| 1 | Creator: | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Address on the impolicy of slavery, 1824
| | | | Dates: | 1824 | | | | Abstract: | This address was delivered in Philadelphia before an "association formed for the education of men of colour." Vaux shows how slavery adversely affects the interest, happiness, and safety of the owner, slave, society, and government. | | | | Call #: | Mss.371.974.As7 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | Antebellum Politics | Association for the Education of Men of Colour.. | Manuscript Essays | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Speeches. | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,collector. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sol Feinstone Slavery collection, 1773-1888
| | | | Dates: | 1773-1888 | | | | Abstract: | This collection of documents includes letters, broadsides, bills of sale, deeds of purchase, and wills, relating to various slaves. There are also documents from notable Americans concerning the slave question, such as John Brown, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Andrew Jackson. | | | | Call #: | Mss.326.F33 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | African Americans--History--To 1863 | Brown, John, 1800-1859 | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 | Early National Politics | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,collector. | Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 | Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 | Legal Records | Miscellaneous | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Reconstruction | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | |
| 4 | 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. | |
| 5 | Creator: | Harvey, Jacob. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacob Harvey papers,1808-1847
| | | | Dates: | 1808-1847 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes ca. 200 letters to and from Harvey's family, concerning Quakers, the Missouri Compromise, slavery, the depression of 1819-1820. There is also a commonplace book (1819-1820, 1821 Aug.), with observations on a balloon ascension of 2 Aug. 1819 from Vauxhall Gardens in England, slavery, Indians, and descriptions of Washington and Baltimore. There are also journals of trips to Niagara Falls and Canada in 1820 and to the American West, from Baltimore to Louisville and back, with an added description of a voyage around Long Island aboard the Robert Fulton in August 1821. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1111 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Balloons. | Baltimore (Md.) -- Description and travel. | Canada--Description and travel. | Depressions -- 1819 -- United States. | Harvey, Jacob. | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Microfilm Collection | Missouri compromise. | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel. | Quakers. | Robert Fulton (Ship). | Shakers. | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Voyages and travels. | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865
| | | | Dates: | 1840-1865 | | | | Abstract: | A product of the distinctive culture of reform in antebellum Philadelphia, William Parker Foulke was the scion of the old elite who put a conservative stamp on social change. Trained as an attorney, Foulke spent much of his adult life engaging his deep amateur interest in natural history and mental philosophy and devoting himself to a variety of civic and philanthropic causes, including the colonization of freed slaves, penal reform, and cultural institutions in his native Philadelphia.
The Foulke Papers are the product of the diverse social and intellectual interests of the Philadelphia attorney and philanthropist William Parker Foulke. Consisting primarily of correspondence, notes, and essays, the collection touches on Foulke's many interests. The collection includes numerous lectures delivered by Foulke along with material on the Lancaster County Prison, New York Prison Association, and the Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons; notebooks concerning prisons and prisoners, including a 1846-1852 diary, and a listing of prisoners, their race, age, crime, sentence, and observations; a diary concerning the American Colonization Society (1852); a copy of an arctic diary (1853-1854) by John Wall Wilson, in the hand of Isaac Israel Hayes, which recounts much of the journey aboard the brig
Advance, commanded by Elisha Kent Kane. There is also a list of buildings (1820-1841) designed by John Haviland, and material on the American Academy of Music, Philadelphia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F826 | | | | Extent: | 3.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West--Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania | Archaeology--Pennsylvania | Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bringhurst | Cadwalader, John | Carey , Henry Charles, 1793-1879 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Cassin, John, 1813-1869 | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs--New Jersey | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Freemasons--Pennsylvania | General Correspondence | Geology--Pennsylvania | Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860 | Grinnell, Henry | Hart, George H. | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Landis, Henry D. | Law | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Legal Records | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyceums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Miscellaneous | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Native America | New York Prison Association | Olden, Charles Smith | Packard, Frederick A., (Frederick Adolphus), 1794-1867 | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--19th century | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Philadelphia--History--19th century | Political Correspondence | Prison reformers--Pennsylvania | Prisons--Design and construction | Prisons--New York (State) | Prisons--Pennsylvania | Reformers--Pennsylvania | Rogers, Henry D., (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Science and Technology | Sheafer, Peter W. | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Wilson, John Wall | |
| 7 | Creator: | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J.P. Lesley Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1826-1898 | | | | Abstract: | After a brief career in the Congregational church, J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) left the ministry in 1852 to work full-time as a geologist. Having gained experience in structural geology and stratigraphy with the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1836-1842), Lesley became an expert in the geology of coal, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations and conducting some of the first systematic studies of the state's hydrocarbon resources. A long-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he was elected to the APS in 1856, serving variously as its librarian, secretary, and vice president, and he was selected as Director of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1875-1889).
The Lesley Papers include letters to and from Peter Lesley and his wife, Susan on geology, coal and iron mining, abolition, educational reform, organized charity, and Unitarianism. The collection offers important insight into academic and applied geology in late 19th century Pennsylvania, the development of the coal and iron industries, as well as into the Lesleys' progressive social and intellectual milieu. It is divided into three series: Lesley's general correspondence, his correspondence with his brother Joseph, and microfilms of Lesley's research notes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L56 | | | | Extent: | 7.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Americans Abroad | Avesta | Biographies. | Cartography. | Charities -- United States. | Clippings. | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Desor, E. (Edouard), 1811-1882 | Diaries. | Education--United States | Egypt--Antiquities. | Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Family Correspondence | Flint, Austin | France--Description and travel | Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt | Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology--Maps | Geology--Nova Scotia--Surveys | Geology--Pennsylvania | Germany--Description and travel | Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 | Hale, Lucretia P., (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 | Hawaiian language | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | International Travel | Javanese language | Journals (notebooks) | Lesley, Allen | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lesley, Joseph, 1831-1889 | Lesley, Susan I., (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | M'Kim, J. Miller, (James Miller), 1810-1874 | Marriage and Family Life | Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 | McKinley, Alexander | Nova Scotia--Surveys | Obelisks | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology--Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania--Surveys | Philology | Photographs | Poems | Scientific Data | Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate , 1841-1906 | Sketches. | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Switzerland--Description and travel | Thomson, J. Edgar, (James Edgar), 1808-1874 | Transcendentalism | Travel Narratives and Journals | Unitarianism | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 | Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 | Wright, Chauncey,1830-1875. | |
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