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Biddle family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0327
Abstract

The Biddle family papers preserve over one-hundred-and-fifty years of material related to this prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania family and detail extensively their professional lineage as attorneys, notary publics, and bankers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1766-1943; Majority of material found within 1870-1923

Conard-Pyle Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0634
Abstract

The Conard-Pyle Company of West Grove, Pennsylvania, was a large horticultural enterprise that specialized in the cultivation and hybridization of roses, best known for its famed Star Roses. The papers chronicle Conard-Pyle's evolution from a small-scale retail business to an influential wholesaler, as well as the financial, legal, and marketing concerns of a major nursery company.

Dates: 1891-2000

Conard-Pyle Company records supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0634s
Abstract

The Conard-Pyle Company records supplement includes substantial additions to the series in the original collection, as well as records which constitute three new series related to the Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc., printed material, and Robert Pyle's professional papers.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1910-2000

James Maxwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0170
Abstract

The James R. Maxwell papers consist of the personal, professional, and family papers of James Maxwell, a resident of Newark, Delaware, and a civil engineer who worked for significant railroads in the American West and South America in the late 19th century.

Dates: 1860-1949; Majority of material found within 1867-1900

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Financial records 3
Catalogs (documents) 2
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Diaries 2
Marketing 2
Motion pictures (visual work) 2
Roses--History--20th century 2
Slides (photographs) 2
Account books 1
Albums (books) 1
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Businesspeople--United States--History--19th century 1
Civil engineering--History--19th century 1
Civil engineers 1
Deeds 1
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France--Description and travel 1
Gardening--History--19th century 1
Gardening--History--20th century 1
Gardening--Periodicals 1
Gardening--Societies, etc.--History--20th century 1
Gardening--United States--History--20th century 1
Histories (literature genre) 1
Horticultural products industry--History--20th century 1
Horticulture--History--19th century 1
Horticulture--History--20th century 1
Indentures 1
Journals (accounts) 1
Kennett Square (Pa.)--History--20th century 1
Law--Pennsylvania 1
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Letters (correspondence) 1
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Newark (Del.)--History--19th century 1
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Nurseries (Horticulture)--History--19th century 1
Nurseries (Horticulture)--History--20th century 1
Nurseries (Horticulture)--United States--History--20th century 1
Patents 1
Periodicals 1
Peru--History--19th century 1
Plant hybridization--History--20th century 1
Plants, Cultivated--Patents 1
Plants, Cultivated--Patents--History--19th century 1
Plants, Cultivated--Patents--History--20th century 1
Poems 1
Press kits 1
Railroads--History--19th century 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Roses--Breeding--United States--History--20th century 1
Roses--History--19th century 1
Stock certificates 1
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Travel--History--20th century 1
West (U.S.)--History--19th century 1
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Language
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Names
Conard-Pyle Co. 2
Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc. 1
Biddle family 1
Delaware College 1
Maxwell, Harriet (Hattie) Mitchell, 1836- 1