| 1 | Creator: | Benbow, John, Jr. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Bee Book
| | | | Dates: | 1846-1854 | | | | Abstract: | John Benbow, Jr., of Cowley Hall Mills, Middlesex, England, was an avid amateur beekeeper in the 1840s and 1850s. His "Bee Book" is a small (16mo) copiously illustrated treatise and journal of beekeeping. Divided into three parts -- "Other people's experiments," "Our own experiments," and an annual log (1846-1854) -- the book includes information on hive construction, seasonal management, the cleaning of hives, and other miscellaneous information culled both from printed sources and personal "experiments." The 44 pen and ink drawings include technical drawings of hives and beekeeping apparatus, along with humorous sketches of the activities of an "amateur apiarian." | | | | Call #: | Mss.630.4.B43 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Bee culture--Great Britain | Benbow, John, Jr. | Beyond Early America | Diaries | Manuscript Essays | Pen works | Sketchbooks | |
| 2 | Creator: | Gliddon, George R.(George Robins),1809-1857. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Analecta hieroglyphica, 1839-1841
| | | | Dates: | 1839-1841 | | | | Abstract: | This volume was compiled in Egypt, where Gliddon lived for 23 years, and was copied from his original manuscripts for Samuel G. Morton by Edward M. Kern in Philadelphia in 1842. It includes drawings and illustrations. | | | | Call #: | Mss.493.1.G491 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Drawings. | Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic | Gliddon, George R.(George Robins),1809-1857. | International Travel | Kern, Edward Meyer, 1823-1863 | Manuscript Essays | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Sketchbooks | |
| 5 | Creator: | Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Clark diary, August 25, 1808 - September 22, 1808
| | | | Dates: | August 25, 1808 - September 22, 1808 | | | | Abstract: | William Clark kept this diary on an expedition to make a treaty with the Osage Indians in the Missouri Territory. A sketch drawn under the September 16 entry is apparently a draft of Clark's Fort Osage map, while the first page of notes presents color scheme used on another draft. See Kate L. Gregg,
Westward with Dragoons (1937: 48) for the map in printed version. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.L58c | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Diaries. | Fort Osage (Mo.) | Indians of North America--Treaties | Missouri -- Description and travel. | Native America | Osage Indians--Treaties | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 6 | Creator: | Roux de Rochelle, 1762-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Etats-Unis d'amerique
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1837 | | | | Abstract: | A published first edition, 1837, of Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle’s History of the United States of America, in French, with a companion volume of original sketches used for the 96 engraved plates. Sketches are of American scenes and history, some apparently original, others after de Bry and other artists, all used in Roux de rochelle's book. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.R76 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Delaware Indians | Engravings. | Foreign Language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Florida | Indians of North America--North Carolina | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lumbee Indians | Mohawk Indians | Oneida Indians | Printed Material | Roux de Rochelle, 1762-1849 | Seminole Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | |
| 7 | Creator: | Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury papers, 1845-1852
| | | | Dates: | 1845-1852 | | | | Abstract: | There are botanical notebooks which concern Bunbury's study of fossil plants in general, with special studies on the fossil plants in the Geological Society in Richmond, Virginia, and at Aix-la-Chapelle, Cape Breton Island, and Pennsylvania. There is also a historical sketch of eminent English naturalists. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B88 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886 | Fossil fuels -- Pennsylvania. | Geological Society (Richmond, Va.). Museum. | Manuscript Essays | Mineralogy | Natural History | Naturalists - England | Notebooks | Notebooks. | Paleobotany -- Germany -- Aachen. | Paleobotany -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island. | Paleobotany -- Pennsylvania. | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Sketchbooks | |
| 8 | Creator: | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Adam Seybert commonplace book, 1810
| | | | Dates: | 1810 | | | | Abstract: | This commonplace book consists of brief writings and observations on agriculture, arts and manufactures, commerce, the army and navy, canals and roads, weights and measures, general politics, finance, and population. It includes a sketch of the Battle of Quebec groundworks and layout. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Se95 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | American Revolution | Commerce. | Commonplace Book | Commonplace books. | Engineering | Europe -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815. | Finance. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Military History | Science and Technology | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Sketchbooks | Transportation. | Weights and measures. | |
| 10 | Creator: | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Entomological drawings, n.d.
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | These drawings are in color and in black and white; two in the first volume are by Titian R. Peale. There are some by John Abbot, and most likely by John Lawrence Le Conte. The contents of the collection: 1. Coleoptera. 654 figures. 2. Diptera, Hemiptera, and Lepidoptera. 564 figures. 3. Coleoptera. 698 figures. 4. Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. 228 figures. 5. Coleoptera. 657 figures. 6. Hymenoptera and Diptera. 234 figures 7. Diptera. 304 figures. 8. Hemiptera, Araneina, Myripoda. 356 figures | | | | Call #: | Mss.595.7.L493 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbot, John, 1751-1840 | Art | Beetles. | Diptera. | Drawings. | Entomology. | Flies. | Hemiptera. | Hymenoptera. | Insects. | Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Lepidoptera. | Myriapoda. | Natural history. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Sketchbooks | Spiders. | |
| 11 | Creator: | Nevins, Pim, 1756-1833 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Pim Nevins Journal
| | | | Dates: | 1802-1803 | | | | Abstract: | A merchant and member of the Society of Friends, Pim Nevins (1756-1833) lived most of his life in the English midlands. Recorded in
Pigot's Directory of 1834 as a member of the gentry resident in Hunslet Lane, Leeds, Nevins was a woollen cloth manufacturer, finisher, and merchant whose operations were located at Larchfield Mill, near Huddersfield.
During a voyage to visit Friends' meetings in the United States in 1802-1803, Pim Nevins kept a journal to record his thoughts and experiences. In presenting a copy of his diary to his children, he wrote: "some parts [of the diary] wch. being by way of memorandum to assist my memory will of course be no ways interesting to you; other parts being fill'd with the effusions of my own thoughts, will I fear be dry to you unless your minds should in some measure be dip'd into the like state with mine when influencing my pen; some other parts may entertain you." The journal includes a mixture of description of the cities, towns and landscape through which Nevins passed and accounts of his visits with Friends in New York city, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, Alexandria, Bethlehem, Pa., Easton, Pa., the Pocono Mountains, northern New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J., and Trenton, N.J. It also includes a delicate watercolor drawing of the Delaware Water Gap. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.N41 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Delaware Water Gap (Pa. and N.J.)--Description and travel | Delaware--Description and travel | Diaries. | Natural History | Nevins, Pim, 1756-1833 | New Jersey--Description and travel | New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Pennsylvania--Description and travel | Religion | Sketchbooks | Society of Friends--Missions | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel | |
| 12 | Creator: | Day, Sherman,1806-1884. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ephraim Dyer IV Collection, ca. 1842, of the sketches of Sherman Day
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1842 | | | | Abstract: | These are the original sketches used for the engravings in Day's 1843 publication, "Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia). They are finely detailed renderings of public and private structures and landscape throughout Pennsylvania. Accompanying these sketches are 150 pages of photocopied letters of Day, from originals at Yale University. These were used by Smith in his book. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.48.D33 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Architecture -- Pennsylvania. | Art | Day, Sherman,1806-1884. | Delaware Indians | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Engravings. | General Correspondence | Indians of North America--Pennsylvania | Landscape -- Pennsylvania. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Penn, William,1644-1718. | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania History | Seneca Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Social Life and Custom | |
| 14 | Creator: | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Isaac Lea journals, 1832, 1852-1853
| | | | Dates: | 1832-1853 | | | | Abstract: | The first fifteen volumes of these "Notes of Travel" are Lea's account of his trips to Europe during 1832 and 1852-1853. He met with naturalists, scientists, and did much sightseeing in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Austria. He records in detail visits and discussions with scientists, and makes sketches of many of the places he saw, particularly the Rhine River. The sixteenth volume is a memorandum book, 1853, containing accounts and expenses while in Europe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L462 | | | | Extent: | 16.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Art | Austria -- Description and travel. | England -- Description and travel. | Europe -- Description and travel. | France -- Description and travel. | Germany -- Description and travel. | Italy -- Description and travel. | Journals (notebooks). | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Military History | Naturalists. | Printing and Publishing | Rhine River. | Science and Technology | Scientists. | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 15 | Creator: | Neagle, John, 1796-1865 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Neagle Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1817-1865 | | | | Abstract: | John Neagle was among the better known portrait painters in Philadelphia during the first half of the nineteenth century and was the husband of Thomas Sully's niece, Mary C. Sully.
The Neagle Papers is a small assemblage of personal correspondence, documents, and notes assembled by Neagle during his career. The letters are primarily of a personal nature, but along with the five bound volumes, offer insight into Neagle's study of painting and the techniques he employed. Included among the bound volumes are recipes for varnish, megellup, and drying oils and notes on watercolor painting. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.N125.p | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Artists' materials | Artists--Pennsylvania | Autobiographies. | Autobiography | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Landscape painting | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Neagle family | Neagle, John, 1796-1865 | Neagle, Mary Chester Sully | Notebooks | Painting--Study and teaching | Recipes | Sketchbooks | Sully family | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Valentines | Varley, John, 1778-1842 | Watercolor paintings | Whist | |
| 16 | Creator: | Say, Thomas, 1787-1834 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Say papers, 1819-1883, 1955
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1883 | | | | Abstract: | Consists of material chiefly on natural history, shells, and insects, including miscellaneous notes on conchology by Say; photostats of 6 letters from Say to Jacob Gilliams, 1819-1829, from Morristown, New Jersey; and a biographical note on Say. The drawings and impressions of shells are by Mrs. Lucy Way Sistaire Say, prepared for W. G. Binney's edition of Say's complete works on conchology, 1858; also Mrs. Say's refutation of what she considered an unfair attack in George Ord's memoir of Say. Correspondents include André Etienne Férussac, Arthur F. Gray, John Lawrence LeConte, and Charles W. Short. An additional item is a memorial volume (ca. 150 pp.), including a family genealogy and land surveys in watercolor (B Sa95f). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sa95.g | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Drawings. | Entomology. | Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-Francois d'Audebard, -- baron de, -- 1786-1836. | General Correspondence | Gilliams, Jacob | Land and Speculation | Maps and Surveys | Mollusks. | Natural History | Natural history. | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Say, Thomas, 1787-1834 | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863 | Sketchbooks | Surveying and Maps | |
| 17 | Creator: | Questebrune, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Short Introduction to Natural Philosophy
| | | | Dates: | 1718-1720 | | | | Abstract: | A compendium of natural philosophical knowledge, written in 1718-1720 by John Questebrune, chaplain to the 6th Earl of Galway. The chapters treat the various parts of the physical world (earth, water, air, and fire), plants (including a great deal on medicinal plants), animals, and the human body and soul. The volume is embellished with decorative chapter headings and pen and ink and watercolor sketches depicting the terrestrial globe, the Ptolemaic and Copernican solar systems, the phases of the moon, and the human body in dissection. | | | | Call #: | Mss.500.Q3 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anatomy--18th century | Art | Astronomy--18th century | Botany--18th century | Chocolate | Coffee | Conception--Early works to 1800 | Death | Diseases | Dissertations | Educational Material | Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873 | Hamilton, William, 1745-1813 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Maps and Surveys | Medicinal plants | Mineralogy--18th century | Natural History--18th century | Occultism--Early works to 1900 | Physics--Ireland--Early works to 1800 | Questebrune, John | Religion and science | Science and Technology | Sketchbooks | Sympathy | Tea | |
| 18 | Creator: | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Requires cookie* | | | | Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | | | | Title: | Expedition Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1804-1806 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes three journals bound into one volume: two by Willima Dunbar and one by Zebulon Pike.
Both manuscripts by William Dunbar document the expedition up the Red and Ouachita Rivers to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805. The "Journal... to the Mouth of the Red River" (200p.) is the fullest available record of the activities of the expedition from the time of their departure from St. Catharine's Landing on October 16, 1804, until their return to Natchez, Miss., on January 26, 1805. The "Journal of a geometrical survey" includes a record of course and distances as well as a thermometrical log and other brief notes. The two are bound together in a volume with Zebulon Montgomery Pike's journal of a voyage to the source of the Mississippi, 1805-1806.
The Pike journal documents the expedition to explore the geography of the Mississippi River led by Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike in 1805-1806, and his attempts to purchase sites from the Dakota Indians for future military posts, and to bring influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. Less a literary masterpiece than a straightforward record in terse military prose, the journal provides a day by day account of the journey and the activities of Pike and his small contingent during this early exploration of present day Minnesota. It was printed with variations and omissions in
An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of Louisiana... (Philadelphia, 1810), and was edited in Donald Jackson, ed.,
The Journals of Zebulon Pike: with Letters and Related Documents (Norman, Okla., 1966). | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.7.D91 | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Arkansas--Description and travel | Caddo Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Chippewa Indians | Dakota Indians | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Exploration | Exploration. | Hot springs--Arkansas | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Journals (notebooks) | Louisiana Purchase--Discovery and exploration | Louisiana--Description and travel | Meteorological Data | Meteorology--Louisiana | Minnesota--Description and travel | Mississippi River--Description and travel | Native America | Natural history--Louisiana | Ojibwa Indians | Osage Indians | Ouachita Mountains Region (Ark. And Okla.)--Discovery and exploration | Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | Sketchbooks | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 19 | Creator: | McKenney, Thomas Loraine,1785-1859. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes
| | | | Dates: | 1826 | | | | Abstract: | The
Sketches of a Tour of the Lakes, of the character & customs of the Chippeway Indians & of incidents connected with the treaty of Fond du Lac... to which is super added a vocabulary of the Algic, or Chippeway language... is a record of a journey undertaken by Thomas L. McKenney and Lewis Cass, from Washington, D.C., to Fond du Lac, Wisc., to negotiate a treaty with the Chippewa and other Indians. McKenney, the Superindenant of Indian Affairs, includes an account of travel on the Great Lakes, and more memorably, a description of the "character" and customs of the Chippewa Indians, an account of the treaty of Fond du Lac, and a vocabulary of the Algic or Chippewa language. The manuscript, a fair copy of the original sent to a London publisher, is illustrated throughout with watercolor sketches of scenes and persons. It was originally published in Baltimore in 1827. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.7.M19 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Government Affairs | Great Lakes--Description and travel | Indians of North America--Great Lakes (North America) | Indians of North America--Treaties | Landscapes | Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858 | McKenney, Thomas Loraine,1785-1859. | Michigan--Description and travel | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwa language--Dictionaries--English | Portraits | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | Watercolors | Wisconsin--Description and travel | |
| 20 | Creator: | Morris, Anthony,1766-1860. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anthony Morris papers, ca. 1690-1830
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1690-1830 | | | | Abstract: | This collection is primarily correspondence, accounts, bills, and receipts of Anthony Morris, but also included is older material on the Morris family (deeds, indentures, etc.). The correspondence centers on two major topics: the settlement of the estate of a Baron de Kalb, and information concerning Morris' proposal to set up the Fellenberg Institution for agricultural education, on his estate at Bolton Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M836 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agricultural colleges -- Pennsylvania. | Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812 | Bills. | Bucks County (Pa.) | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Deeds. | Education | Educational Material | Fellenberg Institution. | Fellenberg, Emanuel von, 1771-1844 | General Correspondence | Indentures. | Kalb, -- Baron de. | Morris family. | Morris, Anthony,1766-1860. | Price, Isaac | Receipts. | Roberts, Samuel | Sketchbooks | Skinner, John S., (John Stuart), 1788-1851 | Trade | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
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