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Michael Bartholomew Mahony memorandum book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0167
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of a memorandum book kept by Philadelphia merchant Michael Bartholomew Mahony between 1879 and 1883. Mahony recorded observations on the weather, local and international news, household activity, financial transactions, and the deaths of friends, family members, and acquaintances. The collection also contains two photographs and a number of loose receipts, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of paper ephemera.

Dates: 1879-1883

Philadelphia weather diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0081
Abstract

This weather diary kept by an unknown resident of Phildelphia, Pennsylvania, contains daily entries, June 1, 1836, to July 31, 1842, recording the temperature and wind direction along with brief comments on the weather. There are monthly rain measurements for 1825 through 1842 recorded "as per gauge kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital" as well as newsclippings documenthing especially severe weather events.

Dates: 1836 June 1-1842 July 31

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0562
Abstract

The Helen Farr SloanPhiladelphia Inquirernotebooks consist of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art, encompassing the early years of John Sloan’s career in Philadelphia, and include a separately-organized group of materials from the same period about the Drexel family and publisher George W. Childs.

Dates: 1886-1896

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Memorandums 2
Meteorology--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Observations 2
Obituaries 2
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Steamboats--History--19th century 2
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Art auctions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Art galleries, commercial--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Art museums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Art--Societies, etc--19th century 1
Art--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Climatology--Observations--History--19th century 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Correspondence 1
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Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
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Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Ephemera (general) 1
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Estate inventories 1
Exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Fairs 1
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Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
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Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
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Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Maps (documents) 1
Marriage certificates 1
Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
Millers (people) 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
Motion picture film 1
Music rolls 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--19th century 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Newspapers--Illustrations--19th century 1
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Names
Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912 1
Art Club of Philadelphia 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
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Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 1
Childs, George William, 1829-1894 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Creator unidentified 1
Davis & Harvey 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry 1
Drexel, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1826-1893 1
Drexel, Katharine Mary, Saint, 1858-1955 1
Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 1
Fairmount Park Art Association 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Furness, Frank, 1839-1912 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Grafly, Charles, 1862-1929 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Haseltine Galleries 1
Hovenden, Thomas, 1840-1895 1
J.E. Caldwell & Co. 1
James S. Earle & Sons 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Mahony, Charles Alfred, 1836-1901 1
Mahony, Michael Bartholomew, 1799-1883 1
Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses 1
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1
Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm) 1
Photographic Society of Philadelphia 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shinn, Everett, 1876-1953 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005 1
Sloan, John, 1871-1951 1
T Square Club (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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