| 1 | Creator: | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Reminiscences for his children, 1912, 1915
| | | | Dates: | 1912-1915 | | | | Abstract: | This item was written by William Keen for his children and includes genealogy, glimpses of his boyhood in Philadelphia, and reflections on his education at Jefferson Medical College and his medical career. There are accounts of memorable events and surgical cases, including the operation on President Grover Cleveland's jaw. There are mentions of S. Weir Mitchell and other physicians, with historical recollections of such Philadelphia institutions as the College of Physicians. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.K245 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies. | Cleveland, Cleveland, 1837-1908 | College of Physicians of Philadelphia. | Genealogies. | Jefferson Medical College. | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Medical education -- United States. | Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Mitchell, S. Weir, (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Physicians -- United States. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Donaldson, Henry Herbert,1857-1938. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Henry Herbert Donaldson diaries and papers, 1869-1938
| | | | Dates: | 1869-1938 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of diaries, 1890-1938, containing brief records of professional work and family events (49 vols.); also autobiography entitled "Memories for my boys," 1930 (B D713m), referring to his childhood and to his professional career and mentioning Franz Boas, William Comstock, Livingston Farrand, William W. Keen, S. Weir Mitchell, Elihu Root, and W. T. Sedgewick and also APS, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and Wistar Institute (1 vol.); also a few miscellaneous papers, 1869-1932, chiefly letters to and from members of his family, and also Poultney Bigelow, Simon Henry Gage, and W. B. Van Ingen; two essays ("The Days of Man" and "A Venetian Night"): genealogical data; verses dedicated to his wife; extracts of letters to supplement his diaries. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D713, D713m, D713p | | | | Extent: | 50.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Autobiographies. | Bigelow, Poultney, b. 1855 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Comstock, William | Diaries. | Donaldson, Henry Herbert,1857-1938. | Essays. | Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939 | Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944 | Genealogies. | Johns Hopkins University. | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Medicine -- United States. | Mitchell, S. Weir, (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 | Neurologists -- United States. | Neurology. | Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 | Sedgwick, W. T., (William Thompson), 1855-1921 | University of Chicago. | Van Ingen, W. B. | Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. | Yale University. | |
| 3 | Creator: | 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: |
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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 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elihu Thomson Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1865-1944 | | | | Abstract: | An electrical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Elihu Thomson was an innovator in electrification in both a technical and corporate sense. With interests that ranged from the technical (electrical meters, high-pressure steam engines, dynamos, generators) to scientific (fused quartz optics, X-rays), Thomson acquired over 700 patents in his career, and in 1882, founded one of the early electrical corporations in the United States, the Thomson-Houston Company, which merged with the Edison Electric Company in 1892 to form the General Electric Company.
The Thomson Papers are a massive and nearly comprehensive collection documenting the wide range of Thomson's scientific and technical interestsm from his electrical experiments, inventions, and patents, to his interests in astronomy, geology, and medicine, as well as his role in the development of two major corporations involved in electrification, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and General Electric Company. Roughly three quarters of the collection is dated between 1890 and 1920 when Thomson was associated with General Electric, and was active in professional groups such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), International Electrotechnical Commission. His research interests. The balance of the collection is comprised of eight boxes and five volumes relating to Thomson's patents; a series of notebooks kept at Central High School; 43 letterbooks, 1882-1936; diaries of trips to Europe; notebooks on genealogy; scrapbooks of cards, photographs, clippings, and other souvenirs; and 2 vols. of tributes on his eightieth birthday, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.74 | | | | Extent: | 65.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Institute of Electrical Engineers | Astronomy | Ayrton, William Edward, 1847-1908 | Barker, George Frederick 1835-1910 | Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860- | Bragg, William Henry, Sir, 1862-1942 | Brashear, John A. (John Alfred), 1840-1920 | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Central High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Coffin, Charles A., Jr. | Coolidge, William David, 1873- | Crompton, Robert E. | Cutter, George W. | De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961 | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Dunn, Gano, 1870- | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Electrical equipment | Electrical experiments | Electricity | Fleming, J. A., Sir, (John Ambrose), 1849-1945 | General Electric Company | Geology | Greene, William Houston, 1853-1918 | Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938 | Hewitt, George Watson, 1841-1916 | International Electrotechnical Commission | Inventors | Jackson, Dugald C. (Dugald Caleb), 1865-1951 | Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946 | Jeffcott, Henry Homan, d.1937 | Johnson, Alba Boardman, 1858- | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Kennelly, Arthur E. (Arthur Edwin), 1861-1939 | Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957 | Lovejoy, J. Robert | Machinery, Electrical | Mallinckrodt, Edward, 1845-1928 | Martin, Thomas Commerford, 1856-1924 | Meadowcroft, William Henry, 1853-1937 | Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin | Miller, Dayton Clarence, 1866-1941 | Morgan, Charles | Mottelay, Paul Fleury, 1841- | Pickering, William Henry, 1858-1912 | Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942 | Pritchett, Henry S., (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 | Quartz optics | Rawle, Francis | Rice, Edwin Wilbur, 1831-1929 | Riche, George W. | Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 | Snyder, Monroe Benjamin, 1848- | Spooner, Henry John, 1856-1940 | Steam engines | Steinmetz, Charles Proteur, 1865-1923 | Stockley, George | Stratton, Samuel Wesley, 1861-1931 | Stuart, George | Thompson, Maria M. | Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 | Thomson, Silvanus P. | Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. | Todd, David | Whitney, Willis Rodney, 1868-1958 | X-rays | |
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