| 1 | Creator: | Jennings, George Nelson,1833-1903. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Nelson Jennings autobiography, 1897
| | | | Dates: | 1897 | | | | Abstract: | George Nelson Jennings' autobiography includes quotations from journals, especially one of a trip to California in 1872, and mentions of his son Herbert S. Jennings. There are also a short sketch of his later years by his daughter Helen Jennings Barrett, written in 1937, and genealogical notes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.J442 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies. | Barrett, Helen Jennings | California--Description and travel | Genealogies. | Jennings, George Nelson,1833-1903. | Jennings, H. S., (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947 | Physicians -- United States. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Beck, Richard | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Beck journal. February 13, 1880 - October 1, 1880
| | | | Dates: | 1880 | | | | Abstract: | This is an interesting and detailed journal of his trip to America and travels therein. Using Philadelphia as his base, Beck commented on the city's society and institutions, and mentions locals, including an interesting note on Titian R. Peale. Other areas visited included: Atlantic City, St. Louis, Colorado, Utah, California and New York, where he visited the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company and Washington D.C., where he met, and described, artist Henry Ulke. The volume is filled with memorabilia: advertisements, photographs, playbills, menus, original pencil and watercolor sketches, some of machinery. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.B38 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Advertisements. | Atlantic City (N.J.) -- Description and travel. | Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. | Beck, Richard | California--Description and travel | Colorado -- Description and travel. | Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel. | Insects -- Collection and preservation. | Journals (notebooks). | Menus. | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Photoprints. | Playbills. | Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Description and travel. | Sketches. | Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910 | United States - Description and travel | Utah -- Description and travel. | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Reminiscences of the Far West, and other trips, 1861-1918
| | | | Dates: | 1861-1918 | | | | Abstract: | Narratives of travels and adventures, 1861-1864, 1881-1916, in the far western, southwestern, northwestern United States, as well as Ohio and New York; northern Mexico and Europe; apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describes an Indian attack. Visits Navajo reservation; sees Taos Indian dance. Observes Mitla ruins; mentions Indians in Mexico. Visits Sacatoon Pima reservation; visits California Indian schools. Describes music for Indians at mission; visits Ohio mounds; comments on northwest Indian art, statues of Indian heroes in northwest. Also writes of the Nevada mines and of military service in the Southwest, 1860-1864. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ay2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians | Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 | California--Description and travel | Field Museum of Natural History. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Education--California | Indians of North America--Missions | Indians of North America--Ohio--Antiquities | Mexico - Description and travel | Military service, Voluntary -- United States. | Mines and mineral resources - Nevada | Navajo Indians. | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Ohio -- Description and travel. | Pawnee Indians | Pima Indian Reservation (Sacatoon) | Rosenwald, Lessing J., (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979 | Taos Indians | United States - Description and travel | |
| 4 | 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 | |
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