| 1 | Creator: | Benbow, John, Jr. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Bee Book
| | | | Dates: | 1846-1854 | | | | Abstract: | John Benbow, Jr., of Cowley Hall Mills, Middlesex, England, was an avid amateur beekeeper in the 1840s and 1850s. His "Bee Book" is a small (16mo) copiously illustrated treatise and journal of beekeeping. Divided into three parts -- "Other people's experiments," "Our own experiments," and an annual log (1846-1854) -- the book includes information on hive construction, seasonal management, the cleaning of hives, and other miscellaneous information culled both from printed sources and personal "experiments." The 44 pen and ink drawings include technical drawings of hives and beekeeping apparatus, along with humorous sketches of the activities of an "amateur apiarian." | | | | Call #: | Mss.630.4.B43 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Bee culture--Great Britain | Benbow, John, Jr. | Beyond Early America | Diaries | Manuscript Essays | Pen works | Sketchbooks | |
| 3 | Creator: | Parnell, Richard,1810-1882. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Parnell Notebook
| | | | Dates: | 1839-1840 | | | | Abstract: | In 1839-1840, the ichthyologist Richard Parnell left London for a collecting expedition to Jamaica and a tour of museum collections in the United States. An authority on both fishes and grasses, Parnell published two noted works as a young man, his
Prize Essay on the Natural and Economical History of the Fishes Marine, Fluviatile, and Lacustrine, of the River District of the Firth of Forth (Edinburgh: Neill and Co., 1838) and
The Grasses of Britain, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1842-1845). He appears, however, to have abandoned publication in 1845, although he continued collecting for many years.
The notebook kept by Richard Parnell during his voyage to the West Indies and United States in 1839-1840 contains little narrative, but dozens of pencil and watercolor sketches of the marine life that absorbed his interest, primarily fishes. Most sketches are accompanied by brief notes on the anatomy of the fish, sometimes with close-ups of fin structures, air bladders, or the digestive tract and stomach. Although collecting localities are seldom recorded, the majority of specimens seem to have been collected in Jamaica, with at least a few observed in vitro at the New York Museum. | | | | Call #: | Mss.597.P24n | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Bancroft, Edward | Fishes--Jamaica | Griffith, William | Ichthyology--Jamaica | Natural History | New York Museum | Parnell, Richard,1810-1882. | Pencil works | Science and Technology | Travel Narratives and Journals | Watercolors | |
| 6 | Creator: | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The collected papers of Charles Willson Peale and his family, 1735-1885 (inclusive), [microform].
| | | | Dates: | 1735-1885 | | | | Abstract: | The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, financial records, writings, lectures, reproductions of sketches and documents which detail the lives of three generations of the Peale family. Material relating to the Peale Museum is also included. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Fiche.11 | | | | Extent: | 449.0 Microfiche card(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Artists. | Microfilm Collection | Natural history. | Painters -- United States. | Peale family. | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 | Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | United States -- History -- 1783-1865. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Roux de Rochelle, 1762-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Etats-Unis d'amerique
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1837 | | | | Abstract: | A published first edition, 1837, of Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle’s History of the United States of America, in French, with a companion volume of original sketches used for the 96 engraved plates. Sketches are of American scenes and history, some apparently original, others after de Bry and other artists, all used in Roux de rochelle's book. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.R76 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Delaware Indians | Engravings. | Foreign Language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Florida | Indians of North America--North Carolina | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lumbee Indians | Mohawk Indians | Oneida Indians | Printed Material | Roux de Rochelle, 1762-1849 | Seminole Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | |
| 8 | Creator: | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rembrandt Peale sketchbooks,1850, [n.d.]
| | | | Dates: | 1850 | | | | Abstract: | Two sketchbooks by artist Rembrandt Peale. The first volume contains pencil sketches made on a trip on the Hudson River, October 1850, including views of the Palisades, Castle Garden, and the Catskill Mountains. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P313 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Castle Garden (New York, N.Y.) | Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) | Delaware Water Gap (N.J. and Pa.) | Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) | Palisades (N.Y.) | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Sketches. | Washington's tomb (Mount Vernon, Va.) | |
| 9 | Creator: | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Entomological drawings, n.d.
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | These drawings are in color and in black and white; two in the first volume are by Titian R. Peale. There are some by John Abbot, and most likely by John Lawrence Le Conte. The contents of the collection: 1. Coleoptera. 654 figures. 2. Diptera, Hemiptera, and Lepidoptera. 564 figures. 3. Coleoptera. 698 figures. 4. Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. 228 figures. 5. Coleoptera. 657 figures. 6. Hymenoptera and Diptera. 234 figures 7. Diptera. 304 figures. 8. Hemiptera, Araneina, Myripoda. 356 figures | | | | Call #: | Mss.595.7.L493 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbot, John, 1751-1840 | Art | Beetles. | Diptera. | Drawings. | Entomology. | Flies. | Hemiptera. | Hymenoptera. | Insects. | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Lepidoptera. | Myriapoda. | Natural history. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Sketchbooks | Spiders. | |
| 10 | Creator: | Nevins, Pim, 1756-1833 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Pim Nevins Journal
| | | | Dates: | 1802-1803 | | | | Abstract: | A merchant and member of the Society of Friends, Pim Nevins (1756-1833) lived most of his life in the English midlands. Recorded in
Pigot's Directory of 1834 as a member of the gentry resident in Hunslet Lane, Leeds, Nevins was a woollen cloth manufacturer, finisher, and merchant whose operations were located at Larchfield Mill, near Huddersfield.
During a voyage to visit Friends' meetings in the United States in 1802-1803, Pim Nevins kept a journal to record his thoughts and experiences. In presenting a copy of his diary to his children, he wrote: "some parts [of the diary] wch. being by way of memorandum to assist my memory will of course be no ways interesting to you; other parts being fill'd with the effusions of my own thoughts, will I fear be dry to you unless your minds should in some measure be dip'd into the like state with mine when influencing my pen; some other parts may entertain you." The journal includes a mixture of description of the cities, towns and landscape through which Nevins passed and accounts of his visits with Friends in New York city, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, Alexandria, Bethlehem, Pa., Easton, Pa., the Pocono Mountains, northern New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J., and Trenton, N.J. It also includes a delicate watercolor drawing of the Delaware Water Gap. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.N41 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Delaware Water Gap (Pa. and N.J.)--Description and travel | Delaware--Description and travel | Diaries. | Natural History | Nevins, Pim, 1756-1833 | New Jersey--Description and travel | New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Pennsylvania--Description and travel | Religion | Sketchbooks | Society of Friends--Missions | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel | |
| 11 | Creator: | Day, Sherman,1806-1884. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ephraim Dyer IV Collection, ca. 1842, of the sketches of Sherman Day
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1842 | | | | Abstract: | These are the original sketches used for the engravings in Day's 1843 publication, "Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia). They are finely detailed renderings of public and private structures and landscape throughout Pennsylvania. Accompanying these sketches are 150 pages of photocopied letters of Day, from originals at Yale University. These were used by Smith in his book. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.48.D33 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Architecture -- Pennsylvania. | Art | Day, Sherman,1806-1884. | Delaware Indians | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Engravings. | General Correspondence | Indians of North America--Pennsylvania | Landscape -- Pennsylvania. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Penn, William,1644-1718. | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania History | Seneca Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Social Life and Custom | |
| 13 | Creator: | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Isaac Lea journals, 1832, 1852-1853
| | | | Dates: | 1832-1853 | | | | Abstract: | The first fifteen volumes of these "Notes of Travel" are Lea's account of his trips to Europe during 1832 and 1852-1853. He met with naturalists, scientists, and did much sightseeing in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Austria. He records in detail visits and discussions with scientists, and makes sketches of many of the places he saw, particularly the Rhine River. The sixteenth volume is a memorandum book, 1853, containing accounts and expenses while in Europe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L462 | | | | Extent: | 16.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Art | Austria -- Description and travel. | England -- Description and travel. | Europe -- Description and travel. | France -- Description and travel. | Germany -- Description and travel. | Italy -- Description and travel. | Journals (notebooks). | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Military History | Naturalists. | Printing and Publishing | Rhine River. | Science and Technology | Scientists. | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 14 | 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 | |
| 15 | Creator: | Questebrune, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Short Introduction to Natural Philosophy
| | | | Dates: | 1718-1720 | | | | Abstract: | A compendium of natural philosophical knowledge, written in 1718-1720 by John Questebrune, chaplain to the 6th Earl of Galway. The chapters treat the various parts of the physical world (earth, water, air, and fire), plants (including a great deal on medicinal plants), animals, and the human body and soul. The volume is embellished with decorative chapter headings and pen and ink and watercolor sketches depicting the terrestrial globe, the Ptolemaic and Copernican solar systems, the phases of the moon, and the human body in dissection. | | | | Call #: | Mss.500.Q3 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anatomy--18th century | Art | Astronomy--18th century | Botany--18th century | Chocolate | Coffee | Conception--Early works to 1800 | Death | Diseases | Dissertations | Educational Material | Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873 | Hamilton, William, 1745-1813 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Maps and Surveys | Medicinal plants | Mineralogy--18th century | Natural History--18th century | Occultism--Early works to 1900 | Physics--Ireland--Early works to 1800 | Questebrune, John | Religion and science | Science and Technology | Sketchbooks | Sympathy | Tea | |
| 16 | Creator: | McKenney, Thomas Loraine,1785-1859. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes
| | | | Dates: | 1826 | | | | Abstract: | The
Sketches of a Tour of the Lakes, of the character & customs of the Chippeway Indians & of incidents connected with the treaty of Fond du Lac... to which is super added a vocabulary of the Algic, or Chippeway language... is a record of a journey undertaken by Thomas L. McKenney and Lewis Cass, from Washington, D.C., to Fond du Lac, Wisc., to negotiate a treaty with the Chippewa and other Indians. McKenney, the Superindenant of Indian Affairs, includes an account of travel on the Great Lakes, and more memorably, a description of the "character" and customs of the Chippewa Indians, an account of the treaty of Fond du Lac, and a vocabulary of the Algic or Chippewa language. The manuscript, a fair copy of the original sent to a London publisher, is illustrated throughout with watercolor sketches of scenes and persons. It was originally published in Baltimore in 1827. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.7.M19 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Government Affairs | Great Lakes--Description and travel | Indians of North America--Great Lakes (North America) | Indians of North America--Treaties | Landscapes | Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858 | McKenney, Thomas Loraine,1785-1859. | Michigan--Description and travel | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwa language--Dictionaries--English | Portraits | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | Watercolors | Wisconsin--Description and travel | |
| 17 | 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 | |
| 18 | Creator: | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches
| | | | Dates: | 1817-1875 | | | | Abstract: | The youngest son of Charles Willson Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale was an accomplished artist, naturalist, and explorer. This collection of ink, pencil, and watercolor sketches, with some engravings and lithographs, forms the bulk of Peale's artistic output. The drawings can be grouped into several periods of artistic output: pre-1818 (primarily watercolors of butterflies); from the Stephen Harriman Long Expedition to the American west in 1819-1820, on which Peale traveled as zoologist (there are views of animals, Indians, landscapes, etc.); for his 1821-1838 interlude period, spent primarily on the east coast (insects, animals, moose hunting in Marine, his trip to South America in 1830-1831, coin and medal designs); his period as a naturalist on the worldwide U.S. Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes, 1838-1842; from the 1849-1873 period when he sketched around Washington, D. C. and in New Jersey; and there are more than 160 undated sketches of: animal skulls and bones, birds, plants, fish, insects, landscapes, and zoology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P31.15d | | | | Extent: | 550.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American bison--Pictorial works | Animals--Pictorial works. | Antelopes--Pictorial works | Art | Birds--Pictorial works | Botany--Pictorial works | Butterflies--Pictorial works. | Caterpillars--Pictorial works | Coin design. | Deer--Pictorial works | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Engravings. | Fishes--Pictorial works | Indians of North America--Maine | Indians of North America--Nebraska | Indians of North America--Pictorial works | Insects--Pictorial works | Landscape drawing | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lithographs | Moose--Pictorial works | Natural history | Negatives | New Jersey--Pictorial works | Ornithology--Pictorial works | Oto indians | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Penobscot Indians | Philippines--Pictorial works | Plains Indians | Siouan Indians | Sketches. | South America--Pictorial works | Squirrels--Pictorial works | Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820) | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) | Washington (D.C.)--Pictorial works | West (U.S.)--Pictorial works | Wolves--Pictorial works | Zoology--Pictorial works | |
| 19 | Creator: | Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Coleman Sellers Collection
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1940-1978 | | | | Abstract: | The collection of Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980) contains copious and detailed documentation of the art of Charles Willson Peale and his family. It consists of working files for Sellers's numerous publications, including his
Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale (1952);
Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace (1969);
C. W. Peale's Portraits of Washington (1951);
Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture (1962);
Mr. Peale's Museum (1980).
Most files include photographs of the art work, notes on the piece, and correspondence with authorities or owners. Other series include one relating to the paintings of various other Peales, including Anna C., James, Mary Jane, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Sarah Miriam, and a miscellaneous artist file, which includes the same type of material and information on many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists, including Thomas Eakins, George Healy, Robert Edge Pine, William Rush, Thomas Sully, Benjamin West, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, etc. There is a separate Sellers collection at Dickinson College, primarily personal in nature. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.3 | | | | Extent: | 19.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Artists | Comanche Indians | Cree Indians | Crow Indians | Dakota Indians | Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Gelatin silver prints | Healy, George Peter Alexander, 1813-1894 | Indians of North America--Great Lakes (North America) | Indians of North America--Oklahoma | Indians of North America--Pacific Coast | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | Mandan Indians | Northwest Coast Indians | Ojibwa Indians | Painters--United States | Peale family | Peale, Anna Claypoole, 1791-1878 | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 | Peale, James,1749-1831. | Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902 | Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825 | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865 | Peale, Sarah Miriam, 1800-1885 | Photographs | Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788 | Plains Indians | Rush, William, 1756-1833 | Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980 | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Tlingit Indians | Washington, George, 1732-1799--Portraits, caricatures, etc | West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 | Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 | |
| 20 | 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 | |
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