| 1 | Creator: | American Physical Society and American Philosophical Society. -- Joint Committee on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Physical Society and APS. Joint Committee on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century. Collection
| | | | Dates: | Undated | | | | Abstract: | Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the APS and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation. There are transcripts of the oral history interviews, as well as the working papers of the Committee. These include correspondence with famous figures in physics, with some memoirs, photographs, lectures, etc. On microfilm (see
Mss. 530.1 Ar2 ) are manuscripts of Niels Henrick David Bohr and his scientific correspondence (62 reels from the Niels Bohr Archives, Universitets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik, Copenhagen). This collection is described and analyzed in
Sources for the History of Quantum Physics: An Inventory and Report, by Thomas S. Kuhn, John L. Heilbron, Paul Forman, and Lini Allen (Philadelphia, 1967). The subject guide derived from the work has subsequently been digitized in its entirety and is available through the finding aid for
Mss. 530.1 Ar2. | | | | Call #: | Mss.530.1.Ar2.5 | | | | Extent: | 12.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962 | Correspondence. | Lectures. | Oral histories | Photographs | Quantum physics--History | |
| 2 | Creator: | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1894-2008
| | | | Dates: | 1894-2008 | | | | Abstract: | There are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. Herzfeld's student at Johns Hopkins, he studied nuclear fission with Bohr. The twenty-eight volumes of notebooks, which are his daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. They cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity (18 vols. total). The correspondence contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century. There are also two boxes of council and committee records (1964-1966) of the American Physical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W564 | | | | Extent: | 125.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Barschall, H. H. , (Henry Herman), 1915- | Braginskiĭ, V. B., (Vladimir Borisovich) | Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 | Buchdahl, H. A., (Hans Adolph), 1919- | Cethovic, Dragoljub Savo | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Feshbach, Herman | Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988 | Gingerich, Owen | Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 | Johns Hopkins University. Students. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -- Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel. | Notebooks. | Nuclear physics. | Particles (Nuclear physics) | Photographs | Photographs. | Physics. | Quantum electrodynamics. | Recordings. | Relativity (Physics) | Reports. | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Belling, John, 1866-1933 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Belling Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1928-1933 | | | | Abstract: | The cytogeneticist John Belling (1866-1933) developed the iron-acetocarmine staining technique, which facilitated detailed study of chromosomal structures. In his work with Arthur F. Blakeslee at Cold Spring Harbor on
Datura (1920-1927) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1928-1933) on lilies, hyacinths, and other plants, Belling made accurate estimates of chromosomal numbers, helped to demonstrate the interchange of segments between non-homologous chromosomes, and proposed that the chromomeres (small condensations of stain that appeared along the length of chromosomes) represented individual, physical genes. Although he was a gifted technician and insightful cytologist, his career was hampered by mental instability and curtailed by frequent hospitalizations before his sudden death in 1933.
The Belling Collection consists of four photograph albums, 38 glass slides and approximately 75 glass negatives and positive prints of chromosome preparations made by Belling, primarily during the years at Berkeley, along with an annotated bibliographic card file. The images in the albums are fully identified, but most of the glass slides are not. | | | | Call #: | Mss.581.35.B41 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Belling, John, 1866-1933 | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Cytology | Gall, Joseph | Glass negatives | Lantern slides | Photograph albums | Photographs | Photomicrographs | Plant genetics | |
| 4 | Creator: | Fleuriais, Georges-Ernest, 1840-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Passage de Vénus, Mission de Santa Cruz (Patagonie), Photograph Album
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1962 | | | | Abstract: | The French Académie des Sciences organized a total of ten expeditions to observe the transit of Venus in 1882, including parties that set up in Haiti, Martinique, Mexico, Florida, Chile, and Cape Horn. The expedition to Santa Cruz on the Patagonian (Argentine) coast was led by the naval officer Georges-Ernest Fleuriais (1840-1895), director of the Cartography Department of the French Navy. Aboard the ship
Volage, Fleuriais sailed to Argentina and made observations of the transit just before Venus passed its ascending node on December 6, 1882.
The 31 albumen photographs bound into the album titled "Passage de Venus 1882 -- Mission de Santa Cruz (Patagonie)" document a French astronomical expedition of that year to the Argentine coast. Rather than photographs of the transit itself, the album contains images of the members of the expedition, the crew of the
Volage, and the base camp. Only a few images contain captions (written in pencil on the mount). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F63 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Académie des sciences (France). | Astronomy--France | Fleuriais, Georges-Ernest, 1840-1895 | Photographs | Scientific expeditions--France | Venus (Planet)--Transit | |
| 5 | Creator: | Van Cleef, Eugene, 1887-1973 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugene Van Cleef Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1906-1973 | | | | Abstract: | A geographer from Ohio State University, Eugene Van Cleef was a specialist on Finns and Finnish immigrants to the United States, on the applications of geography to foreign trade and international commerce, and a pioneer in urban geography.
The Van Cleef Papers contain 5 linear feet of personal and professional correspondence and other materials reflecting Van Cleef's varied interests in applied geography, foreign trade, and Finns. Of particular note is an autobiographical manuscript, discussing the intellectual origins of his interests in geography and giving a concise perspective on his views of the discipline. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.61 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | City planning. | Finland | Finns--United States | Geography--Study and teaching | International trade | Photographs | Van Cleef, Eugene, 1887-1973 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Teuber, Eugen,1889-1958. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugen Teuber Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1912-1914 | | | | Abstract: | As a young graduate student at the University of Berlin in 1912, Eugen Teuber (1889-1958) was hired to help establish the Anthropoiden Station auf Teneriffa (Tenerife Primate Station) for the Prussian Academy of Sciences, the first field station devoted to behavioral research on primates. As its first director, Teuber played a crucial role in setting up the facilities and acclimating the chimpanzees to their new environment, and he was a co-participant in the first trials of Wolfgang Köhler's famous experiments to evaluate the intelligence of apes.
The papers of Eugen Teuber document the founding and earliest years of the Anthropoiden Station auf Teneriffa. A small (0.5 linear feet), tightly focused collection, it contains a series of official documents relating to the establishment of the Station, approximately 20 letters between Teuber and officials in Berlin, including Wilhelm Waldeyer and Max Rothmann, some research notes, and over 100 photographs of the chimpanzees and facilities. The collection includes Teuber's notes on the first trial of Wolfgang Köhler's famous "fruit basket" experiment in December 1913. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.57 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Animal psychology. | Anthropoiden Station auf Teneriffa | Chimpanzees. | Köhler, Wolfgang,1887-1967. | Lantern slides | Photographs | Primatology | Teuber, Eugen,1889-1958. | Waldeyer-Hartz, Wilhelm von, 1836-1921 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Ramberg, E. G., (Edward Granville), 1907- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edward G. Ramberg Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1916-1994 | | | | Abstract: | A physicist and social activist, Edward G. Ramberg contributed to the early development of electron microscopy and color television, and devoted much of his life to pacifist and Quaker causes. Born in Italy to an American mother and German father, Ramberg experienced the losses of war firsthand during the First World War when his father was killed while serving with the German army. After moving to the United States with his mother, Ramberg attended Reed College and Cornell University before returning to Germany for postdoctoral study under Arnold Sommerfeld. Employed at RCA for most of his career (1935-1972), Ramberg refused any involvement in military or war-related research, and as a conscientious objector during the Second World War, was assigned to duty in Civilian Public Service camps. He continued to work in fostering social harmony until late in life. With his wife, Sarah Sargent, a Swarthmore graduate whom he met through the American Friends Service Committee, Ramberg helped to establish Bryn Gweled, a cooperative community in which people of various religious, social, and racial backgrounds lived and worked together.
The bulk of the Ramberg papers consists of files pertaining to his work with Amnesty International, the American Friends Service Committee, and peace groups in the Philadelphia and Bucks County region. Of particular note is a bundle of correspondence with Sommerfeld. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.88 | | | | Extent: | 11.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Amnesty International. Bucks County (Pa.) Group | Electron microscopy | Electron optics | Holography | Optics | Peace | Photographs | Physics | Quakers--Pennsylvania | RCA Corporation | Ramberg, E. G., (Edward Granville), 1907- | Society of Friends | Television | Thermoelectricity | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 | |
| 8 | Creator: | Jacobs, Norman Leonard, 1885- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anathan-Jacobs Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1905-1910 | | | | Abstract: | Norman Leonard Jacobs was an engineer and surveyor with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Canada. The collection consists of his correspondence with Bessie Frank (later Anathan), an acquaintance from Pittsburgh. Jacobs wrote of daily life in Canadian cities, interactions with First Nations tribes, and daily hardships encountered in the field (extreme cold, snowblindness, and lack of food), but also spoke of his work with pride and enthusiasm. In addition to the letters, Jacobs wrote twenty-eight pages of a "Diary of a Tenderfoot." Also included in the collection are two photobooks and various loose photographs, which display various aspects of camp life, details of work sites and landscape, as well as First Nations families, camps, and modes of transportation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.SMs.Coll.13 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 ln. ft. | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anathan, Bessie Frank, 1885-1976 -- Correspondence | Anecdotes. | Canada--Religious life and customs. | Collie, Ruth, 1888-1936 | Diaries. | Dog teams--Canada--1890-1920. | Edmonton (Alta.)--History--20th century. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada. | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Canada. | Indians of North America--Material culture--Canada. | Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies | Jacobs, Norman Leonard, 1885- | Jacobs, Norman Leonard, 1885- -- Pictorial works | Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh. | Landscapes--Canada. | London (England) -- Description and travel. | Native American Materials | Photographs. | Railroads--1900-1910. | Railroads--Canada. | Railroads--England. | Wild animals | Winnipeg (Man.)--History--20th century. | Winnipeg (Man.)--Social life and customs--20th century. | |
| 9 | Creator: | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William E. Castle Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1950-1961 | | | | Abstract: | A modest Midwesterner who became one of the most influential geneticists of the first half of the 20th century, William E. Castle spent his career at Harvard and the University of California working on patterns of inheritance in mice, horses, and a variety of other mammalian taxa. An early proponent of Mendelian theory, Castle was director of the Bussey Institution at Harvard for almost thirty years, helping to train a number of important geneticists.
The Castle Papers contain one linear foot of correspondence dating primarily from the period after Castle's "retirement" to Berkeley in 1936 until his death in 1962, dealing almost exclusively with his research on horse breeding and the inheritance of coat coloration in horses. Castle's correspondence with his former student L. C. Dunn is an exception, focusing on mouse genetics and ranging to a variety of topics from the conduct of scientific research during the Second World War to Castle's interests in the early history of genetics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.14 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society | Bell, Donald C. | Bibliographical matters -- Castle, William Ernest | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Castle, William Ernest | Blandy Experimental Farm (Boyce, Va.) | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Dunn, L. C. , (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974 | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Genetics | Genetics -- Cattle | Genetics -- Horses | Genetics -- Nomenclature | Genetics -- Pigs | Genetics Society of America | Genetics--Research--United States | Gregory, Paul Wallace, 1898- | Hair Samples -- Horses | Harvard University. Bussey Institution | Heredity | History of biology, especially genetics | Horses--Breeding | Horses--Genetics | Human genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Tenth Congress | Mice--Genetics | Mouse genetics | National Research Council | Odriozola, Miguel | Photographs | Photographs | Political issues -- Kilgore Bill | Ponies--Genetics | Publication | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Journal of Heredity | Publication -- The California Horseman | Rabbit genetics | Rat genetics | Requests for reprints | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Singleton, W. Ralph (Willard Ralph), 1900- | Singleton, Willard Ralph | Smith, Frank H. | Steele, Dewey George, 1898- | Teaching -- Harvard University | Travel -- Guatemala | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Welsh Pony Society of America. | World War II -- Impact on science | Zoology -- Animal behavior | |
| 10 | Creator: | Bateson family | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bateson Family Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1940 | | | | Abstract: | One of the principle figures of turn of the century anti-Darwinian evolutionism, William Bateson (1861-1926) was a professor at Cambridge University for 23 years before leaving to become first director of the John Innes Horticultural Institute (1910-1926). Developing a unique "vibratory theory" of organismal variability during the 1890s that envisioned evolutionary change as a discontinuous process, Bateson became well known as the first English advocate of the recently rediscovered theories of Gregor Mendel.
For a man inclined to drama and disputation in science, it was Bateson's family life that took on the airs of Greek tragedy. The two linear feet of correspondence, diaries, and photographs that comprise the Bateson Family Papers provide valuable insight into the social milieu of the Batesons and their decidedly unorthodox upper middle class academic life, as well as their responses to the tragic deaths of two of their sons. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.2 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bateson , Beatrice | Bateson, William, 1861-1926 | Biographical and personal data -- Bateson family | Biographical and personal data -- Bateson, William N. | Cambridge University | Charterhouse School, Godalming, England | Durham, Florence | Genetics--Great Britain | Lepidoptera--Great Britain | Natural history--Great Britain | Photographs | Poetry | Rugby School | Suicide | World War, 1914-1918 | |
| 11 | Creator: | Kovalev, Sergei Adamovich, 1932- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sergei Kovalev Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1974-1990 | | | | Abstract: | The electrophysiologist Sergei Adamovich Kovalev (1932- ) was a prominent Russian dissident and human rights activist. After earning an international reputation for his research on the electrophysiology of myocardial tissues, Kovalev became involved with Andrei Sakharov and others in founding the Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR, and he was a major figure in the distribution of
The Chronicle of Current Events, a samizdat news letter that became the primary uncensored source for information about the dissident movement. He was arrested by the Soviet authorities in December 1974 and sentenced to seven years in prison and three more in exile. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Kovalev entered politics and won election to the Russian Duma.
The Kovalev Collection consists of files of correspondence, circular letters, and miscellaneous published materials pertaining to the Soviet dissident scientist, Andrei Kovalev. The collection is arranged in two Series of approximately equal size, representing the activities of two of Kovalev's supporters: Paul F. Cranefield of Rockefeller University, who helped mobilize support for Kovalev in the United States, and Silvio Weidmann a physiologist at the University of Bern, who operated in Europe. Both Cranefield and Wiedmann were in regular contact with one another and both worked with professional organizations, with human rights groups such as Amnesty International, and with fellow activists such as Rosa Last. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.35 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adler, Judith | Amnesty International | Boitsova, Lusya | Cranefield, Paul F. (Paul Frederic), 1925- | Eisner, Thomas, 1929- | Gallone, Selene | Hesburgh, Theodore Martin, 1917- | Human rights--Soviet Union | Kovalev, Ivan | Kovalev, Sergei Adamovich, 1932- | Last, Rosa | Photographs | Political prisoners--Soviet Union | Sakharov, Andrei, 1921-1989 | Weidmann, Silvio | |
| 12 | Creator: | Shindler, A. Zeno(Antonio Zeno),1823-1899. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A. Zeno Shindler American Indian Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1852-1869 | | | | Abstract: | A shadowy figure at best, the artist Antonio Zeno Shindler worked at the Smithsonian Institution from after the Civil War until the turn of the 20th century, specializing in ethnographic subjects. He was responsible for printing or taking a large number of photographs of American Indians exhibited there in 1869.
The 95 studio portraits in the Shindler Collection were part of a suite of 301 images that comprised the first photographic exhibition at the Smithsonian, and that are documented in the catalogue
Photographic Portraits of North American Indians in the Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (1867). The individuals depicted were members of delegations sent to Washington during the years 1852, 1857-1858, and 1867-1869 from the following nations: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Choctaw, Dakota Sioux (Brule, Miniconjou, Sans Arc, Santee, Sisseton, Two-Kettle, Yankton), Osage, Pawnee, Ponca, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox, Seminole, and Ute. Shindler printed the earlier photographs (mostly taken by the McClees Gallery) and was photographer for the later delegations. | | | | Call #: | Mss.970.1.Sh6 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Cherokee Indians--Photographs | Cheyenne Indians--Photographs | Chippewa Indians--Photographs | Choctaw Indians--Photographs | Dakota Indians--Photographs | Indians of North America--Photographs | Osage Indians--Photographs | Pawnee Indians--Photographs | Photographs | Plains Indians | Ponca Indians--Photographs | Potawatomi Indians--Photographs | Sac and Fox Indians--Photographs | Seminole Indians--Photographs | Shindler, A. Zeno(Antonio Zeno),1823-1899. | Smithsonian Institution. | Southeast Indians | Ute Indians--Photographs | |
| 13 | Creator: | Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jonathan Couch Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1839-1891 | | | | Abstract: | In many ways, Jonathan Couch was a prototype of the Victorian provincial naturalist, a trained physician whose eclectic, but intensely local interests ran from the life sciences to geology, Cornish folk beliefs, and local history. His major works included a three-volume translation of
Pliny's Natural History (London, 1847-1849) published by the Wernerian Club of London,
The History of Polperro (Truro, 1871), and the exhaustive four-volume
A History of the Fishes of the British Islands (London, 1862-1868).
The remnants of a wide-ranging mind, the Couch Papers contain a sampling of correspondence, rough drafts of articles, and notes on a variety of topics of interest to the Cornish naturalist and antiquarian, Jonathan Couch. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Couch's translation of Pliny's Natural History, published by the Wernerian Club of London between 1847 and 1849. The notes are highly diverse, but include some systematic descriptions of fishes, probably used in his
A History of the Fishes of the British Islands and notes Cornish folk beliefs. Of particular interest are his "Notes connected with instinct and reason" and three manuscripts relating to evolutionism: "Enquiry into the circumstances...," "On the history and development of man," and "The Natural History of the Creation of the World, with its changes to the subsidence of the flood and Noah." | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C831 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy--Great Britain--18th century | Beyond Early America | Conchology--Great Britain | Cornwall--Description and travel | Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 | Creationism. | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Developmental biology--Great Britain | Dreams | Evolution (Biology) | Fisheries--Great Britain | Fishes--Great Britain | Human evolution | Instinct | Natural history--Great Britain--19th century | Pen works | Photographs | Pliny the Younger | Superstition--Great Britain | Wernerian Club (London, England) | Zoology--Great Britain | |
| 14 | Creator: | Hanson, H. O. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | H. O. Hanson Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1952-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The Santa Fe Fiesta and the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial are two of the major cultural events held annually in New Mexico, both involving substantial participation by the Indian population of the state and region. The older of these, the Fiesta, originated in 1712 when the Spanish governor, the Marqués of Pañuela, set aside a day in September to commemorate the reconquest of the province by Don Diego de Vargas. Since 1919, the festival has been held annually and has increasingly become a celebration of traditional New Mexican culture and the varied ethnicities of its population. The Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial of Gallup, New Mexico, was organized by local businessmen and Indian traders in 1922 for "the encouragement of Indian arts and crafts and the education of whites to the beauties of Indian life" and for the "perpetuation of the dances, traditions and customs of Indian life."
The H. O. Hanson Photograph Collection contains 34 large format (8x10") black and white prints, including sixteen images of the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial at Gallup, 1953 and 1954, four images of the Jemez Pueblo, and nine images of the Santa Fe Fiesta, 1952 and 1953. Hanson has not been further identified, but he may have worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H198 | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Gelatin silver prints | Hanson, H. O. | Indians of North America--Dance | Indians of North America--New Mexico | Indians of North America--Photographs | Inter-tribal Ceremonial (Gallup, N.M.)--Photographs | Jemez Indians--Photographs | Navajo Indians--Photographs | Photographs | Pueblo Indians--Photographs | Santa Fe (N.M.) Fiesta--Photographs | Santa Fe (N.M.)--Photographs | Southwest Indians | Zuni Indians | |
| 15 | Creator: | Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1859-1882 | | | | Abstract: | A traveler, archaeologist, and photographer, Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) was one of the most important early expeditionary photographers. During his tours of Yucatan, Oaxaca, and Chiapas in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886, Charnay became one of the first to use photography in documenting the great Meso-American archaeological sites and to make ethnographic photographs of indigenous Mexicans. His major publications
Cités et Ruines Américaines (Paris, 1862) and
Les Anciennes Villes du Nouveau Monde (Paris, 1885) are important transitional works to the later scientific archaeology of Alfred Maudslay.
The collection of photographs taken by Desire Charnay are representative of the range of images he took of Meso-American archaeological sites during three tours of Mexico in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886. Although some of the images have suffered an unfortunate degree of fading, they convey the power and fascination that these sites held for Charnay and his contemporaries, and include some of the best early examples of the use of photography in the documentation of Mexican archaeology. The collection includes 123 images of the sites at Tula, Teotihuacan, Iztaccihuatl, Chichen Itza, Comalcalco, and Palenque, of archaeological specimens held at the Museum of Mexico, and of landscape and villages in Yucatan, Chiapas, and Oaxaca, as well as a series of Lacandon, Mayan, Mixtec, and Yucatec "racial types." | | | | Call #: | Mss.913.72.Ab23 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927 | Albumen prints | Archaeology--Mexico--Photographs | Carte de visite photographs | Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 | Chichen Itza Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Comalcalco Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Ethnographic photography | Indians of Mexico--Photographs | Kabah Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Lacandon Indians--Photographs | Madeira (Madeira Islands)--Photographs | Maya Indians--Photographs | Mexico--Antiquities--Photographs | Mitla Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Mixtec Indians--Photographs | Museo Nacional de Mexico--Photographs | Oaxaca (Mexico)--Antiquities--Photographs | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico)--Photographs | Photographs | Southwest Indians | Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico)--Photographs | Toltecs--Antiquities--Photographs | Tula Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico)--Photographs | Uxmal Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Yucatan (Mexico)--Antiquities--Photographs | |
| 16 | Creator: | Fox family | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Fox Family papers, ca. 1690-1915
| | | | Dates: | 1690-1915 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains information on Fox family speculation in western lands, two manuscript maps from the 1790's and 1830's depicting the family's holdings in northwestern Pennsylvania, and a photograph album from the 1890's documenting Chestnutwold, the Fox estate adjacent to Andalusia. Chief correspondents are Samuel and George Fox. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F832f | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Business and Skilled Trades | Commonplace Book | Correspondence. | Diaries | Education | Educational Material | Family Correspondence | Fox, George, 1759-1828 | Fox, Samuel, 1794-1874 | General Correspondence | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Law | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Maps and Surveys | Maps. | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine | Pennsylvania History | Photographs | Social Life and Custom | Surveying and Maps | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 17 | Creator: | Rockwell, Alfred Perkins, 1834-1903 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alfred P. Rockwell Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1846-1903 | | | | Abstract: | After receiving his PhB at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1858, Alfred P. Rockwell continued his studies at the Museum of Practical Geology in London and the Bergakademie Freiberg, focused largely on mining engineering and coal geology. After service in the Civil War, he held positions at Yale and MIT before leaving academia in 1873 to pursue other opportunities. He later served as president of the Eastern Rail Road and Treasurer of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, a textile firm in New Hampshire.
The small collection of the papers of Alfred P. Rockwell document his interest in coal geology during the period of his postgraduate study at the Museum of Practical Geology and the Bergakademie, 1858-1859. Although the correspondence is slight, the collection includes a suite of notes on collieries, coal mining technology, and the economics of coal. Of particular note in the collection are the eight notebooks on mining engineering (some containing sketches), including two volumes of notes on John Percy's lectures at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1858, three volumes kept during his stay at the Bergakademie Freiberg, including one on a course on metallurgy taught by Bernhard von Cotta, 1858-1859, and one of an industrial tour through Germany and Belgium (June 1859). The other volumes include two on collieries in northern England, and one including of production records for the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, 1879-1886. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R59p | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bergakademie Freiberg | Coal mines and mining--Germany | Coal mines and mining--Great Britain | Cotta, Berhnard von, 1808-1879 | Geology--Germany | Geology--Great Britain | Great Falls Manufacturing Company | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | Metallurgy--Study and teaching | Mining engineering--Great Britain | Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain) | Pencil works | Percy, John, 1817-1889 | Photographs | Railroads--Massachusetts | Rockwell, Alfred Perkins, 1834-1903 | Rockwell, Katherine Virginia Foote, 1839-1902 | Textile industry--New Hampsire | Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. | |
| 18 | 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 | |
| 19 | Creator: | Rochas d'Aiglun, Albert de, 1837-1914 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Albert de Rochas Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1882-1908 | | | | Abstract: | A military officer and civilian superintendent of the École Polytechnique in Paris, Albert de Rochas became one of the best known psychic researchers in late nineteenth century France. His interests centered on uncovering the laws behind psychic forces, somnambulism, magnetism and mesmerism, hypnotism, perception, and reincarnation. A prolific writer, he studied a number of Spiritualist and Spiritist mediums, including Maria Mayo (Lina), Eusapia Paladino, and D. D. Home.
Despite the relatively small size of the collection, the papers of Albert de Rochas open an important window onto the development of psychic science in
fin de siecle France and onto the cultural impact of Spiritualism. The collection includes a scattered, but valuable selection of correspondence with fellow psychic researchers, editors, mediums, and other individuals interested in psychic research, and a valuable set of 69 spirit and psychic photographs, that Rochas collected as evidence of psychic forces, and as documentation of séances, mediums, and "sensitives." Rochas' work on the exteriorization of sensibility and studies of Lina, Charles Bailey, and Paladino are relatively well documented, and his interests in the laws of psychic phenomena, reincarnation, and the exmigration of the living soul run throughout. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.106 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aksakov, Aleksandr, 1832-1903 | Bailey, Charles | Besant, Annie Wood, 1847-1933 | Dreams | Ecstasy | Foras, Eloi Amédée Jacques François, 1830-1899 | Henry, Charles | Hypnotism | Lina | Magnetism | Mediums | Mucha, Alphonse Marie, 1860-1939 | Music--Psychological aspects | Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910 | Orléans, Henri Philippe Marie, prince d', 1867-1907 | Paladino, Eusapia, 1854- | Parapsychology | Pelletier, Horace | Photographs | Psychology--France | Radiographs | Reichel, Willy | Reincarnation | Rochas d'Aiglun, Albert de, 1837-1914 | Rostoptchine, Lydie, 1837-1915 | Schrenck-Notzing, Albert Philibert Franz, 1862-1929 | Spirit photography | Spiritism--France | Spiritualism--France | Telepathy | Theosophy | Tissot, James, 1836-1902 | Van der Naillen, A. (Albert), 1820-1928 | Visani Scozzi, Paolo | X-rays | |
| 20 | Creator: | Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Historical Sketch of the Continental Bills of Credit, from 1775 to 1781, with Specimens thereof
| | | | Dates: | 1840, 1862 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Boston and educated there and in France, Samuel Breck (1771-1862) was a major figure in the mercantile, philanthropic, and political life of Philadelphia during the first hald of the nineteenth century. With an interest in historical and literary affairs, Breck was an active member of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Phialdelphia Athenaeum, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the American Philosophical Society (elected 1838).
The Breck Collection is comprised of two manuscripts written by Samuel Breck. The first, "Historical Sketch of the Continental Bills of Credit, from 1775 to 1781, with Specimens Thereof" (1840), includes an essay and 153 specimens of Continental Currency. The second essay, "Recollections of My Acquaintance and Association with Deceased Members of the American Philosophical Society" (1862) includes the 92 year-old Breck's reminiscences of his personal relationships with the nationally and internationally prominent membership of the APS. | | | | Call #: | Mss.332.5.B74h | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812 | Bingham, William, 1752-1804 | Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 | Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chastellux, François Jean, marquis de, 1734-1788 | Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 | Diplomats | Early National Politics | Hall & Sellers. | Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 | Holyoke, Edward Augustus, 1728-1829 | Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 | La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747-1827 | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Letombe, Philippe Joseph, d. 1833 | Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850 | Miscellaneous | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | Official Government Documents and Records | Paper money | Paper money--United States--Forgeries | Paper money--United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Photographs | Physicians | Presidents | Raguet, Condy, 1784-1842 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Scholars | St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 | Statesmen | Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice | United States--Biography | Volney, C.-F. (Contantin-François), 1857-1820 | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | |
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