| 6 | Creator: | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Bartram meteorological diary, January 1, 1790 - September 13, 1791
| | | | Dates: | 1790-1791 | | | | Abstract: | These are daily observations of temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation kept by Bartram in Philadelphia. He also notes such occurrences as "River [Schuylkill] froze over" (February 7, 1790). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284.d.vol.15 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Diaries. | Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Icing (Meteorology) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Meteorological Data | Meteorology -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Observations. | Natural History | Science and Technology | Weather. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alexander Wilson papers, 1806-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1806-1813 | | | | Abstract: | This material relates to Alexander B. Grosart's biography of Wilson. There are notes and copies of letters and documents, including a copy of Wilson's will. There is one poem by Wilson, "The Last Wish," and an 1806 letter to William Bartram. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W692 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Birds. | General Correspondence | Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899 | Legal Records | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Natural History | Ornithologists. | Ornithology. | Poems. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Travel | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | |
| 8 | 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. | |
| 9 | 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 | |
| 10 | 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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