| 1 | Creator: | Philadelphia City Planning Commission. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Preliminary report on historical sites in the Independence Mall, 1951
| | | | Dates: | 1951 | | | | Abstract: | This report was prepared by the architectural firm of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson, from research by Hannah Benner Roach. The reports are on the Jones-Kinsey-Pennsylvania Hospital site, the Madison site, the site of the Presidential mansion, the Galloway-Morris mansion site, the site of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Ridgway-Meredith site, and the site of the State House Inn. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.4811.P531i | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson, Architects. | Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel. | Roach, Hannah Benner. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Fothergill, A.(Anthony),1732?-1813. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A.(Anthony) Fothergill letterbook, 1789-1813 (bulk)
| | | | Dates: | 1789-1813 | | | | Abstract: | Fothergill writes to an English physician, J. Woodforde, from Bath and Bristol in England and from Philadelphia. The letters concern their common interests in medicine, with comments on current events, American and Philadelphia society, and medicine in the United States. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F823 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Cullen, William, 1710-1790 | Diseases -- United States -- 19th century. | Fothergill, A.(Anthony),1732?-1813. | General Correspondence | Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Letterbooks. | Medical education -- United States. | Medicine | Medicine -- United States. | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel. | Prisoners -- Medical care -- England -- 19th century. | Prisons -- Sanitation -- England. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Travel | United States -- History -- 1809-1817. | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865. | War of 1812 | Woodforde, J. | |
| 3 | 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. | |
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