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Brinton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0453
Abstract

The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

Dates: 1715-1930

Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

Peter Strickland papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0171
Abstract

Peter Strickland (1837-1922) was a shipmaster, merchant, and U.S. consul in the French colony of Senegal. The diaries and letter books of Peter Strickland date 1857 to 1912. While varying in content, the diaries center around Strickland’s life as a merchant, both on the sea as well as in Senegal. Issues of two French colonial weekly newspapers contextualize the events of the French colony during Strickland’s time there.

Dates: 1857-1912

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Clippings (information artifacts) 2
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Account books 1
Africa, West 1
Agents (commercial representatives) 1
Agriculture--History--19th century 1
Agriculturists 1
Businesspeople--United States--History--19th century 1
China--History--20th century 1
Clergy 1
Commercial correspondence 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Dakar (Senegal) 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Essays 1
Families--United States--History--18th century 1
Families--United States--History--19th century 1
Families--United States--History--20th century 1
Financial records 1
Genealogists 1
Greeting cards 1
Hawaii--History--20th century 1
Indentures 1
Land surveys 1
Leases 1
Legal documents 1
Medical education--History--19th century 1
Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century 1
Medicine--United States--History--19th century 1
Microfilms 1
Military personnel 1
Missionaries 1
Missionaries--China--History--20th century 1
Missionaries--India 1
Mortgages 1
New York (State)--History--19th century 1
New York (State)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Pennsylvania--History--19th century 1
Pennsylvania--History--20th century 1
Postcards 1
Publications (documents) 1
Publishers 1
Realia 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Research notes 1
Scrapbooks 1
Sermons, American--19th century 1
Shipping--United States--History--19th century 1
Ships' logs 1
Soldiers--Medical care--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Students 1
Surgeons 1
Travel 1
United States--Foreign relations--Africa 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations 1
Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century 1
Women in agriculture--United States--History--19th century 1
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Language
French 1
Wolof 1
 
Names
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1
Bartlett, Matthew, -1880 1
Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
Brinton, George, 1804-1858 1
Brinton, John H. (John Hill), 1832-1907 1
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Brinton, John Hill, 1772-1827 1
Brinton, Ward, 1873-1935 1
Episcopal Church 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
Harrington, Mary Lofland,1813-1871 1
Harrington, Purnell Frederick, 1844-1937 1
Harrington, Richard, 1772-1821 1
Harrington, Richard, 1847-1884 1
Harrington, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1803-1865 1
Harrington, Samuel Milby, 1840-1878 1
Jefferson Medical College 1
Littell Families of America 1
Littell family 1
Littell, Charles Willing, 1832-1895 1
Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870 1
Littell, Elton Gardiner, 1877-1962 1
Littell, Estelle Sherman, 1889-1978 1
Littell, Gertrude (Gretchen), 1905-2003 1
Littell, Gertrude Wilson, -1919 1
Littell, Harriet Hare, 1835-1885 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia Harrington, -1924 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia, 1880-1934 1
Littell, Helen, 1914- 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1806-1875 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1870- 1
Littell, Margaret, 1903-1990 1
Littell, Mary Morris, 1884-1984 1
Littell, Samuel Harrington, 1873-1967 1
Littell, T. Gardiner, 1837-1911 1
Littell, Thomas Gardiner, 1902-1929 1
Littell, Walter Wilson, 1910-1995 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1
Shippen family 1
Steinmetz, Joseph J., active 1929-1930 1
Strickland, Peter, 1837-1921 1
United States. Consulate (Dakar, Senegal) 1
Ward, F. De W. (Ferdinand De Wilton), 1812-1891 1
Wilson family 1
Wilson, Jeanie Morse, 1851-1921 1
Wilson, Margaret, 1881-1953 1
Winslow, Jeanie Morse Littell, 1918- 1
Winslow, Julian D., 1914-2005 1
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