| 1 | Creator: | Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Book of Discipline
| | | | Dates: | 1719 (1820) | | | | Abstract: | In October 1719, the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends for Philadelphia and the Jersies reached consensus on a "book of discipline" governing the "establishment and order of meetings." The regulations covered both the conduct of the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings and the personal comportment of individual members, refining the bureaucratic structure of the meetings and laying out the powers of Overseers and other officials. It touches upon marriage (mandating endogamy), burial, and attendance at meetings, and cautions Friends to plainness of speech and dress, drinking, smoking, backbiting, and gaming.
This version of the Book of Discipline is a manuscript copy made for the American Philosophical Society in 1820 "from and antient Copy in the possession of Timothy Matlack, Esqr." | | | | Call #: | Mss.289.6.So1 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | African American | Church records | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Indians of North America | Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829 | Miscellaneous | Native America | Philadelphia History | Quakers--Pennsylvania | Religion | Religion, religious organizations | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Society of Friends -- Doctrines. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Willis, William Shedrick,1921- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Shedrick Willis papers, [ca. 1940-1983]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1940-1983 | | | | Abstract: | William S. Willis Jr. (1921-1983), anthropologist and ethnohistorian, contributed significantly to the understanding of the dynamics of inter-cultural exchange in a multicultural context. After receiving his doctorate from Columbia University, he was hired as the first African American professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. Upon resigning in protest from SMU in 1972, he returned to teach at Columbia University until 1975. His final years were spent studying Boasian anthropology. The collection includes correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts of Willis' writings, and working notes. Of note, are the memos concerning his leaving Southern Methodist University and his extensive research notes on Franz Boas' views on race relations in America. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.30 | | | | Extent: | 13.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African Americans--Study and teaching | Anthropology | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Anthropology--History | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Civil rights | Columbia University -- Faculty. | Columbia University -- Students. | Culture, community, organizations | Herzog, George, 1901-1983 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Labor, industrialization | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | Mahon,, J.K. | Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922- | Plantations | Race, race relations, racism | Reconstruction | Religion, religious organizations | Segregation | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Southern Methodist University -- Faculty. | Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972 | Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962. | Sturtevant, William C. | Wagley, Charles, 1913- | Weltfish, Gene, 1902- | White, Leslie A., 1900-1972 | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975. | Willis, William Shedrick,1921- | |
| 3 | Creator: | Wyck Association. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Wyck Association Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1663-1972 | | | | Abstract: | One of the oldest houses in Philadelphia, Wyck is now a non-profit museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nine generations of the Jansen-Wistar-Haines family owned the Wyck property from 1690 until 1973. The last family owner deeded 2.5 acres of land, the house and its contents, several outbuildings, a landscaped garden, and a small endowment to the Wyck Charitable Trust. The Wyck Charitable Trust and the Wyck Association now administer the preservation of the property and its educational services to the public. This collection contains diaries, letters, accounts, bills and receipts, deeds, and photographs. The collection as a whole is deepest for the period 1770-1970.
Items of particular note include accounts of household expenses at Wyck from ca. 1790-1970; papers pertaining to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Quaker schools, and social reform groups; agricultural and horticultural practices; and correspondence to and from cultural leaders of 18th and 19th century Philadelphia. The papers of the John S. Haines family (Ms. Coll. 52A) form part of the Wyck Papers. The papers cover the years 1845 to 1949 and are arranged into eight series. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.52 | | | | Extent: | 151.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. | Accounts. | Agriculture | Bills (financial). | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Culture, community, organizations | Deeds | Diaries. | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Haines family | Haines, Ann, 1793-1869 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1762-1801 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1853-1935 | Haines, Hannah Marshall, 1765-1828 | Haines, Jane B., 1869-1937 | Haines, Jane Bowne, 1790-1843 | Haines, Jane Reuben, 1832-1911 | Haines, John Smith, 1820-1886 | Haines, Margaret Vaux Wistar, 1831-1917 | Haines, Margaret Wistar, 1728-1793 | Haines, Mary T., 1892- | Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793 | Haines, Reuben, 1786-1831 | Haines, Robert B., 1827-1895 | Haines, Robert B., 1893-1967 | Hartshorne, Catherine Haines, 1761-1809 | Home economics--United States--Accounting | Horticulture | Institutional Records | Jansen family | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marriage and Family Life | Miscellaneous | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs | Philadelphia History | Photoprints | Quakers | Race, race relations, racism | Receipts | Reconstruction | Religion, religious organizations | Science and Technology | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social problems. | Trade | Wistar family | Wyck House (Philadelphia, Pa.) | |
| 4 | Creator: | Hare-Willing family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Hare-Willing Family Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1724-1965 | | | | Abstract: | This is a collection of letters, letterbooks, account books, scrapbooks, etc., concerning the families of Robert Hare and Thomas Willing. The letters and other documents include early family material, as well as documents written by numerous family relations, and some obviously only collected by them. The Willing family letters (1744-1901) are diverse, concerning family matters, business, society, comments on the Civil War, etc. There are numerous letters from Thomas Willing, many concerning his banking career, as President of the Bank of North America and later at the first Bank of the U.S. The Hare family letters (1724-1965) are more extensive and diverse, including much on travel in the U.S. and elsewhere. There is a letter from Robert Hare Jr. concerning steam engines, and letters from Horace Binney Hare concerning his education at Harvard, 1860, his trip to San Francisco and the west, 1862, and numerous letters written while a soldier in the Civil War. There are many letters from Horace Binney (1780-1875, DAB) to his daughter Esther, who was married to John Innes Clark Hare (1816-1905, DAB), concerning family travel and court cases. There are also letters from outside the family, such as those from Dorothea L. Dix. The bound volumes include, among others: Robert Hare letterbooks (1824-1825, 1841-1857), estate records, and laboratory expense accounts (1818-1860); G. H. Hare's journal or log of cruises aboard the U.S. United States (1841) and U.S. Flint (1845); Horace Binney Hare's 1862 journal of his trip to San Francisco. There are account books and accounts (1754-1795) kept by Thomas Willing; accounts of the controversy over the estate of John Innes Clark; and records of the First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia (receipt book, 1820-1848; minute book, 1827-1844). There are also Philadelphia court records, and minutes of the Common Council of the city, 1832. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.104 | | | | Extent: | 52.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | African American | African American churches--United States | Americans Abroad | Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Beale, Catherine C., 1857- | Beale, Charles Willing, 1845-1932 | Beale, Constance R., 1849- | Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1853- | Binney, Horace, 1780-1875 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 | Clark, John Innes | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Family Correspondence | First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia. | Flint (Ship) | General Correspondence | Hare, Charles Willing, 1871-1942 | Hare, Ellen Mary Cassatt | Hare, Emily P. Beale, 1848-1935 | Hare, Esther Binney, 1873-1967 | Hare, Esther Coxe Binney | Hare, George Harrison | Hare, Horace Binney | Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879 | Hare, Horace Binney, 1876-1956 | Hare, John Innes Clark, 1816-1905 | Hare, Margaret Willing, 1753-1816 | Hare, Robert, 1752-1811 | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Hare, Robert, 1869-1875 | Hare, Thomas Truxtun, 1878-1956 | Hare-Willing family. | Harvard University. | Institutional Records | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Law | Legal Records | Letterbooks. | Mac Veagh, Margaret | Meigs, Ellen Mary Cassatt Hare | Minutes. | Miscellaneous | Natural History | Notebooks | Perry-Smith, Oliver, 1884-1969 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Councils. -- Common Council. | Philadelphia History | Receipt books. | Religion | Religion, religious organizations | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel. | Science -- United States -- 19th century. | Science and Technology | Scrapbooks. | Smith, Stuart Farrar, 1874-1951 | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Steam-engines. | Titantic (Steamship) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States (Ship) | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Willing, Thomas, 1731-1821 | Women's History | World War I | World War II | |
| 5 | Creator: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the endangered languages of indigenous Americans.
The Collection of the American Council of Learned Socities Committee of Native American Languages is one of the largest and most significant primary resources for study of the indigenous languages of North America. Beginning with the creation of the Committee in 1927, and periodically added to since by the APS, the collection has grown to over 80 linear feet of material representing at least 166 languages and dialects from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The formats range from field notes and ethnographic texts to slip files, vocabularies, lexica, and grammars, and dozens of linguists and Native consultants are represented. Although most of the material was collected in the 1920s and 1930s, a signficant number of items have been added that extends the range of dates represented both backward and forward. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Achumawi language | African Americans--Florida | African Americans--Folklore | African Americans--West Virginia | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Banister, John, Jr. | Bella Coola language | Benin--History | Chehalis language | Cherokee language | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity--Africa | Chukchi--History | Clothing and dress--Middle East | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Drawings. | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology--Africa | Ethnology--Russia | Ethnology--United States | Face painting | Field notes. | Fijians--Social life and customs | Folk music--Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore--Africa | Folklore--British Columbia | Folklore--Florida | Folklore--Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Group portraits | Haida language | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Alaska | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kutenai language | Kwakiutl language | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pomo language | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Shasta language | Sketches. | Slip files | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Tsimshian language | Tunica language | Twi (African people) | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | Volga River Region (Russia)--History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Word lists | Yana language | Zapotec language | |
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