| 6 | Creator: | Plée, Auguste,1787-1825. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Auguste Plée papers, [ca. 1820-1824]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1820-1824 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include sketches made on a trip to the United States, Canada, and the West Indies; catalogs of objects of natural history, such as fish, animals, insects, and fossils, sent by him to the Museum; and notes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.506 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Canada--Description and travel. | Catalogs. | Microfilm Collection | Natural history. | Notes. | Plée, Auguste,1787-1825. | Sketches. | United States -- Description and travel. | West Indies -- Description and travel. | |
| 9 | Creator: | Andreani, Paolo, 1763-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Count Paolo Andreani journals, 1783?-1791
| | | | Dates: | Circa | | | | Abstract: | Includes Frammenti de Diario, a fragment of a diary kept on a trip to Britain, circa 1783-1784; Viaggio da Milano a Parigi, journal of a voyage from Milan to Paris, 1784; Viaggi di un gentiluomo milanese, Giornale, typed transcriptions of the travels of a gentleman from Milan, containing notes on the Iroquois Indians, 1790; Giornale de Filadelfia a Quebec, journal from Philadelphia to Quebec, 1791; and, journal of a trip through New York state (including visits to Albany, the reservations of the Six Nations, Saratoga, and the Shaker community at New Lebanon), 1790; | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.604 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Andreani, Paolo, 1763-1823 | Canada--Description and travel. | England -- Description and travel. | France -- Description and travel. | Iroquois Indians | Italy -- Description and travel. | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Shakers - New York (State) - New Lebanon. | United States - Description and travel | Verri, Antonio Sormani, Count | |
| 10 | Creator: | Boykin, John | Requires cookie* | | | | Lee, Francis P. | | | | Title: | Journal of the travels of Colonel John Boykin and Francis P. Lee from Morristown, New Jersey to Camden, South Carolina, August 15, 1833 - September, 1833
| | | | Dates: | 1833 | | | | Abstract: | This is an account of overland and water travel between Morristown, New Jersey and Camden, South Carolina. It includes interesting information on the travel conditions of the time. The name Francis P. Lee appears at the end of the last journal entry. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.B69 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Baltimore (Md.) -- Description and travel. | Boykin, John | Camden (S.C.) -- Description and travel. | Charlotte (N.C.) -- Description and travel. | Journals (notebooks). | Lee, Francis P. | Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel. | Morristown (N.J.) - Description and travel | South Atlantic States -- Description and travel. | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Travel. | United States - Description and travel | Voyages and travels. | |
| 11 | Creator: | Dorr, Dalton,1846-1901. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Notes of travel made from memoranda in old diaries [1869-1885], 1897-1898
| | | | Dates: | 1869-1898 | | | | Abstract: | Dalton Dorr (1846-1901) was the curator, secretary and director of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia, the forerunner of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from 1880-1899. A journal, written in 1897, copied from his notes and from memory, of travels in Greenland (1869), the Indian Territory, Colorado and the Pacific coast (1872-73); Paris, England, Scotland, and Ireland (1882-85), with some sketches. He took the Greenland cruise with Isaac I. Hayes in 1869, which was described by Hayes in his "Land of Desolation" (New York: Harper, 1872). See also, a companion volume of albumen prints taken by William Bradford and other members of "Under the midnight sun: a pleasure cruise in Greenland” in the summer of 1869. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D735 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bradford, William, 1823-1892 | Colorado -- Description and travel. | Dorr, Dalton,1846-1901. | England -- Description and travel. | Engravings. | Greenland -- Description and travel. | Hayes, I. I, (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Ireland -- Description and travel. | Journals (notebooks). | Mohave Indians | Pacific Coast (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Paris (France) -- Description and travel. | Plains Indians | Scotland -- Description and travel. | Sketches. | United States -- Description and travel. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | |
| 12 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Pershouse correspondence and papers, 1749-1899
| | | | Dates: | 1749-1899 | | | | Abstract: | This correspondence is principally concerned with business between Pershouse and his brother James in England, with comments on conditions and events in the United States, including anti-British feeling, Thomas Paine's return to America, Jefferson's administration, and immigration. The papers include Pershouse's journal (1800-1838), which includes accounts of travels in England, France, and the United States, letterbooks (1836-1862) of Henry Pershouse, nephew of John, chiefly on business matters, and two volumes of Pershouse genealogical data, compiled by B.M. Pershouse Bayley (1899). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P43 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 volumes; 62 items. | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bayley, B. M. Pershouse | Business Records and Accounts | Diplomatic History | Early National Politics | England -- Description and travel. | Family Correspondence | Genealogies. | General Correspondence | International Travel | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Letterbooks. | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Pershouse, Henry | Pershouse, James. | Pershouse, John,1769-1841. | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Social Life and Custom | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Description and travel. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809. | |
| 13 | Creator: | Maclure, William, 1763-1840 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Maclure letters; 1796-1848
| | | | Dates: | 1796-1848 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters to Maclure, journals of travel in Europe and America, notes and essays. Also included are manuscripts, transcripts, and notes relating to Maclure. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.283,513,74 | | | | Extent: | 11.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Amphlett, W. (William), fl., 1796-1819 | Burrough, Marmaduke, ca. 1798-1844 | Collective settlements. | Education -- United States. | Erving, George William, 1769-1850 | Europe -- Description and travel. | Fretageot, Marie Duclos, 1783-1833 | Geology. | Journals (notebooks). | Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846 | Maclure, Alexander | Maclure, William, 1763-1840 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | New Harmony (Ind.) | Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877 | Owen, Robert, 1771-1858 | Rich, O., (Obadiah), 1777-1850 | Say, Lucy Way Sistaire, 1801-1886 | Say, Thomas, 1787-1834 | Spain -- History -- 19th century. | Speakman, John | United States -- Description and travel. | Wright, Frances, 1795-1852 | |
| 14 | Creator: | Bateson, William, 1861-1926 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Bateson papers, ca. 1875-1924
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1875-1924 | | | | Abstract: | Selected by William Coleman, this collection contains correspondence from Bateson to his wife, Catharine, and to his colleagues, such as Francis Galton, E. Roy Lankester, Alfred Newton, and Charles Scott Sherrington; lectures given between 1897-1904; and some genealogical and miscellaneous material. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.26 | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bateson , Beatrice | Bateson, William, 1861-1926 | Baur, Georg | Biology--Study and teaching | Coleman, William, -- 1934-, -- comp. | Cytology -- Research. | Dollo, Louis, 1857-1931 | Eugenics. | Evolution. | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Genetics -- Research. | Hopkins, Frederick Gowland, Sir, 1861-1947 | Kidd, Benjamin, 1858-1916 | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir, (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Marine biology -- Research. | Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 | Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 | Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir, 1857-1952 | United States -- Description and travel. | Universities and colleges -- United States. | Variation (Biology) | |
| 15 | Creator: | Beck, Richard | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Beck journal. February 13, 1880 - October 1, 1880
| | | | Dates: | 1880 | | | | Abstract: | This is an interesting and detailed journal of his trip to America and travels therein. Using Philadelphia as his base, Beck commented on the city's society and institutions, and mentions locals, including an interesting note on Titian R. Peale. Other areas visited included: Atlantic City, St. Louis, Colorado, Utah, California and New York, where he visited the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company and Washington D.C., where he met, and described, artist Henry Ulke. The volume is filled with memorabilia: advertisements, photographs, playbills, menus, original pencil and watercolor sketches, some of machinery. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.B38 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Advertisements. | Atlantic City (N.J.) -- Description and travel. | Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. | Beck, Richard | California--Description and travel | Colorado -- Description and travel. | Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel. | Insects -- Collection and preservation. | Journals (notebooks). | Menus. | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Photoprints. | Playbills. | Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Description and travel. | Sketches. | Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910 | United States - Description and travel | Utah -- Description and travel. | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel. | |
| 16 | Creator: | Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Reminiscences of the Far West, and other trips, 1861-1918
| | | | Dates: | 1861-1918 | | | | Abstract: | Narratives of travels and adventures, 1861-1864, 1881-1916, in the far western, southwestern, northwestern United States, as well as Ohio and New York; northern Mexico and Europe; apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describes an Indian attack. Visits Navajo reservation; sees Taos Indian dance. Observes Mitla ruins; mentions Indians in Mexico. Visits Sacatoon Pima reservation; visits California Indian schools. Describes music for Indians at mission; visits Ohio mounds; comments on northwest Indian art, statues of Indian heroes in northwest. Also writes of the Nevada mines and of military service in the Southwest, 1860-1864. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ay2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians | Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 | California--Description and travel | Field Museum of Natural History. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Education--California | Indians of North America--Missions | Indians of North America--Ohio--Antiquities | Mexico - Description and travel | Military service, Voluntary -- United States. | Mines and mineral resources - Nevada | Navajo Indians. | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Ohio -- Description and travel. | Pawnee Indians | Pima Indian Reservation (Sacatoon) | Rosenwald, Lessing J., (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979 | Taos Indians | United States - Description and travel | |
| 17 | Creator: | Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Cushman Murphy journals, 1907-1971
| | | | Dates: | 1907-1971 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains the diaries, journals, and observations of a naturalist, generously illustrated with newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, sketches, maps, and charts. This collection contains primarily correspondence, but includes articles and addresses by Murphy as well as scrapbooks, photographs, and other miscellaneous volumes documenting his career. From his earliest travels to South American and the Antarctic regions in 1912, until his Australia voyage in 1971, Murphy continually explored animal and bird life as a scientist, and also as a concerned citizen who became one of the earliest advocates of conservation and ecology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M957 | | | | Extent: | 42.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Geographical Society of New York. | American Museum of Natural History. | American Philosophical Society. | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration. | Armstrong, John Charles | Articles. | Australia -- Description and travel. | Avila, Enrique | Bahamas -- Description and travel. | Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)--Description and travel | Beck, R. H. | Belt, Charles Banks. | Bermuda Islands -- Description and travel. | Bermuda petrel. | Biogeography. | Birds -- Geographical distribution. | Birds -- New York (State) -- Long Island. | Birds -- Peru. | Birds -- Research. | Birds -- Venezuela. | Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 | British Columbia -- Description and travel. | Brooklyn Museum. | Brooks, Paul | Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 | Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 | Chapman, Frank M. | Charts. | Choco Indians | Clippings. | Cocopa Indians | Colombia -- Description and travel. | Conservation of natural resources. | DDT (Insecticide) | Deevey, Edward Smith, 1914-1988 | Diaries. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Ecology. | England -- Description and travel. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Falla, R. A., (Robert Alexander) | Faunce, Wayne M. | Fisheries -- Florida. | Fisheries -- North Carolina. | Fisheries -- Peru. | Fishes -- Peru. | Fishes -- Venezuela. | Fleming, C. A., (Charles Alexander), 1916-1987 | Gelatin silver prints | Georgia -- Description and travel. | Greely, A. W., (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935 | Grosvenor, Gilbert H., 1875-1966 | Guano. | Indians of Central America--Panama | Indians of North America--Florida | Indians of North America--New York (State) | Indians of South America--Colombia | Indians of South America--Ecuador | Indians of South America--Peru | Journals (notebooks). | Maps. | Marine biology. | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | Mexico -- Description and travel. | Montauk Indians | Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 | Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 | Oceanography. | Ornithologists. | Ornithology--South America | Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996 | Philippines -- Description and travel. | Photomechanical prints | Photoprints. | Quechua Indians | Ripley, Sidney Dillon, 1913-2001 | Scrapbooks. | Seminole Indians | Sketches. | South America -- Description and travel. | Southeast Indians | Sperm whale. | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 | United States -- Description and travel. | Vogt, William, 1902-1968 | Voyages and travels. | Water birds. | Whaling. | Zoology -- New York (State) -- Long Island. | Zoology -- New Zealand. | Zoology -- South Carolina. | Zoology. | |
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