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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
Diary of the Reverend Samuel Tupper
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0110
Abstract
This is an American Civil War diary belonging to Reverend Samuel Tupper, describing his volunteer work with the U. S. Christian Commission in diary entries created between May 24 and June 30, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia.
Dates:
1865 May 24-June 30