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Marian S. Carson
A Register of Her Collection in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Michael McElderry with the assistance of
Kathryn Sukites
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2000
Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2003
Collection Summary
Title: Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts
Span Dates: 1656-1995 (bulk 1700-1876)
ID No.: MSS84367
Creator: Carson, Marian S., 1905-
Size: 14,250 items; 58 containers plus 27 oversize;
26.4 linear feet
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Collector. A collection of Americana including
historical letters and documents, family and personal
papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated
and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents,
military records, journals, and printed matter relating
primarily to the expansion and development of the United
States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description
of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
They are grouped by name of person or organization,
by subject or location, and by occupation and listed
alphabetically therein.
Names:
Carson, Marian S., collector
Abbot, Joel, 1793-1855
Addison, Alexander, 1759-1807
Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886
Ashmead, Joseph
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798
Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795
Big-Tree, Seneca chief
Bingham, William, 1752-1804
Bloomfield, Joseph, 1753-1823
Bradford, William, 1755-1795
Bringhurst, James, d. 1810
Bringhurst, Joseph
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Burd, Edward, 1751-1833
Cadwalader, Charles
Cadwalader, John, fl. 1799-1802
Carey, Archibald
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Coates, Benjamin Hornor, 1797-1881
Coates, Samuel, 1748-1830
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839--Trials, litigation, etc.
Cornplanter, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836
Cresson, Caleb, 1775-1821
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Duane, James, 1733-1797
Dunlap, John, 1747-1812
Evans, Peter, fl. 1727-1744
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme, 1737-1801
Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831
Half-Town, Seneca chief
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Hare, Robert, 1781-1858
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
Hoffman, J. William
Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791
Hornor, Eliza
Hornor, Sarah, fl. 1786-1811
Howell, Isaac, 1722-1797
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948
Humphreys, Joshua, 1751-1838
Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796
Jay, John, 1745-1829
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823
King, Rufus, 1755-1827
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818
Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Marshall, John, 1755-1835
Martin, Luther, 1748-1826
Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829
McAllister, John A.
McHenry, James, 1753-1816
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
Nicholson, John, 1757-1800
Ord, George, 1781-1866
Paterson, William, 1745-1806
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Penn, William, 1644-1718
Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884
Rawle, William, 1759-1836
Read, George, 1733-1798
Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785
Riggs, Robert, fl. 1861-1862
Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Rossiter, Nellie Lincoln
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Rush, William, 1801-1864
Say, Thomas, 1787-1834
Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806
Shippen, William, 1736?-1808
Smith, Boyd M.
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin,
Baron von, 1730-1794
Stewart, Robert, fl. 1861-1866
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Thomas, John Chew, 1764-1836
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824
Tilghman, Edward, 1750-1815
Todd, John, d. 1793
Troup, Robert, 1757-1832
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862
Wall, Garret D. (Garret Dorset), 1783-1850
Waln, Richard, b. 1737
Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Wetherill, Samuel, 1736-1816
Wetherill, Samuel, 1764-1829
White, William, 1748-1836
Wilson, James, 1742-1798
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818
Woodward, William Wallis
Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817
Bedell family
Bennett family
Bloomfield family
Booth family
Bradford family
Carson family
Clayton family
Coates family
Creason family
Doan family
Horner family
McAllister family
Peale family
Penn family
Rittenhouse family
Stacy family
Waln family
Wetherill family
Yarnell family
Philadelphia (Pa.). Overseers of the Poor
United States. Continental Congress
United States. Navy
American Philosophical Society
Asylum Company
Library Company of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Society of Free Quakers
State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania
United Company of Philadelphia for Promoting American
Manufactures
United States Sanitary Commission
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subjects:
Advertising--United States
African Americans--Education
African Americans--History
American literature
American literature--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Art--United States
Arts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Arts--United States
Banks and banking--United States
Booksellers and bookselling--United States
Circus--United States
City and town life--United States
Communal living--United States
Cookery--United States
Courts--United States
Decorative arts--United States
Education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Education--United States
Exhibitions--United States
Fairs--United States
Finance--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Finance--United States
Holidays--United States
Hospitals--United States
Indians of North America--History
Industries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Industries--United States
Judicial power--United States
Labor--United States
Law--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Law--United States
Liquor industry--United States
Local history--United States
Medicine--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Medicine--United States
Money--United States
Paper industry--United States
Parks--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Performing arts--United States
Photography--United States
Political parties--United States
Pony express
Postal service--United States
Printers--United States
Printing--United States
Publishers and publishing--United States
Quaker church buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Schools--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Schools--United States
Science--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Science--United States
Shipping--United States
Ships--United States
Slavery--United States
Social history
Sports--United States
Technology--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Technology--United States
Telegraph--United States
Textile industry--United States
Tobacco--United States
Transportation--United States
Trials (Seditious libel)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
U.S. states--History
Wine and wine making--United States
Women--United States--History
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Great Britain--Colonies--America
Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Pennsylvania--Politics and government--To 1775
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Centennial celebrations, etc.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Religion
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs
United States--Commerce
United States--Description and travel
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
United States--History--War of 1812
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History, Military
United States--Politics and government
United States--Religion
United States--Social conditions
United States--Social life and customs
United States--Territorial expansion
Occupation:
Collectors
Administrative Information
Provenance: The Marian S. Carson Collection was acquired
by the Library of Congress by gift of Marian S. Carson
in 1996 and by purchase, 1996-1999.
Processing History: The Marian S. Carson Collection
was originally arranged by Carson in eight series or
subject categories within which items were organized
according to an alphanumeric classification. The catalogs
or checklists to which the classification numbers were
originally keyed are located in containers 56-57 of
this collection.
The Carson collection contains a variety of types of
material. A Library committee including representatives
from the Manuscript Division, the Prints and Photographs
Division, and the Rare Book and Special Collections
Division was formed to coordinate policy and establish
administrative guidelines for the parts of the collection
assigned to the appropriate custodial division. The
collection is described in Gathering History: The Marian
S. Carson Collection of Americana (Washington, D.C.:
Library of Congress, 1999).
Transfers: Items removed from the Manuscript Division
portion of the collection have been transferred to other
custodial divisions of the Library. Maps have been transferred
to the Geography and Maps Division. Music manuscripts
and printed musical scores have been transferred to
the Music Division. Some books, broadsides, pamphlets,
and printed ephemera have been transferred to the Rare
Book and Special Collections Division. Some prints and
photographs have been transferred to the Prints and
Photographs Division. All transfers are identified in
these divisions as part of the Marian S. Carson Collection.
Copyright Status: The status of copyright in the unpublished
writings of Marian S. Carson is governed by the Copyright
Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Restrictions: Restrictions apply governing the use,
photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection.
Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division
for information concerning these restrictions.
Electronic Format: Selections from the Marian S. Carson
Collection are available on the Library of Congress
Web site.
Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this
collection should include the following information:
Container number, Marian S. Carson Collection, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
1905
Born
1923
Married William Macpherson Hornor (1897-1969) (divorced
ca. 1935)
1935
Assisted her husband, William Macpherson Hornor, in
the compilation and publication of Blue Book, Philadelphia
Furniture (Philadelphia. 340 pp.) (Revised and reprinted,
1977)
1941
Published "Early Photography and the University," General
Magazine and Historical Chronicle, XLIII (Jan. 1941),
pp. 144-153
1942
Married Joseph Carson (died 1953)
1952
Published "Philadelphia: A Century Ago," American Philatelist,
LXV (Sept. 1952), p. 909
1954
Published "Early American Water Color Painting," Antiques,
LIX, no. 1 (Jan. 1954), pp. 54-56
1967
Published "Benjamin Hornor Coates, M.D. (1797-1881):
A Study Based on His Manuscripts," Transactions and
Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
4th ser., no. 35 (Oct. 1967), pp. 63-68
1979
Published "The Duncan Phyfe Shops by John Rubens Smith,
Artist and Drawing Master," American Art Journal, XI,
no. 4 (Autumn 1979), pp. 69-78
Scope and Content Note
The Americana collection of Marian Sadtler Carson (1905-
) spans the years 1656-1995 with the bulk of the material
dating from 1700 to 1876. Gathered by Philadelphia resident
Marian Carson and other members of her family, the Marian
S. Carson Collection contains a variety of formats and
types of material, including more than ten thousand
historical letters and manuscripts, broadsides, photographs,
prints and drawings, books and pamphlets, maps, and
printed ephemera from the colonial era through the 1876
centennial of the United States. The Manuscript Division
shares custodial responsibility for the collection with
the Library's Geography and Map Division, Music Division,
Prints and Photographs Division, and Rare Book and Special
Collections Division. The portion of the Carson Collection
in the Manuscript Division contains correspondence,
legal and financial records, political documents, journals,
military records, broadsides, and illustrated and printed
ephemera. Some of the highlights of the collection include
letters of United States presidents and several signers
of the Declaration of Independence, as well as extensive
files of manuscripts, broadsides, and ephemera relating
to American military, political, and social history.
The collection further contains significant files of
manuscripts and printed ephemera devoted to African-American,
Native American, and women's history, the development
of the American textile industry, canals, postal service,
transportation, and public institutions such as hospitals
and schools. Notable among the material is a large body
of papers pertaining to the founding of the Free Quakers
in America. In its depth and variety the collection
provides documentation on the founding of the nation,
the shaping of the national government and judicial
system, and the development of nearly every realm of
American endeavor, from the arts and literature, education,
law, and religion to commerce, finance, industry, medicine,
science and technology. The collection also contains
a small series of Carson family papers. Due to their
fragile condition, several items have been removed and
housed in a Restricted series at the end of the collection.
With Marian Carson's native city as its focus, the Carson
Collection contains individual items of great rarity
as well as historically important collections of family
and personal papers. The collection was constructed
upon materials accumulated through several generations
by Carson and other family members and represents a
"collection of collections." Displaying both an antiquarian
interest and scholarly instincts, Carson took an active
role in shaping her collection by arranging items in
subject categories or series of her own design. Carson
further devised an elaborate alphanumeric classification
system to identify and organize headings and subheadings
within these series. In keeping with the spirit and
objectives of her arrangement and to the extent practicable
in conformity with existing archival standards, the
Carson Collection, as presently arranged, retains much
of Carson's original organization, including her alphanumeric
classifications, which are cited in parentheses immediately
following related headings and subheadings, and is arranged
in the following series: Fine Arts and Literature, Practical
Arts, Entertainment, Printed Matter, Social History,
Biography, State and Local History, Political History,
Historical Letters and Manuscripts, General Correspondence,
and Carson Family Papers. The collection also contains
items from Carson's personal papers which document specific
acquisition and reference activities and provide general
background information regarding the formation and development
of her collection. This material, which is filed throughout
the collection, is listed as "background and reference
material" and organized as the first element in the
filing sequence regardless of alphabetical arrangement.
Carson's collecting had its origin in the decorative
arts, and the Fine Arts and Literature series contains
material relating to the fine arts, decorative and domestic
arts, literature, and the performing arts. As occurs
throughout the collection, the series contains an array
of seemingly ordinary documents, such as accounts, receipts,
and printed items, whose research value is realized
in the great detail they provide about daily life in
early America. Files relating to Philadelphia artist
Charles Willson Peale and his family are of particular
interest.
The Practical Arts series contains files on advertising,
food and cooking, general science, industries and trades,
law and government, liquor and tobacco, medicine, prints
and photographs, textiles, transportation, and wine
making. The material includes an abundance of advertising
ephemera, such as illustrated billheads, cards, covers,
and letterheads of various business and commercial concerns.
Science and medicine are fields in which Carson enthusiastically
collected. Notable physicians and scientists listed
in the series include Caleb Cresson, Robert Hare, Joseph
Henry, Edward Jenner, George Ord, Philip Syng Physick,
Benjamin Rush, Thomas Say, William Shippen, and Caspar
Wistar. Substantial material on the papermaking industry
includes files of Charles and John Cadwalader and the
Rittenhouse family. Law represents another of Carson's
collecting interests. Files containing letters, documents,
and trial notes of William Rawle from the libel trial
of Thomas Cooper, United States v. Cooper, are located
in the Practical Arts series. The series also contains
an 1801 report on meteorology and its relation to wine
making in America sent by Peter Legaux to Thomas Jefferson.
The Entertainment series includes items on such diverse
topics as cartoons, circuses and sideshows, expositions
and fairs, holiday celebrations, sports, Thanksgiving
proclamations, and the theater. The series also contains
material regarding carriers' addresses, which took the
form of poems and other compositions customarily written
by carriers of early American newspapers and other periodicals
to their subscribers at the beginning of the new year.
In addition to Americana, the Carson Collection contains
a small number of historically symbolic British documents
including printed copies of the Stamp Act and Sugar
Act. These items are filed within the Printed Matter
series along with other documents and records concerning
a wide variety of subjects, including banking and commerce,
postal service, printing and publishing, ships and shipping,
and telegraph service. The financial history of various
businesses and corporations, the Confederate States
of America, and national, state, and municipal governments
is documented by banknotes, bills of exchange, checks,
paper money from both domestic and foreign sources,
bond and stock certificates, lottery tickets, and revenue
stamps.
The Printed Matter series also includes items from Carson's
postal collection that celebrate the themes of American
geographic and commercial expansion. In addition to
postmarked letters, cards, and covers, the series contains
an important eyewitness account of the departure of
a Pony Express rider from St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1860.
Reflecting the position of Philadelphia as a center
of American printing and publishing in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, the series also contains letters
and documents representing the city's leading booksellers
and printers, including Robert Aitken, Benjamin Franklin
Bache, the Bradford family, Mathew Carey, William Cobbett,
John Dunlap, Benjamin Franklin, and William W. Woodward.
The development of the American internal transportation
system is yet another point of interest in such material
as business and financial records, letters, and printed
ephemera relating to canals, plank roads, railroads,
stagecoach lines, steamboats, tollroads, and turnpikes.
Related transportation files can also be found in the
Practical Arts series.
The history of social movements and classes proved fertile
ground for Carson's collecting, as documented in the
Social History series comprising material on African-American
history, communes, education, labor, Native Americans,
Quakers, religion, travel, and women. Items of interest
to Native American history include contemporary copies
of speeches by Cornplanter, Half-Town, and Big-Tree,
chiefs of the Seneca Nation; an elegy to the Bloody
Indian Battle Fought at Miami Village, November 4, 1791,
printed in 1802; and a letter written by Alexander Addison,
judge, to Thomas Mifflin, governor of Pennsylvania,
1796, reporting on his attempts to administer justice
on the Pennsylvania frontier. Carson's interest in documenting
the lives of women is reflected in letters and documents
of the Coates-Hornor family, Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson,
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Nellie Lincoln Rossiter.
The prominent role played by the Society of Friends,
or Quakers, in the development of the economic, educational,
political, social, and cultural life of Philadelphia
in colonial America is at the center of the Carson Collection.
The Social History series contains letters and documents
relating to the Friends, including transcripts of meetings
of the Free Quakers, also known as the "Fighting Quakers,"
society members who chose to support the American Revolution.
The lives of slaves are revealed through accounts, bills
of sale, indentures, legal documents, and records of
manumission. Correspondence of Quaker merchants James
and Joseph Bringhurst document the administration of
a school for African Americans in Philadelphia in the
1780s. The series further includes documents relating
to various educational institutions, including many
Quaker schools. Coates and Wetherill family items are
of special note.
The Biography series also contains abundant material
relating to Free Quakers, especially the Coates-Hornor,
Cresson, Waln, Wetherill, and Yarnell families. The
papers of the Waln and Wetherill families, prominent
merchants and manufacturers, are particularly revealing.
The Waln family account book, 1768-1769, and papers
of Richard Waln document the degree of Quaker influence
in the civic life and merchant culture of Philadelphia,
while the Wetherill family papers represent the single
most extensive and substantive file on the Free Quakers
in the collection. The American Revolution tested the
Quaker community and forced its members to reconcile
their commitment to the war of independence with their
pacifist beliefs. The papers of Samuel Wetherill (1736-1816)
contain an assortment of letters, accounts, broadsides,
legal documents, oaths of allegiance, political petitions,
subscription lists, and other items documenting both
the formation of the Free Quaker group and its contributions
to the war effort. Carson also assembled records concerning
the construction of the Free Quaker Meeting House in
Philadelphia, 1783-1784, which includes rare examples
of architectural drawings of the period. A record book
of the Overseers of the Poor, 1780-1784, illustrates
the benevolent philanthropy practiced by the Free Quakers.
The Biography series further contains letters, journals,
and other documents arranged by family or personal name
and continues many of the same subjects and themes noted
in other parts of the collection. In medicine, the casebooks
of Benjamin Hornor Coates and records of the Pennsylvania
Hospital, Philadelphia, are particularly important.
Other members of the Coates-Hornor family whose names
are listed here include Samuel Coates, Eliza Hornor,
and Sarah Hornor, whose detailed account of her 1794
trip from Philadelphia to New England is recorded in
"Journal to New England." The history of photography
is documented in the papers of the McAllister family,
Philadelphia opticians and pioneers in the field of
photography. A notebook containing articles and illustrations
of optical and scientific instruments kept by John McAllister
(1786-1877) is of special interest.
The Penn family papers in the Biography series relate
to the founding and early development of the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. In addition to letters, appointments,
commissions, deeds, and land grants, the papers also
contain original and file copies of Pennsylvania laws,
petitions, and other provincial executive and legislative
documents, among them a bound volume containing a manuscript
entitled "Laws Made and Passed by William Penn, 1700-1709."
The role of the Continental Congress and the nature
of political partisanship in the founding of the nation
can also be studied in the Biography series. The former
is discussed in the papers of Charles Thomson, secretary
of the Continental Congress, while the latter appears
in the letters of Samuel Wetherill (1764-1829), a Pennsylvania
state legislator who described efforts to choose electors
for the 1800 presidential campaign. Other important
collections of family and personal papers in the Biography
series include those of the Biddle, Bloomfield, Booth,
and Doan families, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Girard,
Andrew Hamilton, Joshua Humphreys, Timothy Matlack,
David Rittenhouse, Robert Troup, and William White.
The State and Local History series contains records
relating mostly to Pennsylvania and especially to Philadelphia.
Correspondence, accounts and receipts, deeds and surveys,
illustrated ephemera and printed matter, and indentures
and other financial and legal material document a cross
section of the city's civic, commercial, and professional
institutions and provide a portrait of early American
urban life. Charitable, community, cultural, economic,
fraternal, and social organizations featured in the
series include the American Philosophical Society, Asylum
Company, Library Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society, State Society of the Cincinnati
of Pennsylvania, and United Company of Philadelphia
for Promoting American Manufactures. The series contains
many examples of ephemera associated with the Centennial
Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 and material relating
to the development of the city's Fairmount Park, one
of the oldest and largest urban park systems in America.
The park's records document the planning and construction
of its canals and bridges, landscape design, and waterworks,
one of the great public works projects of its time.
The law, a profession often associated with Philadelphia,
is represented in the files of William Bradford, Edward
Burd, Peter Evans, Isaac Howell, Eli K. Price, William
Rawle, Edward Shippen, John Chew Thomas, Edward Tilghman,
Garret Dorset Wall, Bushrod Washington, and Jasper Yeates.
The law files also include a receipt book, 1786, kept
by Dolley Madison's first husband, John Todd (1719-1793).
Although Philadelphia provided the geographic focal
point around which the Carson Collection was formed,
Carson also collected outside that city's limits as
well. The State and Local History series includes files
from California to Virginia, including a letter in the
Virginia file from Archibald Carey to Thomas Jefferson,
1781, requesting troops and supplies for the Continental
army.
The Political History series contains material relating
to American military and political history ranging from
the colonial and Revolutionary War period through the
Civil War. "Letters and documents" subheadings organized
within Revolutionary War files contain items documenting
the American cause. The development and expansion of
the United States Navy is illustrated in the letters
and documents of Joshua Humphreys, Timothy Pickering,
and William Rush concerning the design and construction
of six frigates, 1795-1797. Civil War documents include
correspondence, family and personal papers, illustrated
and printed ephemera, and military records such as instructions,
muster rolls, rules and regulations, vouchers, and medical
papers, including items of the United States Sanitary
Commission. Papers of the Bennett, Clayton, and Stacey
families and of J. William Hoffman, Robert Riggs, Boyd
M. Smith, and Robert Stewart provide firsthand accounts
of Civil War action and of life in camp and at home.
The Historical Letters and Manuscripts series, consisting
of especially rare and important items, adds rich detail
to the broader topics listed above and is organized
within two headings: "autograph letters and documents"
arranged by name of writer and "broadsides and manuscripts"
arranged chronologically. Documents related to the nation's
founding and expansion include "A True Copy from the
Minutes" of the first Continental Congress printed in
1775; a letter from naval officer Joseph Ashmead to
financier Robert Morris, 1777, concerning the payment
of wages, appended with an autograph note signed John
Hancock; various oaths of allegiance, 1777-1796; a letter
from Thomas Jefferson, United States minister to France,
to M. Sauvage, attorney to the French parliament, 1788,
regarding payment for wartime services of foreign officers;
George Washington's printed proclamation of public thanksgiving,
1795; a letter from Secretary of State Timothy Pickering
to Rufus King, United States minister to Great Britain,
relating plans for the official government memorial
service honoring George Washington, 1799; a letter from
Secretary of State James Monroe to Joseph Bloomfield,
military commander, 1814, explaining his decision to
build upon American victories over British forces in
the War of 1812; and a letter from Joel Abbot, naval
commander of a United States frigate, to fellow naval
officer Andrew H. Foote, 1853, proposing a mission to
"explore the Rivers and Interior of Africa." Among other
prominent leaders represented in the series are Josiah
Bartlett, William Bingham, Charles Carroll, John Dickinson,
James Duane, Albert Gallatin, Alexander Hamilton, Francis
Hopkinson, Samuel Huntington, Henry Lee, Luther Martin,
James McHenry, Thomas Mifflin, John Nicholson, George
Read, Joseph Reed, and Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf
Gerhard Augustin von Steuben.
The series also contains documents concerning the organization
of government and the rule of law in the new republic,
including the manuscript draft of William Paterson's
speech in support of the Supreme Court and the separation
of powers in the federal government, 1789, and a printed
copy of An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the
United States, 1793, signed by Thomas Jefferson. Supreme
Court justices represented in the series include Charles
Evans Hughes, John Jay, John Marshall, William H. Taft,
and James Wilson. Presidential letters and documents
include those by Chester Alan Arthur, James Buchanan,
Grover Cleveland, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Thomas
Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, James Monroe,
James K. Polk, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt,
William H. Taft, Martin Van Buren, George Washington,
and Woodrow Wilson.
Organization of the Papers
The collection is arranged in thirteen series:
Fine Arts and Literature, 1697-1992, n.d.
Practical Arts, 1700-1994, n.d.
Entertainment, 1802-1991, n.d.
Printed Matter, 1725-1995, n.d.
Social History, 1656-1992, n.d.
Biography, 1681-1979, n.d.
State and Local History, 1682-1990, n.d.
Political History, 1755-1988, n.d.
Historical Letters and Manuscripts, 1747-1934, n.d.
General Correspondence, 1794-1933, n.d.
Carson Family Papers, 1882-1994, n.d.
Oversize, 1682-1902, n.d.
Restricted, 1761-1787
Container List
Box 1-5
Fine Arts and Literature, 1697-1992, n.d.
Correspondence, family and personal papers, legal documents,
deeds and indentures, accounts and receipts, poetry
and other writings, notes, prints and photographs, illustrated
and printed ephemera and other printed matter, background
and reference material, and miscellaneous items relating
to the fine arts, decorative and domestic arts, architecture
and interior decoration, literature, and the performing
arts, specifically dance and music.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, topic, or
type of material.
Box 1
American art (11)*
*Carson classification numbers. Refer to catalogs and
checklists, Marian S. Carson Collection, containers
56-57.
Artists
Background and reference material, 1990, n.d.
Harvey, George
(11.1.e)
Background and reference material, 1976, n.d.
Correspondence, 1841-1847, n.d.
Drawings and engravings, n.d.
Miscellany, 1837, 1847-1850, n.d.
Poetry and writings, n.d.
Longacre, James B.
(11.1.f.2)
Background and reference material, 1962-1967, 1992,
n.d.
Correspondence, 1860-1869, n.d.
Engravings, n.d.
Peale family
(11.1.g)
Background and reference material
Correspondence, 1936-1941, 1957, 1986
First day issue stamp, 1955
Notes, 1939, n.d.
Photographs, n.d.
Printed matter, 1939, 1956-1967, 1980-1989, n.d.
(3 folders)
Accounts and receipts, 1778, 1812
Correspondence, 1857, 1897
Family members
Peale, Charles Willson, 1780, 1799-1800
Peale, Franklin, 1861, 1870
Peale, Rembrandt, 1824, 1855-1859, n.d.
Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1884, n.d.
Miscellany, 1845, n.d.
Philadelphia Museum and "National Portraits"
Broadside and printed matter, 1865, n.d.
Box 2
Catalogs, 1796, 1806, 1813, 1831, 1855, 1868, n.d.
(2 folders)
Printed matter, 1829-1834, 1885
Calligraphy and penmanship (11.5)
Background and reference material, 1942-1943, 1949-1954,
1969, n.d.
Advertisements and broadsides, 1827, 1840, n.d.
Drawings and exercises, ca. 1840, n.d.
Miscellany, n.d.
Receipts, 1790, 1836
Miscellany, 1840
Pennsylvania-German bookplates, ca. 1760, ca. 1765,
ca. 1780
Printers and printing, 1793, 1813, 1829, 1839-1842,
1850, 1860, 1881, n.d. (11.5)
Decorative and domestic arts
Background and reference material, 1924, 1957, 1968,
1981, 1989, n.d.
American arts and crafts
Cabinetmakers, furniture, and upholsterers
Accounts and printed matter, 1786-1787, 1834-1836, 1845-1859,
1866-1876, 1887, n.d.
Claypoole, George, 1730-1782, 1798, n.d.
Candles, oil, and soap, 1828-1832, 1859-1860, 1874,
1885-1887, n.d.
Carpets, floor coverings, and oil cloths, 1797, 1811-1815,
1833-1840, 1850-1854, 1860-1864, 1875, 1882, 1890, n.d.
Chair makers, 1736-1747, 1784-1811, 1829, 1846-1853,
1883, n.d.
(10)
China, ceramics, and stoneware, 1847, 1856-1867, 1875,
n.d.
Clocks and watches
Accounts and printed matter, 1716, 1786-1787, 1795,
1806, 1813-1818, 1840-1847, 1862-1866, n.d.
(10)
Box 3
Riggs, William H. C.
Accounts and receipts, 1851-1856
Correspondence, 1845, 1854
Deeds, indentures, and other legal papers, 1832-1860,
1868, 1877, n.d. See also Oversize
Miscellany, 1884, n.d.
Furnishings, textiles, and other manufactured items,
1822, 1828-1834, 1844, 1857-1871, 1882-1884, 1892-1895,
n.d.
Glassware, 1772, 1810, 1827-1829, 1856-1865, 1871, 1880-1885,
n.d.
(10)
Goldsmiths, silversmiths, and jewelers
Accounts and printed matter, 1827, 1834, 1842-1877,
1892, n.d.
Dusenbery, William C., 1844-1846
Syng, Philip, 1758-1763, 1786, 1794, n.d.
Lamps and gas fixtures, 1850-1879, n.d.
Mirrors and frames, 1858-1864, 1873, n.d.
Painting and decorating, 1827, 1843, 1863-1868, n.d.
Pewterers, 1758, 1785, n.d.
(10)
Tinware, 1857-1864, 1875-1876, 1890
Trunks and carpetbags, 1860-1864, 1909, n.d.
Wallpaper and venetian blinds, 1762, 1851-1857, 1864-1872,
1878, n.d.
Architecture and interior decoration
Booth, James C., "Midhope," Haverford, Pa., n.d.
Cresson, William P., "Caversham," n.d.
Miscellany, n.d.
Auctions, estate sales, and inventories (10.1)
Ash, Rachel, estate of, 1817
(10.1.a)
Barry, John, estate of, 1803
Douglas, Andrew, estate of, 1802
Douglas, Joseph, 1796
Humphreys, Samuel, estate of, 1784
Lane, Isaac, estate of, 1794
Liedken, Daniel, estate of, n.d.
M. Thomas & Sons, 1889-1892 See also Oversize
Unidentified, n.d.
Household accounts
General accounts, 1697-1889, n.d.
(10; 10.2)
A-R
(2 folders)
Box 4
S-Z
Unidentified
Phipps, Stephen, 1781-1789, 1796-1797
Vaux family
Accounts and receipts, 1834-1836
Correspondence, 1823
Literature
Correspondence
Index, n.d.
"A-B" miscellaneous, 1846-1928
(16)
Channing, William Ellery, 1842
(15.2.c)
"C-G" miscellaneous, 1832-1906, n.d.
(16)
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1875-1876, 1890-1892
(16)
"H-R" miscellaneous, 1846-1891, n.d.
(16)
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, and family, 1847-1849, 1864-1868,
1875-1901, n.d.
(2 folders)
(15.2.d)
"S-T" miscellaneous, 1822-1836, n.d.
(16)
Unidentified, n.d.
(16)
Poetry, 1788, 1816, 1837-1890, n.d.
(2 folders)
(15.1; 15.1.a)
Writings, 1782-1786, n.d.
Performing arts
Dance, 1785, 1812-1813, 1841 (13.2)
Music
Background and reference material
American music
Eighteenth century, 1924, 1931-1941, 1949, 1960, 1974-1987,
n.d.
Box 5
Nineteenth century, 1941-1945, 1978, 1987, n.d.
Correspondence, 1969, 1975, 1986, 1992
Miscellany, 1939-1942, 1949, 1959, 1974, 1986-1991,
n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1814-1820, 1827, 1835, 1842,
1848, 1858-1861, 1869-1874, 1886
Correspondence, 1784, 1846, 1859, 1869, n.d.
Miscellany, 1808, 1861, 1881-1886, n.d.
Moravian music See same container, Musicians. Heitzman,
C. L.
Musicians
(13.1)
Bremner, James, 1787
Carr, Benjamin, 1809-1810, n.d.
(13.1.b)
Heitzman, C. L., 1833-1848
(13.1.c)
Hopkinson, Francis
(13.1.a)
Background and reference material, 1949, 1986, n.d.
Letters and receipts, 1770, 1786
Meredith, Samuel, and family, 1786-1797, n.d.
(14)
Box 5-16
Practical Arts, 1700-1994, n.d.
Correspondence, family and personal papers, financial
and legal documents, deeds and indentures, accounts
and receipts, speeches and writings, notes and notebooks,
prints and photographs, illustrated and printed ephemera
and other printed matter, background and reference material,
and miscellaneous items concerning the practical arts
and professions, including advertising, food and wine,
industries and trades, law and government, photography,
science and medicine, textiles, and transportation.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization,
topic, or type of material.
Box 5
Advertising (25)
Broadsides, illustrations, and printed matter, 1849,
1855-1858, 1865, 1873-1876, n.d. See also Oversize
Illustrated billheads, covers, and letterheads
Agriculture, 1859, 1873-1875, 1883-1901, 1912, n.d.
(2 folders)
Amusements, sports, and toys, 1853, 1864-1867, 1885-1901,
n.d.
Booksellers and publishers, 1858-1881, 1890-1902, 1914,
1935, n.d.
Chemicals, drugs, and medicine, 1854-1867, 1884-1900,
n.d.
Box 6
Clothing, food, liquor, and tobacco, 1854-1863, 1869-1899,
1913-1916, n.d.
(2 folders)
Hardware and machinery, 1852, 1858, 1864-1894, 1901,
n.d.
(2 folders)
Hotels and resorts, 1816, 1851-1899, 1905-1909, n.d.
(3 folders)
Household goods, 1854-1860, 1867-1918, 1953, n.d.
(2 folders)
Box 7
Insurance, 1867, 1877, 1889, n.d.
Politics and propaganda, 1897, 1908, 1945, n.d.
Professions and services, 1861-1863, 1876-1907, n.d.
Public offices, 1860-1866, 1873-1881, 1888-1894, n.d.
Schools, typewriters, and writing, 1850, 1860, 1886-1898,
1910, n.d.
Transportation, 1863, 1881-1886, 1893-1895, 1904, 1912,
1928, n.d.
Illustrated cards and circulars
Fold-down cards, 1888, n.d.
Humorous, 1910, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1880-1881, 1892-1900, n.d.
(2 folders)
Theatrical and literary, 1881-1882, n.d.
Food and cooking (26)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Correspondence, 1866
Financial and legal documents, 1745, 1777-1788, 1796,
1833, 1841, 1857-1864, 1887, 1899, n.d.
Funeral, 1829 See Container 34, same heading (26.3)
Printed matter, 1858, 1886 (26.7)
Refrigerators, 1858, n.d.
Stoves
Background and reference material, 1968-1969
Accounts and receipts, 1775-1785, 1816, 1824, 1840,
1846-1849, 1857-1875
Correspondence, 1859
Box 8
Printed matter, 1850, 1856-1858, 1871, 1876, 1882, 1888-1889,
n.d.
General science (29)
Background and reference material, 1954, 1993, n.d.
Chemistry, hardware, and other manufactured items
Background and reference material, 1994, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1738, 1765-1775, 1782-1794, 1823,
1859-1871
Correspondence, 1841-1842, 1849-1854, n.d.
Illustrations and printed matter, 1856, n.d.
Du Ponceau, Peter S., 1823, 1829 (29.1)
Inventions
Correspondence, 1844, 1866
(29.2)
Rumseian Society, 1788
(29.2.a)
Medicine (29.3)
Background and reference material, 1993
Dentistry, 1815, 1861, 1867-1869, 1876-1877, 1883, 1913
Letters and documents, 1700, 1729-1738, 1788-1798, 1824
Metallurgy, notebook on weights and measures, n.d.
Miscellany, n.d.
Physicians and scientists (29.5)
"A-B" miscellaneous, 1758-1885, n.d.
Cooke, John E., 1827
Cooper, Thomas, 1818, 1825, 1831
Coxe, William S., 1823-1826, n.d.
Cresson, Caleb, 1817-1818
"C-D" miscellaneous, 1777-1929, n.d.
Emlen, Samuel, 1816-1817, 1826-1829
"E-G" miscellaneous, 1784-1881, n.d.
Hahnemann, Samuel, 1833
Hare, Robert, 1838, n.d.
Henry, Joseph, 1857-1861
"H" miscellaneous, 1787, 1827, 1838-1843, 1853-1855,
n.d.
James, Thomas C., 1819, n.d.
Jenner, Edward, 1809-1813, 1824
"J-L" miscellaneous, 1782-1892, n.d.
Morton, Samuel George, 1841-1846, n.d.
"M" miscellaneous, 1787-1793, 1826-1829, 1854-1856,
1877, 1883, n.d.
Nightingale, Florence, 1871
"N" miscellaneous, 1787, 1847, 1858, 1881-1887, n.d.
Box 9
Ord, George, 1816-1836, 1855
(29.3)
"O" miscellaneous, 1756
Pleasants and Graff, 1820-1829, n.d.
Physick, Philip Syng, 1801-1802, 1822-1823
"P" miscellaneous, 1761, 1770-1772, 1798, 1803, 1849,
1874, 1882
Rush, Benjamin, 1793-1794, 1801, 1807-1813
"R" miscellaneous, 1791, 1862, 1882
Say, Thomas, 1797-1799, 1833-1834, n.d.
Shippen, William, 1786-1791
Swaim, William, 1828, 1846, n.d.
"S-V" miscellaneous, 1789-1892, n.d.
Wetherill, Samuel, and family, 1767-1773, 1811, 1824-1829,
1840, 1865
Wistar, Caspar, and family, 1802-1819, 1826, n.d.
"W-Z" miscellaneous, 1730-1889, n.d.
Industries and trades
Baths and washers, 1876, n.d.
Clothing and dry goods, 1808, 1818, 1830-1832, 1840-1884,
1894, n.d.
Hairdressing and wig making, 1833-1840, n.d.
Heating and ventilating, 1853, 1864, 1889
Locks and locksmithing, 1789, 1806, 1841-1842, 1858-1866,
1876, n.d.
Mining
Background and reference material, 1952-1958, 1977,
n.d.
Coal, 1828-1833, 1849-1864, n.d.
Duncannon Iron Works, 1848-1849
Perkiomen Consolidated Mining Co., annual report, 1852
Miscellaneous, 1783, 1858-1860, 1866-1879, 1902, n.d.
Papermaking
Background and reference material, 1951, 1977, 1988-1991,
n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1782, 1788-1794, 1827-1829, 1867,
1875
Cadwalader, Charles and John, 1799-1802, n.d.
Box 10
Correspondence, 1845, 1857, 1863
Illustrations and photographs, 1854, n.d.
Marble paper and pockets, 1819-1821, 1910, n.d.
(4 folders)
Miscellany, ca. 1760, 1907, 1938, n.d.
Rittenhouse family
Background and reference material
Correspondence, 1988-1992
Miscellany, 1937, n.d.
Printed matter, 1969, 1989-1992, n.d.
Box 11
Drawings, n.d.
Letters and documents, 1776, 1819-1820, 1891
Samples and watermarks, 1763-1766, 1776, 1796, 1836,
1855, n.d. See also Oversize
Plumbing and gas fitting, 1858-1876, n.d.
Shoemaking, 1774, 1785-1797, 1878, n.d.
Law and government (20)
Background and reference material, 1962, n.d.
Coates, Benjamin, legal book, 1830
Correspondence, 1769, 1799, 1819-1828, 1849, 1851-1856,
1885, n.d.
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. (20.1)
Documents and printed matter, 1803, 1821-1825, n.d.
United States v. Cooper, 1793-1799, n.d.
Financial and legal documents
Accounts, bonds, and insurance, 1771-1772, 1785-1799,
1815-1816, 1827, n.d.
Arrest warrants and subpoenas, 1781-1788, 1797-1801
Court documents and other records, 1773, 1781-1789,
1795-1806, 1814, 1832, 1838, 1851, 1857-1859
Deeds and indentures, 1720, 1742-1744, 1755-1760, 1773,
1779-1807, n.d.
(2 folders)
See also Oversize
Shipping forms and bills of lading, 1785, 1792-1796,
1807, 1849, n.d.
Box 12
Wills and estates, 1721, 1775-1777, 1783-1786, 1800-1802,
1849
Life and Confession of Arthur Spring, printed copy,
1853
Miscellany, 1825, n.d.
Sharswood, George
Account book, 1863
Correspondence, 1827-1830, 1849-1853
Diaries
Sharswood, George, 1826-1828
Unidentified, 1805, 1837
Essays, exercises, and other writings, 1827-1828, 1862,
n.d.
Miscellany, 1854-1859, n.d.
Speeches, n.d.
Smith, Richard P., 1842-1843, n.d.
Liquor and tobacco (27)
Distilleries
Gibson Distilling Co., 1911-1912
Miscellaneous, 1866
Financial and legal documents, 1729, 1765-1767, 1787-1789,
1828, 1841, n.d.
Tobacco sales and production, 1795, 1847, 1855, n.d.
(27.3)
Wine making (27.2)
Accounts and documents, 1791, 1807, 1817, n.d.
Correspondence, 1801-1809, 1846, n.d.
Denckla family, 1818, n.d.
"Descriptions of the Species and Varieties of Vines
in North America," holograph manuscript, n.d.
Box 13
Legaux family, 1789-1794, 1801, 1832, n.d.
Medicine (21)
Background and reference material, 1951, n.d.
Correspondence, 1825, 1839, 1845-1848, 1855, 1889 (21e)
Miscellany, 1853-1855, 1890 (21e)
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., 1785-1806,
n.d.
Prints and photographs (22)
Background and reference material
Accounts and receipts, 1939-1940, 1956-1959
Catalogs, 1955, 1984, 1994, n.d.
Checklists, n.d.
Correspondence
Boyer, Alden Scott, 1945-1946, n.d.
Dennis, Robert, 1938-1943
Eastman Kodak Co., 1938
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., 1938-1940
Mackay, Zelda P., 1944-1945
Miscellaneous, 1937-1963, 1972-1973, 1981, 1994, n.d.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1938-1939
Phillips, Albert R., Jr., 1941-1948, n.d.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1939-1941
Goddard, Paul Beck, 1939-1940, n.d.
Miscellany, 1940, 1975-1976, 1990-1994, n.d.
Newspaper clippings, 1938-1953, 1971, 1983-1986, n.d.
Notes, n.d.
Pictorial Photographers of America, centennial of photography
exhibit, 1939, 1972
Printed matter, 1927, 1938-1946, 1968, 1975, n.d.
Tees, Ambler, 1917, 1938, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1853, 1859-1864, 1878
Amateur Photographic Exchange Club
Background and reference material, n.d.
Letters and documents, 1861-1864, 1872, n.d.
Correspondence, 1819, 1860-1866, 1872-1877, 1915
Box 14
Daguerreotype
Background and reference material, 1933-1934, 1939,
1946, 1968, n.d.
Broadsides and printed matter, 1846-1852, n.d.
Miscellany, 1856-1877, 1898, 1928-1934, n.d.
Photographers
Booth, James C., 1847, 1855, 1862-1874, 1880-1892, n.d.
Draper, John W.
Background and reference material, 1934-1939, n.d.
Letters and printed matter, 1837, 1853
Gutekunst, F., 1865, 1899, n.d.
Sartain, John, n.d.
Stereoscope, 1855-1865, 1871, n.d.
Textiles (24)
Background and reference material
Correspondence, 1952-1962, 1972-1974, 1989, n.d.
Just New from the Mills, Museum of American Textile
History, North Andover, Mass., 1987
Miscellany, 1927, 1934, 1961, 1986-1994, n.d.
Notes, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1767, 1773, 1780-1785, 1810-1815,
1833-1835, 1845, 1860-1862, 1868, 1876-1879, n.d.
Correspondence, 1820, 1831-1849, 1875, 1890
Doll's dress, n.d.
Engravings and illustrations, 1828, n.d.
Miscellany, 1818, 1832, 1848, 1859, 1868, 1894-1896,
n.d.
Box 15
Samples and pattern books, 1832, ca. 1847, n.d.
(3 folders)
Transportation (23)
Canals, 1808-1809
Carriages, saddlery, and wagons, 1781-1782, 1790-1794,
1831, 1860-1864, 1870, 1883-1888, n.d.
Railroads
Background and reference material, n.d.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1877
Business records, 1829, 1835-1846, 1855, 1862
Correspondence, 1830-1835, 1841-1869
Engravings, photographs, and other illustrations, 1891-1899,
n.d.
Financial and legal documents
Bond and stock certificates, 1841, 1854-1859, 1866-1873,
1883, 1889-1903, 1929, n.d. See also Oversize
Miscellaneous, 1844, 1852, 1858-1861, 1867-1870, 1878,
1917, n.d.
Receipts, 1841-1873, 1880, 1898, 1916
Vouchers, 1840-1842, 1862-1866, n.d.
"Main Line"
Background and reference material, n.d.
Canceled covers and envelopes, 1834, 1860-1861, 1874-1901,
n.d.
Box 16
Correspondence, 1839, 1846-1850, 1879-1885, 1911
Miscellany, n.d.
Miscellany, 1860-1863, 1882-1889, n.d.
Passes and tickets, 1837-1850, 1862-1866, 1885-1888,
1896, 1902, n.d.
Posters, 1855, n.d. See Oversize
Printed matter, 1853, 1860-1864, 1872, 1878-1884, 1902,
n.d. See also Oversize
Rates and schedules, 1851-1853, 1860-1863, 1870, 1882-1895,
1903, 1920, n.d. See also Oversize
Box 16-18
Entertainment, 1802-1991, n.d.
Correspondence, legal documents, accounts and receipts,
prints and photographs, illustrated and printed ephemera
and other printed matter, background and reference material,
and miscellaneous items documenting various amusements
and pastimes such as circuses and sideshows, expositions
and fairs, sports, and theater.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, topic, or
type of material.
Box 16
Carriers' addresses (30)
Background and reference material, 1942, 1972, 1984,
n.d.
Printed matter, 1856, 1870, 1876
Cartoons, background and reference material, 1991 (35)
Christmas, n.d. (31)
Circuses, sideshows, and natural wonders (33)
Advertising handbills, broadsides, and posters, 1824,
1835, 1860, n.d.
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 1881
Magic, background and reference material, 1949
Miscellany, 1835
Ringling Brothers, ca. 1905
Expositions and fairs
Miscellaneous, 1875-1881, 1899-1903, 1915
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1892-1893
Sports (32)
Background and reference material, 1948, 1954-1959,
1981, n.d.
Archery
Correspondence, 1839-1840, 1862, 1877
Receipts, 1851, 1889
United Bowmen of Philadelphia
Archer's Manual, 1830
Box 17
Constitution and regulations, 1836, 1844
History of the United Bowmen of Philadelphia, printed
copy, 1888
Miscellany, 1839, 1852, 1870, n.d.
Automobiles, 1904
Baseball, 1884-1889, n.d.
Bicycling
Legal papers, 1898, 1942, n.d.
Miscellany, 1881, 1891-1898, n.d.
Boxing, 1851
Football, 1852
Foxhunting, 1849
Gymnastics, swimming, and physical culture
Miscellany, 1833, 1860-1864, 1896, n.d.
Printed matter, 1849, 1868, 1880, 1887-1888
Horseback riding, 1839, 1847, 1854-1864, 1899, n.d.
Hunting and fishing
Miscellany, 1871, 1882, n.d.
Sportsmen's clubs
Miscellaneous, 1860, 1871, 1895
State in Schuylkill, 1891, 1947, n.d.
Ice skating, 1857, 1864, 1884, 1895, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1858, 1876-1881, 1911, n.d.
Printed matter, 1878, n.d.
Tennis
Background and reference material, 1936, 1953, n.d.
Miscellany, 1880-1885, n.d.
Thanksgiving proclamations, 1848, 1863-1865 (36)
Theater (34)
Background and reference material, 1945, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1802, 1828-1833
Box 18
Broadsides, posters, and printed matter, 1855-1864,
1895, 1921, n.d. See also Oversize
Correspondence
Ford, John T., n.d.
Forrest, Edwin, 1839
Miscellaneous, 1855, n.d.
Engravings and illustrations, 1828, n.d.
Box 18-25
Printed Matter, 1725-1995, n.d.
Correspondence, family and personal papers, financial
and legal documents, business records, bond and stock
certificates, currency, accounts and receipts, postage
and revenue stamps, philatelic covers and envelopes,
illustrated and printed ephemera and other printed matter,
background and reference material, and miscellaneous
items relating to banking and commerce, postal service,
printing and publishing, shipping, telegraph service,
and transportation.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization,
topic, or type of material.
Box 18
English printed matter, Sugar Act and Stamp Act, 1751,
1764-1770, 1778 (46)
Financial papers (43)
Background and reference material
Correspondence, 1953-1957, 1987
Miscellany, 1952, 1988-1993, n.d.
Accounts and receipts
Miscellaneous, 1776-1797, 1804, 1811-1817, 1826, 1836-1837,
1851, 1866-1869, n.d.
Phipps, Stephen
(43.1)
1771-1790
(4 folders)
Box 19
1791-1798, n.d.
(2 folders)
Thompson, James and Robert, 1807-1817, 1823-1826, n.d.
Bank and promissory notes, checks, and other financial
items
Background and reference material, 1962, n.d.
Banks and banking
Bank of North America, 1782-1794, 1804-1825, 1860-1862,
n.d.
Bank of the United States, 1791-1811, 1817-1818, 1826-1845,
n.d.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Miscellaneous, 1836-1843
Philadelphia Bank, 1809, 1819-1825, 1847-1852, 1859,
n.d.
Schuylkill Bank, 1813-1815, 1826-1839, n.d.
Southwark Savings Bank, 1837-1839
States
Delaware, 1859-1862, 1872, n.d.
Georgia, 1854-1861, n.d.
Maryland, 1837, 1862
Miscellaneous, 1808, 1835, 1851-1864
New Jersey, 1814-1823, 1857-1862, n.d.
New York, 1817, 1840-1844, 1865, 1889
Pennsylvania, 1836-1849, 1859-1863, n.d.
Tennessee, 1855, 1861
Virginia, 1861, n.d.
Washington, D.C., and vicinity, 1815, 1822, 1852
Commercial and private obligations, 1771, 1780-1789,
1796, 1802, 1815, 1821-1827, 1840-1848, 1856-1871, 1880-1881
Government and municipal obligations, 1777-1784, ca.
1790, 1837, 1861-1862 See also Oversize
Business and corporate records
Insurance, 1795, 1827-1828, 1838-1843, 1851
Jay Cooke and Co., 1861, 1868, n.d.
Mining, 1866-1874
Transportation
Canals, 1795-1804, 1813, 1823-1829, 1838-1846, 1856-1858,
1869
Box 20
Plank roads, tollroads, and turnpikes, 1779, 1793-1795,
1802-1822, 1828, 1851-1853, 1867, n.d.
Railroads, 1837-1842, 1863
Confederate States of America
Bond certificates, 1861-1864 See also Oversize
Treasury notes, 1861-1864
Correspondence, 1842-1845, n.d.
Currency
Background and reference material, n.d.
Colonial and continental bills and certificates
Continental Congress, 1775-1779
Counterfeit currency, 1779
Miscellaneous, 1756, 1775, 1781
States
Connecticut, 1773-1776, 1787
Delaware, 1746, 1756-1759, 1776-1777
Georgia, 1776-1778
Maryland, 1770-1776
Massachusetts, 1780
New Hampshire, 1780
New Jersey, 1757-1763, 1776
New York, 1775
North Carolina, 1771, 1778
Pennsylvania, 1759-1777
Rhode Island, 1780-1786
South Carolina, 1775-1779
Virginia, 1777
Foreign
Certificates, notes, and other government obligations,
1792-1793, 1827, 1852, 1866, 1902, 1914-1927, 1944,
n.d.
Bills of exchange, 1766-1777, 1788-1796, 1808-1854,
n.d. See also Oversize
Box 21
Miscellany, n.d.
Fractional and postage, ca. 1860s
U.S. dollar bills, 1928, 1935, 1953
Lotteries
Letters and documents, 1795, 1830, n.d.
Miscellany, 1817, n.d.
Tickets, 1753, 1773-1776, 1784-1796, 1806-1814, 1823-1825,
1832-1833, 1880-1886, 1951, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1778, 1806, 1814-1816, 1834, 1847-1849,
1852, 1868, 1884, n.d.
Prices current and rates of exchange, 1764, 1771, 1848,
n.d.
Printed matter
The One Dollar Bill, 1845
Paine, Thomas, Dissertations on Government, the Affairs
of the Bank, and Paper-Money, 1786
Revenue stamps
Background and reference material, 1941, 1957, n.d.
Miscellany, 1785, 1800, 1864, n.d.
Stamps
Embossed, 1795-1804, 1814-1816, 1837, 1846
Printed, 1760, 1864-1888, 1898-1902, 1915-1919, 1955,
n.d.
(2 folders)
Stocks and bonds
Background and reference material, n.d.
Certificates
1835-1838, 1848-1872, 1879-1881
Box 22
1882-1912, 1923, 1939, n.d.
Treasury Department, 1790, 1798, 1811, 1823, 1833, 1851
Postal service (42)
Background and reference material, 1956-1960, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1755, 1776-1839, 1846, 1853,
1860, 1866-1867, 1890, n.d.
Correspondence, 1766, 1787-1789, 1816, 1846, 1851, 1859
Covers and envelopes, 1774-1958, n.d.
(2 folders)
Miscellany, 1775, 1791, 1860, 1887-1893, 1900, 1915,
1950, n.d.
Philadelphia registered ("R") markings, 1846-1855, n.d.
(3 folders)
Pony Express, 1860
Box 23
Post Office Department
Correspondence and memoranda, 1792, 1800-1807, 1830-1832,
1838-1850, 1859-1861, 1879, 1887, 1893
Financial and legal papers, 1817, 1829-1832, 1838, 1852-1857,
1883, 1895, n.d.
Miscellany, 1863-1865, 1871-1879, n.d.
Printed matter, 1800, 1808, 1839, 1847, 1879, 1893-1897,
n.d.
Postcards, 1893, 1905, n.d.
Prints and photographs, 1728, 1851, 1859, 1867, 1908,
n.d.
Stamps, 1860-1861, 1876, 1945-1947, 1963, 1976, 1988-1989,
n.d.
Transportation and passenger lines
Accounts and receipts, 1818, 1827-1829, 1838-1868
Adams Express Co., 1847-1867, 1884, 1915
Bills of lading, 1787-1796, 1827-1831, 1841-1843, 1851,
1859
Letters and autographs, 1864, 1905, n.d.
Miscellany, 1809, 1826, 1835, 1843-1847, 1862-1866,
1881, n.d.
Stagecoach lines, 1829, 1852, n.d.
Steamboats
Accounts and receipts, 1818, 1842-1854, 1880, n.d.
Miscellany, 1831, 1837, 1851-1853, 1860-1865, 1913,
n.d.
Wells Fargo & Co., 1861-1864, 1870, n.d.
Printing and publishing (41)
Background and reference material, 1936-1942, 1961-1966,
1994-1995, n.d.
Box 24
Accounts and receipts, 1747, 1753, 1765-1774, 1784-1878,
1884-1886, 1892, n.d.
(5 folders)
Advertisements, broadsides, circulars, and trade cards,
1785, 1802-1807, 1836, 1845-1852, 1859-1874, n.d.
(2 folders)
See also Oversize
Booksellers, illustrators, and printers (41.1)
Aitken, Robert
Background and reference material, 1950, 1961, n.d.
Letters and documents, 1781, 1797-1798, n.d.
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1783, 1792-1796, n.d.
Bailey, Francis, and family, 1780, 1806, 1812
Bradford family, 1725-1733, 1742, 1762, 1776-1777, 1786-1787,
1799-1800, n.d.
Brown, Andrew, 1796-1797
Carey, Mathew, and family
Background and reference material, 1930
Correspondence
Book and publishing orders, 1785-1789, 1795-1796, 1802-1815,
1831-1833, n.d.
General, 1787-1789, 1800-1803, 1815-1817, 1827-1832,
1838-1841, n.d.
Financial and legal documents, 1785-1799, 1815, 1827-1835,
n.d.
Miscellany, 1791, 1802, n.d.
Claypoole, David C., 1792-1799, 1818
Cobbett, William, 1794-1800, 1809-1810
Conrad, John, 1802, 1810, 1829, n.d.
Dunlap, John
Background and reference material, 1927
Letters and documents, 1777-1780, 1789-1797
Evans, H., 1852-1853, 1861-1868, n.d.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1751-1753, 1760-1765, 1780, n.d.
Box 25
Hall, David, 1756-1770, 1799
Johnson, Lawrence, 1843-1849, 1864, n.d.
Lang, Thomas
(41.2)
Estate papers, 1789-1795, 1810-1815
Letters and documents, 1775, 1791
Oswald, Eleazar
Background and reference material, n.d.
Letters and documents, 1782-1791, n.d.
Poulson, Zachariah, 1788, 1799-1807, 1826
Woodward, William W., 1798, 1804-1820
Correspondence, 1765, 1827-1832, 1845, 1851-1868, 1875,
n.d.
Financial and legal documents
Bonds and indentures, 1762-1788, 1796, 1810-1813, 1837
(2 folders)
Estate papers, 1769, 1793, 1802-1804, 1810-1814, 1824
Miscellaneous, 1785, 1795-1797, 1810-1813 See also Oversize
Illustrated cards, covers, and letterheads, 1775, 1856,
1876, 1893, n.d.
Miscellany, 1878, 1899, 1926, n.d.
Printing press, 1857, n.d.
Sachse, Julius F., Ephrata collection, n.d. See Oversize
Ships and shipping
Background and reference material, n.d.
Agreement and regulation of seamen in the merchant's
service, 1796-1799 See Oversize
Documents and printed matter, 1758, 1770, 1804-1805,
n.d. (45)
Telegraph
Background and reference material, n.d.
Envelopes, n.d.
Messages, 1849-1854, 1864-1865, 1876-1884, 1903, 1908
Miscellany, 1847-1848, 1877-1878
Box 26-29
Social History, 1656-1992, n.d.
Correspondence, family and personal papers, journals,
financial and legal documents, deeds and indentures,
accounts and receipts, transcripts, reports, notes,
prints and photographs, illustrated and printed ephemera
and other printed matter, background and reference material,
and miscellaneous items documenting various topics of
social history including African Americans, education,
the labor movement, Native Americans, religion, and
women.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization,
topic, or type of material.
Box 26
African-American history (57)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Antislavery societies
Background and reference material, 1984
Pennsylvania, 1790, 1862-1864
Bacon, William, report to the Domestic Missionary Society
of Philadelphia, Pa., n.d.
Correspondence
Bringhurst, James and Joseph, 1786, 1792, 1817
Miscellaneous, 1801, 1820, 1826-1827, 1838-1852, 1867,
1890, n.d.
Indentures, 1783-1788, 1795
King, Lewis, land deed, 1909
Newspapers
The Liberator, 1843, 1852, 1865 See Oversize
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1866 See Oversize
Staunton Vindicator, 1860 See Oversize
Slavery
Accounts, manifests, and other documents, 1775, 1817,
1855, 1864
Bills of sale, 1744-1747, 1770, 1797-1803, 1817, 1838-1844,
1864
Legal documents, 1758, 1786-1792, 1797, 1810, 1841
Manumission, 1764, 1783, 1788
Communes, religion, and sects (56)
Background and reference material, 1951-1956, 1992,
n.d.
German baptismal record, 1765
Kemper, Jackson, 1835
Mormons, 1855
Education (53)
Background and reference material, 1990-1991, n.d.
Academies and other institutions, 1789-1790, 1800-1819,
1826-1853, 1862-1864, 1875, 1895, n.d.
(2 folders)
Accounts and receipts
Meredith family, 1786-1797
Miscellaneous, 1753-1768, 1779-1802, 1817-1842, 1858-1860,
n.d.
Wetherill family, 1787-1789, 1798-1800, 1807-1813, 1820,
n.d.
Box 27
Colleges and universities
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.
(53.3)
Coates family, 1856-1862, 1879, n.d.
(3 folders)
Miscellany, 1863, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1811, 1819, 1826, 1834-1835, 1844, 1850,
1858
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1791,
1827, 1879, 1903-1904
Correspondence, 1778, 1814-1819, 1825, 1834-1840, 1854,
n.d.
Kirk, Lewis, mathematics exercise book, n.d.
Muhlenberg, William A., 1831-1832, 1839, n.d.
Union library, n.d.
Juveniles, background and reference material, 1962,
n.d. (52)
Labor (54)
Background and reference material
Notes, n.d.
Printed matter, 1965, n.d.
Association of Journeymen Hatters, n.d.
Brotherly Union Society, hat ribbon, 1823
Correspondence, 1863, 1897-1901
Manual Labor Banking House
Background and reference material, n.d.
Bank notes, 1836-1837
Oil (54.2)
Background and reference material, 1948, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1788, 1886
Correspondence, 1860-1863, 1883
Printed matter, 1868
Printed matter
Communist Manifesto, 1912
Miscellaneous, 1892
Native Americans (59)
Background and reference material, 1950, n.d.
Bloody Indian Battle Fought at Miami Village, November
4, 1791, printed copy, 1802
Correspondence
Addison, Alexander, to Thomas Mifflin, 1796
Miscellaneous, 1752, 1767, 1776, 1786, 1796, 1813, 1849
Box 28
Trent, William, 1757, 1776
Croghan, William, 1786, n.d.
Documents and reports, 1711, 1852, n.d.
Notes by Cresson on Indian treaties and speeches, n.d.
Speeches by Cornplanter, Half-Town, and Big-Tree, chiefs
of the Seneca Nation, 1791
Quakers (58)
Correspondence, 1656, 1788
Documents, 1741-1742, 1756, 1772, 1798, n.d.
Free Quakers
Copy of a 1706 application for a burial ground, 1803
Transcripts of Free Quaker meetings, 1781-1786
Miscellany, n.d.
Travel (55)
Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike Road Co., minutes
of meeting, 1822
Journal, Pennsylvania-New York trip, 1836
Women (51)
Background and reference material, 1921, 1953, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1783, 1827-1831, 1860-1862, 1871-1876,
n.d.
Coates-Hornor families, 1739, 1755, 1792, 1799-1805,
1844, 1852-1858, 1875-1885, 1898, n.d.
(2 folders)
(51.3)
Correspondence, 1801, 1835-1844, 1850, 1864, 1873-1876,
1884-1901, n.d.
(2 folders)
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme (51.7)
Background and reference material, 1952, n.d.
Correspondence, 1777-1790, 1797, n.d.
Inventory, 1779
Land survey map, 1770
Print, n.d.
"Flowers and Mosses of the Ocean," 1849, n.d.
(2 folders)
Box 29
Legal documents, 1781-1789, 1795, 1853, n.d. (51.4)
Miscellany, 1864, n.d.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (51.6)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Correspondence, 1851-1862
Prints and photographs, 1826, 1849, 1859, n.d.
Rossiter, Nellie Lincoln, 1835-1838, 1885-1887, n.d.
(51.8)
Box 29-43
Biography, 1681-1979, n.d.
Correspondence, family and personal papers, journals,
financial and legal documents, deeds and indentures,
business records, accounts and receipts, government
and legislative documents, medical papers, speeches
and writings, account books, estate papers, notes and
notebooks, prints and photographs, illustrated and printed
ephemera and other printed matter, autographs, background
and reference material, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein
alphabetically by name of person or family member.
Box 29
Autograph collectors and dealers (60.1)
Correspondence, 1831-1833, 1840-1843, 1850-1868, 1874,
1885-1901, 1914-1926, n.d.
Miscellany, 1902, n.d.
Autographs, 1781, 1833-1837, 1844-1856, 1865, n.d.
Family and personal papers
Abercrombie, James, 1793 (62.7)
Beale, Truxton, n.d.
Biddle family, 1759-1761, 1778-1779, 1838, 1848, 1899,
n.d. (66)
Bloomfield family (62.9)
Background and reference material, 1936
Bloomfield, Isabella, 1823-1825
Bloomfield, Joseph
Accounts and receipts, 1803, 1813-1825
Auction account book, 1833
Correspondence
Calhoun, John C., 1823
Giles, James, 1783, 1822-1823
Miscellaneous, 1818-1823
Law library inventory, 1812
Legal documents and land surveys, 1770, 1789-1801, 1820-1822,
1888
Printed matter, 1815-1820, n.d.
Box 30
Bloomfield, Moses, account book, 1784-1794
Booth family
Booth, Ann, 1818, 1833-1835
Booth, James C.
Background and reference material, n.d.
Correspondence, 1846-1858, 1874-1875, 1883-1901
(7 folders)
Miscellany, 1836-1842, 1853-1857, 1869-1876, 1884, n.d.
See also Oversize
Other family members, 1852, 1884-1895, n.d.
(4 folders)
Box 31
Charlton, John, 1830, 1841, 1875-1880
Coates-Hornor family (61.2)
Background and reference material, 1954, 1964
Coates, Benjamin Hornor
Background and reference material
Carson, Marian S., "Benjamin H. Coates," Transactions
and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
Oct. 1967
Correspondence, 1962-1966, n.d.
Notes, n.d.
Printed matter, 1963-1967, n.d.
Correspondence, 1835, 1865
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.,
1865, n.d.
Medical papers
Accounts and receipts, 1854
Case studies
Casebooks, 1819-1822, 1833-1834
(3 folders)
Miscellaneous, ca. 1828-ca. 1867, n.d.
Engravings and illustrations, n.d.
Hydrometer, 1826
Notes, n.d.
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., 1801-1806,
1826, 1833-1842 See also Oversize
Physick, Philip Syng, letter of recommendation, 1822
Speeches and lectures
"At Opening Course of School of Medicine," 1831
"Oration on the Grounds for the Condemnation of Quackery,"
1831
Writings
Coates, Benjamin Hornor
"Cases of Insanity Treated by Opium, in the Pennsylvania
Hospital," 1833-1834
On the Effects of Secluded and Gloomy Imprisonment on
Individuals of the African Variety of Mankind in the
Production of Disease, printed copy, 1843
"Report to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Instructions
for Medical Department of Exploring Expedition," 1836
"Thoughts on the Construction of a New Lunatic Asylum,"
1835
Coates, Benjamin Hornor, and J. O'B. Lawrence
"Experiments on Absorption," 1823
Box 32
"Observations in Pathological Anatomy," prepared for
publication by Richard Harlan, 1823
Poem, "On the Landing of William Penn," 1829
Coates, Beulah (1659-1741)
Account book, 1719-1724
Genealogy, n.d.
Coates, Beulah (1813-1881), 1855, n.d.
Coates, George Morrison, 1829, 1847, 1854
Coates, Josiah, 1814
Coates, Mary, book of transcribed letters and testimony,
1765
Coates, Samuel (1711-1748), will, 1748
(61.1)
Coates, Samuel (1748-1830)
(61.1)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1781-1794, 1825
Correspondence, 1782-1787, 1793-1796, 1802-1803, 1818,
1824, n.d.
(6 folders)
Financial and legal documents, 1786-1792, 1825
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., 1804, 1818-1821
Coates, Sarah Hornor, 1882-1883, n.d.
Coates, Thomas
Biography, 1897
Will, 1719 See Oversize
Hornor, Eliza, account book, 1792
Hornor, Joseph P., 1821-1823
Hornor, Rebecca, 1818, 1831-1833
Box 33
Hornor, Sarah
Correspondence, 1798-1805, 1811
(2 folders)
Journal, includes "Journal to New England," 1786-1794,
n.d.
Other family members, 1800-1801
Other than Coates-Horner family members
Correspondence, 1802, 1840
Niskey, Peter, masonic membership petition, 1863
Staughton, L., journal, 1787 See Restricted
Paschall, Elizabeth Coates
Biography, n.d.
Will, 1768
Reynell, John
Correspondence, 1782-1783, 1789-1790
Financial and legal documents, 1783-1784, 1791
Cresson family, 1814, 1871-1882, 1899-1901, 1908, n.d.
Denckla, Mary and W. P., 1862-1869, 1876-1882, 1888-1890,
n.d.
Doan family papers (62.14)
Background and reference material, 1950-1953
Doan, Abraham and Levy, 1788
Doan, Aaron and Joseph, 1784
Franklin, Benjamin, 1787-1790, n.d. See also Oversize
(61)
Girard, Stephen (62.17)
Background and reference material
Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa., Founder's Hall museum
project
Biographical material, n.d.
Notes and plans, n.d.
Proposal, 1979
Printed matter, 1939, n.d.
Financial and legal documents, 1799, 1805, 1829, n.d.
Letter, 1795
Box 34
Hamilton, Andrew (64)
Estate, 1741-1742, n.d.
Financial and legal documents, 1720, 1729
Illustration, n.d.
"The Life and Character of a Strange He Monster" and
other writings
Background and reference material, 1939, n.d.
Transcription, ca. 1726-1741
Miscellany, 1701, n.d.
Transcripts of litigation regarding Clark's Hall, 1719
Humphreys, Joshua (62.11)
Background and reference material, 1959, n.d.
Accounts, 1766
Act to incorporate the district of Southwark, ca. 1795
Deeds, 1792-1795
Kittredge, G. H., 1881-1883
Kluge, Charles F., 1840-1843
Logan, Deborah and James, 1786, n.d. (62.10)
Matlack, Timothy (62.12)
Engraving, ca. 1826
Financial and legal documents, 1769-1771, 1780-1784,
1802-1806, 1825-1829
Funeral, 1829
(26.3)
Letter, 1802
McAllister family
Background and reference material, 1951, n.d.
McAllister and Brother, 1854-1861, n.d. See also Oversize
McAllister and Co., 1853, n.d.
McAllister, Frances, 1785-1791
McAllister, J. C., 1894, n.d.
McAllister, John (1753-1830), 1778-1786, 1792-1796,
1810, 1819, 1825-1828, n.d.
McAllister, John (1786-1877)
Background and reference material, 1951, n.d.
Account books
Daybook A, 1830-1840
Box 35
Ledger C, 1855-1873
Correspondence, 1856-1869, n.d.
Miscellany, 1803, 1832-1833, 1860, 1878, n.d.
Notebook of optical and scientific instruments, 1809-1865
McAllister, Thomas H., 1866, n.d.
McAllister, W. Mitchell, 1817, 1869-1873, n.d. See also
Oversize
McAllister, William Young
Background and reference material, 1970
Advertisements and broadsides, n.d. See also Oversize
Correspondence, 1834-1843, 1853
James W. Queen & Co., 1853, 1881, 1888, n.d. See also
Oversize
Miscellany, 1817, 1855-1857, n.d.
Box 36
McLean, George, 1889 (61.5)
Myers family, 1799-1803, 1817-1818, 1827-1831
Penn family (61.3)
Background and reference material, 1950, 1963, n.d.
Appointments, bonds, commissions, and other documents,
1701, 1725-1726, 1733-1763, 1771
(2 folders)
See also Oversize and Restricted
Estate papers
Correspondence
Index, n.d.
1801, 1812-35, 1842, 1852, 1871
(2 folders)
See also Oversize
Financial and legal documents, 1681-1870, n.d.
Family members
Penn, John, 1736, 1743-1746, 1783 See also Oversize
Penn, Richard, 1785
Penn, Springett, 1756
Penn, Thomas, 1736
Penn, William
"Laws Made and Passed by William Penn, 1700-1709," n.d.
See Oversize
Letter, transcribed copy, 1684
Proposed sale of Pennsylvania to England, 1711-1714
See also Oversize
Genealogy, 1871
Land grant to Thomas Mintz, 1687
Legal and legislative documents, 1705, 1726, 1732, 1738,
1750-1764, n.d. See also Oversize and Restricted
Miscellany, 1767, 1821, n.d.
Box 37
Penn v. Penn, 1718-1725
Politics, 1693-1701, 1764, n.d. See also Oversize
Pennypacker, Samuel W., 1902 (62.19)
Peyton, Balie, 1856 (68)
Powell, John H., 1969, n.d. (62.13)
Richards family, 1865, n.d.
Rittenhouse, David (62.3)
Financial account, 1776
Printed matter, 1796, 1809
Sholl, Peter, 1825-1831
Smith, William (65)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Correspondence, 1755, 1763, 1791
"A State of the Province of Pennsylvania," 1755
Thomas family, 1785-1790, n.d. (62.5)
Thomson, Charles
Background and reference material, 1953-1956, 1972,
n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1767, 1804, 1821
Act for the ordering and regulating of military service
from Quakers in the province of Pennsylvania, n.d.
Colonial currency, 1769
Nonimportation resolution protesting Stamp Act, 1765
Note on Indian name, 1820
Prints and photographs, 1783, n.d.
Read, Thomas, letter, 1784
Secretary of the Continental Congress
Committee of Safety, purchase order, 1776
Correspondence, 1786-1789
Minutes of meetings and resolutions, 1776-1780, 1788
Strawberry mansion, bill for repairs, n.d.
Townsend family, 1870-1881, n.d.
Troup, Robert, 1782-1789, 1795-1799, 1818, 1823 (67)
Van Vleck, C. A., 1837-1846
Waln family (61.4)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Account book, 1768-1769
Correspondents other than Waln family
Green family
1825-1839
Box 38
1840-1843
Miscellaneous, 1797-1799, 1809, 1819-1857, 1865-1870,
1878, n.d.
(5 folders)
Wagner, William, 1824-1825, 1844
Family members
Miscellaneous, 1844
Waln, Nicholas, 1763-1764
Waln, Richard
Accounts and invoices, 1763, 1787, 1800
Correspondence
1759-1789
(6 folders)
Box 39
1790-1792, 1804-1808, n.d.
Inventory book, 1775
Waln, Sarah, 1845-1863
List of articles needed for blacksmith shop, 1774
Printed matter
An Epistle to William Hogarth, 1763
The Budget Inscribed to the Man, Who Thinks Himself
Minister, 1764
The Candidate, 1764
Wetherill family (62.4)
Background and reference material, 1909, 1916, n.d.
Business papers, 1815-1828, 1860
Family members
Miscellaneous, 1808, 1816-1818, 1839-1847, 1872, n.d.
Wetherill, Samuel (1736-1816)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1783-1816, n.d.
Business papers
Accounts and receipts, 1761-1789, 1800-1812, n.d.
(3 folders)
Correspondence, 1789, 1808-1810, n.d.
Cannon, James, 1778-1780, 1787, 1799, n.d.
Box 40
Correspondence
Family, 1784-1788, 1795-1802, 1812
General
Allen, Ruby, 1797-1800
De Brahm, John G. W., 1796-1799
De Brahm, Mary, 1796-1805
Fenwick, Selina, 1800, 1806-1807
Miscellaneous, 1793-1795, 1801-1811
Coxe, Tench, 1802
Estate papers, 1812-1816, n.d. See also Oversize
Evans, Oliver, 1804, 1816, 1825, n.d.
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme, 1779, 1788-1796
Free Quakers
Correspondence, 1769-1771, 1780-1788, 1794-1814
(2 folders)
Legal documents, 1777-1781, 1793, n.d.
Meetinghouse
Background and reference material, 1957, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1779-1784, 1791-1804, 1813, n.d.
Architectural drawings, ca. 1783, 1797, n.d.
(2 folders)
See also Oversize
Box 41
Assembly, 1777-1782, 1799, n.d.
Broadsides, 1776-1783 See also Oversize
Miscellany, 1814
Prints and photographs, n.d. See also Oversize
Religious visits, n.d.
Overseers of the poor, record book, 1780-1784
Subscription list, ca. 1780s
Testimony before the Society of Friends, 1779-1782,
1793, n.d.
(2 folders)
Legal documents, 1770-1786, 1792-1794, 1817, 1824
Massey, Sarah, estate papers, 1774, 1784-1791 See also
Oversize
Medical prescriptions, n.d.
Miscellany, 1756
Oath of allegiance, 1777
Pennsylvania legislature, 1800-1801, 1807, 1814, n.d.
Real estate, 1779, 1796, 1816, n.d. See also Oversize
"The Vision of Isaac Child," 1776
Writings
Accounts and receipts, 1790-1794, 1812, n.d.
Essays and other writings
An Apology for the Religious Society Called Quakers,
n.d.
The Divinity of Jesus Christ Proved, 1792
The Grounds and Reason of the Incarnation and Process
of Christ Explained, 1791
On liberty, read at the Society for Attaining Useful
Knowledge, 1791
Box 42
Miscellany, 1792, n.d.
Young, James, 1775-1784, 1791, n.d. See also Oversize
Wetherill, Samuel (1764-1829)
Correspondence, 1791-1829
(5 folders)
Estate papers, 1829-1832
Financial and legal documents
Miscellaneous, 1801-1826, n.d.
Sugar house, 1797-1804
Militia commission, 1792 See Oversize
Wetherill, Sarah
Correspondence, 1796-1804
Denial of Quaker rights of membership, 1784
Letters and documents
Griscom, Rebecca, 1794, n.d.
Howell, Isaac, 1745, 1759, 1771-1773, 1789-1793 See
also Oversize
Miscellaneous, 1786, 1797, 1805, 1818-1820
Yarnell family, 1810-1817, 1825, n.d.
Miscellany, 1737, 1844
White, William (62.8)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Certificate of marriage, 1788
Correspondence, 1818-1823, 1832
List of burials, 1803
Pennsylvania divines, certificates of marriage, 1720,
1804
Willing, Charles and Rebecca, n.d.
Wolle family, 1848-1850, n.d.
Box 43
Unidentified journal, 1873-1875
Box 43-51
State and Local History, 1682-1990, n.d.
Correspondence, journals, land surveys, financial and
legal documents, deeds and indentures, accounts and
receipts, stock certificates, insurance policies, government
and legislative documents, reports, notes, prints and
photographs, illustrated and printed ephemera and other
printed matter, background and reference material, and
miscellaneous items relating primarily to Pennsylvania
and Philadelphia history.
Arranged alphabetically by state or locale, topic, or
type of material.
Box 43
Deeds and surveys (75)
Landowners and surveyors
Comegys, Cornelius, 1830-1832
Denny, Thomas, 1760 See Oversize
Gibbons, James, 1803
Harris, John, 1786 See Oversize
Howell, Reading, 1793, 1804
Nicholson, John, 1792
Powell, Samuel, 1720
Rhoads, Samuel, 1744-1749
Scull, Nicholas, 1750, 1775, n.d.
Weiser, Conrad, 1765
Wilson, James, 1817, n.d. See also Oversize
States
Delaware, 1763
Pennsylvania
Counties, 1682, 1715, 1733, 1745-1750, 1769-1774, 1781-1785,
1795-1796, 1809, 1816 See also Oversize
Philadelphia, 1744-1748, 1761-1764, 1799-1801, 1816,
n.d. See also Oversize
Maps, illustrated bill head and receipt, 1852, 1864
(76)
Pennsylvania (70)
Cresson, Caleb, "Journal of a Visit to Bethlehem," 1803
(78)
Counties
Background and reference material, 1963
Chester, 1738, 1771
(73.2)
Dauphin, 1794
Huntingdon, 1796
(73.4)
Kent County, Del., 1699
(73.5)
Lancaster
(73.1)
Correspondence, 1738, 1801-1806, 1821, 1837, 1846-1850
Facsimile, "Inventory of the Store in Litiz," 1773
Financial and legal documents, 1771-1786 See also Oversize
Montgomery, 1805
(73.3)
Philadelphia, 1690, 1741 See also Oversize
(73.6)
Philadelphia (70.1)
Accounts
(70.1.a)
Account and receipt books
Arch Street house construction, 1813-1815
Baynton, Peter, 1735-1736
(70.1.a.1)
Box 44
Deshler, David, 1772-1796
Accounts, receipts, and subscriptions, 1730-1732, 1750-1756,
1764-1767, 1774-1791, 1810-1815, 1835, 1852-1854, n.d.
Library Company of Philadelphia, 1768-1783, 1793, 1809-1814,
1820
(70.1.a.2)
American Philosophical Society, n.d.
Asylum Co., 1801-1802
(70.6.a)
Bonds, deeds, and indentures, 1759, 1773-1777, 1814,
1843, n.d.
(70.1.r.r)
Centennial Exhibition
Advertising cards and circulars, 1876-1877, n.d.
(2 folders)
Cards and invitations, 1876-1877, n.d.
Illustrated cards, covers, and letterheads, 1876, n.d.
Letter, 1875
Miscellany, 1876, n.d.
Postal, 1876, n.d.
Printed matter, 1876-1877, n.d.
Tickets, 1876, n.d.
Charity, 1786, 1806-1815, 1828-1834, 1840-1843, 1850-1858,
1864, 1870, 1879, n.d.
(70.1.c)
Box 45
Churches and meetinghouses, 1760, 1797-1801, 1827, 1856,
n.d.
(70.1.y)
Citizenship petition, real estate, and sheriffs' sales,
1824, 1837-1842, 1856 See also Oversize
(70.1.r)
Docks, 1762-1764, 1817, 1826
(70.1.d)
Fairmount Park
(71)
Background and reference material
Carson, Joseph
Fairmount Park Commission, 1939-1948, n.d.
(2 folders)
Notes, 1940-1942, n.d.
Miscellany, n.d.
Newspaper clippings, 1928, 1941-1947, 1953, 1960, 1990,
n.d.
Belmont, 1821, n.d.
Canals and Schuylkill River
Background and reference material, 1916, 1929-1931
Accounts and receipts, 1793, 1831-1836
Correspondence, 1828, 1834, n.d.
Delaware and Schuylkill canal, 1793-1800, 1807-1811
See also Oversize
Legislation, petitions, and reports, 1792, 1808-1813,
1832
Schuylkill and Susquehanna canal, 1792-1810
Schuylkill Navigation Co., 1817-1836, 1845-1850, 1885,
n.d.
Schuylkill River Navigation Commission
Correspondence, 1815, n.d.
Meetings, reports, and subscriptions, 1815, n.d. See
also Oversize
Wernwag, Louis, 1815, 1823-1824
Box 46
Union canal, 1807-1812, 1821-1835, 1850-1862, n.d.
Fairmount Park Art Association, 1874-1877, 1887
Galloway, Joseph, "Ormiston" estate survey, n.d.
Landscaping
Accounts and receipts, 1823, 1869, 1884-1903, n.d.
(3 folders)
Correspondence, 1839, 1871-1903, 1923, n.d.
(4 folders)
Miscellany, 1896, 1901, n.d.
Nursery stock lists, 1791-1794, 1814-1817, 1839, 1877-1882,
1899-1904, n.d.
Lansdowne, 1803
Miscellany, 1830-1831, 1874, 1881
Price, Eli K., 1857, 1869, 1875-1883, n.d.
Prints and photographs, 1824-1831, 1858, 1884-1885,
n.d.
Waterworks, 1814, 1833-1840, 1850-1863, 1869-1876, 1883,
n.d.
Box 47
Ferries
Arch Street ferry, n.d.
(70.1.fa)
High Street ferry, 1767
(70.1.fh)
Middle ferry, 1758, 1777
(70.1.fm)
Schuylkill ferry, 1744-1747
(70.1.fs)
Fire fighting
Background and reference material, 1952, n.d.
Fire insurance companies
Fire Association of Philadelphia, 1831, 1840-1845, 1865,
1871-1875 See Oversize
Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, 1847,
1877
Miscellaneous, 1860, 1874, 1888, 1899
Mutual Assurance Co., 1815, 1823, 1848
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co., 1843, 1860
Memorials and petitions, 1806, n.d.
Miscellany, n.d. See Oversize
Hunt, Timothy, 1796
(70.1.h)
Insurance
Life, 1848, 1870
"Ocean Policies," advertising boards, n.d. See Oversize
Iron works
(70.1.x)
Background and reference material, 1965
Miscellany, 1847, 1860, 1866-1871
Yeates, Jasper, 1786-1789
Law
(70.1.l)
Background and reference material, 1945-1950, n.d.
Accounts and receipts, 1779-1796, 1807-1818, 1844, n.d.
Bradford, William, 1785-1786, n.d.
Broadside, Pennsylvania State Trials, 1795 See Oversize
Brown, Henry Armitt, 1878
Burd, Edward, 1772-1786, 1800-1805
Codes of law, 1696, n.d.
Correspondence
Collins, Charles H. T., 1867-1870
Kane, Joseph, 1845
Miscellaneous, 1784, 1790-1792, 1811, 1821-1831, 1867-1870
Rawle, William, 1826-1828, 1847
Court records
Atkins, Ann, indictment for adultery, 1694-1695
Case book, common pleas court, 1798
Charges, convictions, debts, and fines, 1749, 1772-1800,
1809-1818, n.d. See also Oversize
Decisions and writs, 1692, 1784, 1889, n.d.
Dickerson v. Ward, ca. 1853
Box 48
Divorce, 1796, 1804, n.d. See also Oversize
Evans, Peter, 1727, 1744
Howell, Isaac, 1784-1787, 1795 See Oversize
Inspector of the Revenue, 1760, 1793-1796
Law Society, 1784-1785, n.d. See also Oversize
Petitions and other legal documents, 1720-1757, 1776-1788,
1801, 1811, 1830, 1867, 1877, n.d. See also Oversize
Price, Eli K., 1807-1808, n.d.
Shippen, Edward, 1752, 1760, 1767-1768, 1775-1793, n.d.
Thomas, John Chew, 1782-1785, n.d.
Tilghman, Edward, 1786, 1793-1795, 1803
Todd, John (1719-1793), receipt book, 1786
Wall, Garret Dorset, "Rules and Orders of the Supreme
Court," 1804
Washington, Bushrod, 1782-1783, 1825, n.d.
Wills, 1782, 1795, 1833, 1873, n.d.
Yeates, Jasper
Correspondence, 1801-1806
Impeachment, 1803-1805
Box 49
Licenses
Gunpowder, 1866 See Oversize
Tavern, 1790, 1818
(70.1.tl)
Markets, 1747-1763, n.d. See also Oversize
(70.1.m)
Miscellany, 1897, n.d.
Pennsylvania Globe Gas Light Co., 1885-1887, n.d.
Personal services, 1777-1786, 1797, 1861, 1903
(70.1.ps)
Pilots of the Delaware River, 1756, 1801, n.d. See also
Oversize
(70.1.p)
Roads, 1772
Shipping
(70.1.s)
Bills of lading, receipts, and other documents, 1773-1774,
1792-1795, 1803, 1819, 1828, 1882 See also Oversize
Diary of customs inspector, 1846-47
Insurance policies, 1759-1764, 1787, 1799 See Oversize
Shoemaker, Benjamin, 1752-1766 See also Oversize
(70.1.sb)
Shoemaker, Samuel, 1730-1751, 1769-1772 See also Oversize
(70.1.ss)
Social
Cards, invitations, tickets, and other printed items,
1786, 1792-1800, 1814-1837, 1847-1866, 1872-1889, 1899-1900,
1937, n.d.
(3 folders)
Great Central Fair, 1864 See also Container 53, U.S.
Sanitary Commission
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1842, 1849-1853,
1859, 1875, n.d.
Receipts, 1790-1792
(70.1.sa)
Steamboats, 1851, n.d.
(70.1.sc)
Tax bills and receipts, 1762, 1773-1774, 1780-1797,
1805, 1819-1820, 1836-1852, 1867
(70.1.t)
United Company of Philadelphia for Promoting American
Manufactures, 1788, n.d.
Water and plumbing, 1785, 1792-1793, 1807, 1814, 1829
(70.1.w)
Williams, Jonathan, 1814-1815, n.d.
(70.1.z)
Box 50
Politics (70.5)
Correspondence, 1809-1814, 1830-1831, 1839-1852, 1858-1867,
1881
Miscellany, 1778, 1841, 1850-1854, 1862-1863, 1873-1875,
1895, n.d.
State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania
Background and reference material, 1940
Invitations, 1820-1834, 1841-1846
States (77)
California, 1886, 1897
Connecticut, 1833, 1839-1840
Florida, 1771, 1843, n.d.
Kansas, 1850
Kentucky, 1784-1788, 1810-1813, 1836, 1850, 1861
Maryland, 1758, 1766-1767, 1790-1794, 1819, 1848, n.d.
Massachusetts, 1784, 1796, 1832, 1860, 1881, n.d.
New Hampshire, 1817, 1856, n.d.
New Jersey
Deeds and indentures, 1748, 1766-1778, 1788-1789, 1812,
1855, n.d. See also Oversize
Letters and documents, 1719, 1765, 1772-1773, 1784-1792,
1806-1822, 1836-1844, 1855-1858, 1868, 1875-1884, 1935,
n.d.
(2 folders)
See also Oversize
New York, 1806, 1834, 1845, 1859, n.d.
North Carolina, 1775, 1794, 1815, n.d. See also Oversize
Pennsylvania, 1771, 1811, 1832-1835, 1895, 1905-1908,
n.d. See also Oversize
Tennessee, 1797
Utah, 1850
Virginia
Broadside, 1870
Correspondence
Cary, Archibald, to Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Clay, Joseph, to Samuel Bayard, 1786
Dulany, Daniel, to Robert Carter, 1777
Miscellaneous, 1799, 1810, 1822-1825, 1833, 1845, 1857-1861,
1872, n.d.
Nicholas, Robert Carter, 1763
Legal documents, 1759, 1786-1799, 1810
Box 51
Swem, E. G., Brothers of the Spade: Correspondence of
Peter Collinson, of London, and John Custis, of Williamsburg,
Virginia, 1734-1746, 1949
Washington, D.C. (70.2)
Congressional reports
Library of Congress, 1814-1816
Reports from the Departments of State, Treasury, War,
and Navy and General Post-Office, in Relation to the
Destruction of Official Books and Papers, in Consequence
of the Incursion of the Enemy on the 24th of August
Last, 1814
Correspondence, 1833-1842, 1852-1854, 1870-1884, 1891,
1917, n.d.
U.S. Capitol, report of the Committee on the Public
Buildings, 1821
White House
Background and reference material, 1952, n.d.
Printed matter, 1825, 1840, n.d.
Box 51-53
Political History, 1755-1988, n.d.
Correspondence, family and personal papers, military
records, financial and legal documents, accounts and
receipts, government and legislative documents, reports,
illustrated and printed ephemera and other printed matter,
background and reference material, and miscellaneous
items relating to American military and political history.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, topic, or
type of material.
Box 51
Military (85)
Army, 1787, 1808, n.d. (85.1)
Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, Pa., 1793-1795 (83.3)
Militia, payments in substitute for military duty, 1778-1780,
1819, 1844-1845 (85.5)
Navy (85.2)
Background and reference material, 1882, 1898, 1930,
1953, 1962-1967, n.d.
Birch, Thomas, and family
Background and reference material, 1908, 1930, 1937,
n.d.
Printed matter, 1851, 1862, 1883, n.d.
Clinton, DeWitt, 1829
(85.2.dc)
Constitution (Frigate)
Background and reference material, 1895, 1904, 1910,
1925-1931, n.d.
Morning report of the U.S. Marines, 1804
Printed matter, 1837, n.d.
(85.2.c)
Design and construction of six frigates by Joshua Humphreys,
Timothy Pickering, and William Rush
Background and reference material, 1982, 1988
Letters and documents, 1795-1797
Engravings, n.d.
Jones, John Paul, facsimile of captain's commission,
1776
Letters and documents, 1786-1800, 1810-1815, 1830, 1837,
1845-1848, 1857, 1872, n.d.
Lewis, Montgomery
(85.2.l)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Letters and documents, 1830-1843
Reports, 1803, 1827
Rules for the procurement of timber, 1839
Philadelphia City Cavalry, Philadelphia, Pa., 1841
(85.4)
Newspapers
Gazette of the United States, 1792 See Oversize
New York Daily Graphic, 1875 See Oversize (81)
Politics (83)
ca. 1600-1783, colonial and Revolutionary War period
Background and reference material, n.d.
Letters and documents, 1760, 1770-1781
(83.3)
Box 52
Pennsylvania riots (1755-1765)
(83.2.pr)
Background and reference material, 1946-1949
Letters and documents, 1755, 1763-1765
Penn, Thomas, illustrations, n.d.
1784-1809, post-revolution and constitutional period
Background and reference material, 1957, n.d.
Asylum Co. and North American Land Co., 1795-1802 See
also Oversize
(83.3)
Legislation, 1799
Letters and documents, 1793-1801, n.d.
(83.3; 83.4)
Society of the Cincinnati, 1792
(83.3)
"Test Law" book, oaths of allegiance to Pennsylvania,
and indentures, 1786, 1795-1796
(82.1.a)
1820-1860, national period
Bennett, Edward, 1837, 1854
(83.5)
Great Britain, 1821, 1838
Letters and documents, 1831-1832
(83.3; 83.5)
War (82)
1755-1763, French and Indian War, Pennsylvania legislation
providing bills of credit, 1761 See Restricted
1775-1783, Revolutionary War (82.1)
Letters and documents, 1775-1780
(82.1.b; 83.3)
Lists of British casualties, 1775-1776
1812-1814, War of 1812
Letters and documents, 1813-1814
Philadelphia, Pa., defenses of 1814, historical account,
1861
(83.5.a)
1861-1865, Civil War (82.2)
Cards and tickets, 1862-1866, 1889, n.d.
Confederate States of America
Army paper, 1861-1863
Lee, Robert E., facsimile of farewell address to the
Army of Northern Virginia, 1865
Letters and documents, 1842-1845, 1855-1865, 1872-1873
(82.2.b)
Muster rolls, vouchers, and other forms, 1862-1864 See
also Oversize
Envelopes and illustrated covers, 1861-1864, 1899, n.d.
(82.2.b)
Family and personal papers
Bennett family
(82.2.b.4)
Bennett, Edward
Correspondence
Family, 1862-1863
General, 1862
Germantown Home Guard, Germantown, Pa., 1861
Other family members, 1855, n.d.
Clayton family
(82.2.b)
Background and reference material, n.d.
Clayton, Enos, correspondence
Family
Clayton, A. H. (cousin), 1863
Clayton, Jonathan (brother), 1861-1863
Clayton, Mary E. (wife), 1863
Clayton, Simon B. (brother), 1862
General, 1864, n.d.
Clayton, Mary E., 1862
Clayton, Simon B., 1862
Box 53
Hoffman, J. William, 1842, 1861-1865, 1872-1878, n.d.
See also Oversize
(82.2.i)
Riggs, Robert, 1861-1862, n.d.
(82.2.b.3)
Smith, Boyd M., 1910-1914, 1924
Stacey family
(82.2.b.1)
Other family members, 1861-1862, n.d.
Stacey, Davis Bevan
Correspondence
Family, 1863, n.d.
General, 1823, 1861
Letters of introduction and recommendation, 1820-1822,
1841
Miscellany, 1830-1832, 1868
Stacey, May H., 1860-1865, n.d.
Unidentified correspondents, 1860-1863
Stewart, Robert
(82.2.b)
Correspondence
Family, letters exchanged with James Stewart (brother),
1861-1864, n.d.
General, 1864-1866
Medical certificate, 1863
General passes and vouchers, 1863-1864
Instructions, orders, and regulations, 1861-1865
Letters and documents, 1822, 1834, 1841, 1848-1872,
1878-1892, 1898-1903, n.d.
(2 folders)
(82.2.b)
Medical papers
Letters and documents, 1861-1866
Miscellany, 1862-1865, n.d.
U. S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1864, n.d. See also
Container 49, Great Central Fair
(82.2.a)
Miscellany, 1861-1870, n.d.
Box 53-55
Historical Letters and Manuscripts, 1747-1934, n.d.
Historically important letters and manuscripts of significant
interest and rarity.
Organized by type of material. Letters and related documents
are further arranged alphabetically by name of writer
and broadsides and other manuscripts chronologically.
Box 53
Autograph letters and documents
Indexes, n.d.
Abbot, Joel, to Andrew H. Foote, 1853
Abbott, Jacob, 1874
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1883
Ashmead, John, to Robert Morris, includes John Hancock
autograph note, 1777
Bartlett, Josiah, 1777-1782
Bingham, William, 1791
Bonaparte, Joseph, 1824
Buchanan, James, 1847, 1858, 1868
Breckinridge, 1815
Cabot, George, 1793
Carroll, Charles, 1801
Carson, Joseph, 1778
Chaloner, John, 1778, n.d.
Chase, Samuel, 1811
Cleveland, Grover, 1885
Box 54
Darlington, William, 1846
Dickinson, John, 1782-1784
Duane, James, 1793
Edison, Thomas A., 1899, n.d.
Erikson, John, 1853
Eustis, William, 1823
Evans, Oliver, 1803
Ewing, James, 1790
Fitzsimons, Thomas, 1794
Gallatin, Albert, n.d.
Glen, Henry, 1776
Graydon, Alexander, 1813-1817, n.d.
Grayson, Benjamin, to James Madison, 1801
Habersham, John, 1798
Hamilton, Alexander, 1779, 1790-1794
Harper, Robert Goodloe, 1786
Hay, John, 1873, 1899
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1878
Heath, William, 1775
Hill, Henry, 1778
Hilligor, M., 1777
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1841-1935), 1914, 1923-1925
Hooper, William, Jr., 1791
Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791), 1770, 1787
Hopkinson, Francis, 1832
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1928
Humphrey, Charles, 1762-1763
Huntington, Samuel, 1780
Ingersoll, Jared, 1761
Jay, John, 1799
Jefferson, Thomas, 1788
Johnson, Richard M., 1835
Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1778
Lee, Henry, 1793-1794
Lincoln, Abraham, 1865
Livingston, Edward, 1802
Livingston, Walter, 1785
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924), 1918
Logan, James, 1747
Macomb, Alexander, 1825-1827, 1843, n.d.
Madison, James, 1810
Marshall, John, 1801, 1925-1928, 1934, n.d.
Martin, Luther, 1778, 1815
Mason, Charles, 1853
Mathews, Charles, n.d.
McHenry, James, 1799
Mifflin, Thomas, 1788
Monroe, James, 1814
Morris, Robert, 1783, 1791-1798, n.d.
Moultrie, Alexander, 1799
Nicholson, John, 1788, 1795
Niles, W. Ogden, 1844
Nixon, John, 1794
Ogilby, John, 1785
Perkins, Jacob, 1829
Pickering, Timothy, 1779, 1799
Pinkney, William, n.d.
Polk, James K., n.d.
Read, George, and family, 1778, 1784-1790, 1802
Reed, Joseph, 1781, n.d.
Ridgely, Charles, and Caesar Rodney, 1768
Rodney, Daniel, 1789
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1932
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1896, 1907
Scott, Gustavus, to John Nicholson, 1797
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin,
Baron von, 1793
Stockton, Richard, 1826, n.d.
Box 55
Taft, William H., 1891-1892, 1916-1928, n.d.
Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1818
Trist, Elizabeth, 1819
Tusten, Benjamin, 1779
Van Buren, Martin, 1817
Washington, George, 1782
Weedon, George, 1786
White, Edward D., to Hampton L. Carson, 1894
Williams, J., 1808
Wilson, James, 1785, 1796
Wilson, Woodrow, 1902, 1917
Unidentified correspondent to Richard B. Sheridan, 1797
Broadsides and manuscripts
Index, n.d.
1753, Feb. 4, British warrant from George II to the
sheriff of Lancaster County, Pa.
1759, Nov. 6, receipt of Mary Lanoir from commissioners
for Indian affairs for the province of Pennsylvania
1763, Sept. 5, assignment of a share in the Library
Company of Philadelphia to John Searson
1766, Dec. 31, three bills of exchange for Pennsylvania
currency from Matthew Clarkson to Baynton, Wharton,
and Morgan
1766-1782, Polly (ship), letters and documents
1769, Aug. 1, announcement of meeting of merchants and
traders to reconsider importation of British goods
1770, Oct. 8, bill binding Michael Nunnemaker to Robert
Morris and Thomas Willing
1773, June 16, To the Freemen, Citizens of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pa., broadside See Oversize
1775
July 15, A True Copy from the Minutes, of the first
Continental Congress
Undated, Quaker subscription form for relief of Massachusetts
citizens
1776, July 4, bill of exchange from Willing Morris to
Oliver Pollock
1777, Sept. 5, remonstrance to Congress concerning unjust
confinement
1777-1796, oaths of allegiance
1782
Apr., inspection of troops commanded by William Irvine
See Oversize
Oct. 23, citizenship paper of former Hessian soldier,
Frederick Kryder
1785, Jan. 1, Fundamental Laws of the Academy of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
1789
July 16, William Paterson's speech on the separation
of powers in the federal government See Oversize
Sept. 15, An Act to provide for the Safe-keeping of
the Acts, Records, and Seal of the United States
1791
Apr. 20, French military commission of the order of
St. Louis, approved by Louis XVI
Dec. 5, report of Richard Wells and Francis Gurney concerning
plans for constructing a residence in Philadelphia,
Pa., for the president
1793, Mar. 2, An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts
of the United States, signed by Thomas Jefferson See
Oversize
1794
Mar. 21, circular on public service by Thomas Mifflin
June 20, field return report of the Legion of the United
States commanded by Anthony Wayne See Oversize
June 25, Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and James Greenleaf
confer power of attorney to Sylvanus Bourne See Oversize
Oct.-Nov., war claims by the committee of merchants
of Philadelphia, Pa.
Dec. 29, Congressional testimonial by John Beckley in
honor of Anthony Wayne See Oversize
1795, Jan. 1, George Washington's proclamation of public
thanksgiving and prayer
1798
Sept., protested promissory notes used as evidence in
legal proceedings against Robert Morris and John Nicholson
Dec. 3, petition to James Booth and James Riddle "...respecting
measures to be adopted to prevent the introduction of
infectious diseases." See Oversize
1799, Dec., invitation from the U.S. Congress to attend
a funeral oration in honor of George Washington
1800, Mar. 6, invitation from the president of the United
States to Mr. Gibson
1803, June 2, British military commission approved by
George III
1815, Feb. 20, military commission of John Suter, signed
by James Madison and James Monroe See Oversize
1829, Apr. 29, Revolutionary War claims of Francis Postle
Undated
Bill from Charles Willson Peale and the committee of
assembly to David Rittenhouse for repairing public stables
Loyalist oath
Box 55-56
General Correspondence, 1794-1933, n.d.
Originals and copies of letters, including many items
unrecorded by Carson in her catalogs and checklists.
Arranged chronologically.
Box 55
1794-1796, 1803, 1824-1857, 1865-1889
(3 folders)
Box 56
1890-1897, 1912, 1933, n.d.
Box 56-57
Carson Family Papers, 1882-1994, n.d.
Carson's catalogs and checklists as well as correspondence,
notes, printed matter, and miscellaneous items pertaining
to Carson and other family members.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
Box 56
Carson, Anna and Hampton L.
Correspondence, 1882-1885, 1891-1893, 1901-1926, n.d.
Miscellany, 1900, 1917, n.d.
Writings, 1895, 1905-1908, n.d.
Carson, Joseph, 1884, 1910-1915, 1921-1932, 1939-1944,
n.d.
Carson, Marian S.
Catalogs and checklists
Marian S. Carson Collection, n.d.
(7 folders)
Box 57
(1 folder)
Philadelphia imprints, n.d.
Correspondence, 1933, 1942-1948, 1957-1964, 1975, 1983-1994,
n.d.
Miscellany, 1937-1947, 1956-1960, 1969, 1977, 1991-1993,
n.d.
Notes, 1986, n.d.
Writings, "A Washington Affair of Honor, 1779," Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography, 1941
Box OV 1-OV 27
Oversize, 1682-1902, n.d.
Letters and manuscripts, correspondence, family and
personal papers, military records, land surveys, financial
and legal documents, deeds and indentures, government
and legislative records, business records, illustrated
and printed ephemera and other printed matter, and miscellaneous
items.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers,
and folders from which the items were removed.
Box OV 1
Fine Arts and Literature
Decorative and domestic arts
American arts and crafts
Clocks and watches
Riggs, William H. C.
Deeds, indentures, and other legal papers, 1836, 1846,
1852-1855 (Container 3)
Auctions, estate sales, and inventories
M. Thomas & Sons, 1892 (Container 3)
Box OV 2
Practical Arts
Advertising
Broadsides, illustrations, and printed matter, n.d.
(Container 5)
Industries and trades
Papermaking
Samples and watermarks, n.d. (Container 11)
Law and government
Financial and legal documents
Deeds and indentures, 1807 (Container 11)
Box OV 3
Transportation
Railroads
Financial and legal documents
Bond and stock certificates, 1868-1869, 1871-1872, 1894-1902
(Container 15)
Box OV 4
Posters, 1855, n.d. (Container 16)
Printed matter, 1884 (Container 16)
Rates and schedules, 1853 (Container 16)
Box OV 5
Entertainment
Theater
Broadsides, posters, and printed matter, 1860-1864 (Container
18)
Printed Matter
Financial papers
Bank and promissory notes, checks, and other financial
items
Government and municipal obligations, ca. 1790 (Container
19)
Confederate States of America
Bond certificates, 1862-1864 (Container 20)
Box OV 6
Currency
Foreign
Bills of exchange, 1808-1839 (Container 20)
Box OV 7
Printing and publishing
Advertisements, broadsides, circulars, and trade cards,
1785, 1852, n.d. (Container 24)
Financial and legal documents
Miscellaneous, 1813 (Container 25)
Sachse, Julius F., Ephrata collection, n.d. (Container
25)
Ships and shipping
Agreement and regulation of seamen in the merchant service,
1796-1799 (Container 25)
Box OV 8
Social History
African-American history
Newspapers
The Liberator, 1843, 1852, 1865 (Container 26)
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1866 (Container 26)
Staunton Vindicator, 1860 (Container 26)
Box OV 9
Biography
Family and personal papers
Booth family
Booth, James C.
Miscellany, 1836-1842, 1869 (Container 30)
Coates-Hornor family
Coates, Benjamin Hornor
Medical papers
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., 1806 (Container
31)
Coates, Thomas
Will, 1719 (Container 32)
Franklin, Benjamin, 1787 (Container 33)
Box OV 10
McAllister family
McAllister and Brother, 1854, n.d. (Container 34)
McAllister, W. Mitchell, n.d. (Container 35)
McAllister, William Young
Advertisements and broadsides, n.d. (Container 35)
James W. Queen & Co., n.d. (Container 35)
Box OV 11
Penn family
Appointments, bonds, commissions, and other documents,
1725, 1736, 1759, 1771 (Container 36)
Box OV 12
Estate papers
Correspondence, 1814 (Container 36)
Family members
Penn, John, 1743, 1783 (Container 36)
Box OV 13
Penn, William
"Laws Made and Passed by William Penn, 1700-1709," n.d.
(Container 36)
Box OV 14
Proposed sale of Pennsylvania to England, 1711-1712
(Container 36)
Legal and legislative documents, 1705, n.d. (Container
36)
Politics, 1698-1701 (Container 37)
Box OV 15
Wetherill family
Family members
Wetherill, Samuel (1736-1816)
Estate papers, 1812-1816 (Container 40)
Free Quakers
Meetinghouse
Architectural drawings, ca. 1783 (Container 40)
Broadsides, 1781 (Container 41)
Prints and photographs, n.d. (Container 41)
Box OV 16
Massey, Sarah, estate papers, 1774 (Container 41)
Real estate, 1816 (Container 41)
Young, James, n.d. (Container 42)
Wetherill, Samuel (1764-1829)
Militia commission, 1792 (Container 42)
Letters and documents
Howell, Isaac, 1793 (Container 42)
Box OV 17
State and Local History
Deeds and surveys
Landowners and surveyors
Denny, Thomas, 1760 (Container 43)
Harris, John, 1786 (Container 43)
Wilson, James, n.d. (Container 43)
States
Pennsylvania
Counties, 1682, 1733 (Container 43)
Philadelphia, 1744, 1816, n.d. (Container 43)
Box OV 18
Pennsylvania
Counties
Lancaster
Financial and legal documents, 1784-1786 (Container
43)
Philadelphia, 1690 (Container 43)
Philadelphia
Citizenship petition, real estate, and sheriffs' sales,
1837, 1856 (Container 45)
Box OV 19
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.
Canals and Schuylkill River
Delaware and Schuylkill Canal, 1811 (Container 45)
Schuylkill River Navigation Commission
Meetings, reports, and subscriptions, n.d. (Container
45)
Fire fighting
Fire insurance companies
Fire Association of Philadelphia, 1831, 1840-1845, 1865,
1871-1875 (Container 47)
Miscellany, n.d. (Container 47)
Box OV 20
Insurance
"Ocean Policies," advertising boards, n.d. (Container
47)
Box OV 21
Law
Broadside, Pennsylvania State Trials, 1795 (Container
47)
Court records
Charges, convictions, debts, and fines, 1789 (Container
47)
Divorce, 1796 (Container 48)
Howell, Isaac, 1784-1787, 1795 (Container 48)
Law Society, n.d. (Container 48)
Petitions and other legal documents, 1757 (Container
48)
Box OV 22
Licenses
Gunpowder, 1866 (Container 49)
Markets, 1763 (Container 49)
Pilots of the Delaware River, 1801 (Container 49)
Box OV 23
Shipping
Bills of lading, receipts, and other documents, 1828
(Container 49)
Insurance policies, 1759-1764, 1787, 1799 (Container
49)
Shoemaker, Benjamin, 1762-1766 (Container 49)
Shoemaker, Samuel, 1751, 1771 (Container 49)
Box OV 24
States
New Jersey
Deeds and indentures, 1766-1772, 1778, 1812, 1855 (Container
50)
Letters and documents, 1791-1792, 1820 (Container 50)
North Carolina, 1794 (Container 50)
Pennsylvania, n.d. (Container 50)
Box OV 25
Political History
Newspapers
Gazette of the United States, 1792 (Container 51)
New York Daily Graphic, 1875 (Container 51)
Politics
1784-1809, post-revolutionary and constitutional period
Asylum Co. and North American Land Co., 1795-1797 (Container
52)
War
1861-1865, Civil War
Confederate States of America
Muster rolls, vouchers, and other forms, 1862-1864 (Container
52)
Family and personal papers
Hoffman, J. William, 1872 (Container 53)
Box OV 26
Historical Letters and Manuscripts
Broadsides and manuscripts
1773, June 16, To the Freemen, Citizens of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pa., broadside (Container 55)
1782, Apr., inspection of troops commanded by William
Irvine (Container 55)
1789, July 16, William Paterson's speech on the separation
of powers in the federal government (Container 55)
1793, Mar. 2, An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts
of the United States, signed by Thomas Jefferson (Container
55)
Box OV 27
1794
June 20, field return report of the Legion of the United
States commanded by Anthony Wayne (Container 55)
June 25, Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and James Greenleaf
confer power of attorney to Sylvanus Bourne (Container
55)
Dec. 29, Congressional testimonial by John Beckley in
honor of Anthony Wayne (Container 55)
1798, Dec. 3, petition to James Booth and James Riddle
"...respecting measures to be adopted to prevent the
introduction of infectious diseases" (Container 55)
1815, Feb. 20, military commission of John Suter, signed
by James Madison and James Monroe (Container 55)
Box R1
Restricted, 1761-1787
Legal documents, government legislation, and a journal
restricted because of fragility.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers,
and folders from which the items were removed.
Box R 1
Biography
Family and personal papers
Coates-Hornor family
Other than Coates-Hornor family members
Staughton, L., journal, 1787 (Container 33)
Penn family
Appointments, bonds, commissions, and other documents,
1763 (Container 36)
Legal and legislative documents, 1764 (Container 36)
Political History
War
1755-1763, French and Indian War, Pennsylvania legislation
providing bills of credit, 1761 (Container 52)
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