| 1 | Creator: | Savile, George,Sir,1726-1784. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir George Savile papers, 1761-1782
| | | | Dates: | 1761-1782 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include letters and documents concerning the American Revolution, from British and American perspectives, as well as issues involving trade, fishing, and trapping in America. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sa92 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Commerce. | Fishing--America | Foljambe, F.F. | Harrison, Joseph | Neiles, Thomas M. | Official Government Documents and Records | Political Correspondence | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Savile, George,Sir,1726-1784. | Trapping -- America. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Electrologia, ca. 1785
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1785 | | | | Abstract: | By an unknown author, this notebook is of experiments and the history of experiments with electricity, containing references to Franklin, Beccaria, and Priestley, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.537.EL23 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anonymous | Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 | Beyond Early America | Educational Material | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Electricity -- Experiments -- History. | Foreign Language | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Natural History | Notebooks. | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Science and technology | Scientific Data | |
| 3 | Creator: | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voyage en Angleterre, 1785 April 3-May 27
| | | | Dates: | 1785 April 3 - 1785 May 27 | | | | Abstract: | This diary records the individuals and sights that he saw while in England. There are many observations of life in London, e.g. parks, buildings, paintings, food. Outside of London he visited many towns, including Manchester and its cotton mills as well as the steel mills of Birmingham. He relates his visit to Drury Lane and the dramatic performance of Sarah Siddons. Some of the people he met included Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, William Pitt the Younger, and Benjamin Vaughan. He also visited and described the gardens at Kew. The diary includes several sketches, including the plan of Blenheim Palace, and also a table of distances traveled. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M291 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820 | Blenheim Palace (England) | Boulton, Matthew, 1728-1809 | England -- Description and travel. | England -- Industries. | Gardens -- England. | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Palaces -- England. | Pitt, William, 1759-1806 | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. | Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 | Sketches. | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Wiart, Jean Francois | |
| 4 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Rush commonplace book, 1792-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1792-1813 | | | | Abstract: | This item contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths); Philadelphia events and gossip; the Pennsylvania Hospital; questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indian physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; and his views on marriage, religion, physicians, etc. Also includes meeting with Captain Wells and Little Turtle; speculations on Indian skin color at the equator. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89c | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business and Skilled Trades | Commonplace Book | Diaries | Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 | Early National Politics | Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 | Hay, John | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Indians of North America | Land and Speculation | Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 | Marriage. | Medicine | Medicine. | Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia History | Physicians. | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Religion. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Science and Technology | Woodhouse, James, 1770-1809 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Wellcome Historical Medical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Wellcome Historical Medical Society selected letters, 1731-1871, relating to American medicine
| | | | Dates: | 1731-1871 | | | | Abstract: | These letters, from the Wellcome Historical Medical Society's collections, are on a variety of topics, primarily natural history and medicine. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.W44 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Boscovich, Roger Joseph, 1711-1787 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 | Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823 | Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 | Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798 | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Medicine -- England -- London. | Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855 | Microfilm Collection | Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826 | Natural history. | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936
| | | | Dates: | 1768 - Circa 1936 | | | | Abstract: | The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V462 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Commonplace books. | Diaries. | Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 | Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 | Family Correspondence | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | General Correspondence | Harrison, Richard | Hollinshead, Benjamin M | Institutional Records | Jay, John, 1745- 1829 | Madeira family. | Medicine. | Natural History | Norris, William, 1802-1867 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Planetariums. | Political Correspondence | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Sampson (Ship). | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Snider, Jacob | Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, -- prince de Bénévent, -- 1754-1838. | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Verses. | Williams, Jonathan. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1770-1875 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs. The collection also includes four diaries, housed separately with manuscript volumes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F113 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834 | Amoretti, Carlo, 1741-1816 | Anisson-Dupéron, Alexandre-Jacques-Laurent, 1776-1852 | Arcet, Jean-Pierre-Joseph d', 1777-1844 | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Boscovich, Roger Joseph, 1711-1787 | Botany. | Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837 | Bridges. | Brugnatelli, Luigi Vincenzo, 1761-1818 | Charles, Jacques Alexandre César, 1746-1823 | Coinage. | Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 1725-1784 | Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von, 1744-1816 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Dandolo, Vincenzo, conte, 1758-1819 | Davy, Humphry,Sir,1778-1829. | Deleuze, J. P. F., (Joseph Philippe François), 1753-1835 | Diaries. | Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822 | Fabbroni, Leopoldo Pelli | Favi, Francesco | Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805 | Foreign Language | Forster, Georg, 1754-1794 | Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798 | France -- Intellectual life. | France -- Politics and government -- 1774-1793. | France -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | France -- Social life and customs. | Gallerio, Giorgio | Gallini, Stefano, 1766-1836 | Geology. | Grégoire, Henri, 1750-1831 | Grimaldi, Gabriele | Hervey, Frederick Augustus, 1730-1803 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1767-1835 | Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 | Italy -- Intellectual life. | Italy -- Politics and government -- 18th century. | Italy -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Italy -- Social life and customs. | Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807 | La Cépède, M. le comte de , (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon), 1756-1825 | La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747-1827 | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Fran, 1732-1807 | Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Middle Atlantic states -- History. | Machinery -- Drawings. | Magalhães, João Jacinto de, 1722-1790 | Manufacturing processes. | Mazzei, Filippo,1730-1816. | Museums -- History. | Natural history. | Penrose, Thomas, 1742-1779 | Potocki, Jan,hrabia,1761-1815. | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Raddi, Giuseppe, 1770-1829 | Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737-1794 | Sacco, Luigi, 1769-1836 | Santi, Giorgio | Saunders, William, 1743-1817 | Savi, Gaetano, 1769-1844 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Smithson, James, 1765-1829 | Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782 | Targioni Tozzetti, Ottaviano, 1833-1909 | Tessier, M., (Alexandre-Henri), 1741-1837 | Thiébaut de Berneaud, Arsenne, 1777-1850 | Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828 | Tools -- Drawings. | Vassalli-Eandi, Antonio Maria, 1761-1825 | Venturi, Giovanni Battista, 1746-1822 | Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795 | Weights and measures. | Whitehurst, John, 1713-1788 | |
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