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Ashhurst family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0549
Abstract
Personal and business papers of three generations of the Philadelphia-based Ashhurst family, including Richard Ashhurst (1784-1861); sons John Ashhurst (1809-1892) and Lewis Richard Ashhurst (1806-1874), partners with their father in the drygoods firm Richard Ashhurst & Sons; as well as the legal papers of Richard L. Ashhurst (1838-1911?).
Dates:
1818-1909
George Handy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0133
Abstract
The George Handy Papers, 1845-1871 (bulk 1846-1850), comprises 273 letters and business documents from a prominent Philadelphia-based nineteenth-century merchant. The collection, as a whole, reflects social and personal relations with Handy family members in Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Mississippi, as well as other friends; and business and economic affairs of domestic and foreign commerce, much of which was conducted by shipping through the ports of Philadelphia and New Orleans, or via...
Dates:
1841-1871; Majority of material found within 1846-1850
Arthur Howell letter to Clement Laws
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0085
Abstract
One handwritten letter from tanner and currier Arthur Howell to Clement Laws about the falling sales and prices of finished leather in the Delaware Valley region.
Dates:
1805 June 6
John Frederick Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0129
Abstract
The papers of prominent Philadelphia lawyer and philanthropist John Frederick Lewis (1860–1932) span the dates 1882 to 1932 and include letterbooks, correspondence, advertising brochures, legal documents, and ephemera. The papers primarily document the legal business of Lewis through his work at the firm Lewis, Adler & Laws, but also reflect social and domestic affairs of John Lewis and his wife, Anne Baker Lewis, as well as cultural interests, through development of personal collections...
Dates:
1882-1932; Majority of material found within 1909-1928
Rush family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0314
Abstract
The Rush family papers consist of materia spanning the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries relating to the prominent Rush family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1789-circa 1898; Majority of material found within 1820-1860