| 2 | Creator: | John Bartram Association. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram Association archives, 1929-1932
| | | | Dates: | 1929-1932 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains correspondence, chiefly that of Francis W. Pennell, concerning the observance of the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of the first botanical garden in the American colonies by John Bartram. There is correspondence concerning the publication resulting from this observance as well. There is also one brief life of Bartram, and the list of the men on the program: review of book on Bartram and typescripts of three letters in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, from John Bartram to Peter Collinson; 1757-1759. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B283ja | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanical gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Centennial celebrations, etc. | Pennell, Francis W., (Francis Whittier), 1886-1952 | |
| 5 | Creator: | British Museum. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American manuscripts, 1703-1806, from the British Museum
| | | | Dates: | 1703-1806 | | | | Abstract: | This is a miscellaneous collection of manuscripts (ca. 35 items) from the British Museum, selected for filming by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Included are letters, botanical lists, illustrations, and other types of documents. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.503 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | Ames, Nathaniel, 1708-1764 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botany. | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Dudley, Paul, 1675-1751 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756 | Illustrations. | Lists. | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Microfilm Collection | Mitchell, John, 1711-1768 | Natural history. | Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Royal Society (Great Britain). | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1642-1818 | | | | Abstract: | Letters collected by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., including correspondence and papers submitted to the Society. Pertains to APS members and associations. Includes letters by Franklin, Winthrop, Endecott, Eliot, etc. Scientific and historical references, primarily. Some of the subjects discussed are astronomy, botany, electricity, natural history, and Indian missions. Also included is Roger Curtis' "Journal of the Moravian Mission to Labrador." | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.460 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy. | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botany. | Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Curtis, Roger | Electricity. | Eliot, John, 1604-1690 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801 | Microfilm Collection | Monroe, James, 1758-1831 | Morgan, Joseph, 1671-ca. 1749 | Natural history. | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 | Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 | Winthrop, John, 1714-1779 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram diary, 1765-1766, of a journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida
| | | | Dates: | 1765-1766 | | | | Abstract: | Journal written between July 1, 1765 and April 10, 1766 on a trip through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with observations about flora, fauna, geography, and social life. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.801 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanists -- United States. | Diaries. | Exploration and discovery | Florida -- Description and travel. | Florida -- Social life and customs -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Georgia -- Description and travel. | Georgia -- Social life and customs -- To 1775. | Harper, Francis | Microfilm Collection | North Carolina -- Description and travel. | North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- To 1775. | South Carolina -- Description and travel. | South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. | United States - Social life and customs - To 1775 | |
| 8 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775
| | | | Dates: | 1735-1775 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence compiled by Edward E. Wildman and Francis D. West, chiefly from original letters in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other depositories, 1956. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B28.w | | | | Extent: | 719.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanists. | Botany. | Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Colony and State Specific History | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | General Correspondence | Horticulture. | Horticulturists. | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Natural History | Natural history. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plant collectors. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Scientific Correspondence | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Wildman, Edward, (Edward Embree), 1874-1956 | Witt, Christopher, 1675-1765 | |
| 9 | Creator: | Bartram family | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bartram family papers, ca. 1908-1958
| | | | Dates: | 1908-1958 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes newspaper clippings, postal cards, typed copies of letters, photographs of portraits, reprints of articles, materials from the John Bartram Association (which preserves the Bartram house and garden in Philadelphia), typed notes from Bartram's letters and journals, and typed copies of letters in re Bartram. There is also a genealogy prepared by West, and a biography of George Washington Bartram by John Hines Pitman (typescript). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B28.w1 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, George Washington, 1784-1853 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Biographies. | Botanists -- United States. | Clippings. | Genealogies. | Greeting cards. | John Bartram Association. | Naturalists -- United States. | Pennsylvania -- Genealogy. | Photoprints. | Pitman, John Hines | Postal cards. | United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | United States - Social life and customs - 19th century. | United States - Social life and customs - To 1775 | West, Francis Darley, 1881- | Wills. | |
| 10 | Creator: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Requires cookie* | | | | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | | | | Title: | Collinson-Bartram Papers, 1732-1773
| | | | Dates: | 1732-1773 | | | | Abstract: | This collection is principally letters to Collinson about seeds, plants, and gardens from seed cultivators and owners of country estates, including Cadwallader Colden, John Hanbury, Lord and Lady Petre, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Richmond, Sir Hans Sloane, and Daniel Solander. There are also several letters of John Bartram to William Bartram and Philip Miller. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C692.1 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Gardening -- England. | Gardens -- England. | Hanbury, John , 1664?-1734 | Horticulture -- England. | Horticulture -- United States. | Lennox, Charles , Duke of Richmond, 1701-1750 | Miller, Philip, 1691-1771 | Natural History | Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777 | Petre, Anne, Lady | Petre, Robert Edward, Baron, 1772-1810 | Plants, Cultivated. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Seed industry and trade -- England. | Seed industry and trade -- United States. | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782 | |
| 11 | Creator: | True, Rodney H.(Rodney Howard), 1866-1940 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rodney H. True Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1861-1939 | | | | Abstract: | The plant physiologist and historian Rodney H. True (1866-1940) divided his career relatively evenly between the Bureau of Plant Industry in United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Botany and Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in the physiological function of mineral nutrients in plants, True was active in his later career in the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, and the Agricultural History Society.
The True Papers consist of 6 linear feet of material relating primarily to the period of his career spent at the University of Pennsylvania. The collection contains roughly equal proportions of personal and professional correspondence, with a few diaries and research notebooks documenting his involvement with professional organizations and his interests in the history of his discipline. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T763 | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture--History | Allegheny Forest Experiment Station | American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee of One Hundred on Scientific Research | Arndt, C. H. | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Blueprints | Botanical gardens--Pennsylvania | Botany | Botany--History | California--Description and travel | Diaries. | Field notes. | Franklinia alatamaha | Frazer, John | Haiti--Description and travel | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Maps | Michaux, André, 1746-1802 | Notebooks | Okie, John M. | Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. | Photographs | Plant physiology | True, Katherine McAssey, d.1926 | True, Rodney H.(Rodney Howard), 1866-1940 | University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum | Universität Leipzig | |
| 12 | Creator: | Linnean Society of London. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865
| | | | Dates: | 1738-1865 | | | | Abstract: | Letters and papers to or from American scientists or about America, selected from the Linnean Society's collections. Includes letters to William Swainson from John Abbott, John J. Audubon, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Isaac Lea, and John E. LeConte; letters to Sir James Edward Smith from Jacob Bigelow, DeWitt Clinton, J.F. Correia da Serra, David Hosack, Theodore Lyman, William Dandridge Peck, Rafinesque, and Gotthilf H.E. Muhlenberg; letters to William Darlington; letters to Asa Gray; letters of John Bartram; letters of Peter Collinson to J.F. Gronovius; letters and papers of John Ellis, including letters from Alexander Garden, Samuel Martin, and Bernard Romans; letters to Carl Linnaeus from John Bartram, John Clayton, Cadwallader Colden, Correia da Serra, Peter Kalm, Adam Kuhn, James Logan, John Mitchell, and Charles Wrangel. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.6 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Film reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbott, John | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 | Clayton, John | Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Ellis, John | Garden, Alexander, 1757-1829 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, 1686-1762 | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779 | Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817 | LeConte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Logan, Jim, (James) | Lyman, Theodore, 1792-1849 | Martin, Samuel | Microfilm Collection | Mitchell, John | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Natural history. | Peck, William Dandridge, 1763-1822 | Rafinesque, C. S., (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Romans, Bernard | Scientists -- United States. | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Swainson, William, 1789-1855 | Wrangel, Charles | Zoology -- North America. | |
| 13 | 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 | |
| 14 | 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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