Epidemics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044370
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Thomas Rodney letter to Lavinia Rodney
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0061
Abstract
Colonel in the Revolutionary War and American lawyer and politician from Delaware, Thomas Rodney, wrote to his daughter, Lavinia, in Dover, Delaware, concerning his health and a plague affecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 15, 1793.
Dates:
1793 September 15