| 1 | Creator: | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Address on the impolicy of slavery, 1824
| | | | Dates: | 1824 | | | | Abstract: | This address was delivered in Philadelphia before an "association formed for the education of men of colour." Vaux shows how slavery adversely affects the interest, happiness, and safety of the owner, slave, society, and government. | | | | Call #: | Mss.371.974.As7 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | Antebellum Politics | Association for the Education of Men of Colour.. | Manuscript Essays | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Speeches. | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Vaux, George | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Vaux papers, 1738-1985
| | | | Dates: | 1738-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The 18th century material includes the trans-Atlantic correspondence of James, Richard, and George V, along with domestic correspondence relating to family and business affairs. Several letters discuss Philadelphia during the British occupation, and seven discuss yellow fever in 1797-1798, with a particularly fine letter by Ann Warder discussing the epidemic of 1798. The participation of George Vaux VII in a Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians in 1803 is well documented. Later correspondence, almost all personal and familial in nature, documents the interest of George Vaux VIII in mineralogy, his travels abroad, and Vaux genealogy. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.73 | | | | Extent: | 3.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Business Records and Accounts | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Genealogy. | General Correspondence | Institutional Records | Land speculation | Legal Records | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Mineralogy. | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Quakers -- Missions. | Seneca Indians | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Surveying and Maps | Travel | Vaux, George | Vaux, George, VI | Vaux, George, VII | Warder , Ann Head, 1758-1829 | Yellow fever. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A. D. Bache Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1833-1873 | | | | Abstract: | Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterparts. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America.
The Alexander Dallas Bache Collection consists of 91 letters written primarily by Bache. In most cases, these are brief notes replying to letters that are not part of the collection. The majority of items relate to Bache's work as superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, including letters of recommendation and introduction, and there is minor correspondence regarding the National Academy of Sciences, scientific matters, his travels in Europe, or personal matters. Of particular interest is the letter from Louis Agassiz in 1856 expressing his view of what the natural history museum of the future should be. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B123 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Antebellum Politics | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Barnes, H. B. (Henry Broughton) | Bond, W. C. (William Cranch), 1789-1859 | Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868 | Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 | Cheney, T. Apoleon (Theseus Apoleon), 1830-1878 | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | Cooper Union | Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883 | Dickins, Asbury, 1780-1861 | Early National Politics | Education | Fessenden, W. P. (William Pitt), 1806-1869 | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of the State of New Jersey | Geology | Girard College | Hale, Charles, 1831-1882 | Hilgard, Julius Erasmus, 1825-1891 | King, Horatio, 1811-1897 | Lee, Samuel Phillips, 1812-1897 | Lighthouses | Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 | National Academy of Sciences | Natural history | Official Government Documents and Records | Paine, [Robert Treat], 1803-1885. | Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865 | Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874 | Redfield, W. C. (William C.), 1789-1857 | Ruggles, Samuel B. , (Samuel Bulkley), 1800-1881 | Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906 | Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780-1850. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Spencer, Charles Achilles, 1813-1881 | Stevenson, Alan, 1807-1865 | Stevenson, David, 1815-1886 | Stevenson, Robert, 1772-1850 | Tilghman, Tench, 1810-1874 | Toucey, Isaac, 1792-1869 | United States Coast Survey | Upsher, Able Percey | Vroom, Peter Dumont, 1791-1873 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858
| | | | Dates: | 1764-1858 | | | | Abstract: | Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H22 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity--19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics--United States | Essays. | Federalist Party--Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K., (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money--United States--19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy)--Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--United States--19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism--Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States--Politics and government--19th Century | |
| 5 | Creator: | Bancker family | Requires cookie* | | | | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | | | | Title: | Charles Nicoll Bancker family papers, 1733-1894
| | | | Dates: | 1733-1894 | | | | Abstract: | In addition to correspondence, the collection contains various documents, such as a furniture inventory volume (30pp.); a Daybook, 1795-1800 (120pp.); and a very interesting journal (unidentified, but by one of the Banckers, and filed under "Description of a trip..."), from New York to Albany and back, between July 20-Aug. 15, 1793 (1 vol., 31 pp.). It contains detailed observations of the Hudson River and the towns along the way. C.N. Bancker was in business and trade prior to 1826, and in the insurance business after that date, so there is material relating to those topics in this collection. He owned a substantial library of the period, which was used by Charles Wilkes's Expedition after 1837 (see Reynell Coates to Bancker). This library, along with Bancker's notable scientific instrument collection, was sold after his death and there are published auction catalogues in the collection. There is much family correspondence from: Anne E. Bancker, Charles Gerard Bancker, Evert Bancker, Sarah U. Bancker, Violetta Bancker Talbot, Elizabeth Bancker Teackle, and John Teackle. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B22.c | | | | Extent: | 3.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Bancker, Anne E. | Bancker, Charles Gerard | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | Bancker, Evert, b. 1734 | Bancker, Sarah U. | Beasley, Frederick, 1777-1845 | Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Catalogs. | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Daybooks. | Early National Politics | Education | Family Correspondence | Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | General Correspondence | Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831 | Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Insurance agents -- United States. | Inventories. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Land and Speculation | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Marshall, John G., (John George), 1789-1880 | McIlvaine, H. M. | Merchants - United States | Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850 | Montgomery, James C. | Montgomery, John T., (John Teackle), 1817 | Muhlenberg, William Augustus, 1796-1877 | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Political Correspondence | Politicians -- United States. | Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 | Sketchbooks | Smith, Christopher | Social Life and Custom | Stevens, John, 1749-1838 | Talbot, Violetta Bancker | Teackle, Elizabeth Bancker | Teackle, John | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States - Commerce - To 1865 | United States - Social conditions - To 1865 | Upshur, Abel Percy | Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829 | Women's History | |
| 6 | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Kane Family Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1745-1955 | | | | Abstract: | A collection of letters, legal papers and financial records of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia family. Spanning 1745-1955, detailed are the legal cases and political advocacy work of John Kintzing Kane (1795-1858), Robert Patterson Kane (1827-1906), and Francis Fisher Kane (1866-1955). Also includes correspondence, architectural drawings, and photograph albums of the Cope family. Robert Patterson Kane's daughter Eliza Middleton Kane (1863-1952) married the Philadelphia architect Walter Cope (1860-1902) in 1893. The APS papers of Elisha Kent Kane are in call no. B K132. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.115 | | | | Extent: | 56.0 lin. feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 | American Friends Service Committee. | American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia Chapter. | American League to Abolish Capital Punishment. | Antebellum Politics | Architects. | Architectural drawings. | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. | Bache, A.D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Baynard, Edward | Bills (financial). | Biographies. | Brewster, Benjamin Harris, 1816-1888 | Briefs. | Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Cadwalader, Sophia Francis | Cadwalader, Thomas | Cain family. | Caldwell, Thomas | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. | Collegiate Anti-Militarism League. | Commonplace Book | Cope & Stewardson | Cope, Anne Francis, 1900-1982 | Cope, Eliza Middleton Kane, 1863-1952 | Cope, Elizabeth Frances, 1898-1977 | Cope, Elizabeth Waln | Cope, Oliver, 1902-1994 | Cope, Thomas Pim, 1768-1854 | Cope, Thomas Pim, 1897-1977 | Cope, Walter, 1860-1902 | Coxe, Sophia | Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 | Deeds. | Devries, William Levering | Diaries. | Diplomas. | Dow, Margaret Elder | Early National Politics | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Family Correspondence | Fisher, Eliza Middleton | Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873 | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | General Correspondence | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Girard Bank. | Giretti, Edoardo, b. 1864 | Green, John P. | Green, Rowland | Grier, Robert Cooper, 1794-1870 | Grinnell, Cornelius | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Guillon, Constant | Haiti | Harding, George | Heazlett, Charles T. | Henry, Morton P., (Morton Pearson), 1826-1901 | Hood, Samuel, 1800?-1875 | Hubbell, Horace | Indian Rights Association. | Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc. | Ingersoll, Joseph R. (Joseph Reed), 1786-1868 | Institutional Records | Insurance policies. | Italy -- Commerce. | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elizabeth Francis Fisher | Kane, Elizabeth Wood, 1836-1909 | Kane, Florence Bayard, 1868-1943 | Kane, Francis Fisher, 1866-1955 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kane, John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Kane, John Kintzing, Jr. | Kane, Robert Patterson, 1827-1906 | Kane, Thomas Leiper, 1822-1883 | Laird, Warren Powers, 1861-1948 | Law | Law firms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Lawrence, William | Lawyers -- Pennsylvania. | Lawyers. | Legal Records | Leiper, Samuel M. | Leiper, William J. | Letterbooks. | Manuscripts (for publication). | Marriage and Family Life | McAllister, Richard | Miller, Jesse | Mitchell, S. Weir, (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 | Molzhan, Kurt -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Mormons -- Utah -- History. | Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 | Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Expulsion of the Mormons. | Notebooks | Notes. | Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1948 | Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Patterson, Robert, 1802-1872 | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania Prison Society. | Pennsylvania--Politics and government | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor. | Philadelphia Voluntary Defender Association. | Phillips, Henry M., (Henry Myer), 1811-1884 | Photograph albums | Political Correspondence | Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849 | Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Princeton University. | Prison reformers -- United States. | Prisons -- Pennsylvania. | Purviance, John N. | Receipts. | Religion | Reports. | Ritter, Frank M. | Robinson, Henry Mauris, 1868-1937 | Saint George Society -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Saunders, R. M. | Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813 | Shields, James K. | Shunk, Francis R. | Snowden, James R. | Social Life and Custom | Social reformers -- United States. | St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.) | Strickland, William, 1787-1854 | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | T Square Club. (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Taylor, John | Taylor, Robert | Tilghman, Benjamin, 1785-1850 | Trade | Trials (Espionage) -- United States. | Trials. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. | United States -- Commerce. | University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Architecture. | Ute Indians | Ute Indians--Removal | Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 | Various authors | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Walnut, T. Henry | Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922 | Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928 | Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 | Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889 | Wharton, Geo. M. (George Mifflin), 1808-1870 | Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 | Woodward, George W., (George Washington), 1809-1875 | Workers' Defense League. | |
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