| 1 | 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. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Voight family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voight family papers 1788-1839
| | | | Dates: | 1788-1839 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters, deeds, receipts. There are several letters concerning the ordering and delivery of scales and weights to various banks, including the Farmers Bank of Virginia, and the U.S. Bank in Savannah, Georgia. There are numerous documents relating to the Voights, namely deeds, real estate transactions, and indenture contracts. There is also a copy of a letter from Elias Boudinot of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia concerning directions for closing the Mint in case of a yellow fever outbreak (1803). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V87 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Banks and banking -- Equipment and supplies. | Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Deeds. | Early National Politics | Early, Eleazer | Farmers Bank of Virginia. | Indentures. | Miscellaneous | Philadelphia History | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Scales (Weighing instruments) -- Pennsylvania. | U.S. Bank (Savannah, Ga.). | United States Mint. | Voight family. | Voight, Henry | Voight, Thomas | Voigt, Henry | Voigt, Thomas. | Weights and measures. | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1871 | | | | Abstract: | Principal correspondents in the lettes of John Fries Frazer include Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale who discuss mainly general scientific topics, although personal and family matters are discussed with Bache. Topics include the University of Pennsylvania, boiler explosions, chemistry, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, the American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F865 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Barnard, Frederick A. P. -- (Frederick Augustus Porter), -- 1809-1889. | Boilers. | Davidson, George, 1825-1911 | Education | Education -- United States. | Electricity. | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | General Correspondence | Geology -- United States. | Magnetism. | Natural history. | Paleontology. | Philadelphia History | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific apparatus and instruments. | Scientists -- United States. | Solar eclipses. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | United States Mint. | University of Pennsylvania. | Weights and measures. | Wetherill, Charles Mayer, 1825-1871 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1770-1875 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs. The collection also includes four diaries, housed separately with manuscript volumes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F113 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834 | Amoretti, Carlo, 1741-1816 | Anisson-Dupéron, Alexandre-Jacques-Laurent, 1776-1852 | Arcet, Jean-Pierre-Joseph d', 1777-1844 | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Boscovich, Roger Joseph, 1711-1787 | Botany. | Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837 | Bridges. | Brugnatelli, Luigi Vincenzo, 1761-1818 | Charles, Jacques Alexandre César, 1746-1823 | Coinage. | Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 1725-1784 | Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von, 1744-1816 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Dandolo, Vincenzo, conte, 1758-1819 | Davy, Humphry,Sir,1778-1829. | Deleuze, J. P. F., (Joseph Philippe François), 1753-1835 | Diaries. | Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822 | Fabbroni, Leopoldo Pelli | Favi, Francesco | Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805 | Foreign Language | Forster, Georg, 1754-1794 | Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798 | France -- Intellectual life. | France -- Politics and government -- 1774-1793. | France -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | France -- Social life and customs. | Gallerio, Giorgio | Gallini, Stefano, 1766-1836 | Geology. | Grégoire, Henri, 1750-1831 | Grimaldi, Gabriele | Hervey, Frederick Augustus, 1730-1803 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1767-1835 | Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 | Italy -- Intellectual life. | Italy -- Politics and government -- 18th century. | Italy -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Italy -- Social life and customs. | Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807 | La Cépède, M. le comte de , (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon), 1756-1825 | La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747-1827 | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Fran, 1732-1807 | Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Middle Atlantic states -- History. | Machinery -- Drawings. | Magalhães, João Jacinto de, 1722-1790 | Manufacturing processes. | Mazzei, Filippo,1730-1816. | Museums -- History. | Natural history. | Penrose, Thomas, 1742-1779 | Potocki, Jan,hrabia,1761-1815. | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Raddi, Giuseppe, 1770-1829 | Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737-1794 | Sacco, Luigi, 1769-1836 | Santi, Giorgio | Saunders, William, 1743-1817 | Savi, Gaetano, 1769-1844 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Smithson, James, 1765-1829 | Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782 | Targioni Tozzetti, Ottaviano, 1833-1909 | Tessier, M., (Alexandre-Henri), 1741-1837 | Thiébaut de Berneaud, Arsenne, 1777-1850 | Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828 | Tools -- Drawings. | Vassalli-Eandi, Antonio Maria, 1761-1825 | Venturi, Giovanni Battista, 1746-1822 | Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795 | Weights and measures. | Whitehurst, John, 1713-1788 | |
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