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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

Alfred G. Baker papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0585
Abstract

The Alfred G. Baker papers comprise personal correspondence and business records of nineteenth-century Philadelphia businessmen Michael V. Baker and his son Alfred G. Baker, who became a prominent citizen and patron of the arts.

Dates: 1837-1913; Majority of material found within 1837-1851

Matilda Baker diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0089
Abstract

Matilda Baker of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, kept this diary between May 1857 and March 1858, recording information about social visits, her work habits, and events taking place in Philadelphia. She also recorded information about railroad shares, bonds, and other financial investments held by herself and other women from 1854 to 1880.

Dates: 1854-1880

Blanding family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0451
Abstract

The papers of the Blanding family of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, consist of one linear foot of diaries, family correspondence, and other papers spanning the years 1801-1920, with the majority of the material falling between 1834 and 1858.

Dates: 1801-1920; Majority of material found within 1834-1858

Constitution, bylaws and standing resolutions adopted by the board of officers of the First Regiment of Rifles Attached to the Third Brigade First Division PV

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0130
Abstract

This collection consists of the 1857 Board of Officers (First Regiment of Rifles, Third Brigade, First Division, Pennsylvania Volunteers) constitution, bylaws, and resolutions as well as the signatures and addresses of the officers. Also included are recipes for inks, medicines, cements, pastes, dyes, wines, colognes, and waxes. There are 21 pages of additional recipes and treatments for various medical conditions.

Dates: 1857 October 1

Philadelphia Custom House records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0781
Abstract The Philadelphia Custom House records consist of materials generated by and related to the United States Customs Service of the Port of Philadelphia from 1779 to 1932. These records illustrate commercial and shipping interests, as well as foreign trade relations, in the United States from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The materials also highlight the growth of the U.S. Customs Service as it took on new responsibilities and wielded greater authority over the course of...
Dates: 1779-1934; Majority of material found within 1790-1900

Centennial Exposition scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0015
Abstract

This scrapbook of advertisements, trade cards, and collectible ephemera from the 1876 Centennial Exposition was created by Richard W. Davids.

Dates: 1876

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

Michael Bartholomew Mahony memorandum book

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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

Matlack family letters to Samuel J. Matlack

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0916
Abstract

This collection consists of seventeen letters written by members of the Matlack family in Philadelphia to Samuel J. Matlack while he was serving in the Union Navy aboard the USSWissahickon, a gunboat in the blockading squadron off the coast of South Carolina, during the American Civil War, from 1862-1865.

Dates: 1862-1865

John McDowell, Jr., account detail

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0089
Abstract

Single page from an account book which details the sale of clover seed from A. Wright, in Philadelphia, to John McDowell, Jr.

Dates: 1849 December

Thornton and Amy Oakley collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0509
Abstract This collection houses pen and ink drawings on boards, water colors, manuscripts, a promotional display board, scholarly journals, disbound leaves, printer's proofs, and booklets related to Thornton Oakley (1881-1953) and Amy Oakley (. Oakley illustrated numerous books and magazines, includingHarper's,Century Magazine,Collier's Weekly, and...
Dates: 1927-1949

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

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

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

Tilghman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0524
Abstract

The Tilghman family papers, spanning the years 1730-1903 (bulk dates 1776-1810), comprises .3 linear ft. (102 items) of legal documents, legal correspondence, receipts, and financial records from this Maryland Eastern Shore family.

Dates: 1730-1903; Majority of material found within 1776-1810

Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0525
Abstract

The Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers, spanning the dates 1810-1917 (bulk dates 1840-1896), document the professional career, and to a lesser extent the personal life, of the Philadelphia lawyer, Joseph Brevitt Townsend.

Dates: 1810-1917; 1840-1896

Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0525s
Abstract Joseph Brevitt Townsend (1821-1896) was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who practiced estate law and acted as legal consultant to several commercial, insurance, and trust companies. The Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers supplement, spanning the dates 1800-1920, contains substantial additions to the original collection and documents the professional career of the Philadelphia lawyer. The supplement comprises 5.8 linear feet of legal and personal correspondence, wills and estate records, legal...
Dates: 1800-1920; Majority of material found within 1840-1920

World fairs and expositions collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises a variety of types of material documenting world fairs and expositions, spanning the dates between 1851 and 1967, with the bulk of the collection dating from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Material consists of printed matter and ephemera, including newspapers, programs, invitations, maps, brochures, viewbooks, advertisements, stationery, contracts, bonds, trade cards, and a scrapbook; photographs and prints; and realia souvenirs.

Dates: 1851-1967; Majority of material found in 1893

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Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
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Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 2
Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia 2
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Townsend, J. Barton (John Barton), 1865- 2
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Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, 1821-1896 2
Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, Jr., 1861- 2
American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912 1
Art Club of Philadelphia 1
Ashhurst family 1
Ashhurst, John, 1809-1892 1
Ashhurst, John, 1839-1900 1
Ashhurst, Richard Lewis, 1838-1911 1
Ashhurst, Richard, 1784-1861 1
Baker and Moss 1
Baker, Alfred Gustavus, 1831-1913 1
Baker, Matilda 1
Baker, Michael V. 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 1
Blanding family 1
Blanding, Juliet M., 1818-1853 1
Blanding, Nancy A., 1816- 1
Blanding, Sarah M., 1827-1911 1
Blanding, William, 1773-1857 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
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
Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 1
Carpenter, Lucy, 1783- 1
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 1
Childs, George William, 1829-1894 1
Chrisman, Brothers & Company 1
Chrisman, John B. 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Creator unidentified 1
Darley, F. T. S. (Francis Thomas Sully), 1833-1914 1
Davids, Richard W. 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
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 1
Fairmount Park Art Association 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia 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
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
Handy, George 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Haseltine Galleries 1
Hovenden, Thomas, 1840-1895 1
Howell, Arthur, -1816 1
Hoyt, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1830-1892 1
J.E. Caldwell & Co. 1
James S. Earle & Sons 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Mahony, Charles Alfred, 1836-1901 1
Mahony, Michael Bartholomew, 1799-1883 1
Malin, W. G. (William Gunn) 1
Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses 1
Massachusetts (Steamer) 1
Matlack family 1
Matlack, Clemmie, 1844- 1
Matlack, Lewis J., 1842-1909 1
Matlack, Mason, approximately 1824-1868 1
Matlack, Matilda E., approximately 1808-1894 1
Matlack, Samuel J., 1845-1898 1
McArthur, John, 1823-1890 1
McDowell, John, Jr. 1
Moss, John 1
Murray, Mason M. 1
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 1
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.) 1
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