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1Creator:  Delaware County Institute of Science (Delaware County, Pa.)Requires cookie*
 Title:  Delaware County Institute of Science (Delaware County, Pa.) minutes and papers, [ca. 1833]-1873     
 Dates:  Circa 1833-1873 
 Abstract:  This includes communications or correspondence from such figures as A.D. Bache, Amos Bonsall, John F. Frazer, and M. F. Maury. There are reports by committees, such as those on agriculture, botany, horticulture, and meteorology. 
 Call #:  Mss.H.S.Film.28 
 Extent:  1.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Agriculture | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bonsall, Amos, 1830-1915 | Botany. | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Horticulture. | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 | Meteorology. | Microfilm Collection | Science -- Societies, etc. 
2Creator:  Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878Requires 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:   Background  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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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. 
4Creator:  LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883Requires 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:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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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 
5Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Robert M. (Robert Maskell) Patterson papers, 1775-1853     
 Dates:  1775-1853 
 Abstract:  Robert Maskell Patterson (1787-1854, APS 1809) was a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1812-1828) and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia (1828-1835). He was director of the U.S. Mint from 1835 to 1851. His father, Robert Patterson, was a revolutionary soldier, professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania (1779-1814), and director of the U.S. Mint (1805-1824). 
 Call #:  Mss.B.P274 
 Extent:  0.5 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Algebra. | Americans Abroad | Annuities. | Astronomy. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Canals. | Clocks and watches. | Coal. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity. | Freeman, Thomas,d. 1821. | General Correspondence | Gummere, John, 1784-1845 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Institutional Records | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Lectures. | Magnetism. | Mathematics. | Meteorology -- Observations. | Military History | Native America | Navigation (Astronautics) | Notebooks | Optics. | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Pemberton, Phineas | Physics. | Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869 | Political Correspondence | Quarries and quarrying -- Pennsylvania. | Science and Technology | Sergeant, John, 1779-1852 | Sound. | Time clocks. | Travel Narratives and Journals | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. | United States Mint. | University of Pennsylvania. | University of Virginia. | War of 1812 
6Creator:  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:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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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. 
7Creator:  Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874Requires cookie*
 Title:  Adolphe Quetelet correspondence, 1822-1872     
 Dates:  1822-1872 
 Abstract:  These are letters to Quetelet primarily on the subject of astronomy (meteorological observations), including charts showing directions of shooting stars. 
 Call #:  Mss.H.S.Film.11 
 Extent:  2.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Astronomy. | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Brown, Samuel | Charts. | Clemson, Thomas Green, 1807-1888 | De la Rive, Auguste A. | Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869 | Espy, James P., (James Pollard), 1785-1860 | Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 | Farr, William, 1807-1883 | Forbes, James David, 1809-1868 | Garfield, James A., (James Abram), 1831-1881 | Gauss, Charles Frederic | Gilliss, J. Melville. | Guyot, A., (Arnold), 1807-1884 | Hamilton, W. R., (William R.) | Henry, Joseph | Herrick, Edward C. | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Hough, George W. | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Kennedy, J. C. G., (Joseph Camp Griffith), 1813-1887 | Le Verrier, U.-J., (Urbain J.), 1811-1877 | Lloyd, Humphrey, 1800-1881 | Meteorological records. | Meteorology -- Observations. | Microfilm Collection | Newton, Hubert A. | Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874 | Royal Observatory, Brussels. | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Sanford, E. A. | Shattuck, Lemuel | Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802-1875 | Whewell, William, 1794-1866 | Youmans, Edward Livingston, 1821-1887 
8Creator:  Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889Requires cookie*
 Title:  Maria Mitchell papers, ca. 1825-1887     
 Dates:  Circa 1825-1887 
 Abstract:  The manuscripts of father William Mitchell and daughter Maria Mitchell are not easily separated, and are treated here together. The collection includes William Mitchell's autobiography, his memoir of Judge Walter Folger of Nantucket, astronomical and meteorological observations, lectures, family and other correspondence. 
 Call #:  Mss.H.S.Film.9 
 Extent:  9.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892 | Astronomy. | Autobiographies. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Clark, Alvan, 1804-1887 | Clippings. | Comets. | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Diaries. | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Europe -- Description and travel. | Folger, Walter, 1765-1849 | Genealogies. | Gould, Benjamin A., (Benjamin Apthorp), 1787-1859 | Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Jupiter (Planet) | Kendall, Phoebe Mitchell | Kendall, William Mitchell | Lectures. | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 | Meteorology -- Observations. | Microfilm Collection | Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 | Mitchell, William, 1791-1869 | Moon. | Poems. | Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel. | Saturn (Planet) | Solar eclipses -- 1831. | Southern States -- Description and travel. | Soviet Union -- Description and travel. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Women scientists. 
9Creator:  Various authorsRequires 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:   Inventory

 
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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. 
10Creator:  Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867Requires 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:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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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 
11Creator:  Hutton, William, 1797-1860Requires cookie*
 Title:  William Hutton letters, 1821-1852     
 Dates:  1821-1852 
 Abstract:  These letters relate primarily to geology and botany, and there is also much on the Newcastle Natural History Society, of which Hutton was the secretary. There is much correspondence with Alexandre Brongniart, H. S. Davis, John S. Henslow, John Lindley, David Milne-Home, Roderick I. Murchison, George Steuart MacKenzie, and John Phillips. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.H978 
 Extent:  0.5 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Anderson, William, 1766-1846 | Armstrong, William, 1766-1846 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Bowman, J. E., (John Eddowes), 1785-1841 | Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | Davis, H. S. | Dechen, H. von, (Heinrich), 1800-1889 | Emmett, Anthony | Fellowes, Charles, 1812-1896 | Geology. | Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 | Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873 | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 | Hutton, William, 1797-1860 | Ingham, Robert, 1793-1875 | Johnston, George, 1797-1855 | Johnston, Jas. F. W., (James Finlay Weir), 1796-1855 | Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880 | Klipstein, August von, b. 1801 | Lindley, John, 1799-1865 | Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir, 1780-1848 | Milne-Home, David, 1805-1890 | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Natural history. | Newcastle Natural History Society. | Nichol, John Pringle, 1804-1859 | Osler, Abraham Follett, 1808-1903 | Phillips, John, 1800-1874 | Rawson, Rawson William, Sir, 1812-1899 | Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 | Sykes, Colonel, (William Henry), 1790-1872 | Taylor, John, 1779-1863 | Turner, Edward, 1798-1837 | Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, -- Duke of, -- 1769-1852. 
12Creator:  Royal Society (Great Britain).Requires cookie*
 Title:  Royal Society (Great Britain) letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900     
 Dates:  1662-1900 
 Abstract:  This collection includes letters to and from Americans (including South America and the West Indies) and letters about America selected from the Society's manuscripts (Classified Papers, Letter Books, Letters and Papers, Royal Society Letters, Miscellaneous Correspondence, and other official groups) and from collections of private papers (Sir Charles Blagden, William Buckland, John Canton, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Sir Edward Sabine, and others). The documents range in time and character from John Winthrop, Jr., "A Description of the Artifice & Making of Tarr & Pitch in New England" (1662), to letters from Sir Thomas Edward Thorne to his wife describing the American West, where he was on a surveying party in the 1880s. 
 Call #:  Mss.H.S.Film.1 
 Extent:  10.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Banister, Thomas | Bingham, William, 1752-1804 | Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820 | Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865 | Brattle, Thomas, 1658-1713 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Burnet, William, 1688-1729 | Canton, John, 1718-1772 | Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 | Churchman, John , 1753-1805 | Clayton, John, 1686-1773 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Dudley, Paul, 1675-1751 | Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | Geology. | Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745 | Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Indians of North America | Jones, Hugh, -- ca. 1670-1760. | King, Rufus, 1755-1827 | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lewis, Richard | Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889 | Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 | Merry, Andrew | Meteorology. | Microfilm Collection | Middleton, Christopher, d. 1770 | Moray, Alexander | Nicholson, Francis, 1655-1728 | Paleontology. | Pepperrell, William, Sir, 1696-1759 | Potash. | Robie, Thomas, 1689-1729 | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Smallwood, Charles, 1812-1872 | Tar. | Thompson, Benjamin, -- Count Rumford, -- 1753-1814. | Thorne, Thomas Edward | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859 | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 | Winthrop, Wait | Witt, Christopher. 
13Creator:  American Philosophical Society.Requires cookie*
 Title:  American Philosophical Society Archives     
 Dates:  1743-1984 
 Abstract:  Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history. The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology. 
 Call #:  APS.Archives 
 Extent:  192.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Adena culture--West Virginia | African American | American Philosophical Society | Astronomy--18th century | Aztecs. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Bartram, Moses, d. 1791 | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805 | Cherokee Indians | Choctaw Indians | Colonial Politics | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, West Virginia) | Hanson, Laura E. | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Hays , I. Minis, (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | History of science and technology. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America--Kentucky | Indians of North America--Mississippi | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--West Virginia | Institutional Records | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | Lingelbach , William E., (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Miscellaneous | Morris, Roland Sletor, 1874-1945 | Mound builders | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural History | Natural History--18th century | Natural History--19th century | Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807 | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Pencil works | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plains Indians | Priestly, Joseph R. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972 | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Southeast Indians | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | United States History. | Valltravers, Johann Rodolph | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Warden, David Baillie, 1772-1845 | Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Wood, George Bacon, 1797-1879 
14Creator:  Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865Requires cookie*
 Title:  William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865     
 Dates:  1840-1865 
 Abstract:  A product of the distinctive culture of reform in antebellum Philadelphia, William Parker Foulke was the scion of the old elite who put a conservative stamp on social change. Trained as an attorney, Foulke spent much of his adult life engaging his deep amateur interest in natural history and mental philosophy and devoting himself to a variety of civic and philanthropic causes, including the colonization of freed slaves, penal reform, and cultural institutions in his native Philadelphia. The Foulke Papers are the product of the diverse social and intellectual interests of the Philadelphia attorney and philanthropist William Parker Foulke. Consisting primarily of correspondence, notes, and essays, the collection touches on Foulke's many interests. The collection includes numerous lectures delivered by Foulke along with material on the Lancaster County Prison, New York Prison Association, and the Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons; notebooks concerning prisons and prisoners, including a 1846-1852 diary, and a listing of prisoners, their race, age, crime, sentence, and observations; a diary concerning the American Colonization Society (1852); a copy of an arctic diary (1853-1854) by John Wall Wilson, in the hand of Isaac Israel Hayes, which recounts much of the journey aboard the brig Advance, commanded by Elisha Kent Kane. There is also a list of buildings (1820-1841) designed by John Haviland, and material on the American Academy of Music, Philadelphia. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.F826 
 Extent:  3.75 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West--Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania | Archaeology--Pennsylvania | Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bringhurst | Cadwalader, John | Carey , Henry Charles, 1793-1879 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Cassin, John, 1813-1869 | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs--New Jersey | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Freemasons--Pennsylvania | General Correspondence | Geology--Pennsylvania | Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860 | Grinnell, Henry | Hart, George H. | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Landis, Henry D. | Law | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Legal Records | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyceums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Miscellaneous | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Native America | New York Prison Association | Olden, Charles Smith | Packard, Frederick A., (Frederick Adolphus), 1794-1867 | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--19th century | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Philadelphia--History--19th century | Political Correspondence | Prison reformers--Pennsylvania | Prisons--Design and construction | Prisons--New York (State) | Prisons--Pennsylvania | Reformers--Pennsylvania | Rogers, Henry D., (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Science and Technology | Sheafer, Peter W. | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Wilson, John Wall 
15Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Stephen Girard papers, 1793-1857.     
 Dates:  1793-1857 
 Abstract:  From the Board of Trustees of the Estate of Stephen Girard, these films are the complete archive of one of the largest mercantile and financial operations in the United States of his day. The collection includes correpondence, with translations of letters in French (139 reels). It also includes bank records, account books, ledgers, cash books, and journals; papers, documents, and records of trading voyages (arranged by vessel and date); records of Girard's country house, "The Place"; records of real estate, rents, etc.; prices current of ports of the world. There is a card index of correspondents and ships (14 reels). Included is a card file, a unique and invaluable research tool, this is an index of names and places and alphabetical abstracts of Philadelphia newspaper items and advertisements for the period covering ca. 1718-1795. Roach made a systematic search through eighteenth-century newspapers and several other sources, for biographical and subject information on Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians of the period. It is primarily biographical , but subject headings, such as "The Barracks," "Blue Lion, Sign of the," "Custom House," are scattered throughout. The source of each entry is cited, and there are brief annotations. There is also a miscellaneous assortment of volumes that were received with the Kane family papers. 
 Call #:  Mss.xxxx 
 Extent:  600.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
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 Subjects:  Albany (Sloop-of-War). | American Philosophical Society. | Astronomical observatories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Aykroyd, Henry | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | Bank of the United States (1791-1811) | Banks and banking -- United States. | Bolivar, George W. | Boon, W. B. | Brandywine (Ship) | Breese, Samuel L., (Samuel Livingston), 1794-1870 | Bunker, Benjamin H. | Butchers. | Cargo ships -- United States. | Caster, A. | China -- Commerce -- 1644-1912. | Commonplace books. | Cumberland (Ship) | Davis, Amos | Donaldson, John | Duncan, R. R. | Education -- Europe -- 19th century. | Edward O'Brien (Ship) | Europe -- Commerce -- 18th century. | Europe -- Commerce -- 19th century. | Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank. | Girard's Bank. | Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831 | Harris, William | Journals (notebooks). | Kaspar, Peter | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Law -- Societies, etc. | Ledgers. | Leesburg (Ship) | Leiper, Mary B. | Logbooks. | Lovell, H. H. | Microfilm Collection | Minutes. | Museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century. | New World (Ship) | Parker, F. A. | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century. | Pennsylvania Literary Association of Philadelphia. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor. | Receipt books. | Rice, J. D. | Roach, Hannah Benner. | Roath, H. G. | Roderic (Ship) | Sandusky (Ship) | Savanah (Ship) | Shipping -- United States -- 18th century. | Shipping -- United States -- 19th century. | Ships -- United States. | Smith, Robert | Society for the promotion of legal knowledge and forensic eloquence (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Telegraph (Ship) | United States -- Commerce -- 18th century. | United States -- Commerce -- 19th century. | University of Pennsylvania. | Wings of the Morning (Ship) 
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