviving correspondence of the ill-starred French botanist, Victor Jacquemont and his friend, Pierre Achille Marie Chaper (1795-1874) consists of 106 letters pertaining to the development of Jacquemont's scientific career and their personal and social commitments. The correspondence was published, though not translated, in James F. Marshall,
Victor Jacquemont Letters to Achille Chaper: Intimate Sketches of Life Among Stendhal's Coterie (Philadelphia: APS, 1960), APS
Memoir 50. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.103 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Botany--France | Chaper, Pierre Achille Marie, 1795-1874 | Dueling. | Geology--France | Haiti--Description and travel | Himalaya Mountains--Description and travel | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | India--Description and travel--19th century | Jacquemont, Victor, 1801-1832 | Jaubert, Hippolyte François, comte de, 1798-1874 | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829 | Natural history--France | Schïasetti, Adélaide | Slavery--Brazil | Stendhal, 1783-1842 | Tracy, Antoine César Victor Charles Destutt marquis de, 1781-1864 | |
| | Creator: | Heiser, Victor, (Victor George) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Victor (Victor George) Heiser papers, ca. 1890-1972
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1890-1972 | | | | Abstract: | There is much correspondence, as well as reports, notebooks, lectures, diaries, photographs, and reprints. Heiser, who was a preeminent public health physician, created a rich archive of material documenting all phases of his career, especially the international health work of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1913-1934. There are voluminous, detailed, and interesting diaries for the whole course of this life (ca. 68 v., 1908-1972). There are notebooks reflecting on his early training and work (21 v., 1890-1907), and 3 volumes from lectures he attended at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (grad., 1898). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H357.p | | | | Extent: | 25.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Medical Association. | American Red Cross. Italian Commission of 1917. | Appleman, Leighton F. | Asia, Southeastern -- Politics and government. | Asia, Southeastern -- Social conditions. | Aztec calendar | Banana plants--Central America | Buck, Pearl S., (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 | Burrows, Samuel J. | Carpenter, Frank W., (Frank Watson), 1871-1945 | Central America -- Politics and government. | Central America -- Social conditions. | China -- Politics and government. | China -- Social conditions. | Diaries. | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Emerson, Haven, 1874-1957 | Epstein, Max, 1875-1954 | Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959 | Forbes, W. Cameron, (William Cameron), 1870-1959 | Gelatin silver prints | Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957 | Heiser, Victor, (Victor George) | Indians of Central America--Languages--Writing | Industrial hygiene -- United States. | Italy -- History -- 1914-1922. | Jefferson Medical College. | Lambert, S. M., (Sylvester Maxwell), 1882- | Leprosy. | Letterbooks. | Mayan languages--Writing | Medical care -- Asia, Southeastern. | Medical care -- Central America. | Medical care -- China. | Medical care -- Philippines. | Medicine. | Miller, Fred D. | National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) | Newspaper clippings. | Philippines -- Politics and government -- 1898-1935. | Philippines -- Social conditions -- 1898-1935. | Phinney, Charles H. | Physicians -- United States. | Rockefeller Foundation. | Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison), 1874-1960 | Rose, Wickliffe, 1862-1931 | United States. Public Health Service. | University of the Philippines. | Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927 | |
| | Creator: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | | Abstract: | A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book
The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his
Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research.
The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany--Study and teaching--19th century | Botany--Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry--18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Electricity--18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology--18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- Pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.)--Description and travel--18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Agriculture | Indians of North America--Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals--Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine--Practice--18th century | Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century | Meteorology--United States--18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural History | Natural history--18th century | Natural history--19th century | New Jersey--Description and travel--18th century | New York (State)--Description and travel--18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--18th century | Physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and Technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F., (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania--Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia--Description and travel--18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1793 | Zoology--18th century | |
| | Creator: | Reeland, Adriaan, 1676-1718 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum, 1822
| | | | Dates: | 1822 | | | | Abstract: | This manuscript copy contains dictionaries of nine Indian vocabularies, such as Aztec, Algonkin, and Huron, and was taken from Reland's "Dissertationum miscellanearum pars tertia" (Utrecht, 1708). [Vocabularies compiled from printed sources,of South and North American dialects: Brasilica (1590,1595,1648); Chilensis (1647); Peruana, Poconziae [or Poconomica, Guatemala and Honduras]; Caraibica [Antilles], 1658; Mexicana [Otomitica, Chontalica, Zoquina, Cascan, Niciecana, Chicemeca dialects mentioned]; Virginiana (1966 [Eliot] 1685 [Mather], Algonkina [1703 La Hontan] Huramica (German-Huron vocabulary not included; 1822.] | | | | Call #: | Mss.498.R27 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquin language | Anchieta, Jose de, 1534-1597 | Arawak language | Baerle, Caspar van, 1584-1648 | Carib language | DuPonceau, Peter S. (Peter Stephen), 1760-1844 | Eliot, John, 1754-1813 | Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca, 1539-1616 | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of South America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Mapuche language | Massachusett language | Moraes, Emanuel de | Nahuatl language | Native America | Native American Materials | Pokomam language | Quechua language | Reeland, Adriaan, 1676-1718 | Rochefort, César de | Vocabularies. | Word lists | Wyandot language | |
| | Creator: | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularies of the Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages, [and] Vocabularies of the languages of Indians inhabiting N.W. America, 1834-1836
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1836 | | | | Abstract: | These vocabularies were obtained from Indians, people of mixed ancestry, and traders, with most of the informants identified. One volume appears to contain the notes from which the other was prepared. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.T66 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Salishan languages | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Vocabularies. | Walla Walla Indians | |
| | Creator: | Voight family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voight family papers 1788-1839
| | | | Dates: | 1788-1839 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters, deeds, receipts. There are several letters concerning the ordering and delivery of scales and weights to various banks, including the Farmers Bank of Virginia, and the U.S. Bank in Savannah, Georgia. There are numerous documents relating to the Voights, namely deeds, real estate transactions, and indenture contracts. There is also a copy of a letter from Elias Boudinot of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia concerning directions for closing the Mint in case of a yellow fever outbreak (1803). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V87 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Banks and banking -- Equipment and supplies. | Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Deeds. | Early National Politics | Early, Eleazer | Farmers Bank of Virginia. | Indentures. | Miscellaneous | Philadelphia History | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Scales (Weighing instruments) -- Pennsylvania. | U.S. Bank (Savannah, Ga.). | United States Mint. | Voight family. | Voight, Henry | Voight, Thomas | Voigt, Henry | Voigt, Thomas. | Weights and measures. | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Volapük Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1888-1891 | | | | Abstract: | Created by the German priest Johann Martin Schleyer in 1879, Volapük ("World's Speech") was the first artificial language to gain wide spread popularity as a prospective form of universal communication. During the 1880s, Volapük clubs were formed throughout Europe and the Americas, with a particularly active center in eastern Massachussetts, however it was gradually replaced by its somewhat less elaborate rival, Esperanto.
The Volapük Collection includes printed materials, ephemera, and small number of letters and postcards written in Volapük. Assembled by F. L. Hutchins of Worcester, Mass., a leading American Volapükist, the collection reflects the brief, but intense international interest in the potential of Volapük to become a lingua franca of business and a medium for exchange across borders, and it conveys some of the excitement its adherents felt at its potential. | | | | Call #: | Mss.408.9.Ar7v | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Broadsides. | Circular letters | Languages, Artificial | North American Association for the Propagation of Volapük | Postcards | Various | Volapük | Volapükaklub Nolumelopik | Volapükaklub de Worcester | |
| | Creator: | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voyage en Angleterre, 1785 April 3-May 27
| | | | Dates: | 1785 April 3 - 1785 May 27 | | | | Abstract: | This diary records the individuals and sights that he saw while in England. There are many observations of life in London, e.g. parks, buildings, paintings, food. Outside of London he visited many towns, including Manchester and its cotton mills as well as the steel mills of Birmingham. He relates his visit to Drury Lane and the dramatic performance of Sarah Siddons. Some of the people he met included Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, William Pitt the Younger, and Benjamin Vaughan. He also visited and described the gardens at Kew. The diary includes several sketches, including the plan of Blenheim Palace, and also a table of distances traveled. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M291 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820 | Blenheim Palace (England) | Boulton, Matthew, 1728-1809 | England -- Description and travel. | England -- Industries. | Gardens -- England. | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Palaces -- England. | Pitt, William, 1759-1806 | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. | Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 | Sketches. | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Wiart, Jean Francois | |
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