| 3 | Creator: | Rush, Samuel,1795-1859. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Rush notebook, 1859
| | | | Dates: | 1859 | | | | Abstract: | This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen"). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R895 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Essays. | Key, Philip Barton | Kossuth, Lajos, 1802-1894 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Notebooks. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Rush, Samuel,1795-1859. | Sickles, Daniel E. | |
| 4 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Rush memorandum book, 1805-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1805-1813 | | | | Abstract: | Numbered "11", this item contains notes on lands owned and sold; notes on leases of Philadelphia houses; accounts with Daphne Peterson ("a free black woman"), Mary Spence ("of Dunfermline, Scotland"), and Baynard Hall; a list of books lent; a list of those receiving copies of Rush's publications, 1805-1806 (among whom was Thomas Jefferson); and an "account of property belonging to the estate." | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89m | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Business Records and Accounts | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Land and Speculation | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Cadwalader, Lambert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lambert Cadwalader Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1779-1798 | | | | Abstract: | This collection of letters, while tiny, is actually quite rich in content. Cadwalader wrote to Samuel Meredith, a politician and fellow Revolutionary War soldier, concerning the war, his real estate holdings in Philadelphia, and the local political climate. The seven items are dated from October 5, 1779 to March 9, 1798, during which Cadwalader served in the military, reentered politics, got married, and then retired from public service. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C625.1 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Business and Skilled Trades | Cadwalader, Lambert | General Correspondence | Inoculation | Land and Speculation | Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Pennsylvania. Militia | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Smallpox | Taxation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | United States--Politics and government--18th century | d'Estaing, Charles Henri, comte, 1729-1794 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Memorable facts -- events opinions -- thots [sic] etc., 1789-1791
| | | | Dates: | 1789-1791 | | | | Abstract: | These photostats are selections from the original manuscript, which is a portion of a volume entitled "Letters, facts, and observations upon a variety of subjects." The topics include medicine, slavery, the African church, gossip and social events, the deaths of prominent Philadelphians, and Rush's philosophy on various subjects. Contains questions for Alexander McGillivray, on diseases, mortality, passions of Creek Indians. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89me | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolitionists. | African American churches | African Americans--Religion | African Church of Philadelphia. | Autobiography | Creek Indians | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 | Indians of North America | Medicine. | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia History | Physicians. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Slavery -- United States. | |
| 7 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Wills, 1790-1822, of signers of the Declaration of Independence
| | | | Dates: | 1790-1822 | | | | Abstract: | This group includes wills for Benjamin Franklin Bache (B/B122.w), Richard Bache (B/B121.w), George Clymer (B/C625.w), Benjamin Franklin (B/F85.w), Francis Hopkinson (B/H768.w), Jared Ingersoll (Misc. Ms. Coll.), Thomas McKean (B/M195.w), Thomas Mifflin (B/M586.w), Robert Morris (B/M835.w), George Ross (B/R735.w), and Benjamin Rush (B/R89.w). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B122.w | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798 | Bache, Richard, 1794-1836 | Clymer, George, 1739-1813 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 | Ingersoll, Jared, 1749-1822 | Legal Records | Marriage and Family Life | McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817 | Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 | Morris, Robert | Philadelphia History | Ross, George | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | United States. -- Declaration of Independence -- Signers. | Wills. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Travels through life:or an account of sundry incidents and events in the life of Benjamin Rush...written for the use of his children, [1800]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1800 | | | | Abstract: | This autobiography relates Rush's experiences in college and medical school; his meetings with notable doctors; his life in Scotland, England, and France; his medical views; the military and politics during the Revolutionary War; and brief sketches of personalities of that period. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89t | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Autobiographies. | Autobiography | Diaries | Early National Politics | England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Epidemics--United States | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | France -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Indians of North America | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine | Medicine. | Philadelphia History | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Scotland -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Social Life and Custom | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. | Yellow fever -- United States. | |
| 9 | 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 | |
| 10 | 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. | |
| 11 | 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 | |
| 12 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Rush correspondence, 1759-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1759-1813 | | | | Abstract: | These photostats of letters were collected from various repositories by Lyman H. Butterfield for his book, "Letters of Benjamin Rush" 2 v. American Philosophical Society Memoirs 30(1951). Some of the topics discussed are Philadelphia and United States politics, slavery, Afro-American churches, and medicine. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89p | | | | Extent: | 2.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolitionists. | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | African American | African American churches | African Americans--Religion | Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798 | Butterfield, L. H., (Lyman Henry), 1909- | Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 | Early National Politics | General Correspondence | Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 | Hazard, Ebenezer, 1744-1817 | Medicine | Medicine. | Montgomery, John, 1722-1808 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Political Correspondence | Religion | Research Records and Reports | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Rush, James,1786-1869. | Slavery. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1801-1815 -- Sources. | United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century. | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| 13 | Creator: | Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Recollections of my acquaintance with deceased members of the American Philosophical Society, 1862
| | | | Dates: | 1862 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains short sketches of prominent American and European scholars, diplomats, and statesmen. "These short memoirs were composed in the heat of the summer of 1862; and the concluding page written on the 15th of August of that year, when I was about one month advanced in my ninety second year; my birthday being July 17th, 1771." Signed Saml. Breck. Persons discussed include Talleyrand Perigord; M. Volney; Rochefoucauld Liancourt; Louis Philippe, King of the French; Joel Barlow; William Bingham; Robert Morris; Alexander Hamilton; General Henry Knox; Doctor Benjamin Rush; Doctor Rush and William Cobbett. | | | | Call #: | Mss.920.B74 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John Quincy, -- 1767-1848 -- Inauguration. | American Philosophical Society. | American Revolution | 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. | 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 | Manuscript Essays | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Philadelphia History | Physicians. | Presidents. | Raguet, Condy, 1784-1842 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Scholars. | St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 | Statesmen. | Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, -- prince de Bénévent, -- 1754-1838. | United States -- Biography. | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | |
| 14 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peter Adolph Grotjahn Memoir
| | | | Dates: | 1844-1846 | | | | Abstract: | After emigrating from Germany to Philadelphia in 1796, Peter Adolph Grotjahn established himself within the city's mercantile community, trading opportunistically both inland and coastwise as far as the Caribbean. In 1812, he began publishing a commercial newspaper,
Grotjan's Philadelphia Public Sale Reports and he became increasingly active in local Democratic Party politics.
The APS copy of Peter Grotjahn's memoir is a typescript copy of an original volume held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Written for his grandchildren, the memoir begins with a relatively brief genealogical discussion, but concentrates on his personal and political life and commercial experiences prior to 1817. The last section of the autobiography was completed posthumously from notes, and includes extracts from Grotjahn's diary as late as 1844. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G913 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies | Autobiography | Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 | Cholera--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Cuba--Description and travel--19th century | Early National Politics | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Germans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | International Travel | Jamaica--Description and travel--19th century | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westpahlia, 1784-1860 | Lemon Hill (Estate : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--18th century | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--19th century | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--19th century | Printing and Publishing | Privateers--Jamaica | Reading (Pa.)--Description and travel | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | War of 1812 | Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel--19th century | West Indies--Description and travel--19th century | Woodlands (Estate : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | |
| 15 | 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 | |
| 16 | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1668-1983
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1750-1850 | | | | Abstract: | Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.200 | | | | Extent: | 25.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Arctic Indians | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Cayuga Indians | Colonial Politics | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Fitch, John | Gelatin silver prints | General Correspondence | Genth, F. A. , (Frederick Augustus), 1820-1893 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Greeley , Horace, 1811-1872 | Harding, Warren G. | History of science and technology. | Inuit--Canada | Iroquois Indians | Isleta Indians | Miscellaneous | Mohawk Indians | Natural History | Negatives | Newcomb, Simon | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Ojibwa Indians | Oneida Indians | Onondaga Indians | Penobscot Indians | Photomechanical prints | Physics -- History. | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Scientific Correspondence | Seneca Indians | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Slides. | Southwest Indians | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Stevens, Henry | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Tuscarora Indians | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Various authors | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wayne, Anthony | |
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