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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

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Godey, Louis Antoine, 1804-1878. Letters of Louis Antoine Godey, 1847-1865.

Title: Letters of Louis Antoine Godey, 1847-1865.

Letters describe articles in "Godey's Lady's Book" and express satisfaction with the quality of the magazine; give ideas for future pieces; and discuss the buying and selling of autographs. There are also two humorous notes to social acquaintances. Mentions John Wanamaker, the Young Men's Christian Association and Fanny Elssler's dancing to benefit the Bunker Hill Monument. The correspondents include Hannah M. Taylor, Rufus W. Griswold, Mr. Camac, and F.J. Duer.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34566940 View

Matthew Stanley Quay Papers, 1776-1949, (bulk 1890-1904)

Title: Matthew Stanley Quay Papers 1776-1949 (bulk 1890-1904)

United States senator from Pennsylvania (1887-1904). Correspondence, election materials, financial papers, genealogical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Quay's career in Pennsylvania and national politics as a member of the Republican party and the United States Senate.

ArchivalResource: 5000 items; 45 containers plus 9 oversize; 23 linear feet

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United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison). [Appointment] 1890 February 19, Washington, appointed James C. Harwood as postmaster at Clarion, Wright County, Iowa / Benj[amin] Harrison.

Title: [Appointment] 1890 February 19, Washington, appointed James C. Harwood as postmaster at Clarion, Wright County, Iowa / Benj[amin] Harrison.

Printed form with ms. insertions, signed. Appointment of James C. Harwood as postmaster of Clarion, Iowa.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet ; 36 x 44 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8516319 View

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Correspondence, 1805-1901.

Title: Correspondence, 1805-1901.

This series contains the Du Pont Company's correspondence with suppliers, attorneys, customers, labor agents, and sales agents. The files document the importation of saltpeter and nitrate for the manufacture of black powder, the selling of gun powder to the government and blasting powder to coal mine operators and railroad contractors. The process by which Irish workers were recruited with the assistance of Philadelphia agents is described. There is also some correspondence with competing powder manufacturers and makers of powder machinery. Letters describe the organization and operation of the Gunpowder Trade Association between 1872 and 1901.

ArchivalResource: 191 linear ft.

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Du Pont, Francis Gurney, 1850-1904. Papers, 1818-1947.

Title: Papers, 1818-1947.

The papers of Francis Gurney du Pont describe both his business activities at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, his family life and his activities in the Episcopal Church.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear ft.

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Meek, Samuel W., fl. 1886-1917. Papers, 1886-1917.

Title: Papers, 1886-1917.

Letters, 1886-1917, received by Samuel W. Meek in his connection with newspapers in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio and Washington, D. C. and as business manager for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va. and for the Press in Philadelphia, Pa. Prominent correspondents include John Stewart Bryan, Ellis A. Gimbel and John Wanamaker.

ArchivalResource: 81 items.

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Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922. Letters to The S.S. McClure Co for J.W. Clarke and Mr. Tewson, 1889 April 23 and 1911 July 4.

Title: Letters to The S.S. McClure Co for J.W. Clarke and Mr. Tewson, 1889 April 23 and 1911 July 4.

Letter to Clarke is a reply that states that Benjamin Harrison is his favorite American hero because he can keep pace with Gladstone. Letter to Tewson acknowledges Tewson's note and regrets that they could not meet.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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United States. Postmaster General. Appointment of Seth S. Boynton as postmaster for Oroville, Calif. : : Washington, D.C., D.S., 1892 Jan. 8.

Title: Appointment of Seth S. Boynton as postmaster for Oroville, Calif. : : Washington, D.C., D.S., 1892 Jan. 8.

Appoints Boynton postmaster for Oroville, Butte Co., Calif., for a term of four years from Jan. 6, 1892.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36572405 View

Leeds, Josiah W. (Josiah Woodward). Scrapbooks, 1872-1907.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1872-1907.

Scrapbooks containing correspondence, clippings, tracts and other misc. papers of Josiah W. Leeds related to his interest in various areas of social reform. Includes published editorials, articles and tracts by Leeds on peace, temperance, "pernicious" literature and art, the theater, John Wycliffe, simplicity of attire, "social purity," secret societies, gambling and other related concerns. Correspondence (ca. 2,000 letters) relates to his reform activities and includes letters from John Bellows, George Dana Boardman, Gertrude Whittier Cartland, Anthony Comstock, Wilbur F. Crafts, John H. Dillingham, Neal Dow, E.E. Flagg, Anna A. Gordon, W.T. Harris, Herman Haupt, Alfred H. Love, Thomas Meehan, Clement B. Penrose, Jonathan E. Rhoads, Theodore Roosevelt, George J. Scattergood, Isaac Sharpless, Clarkson Sheppard, Hannah Whitall Smith, William Tallack, William P. Townsend, Benjamin F. Trueblood, John Wanamaker, Herbert Welsh, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis E. Willard, Julia McNair Wright and others.

ArchivalResource: 22 v. ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28733930 View

Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950. Papers, 1900-1956.

Title: Papers, 1900-1956.

The John J. Raskob Papers document Raskob's business and political careers as well as his personal life. The papers document significant aspects of the histories of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and the General Motors Corporation during the first half of the twentieth century. Raskob played a crucial role in the creation of these two industrial giants. His papers trace the transformation of these companies into modern decentralized corporations and the relationship between business strategy and corporate structure. The Raskob Papers also describe the relationship between Du Pont and G.M. in the years between 1915 and 1950.

ArchivalResource: 300 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503458 View

Robert C. Ogden Papers, 1843-1913, (bulk 1890-1913)

Title: Robert C. Ogden Papers 1843-1913 (bulk 1890-1913)

Businessman and philanthropist. Correspondence, memoranda, notes and drafts of articles and speeches, reports, and printed matter primarily concerned with Ogden's business career, his interests in philanthropy and religion, and his activities on behalf of education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items; 30 containers; 12 linear feet

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William L. Hamburger prints collection [manuscript], 1928-1940.

Title: William L. Hamburger prints collection [manuscript], 1928-1940.

Photographs were originally collected as part of the research files of the National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Subjects include Gertrude Atherton, Leopold Auer, Bernard Baruch, George Gordon Battle, Gustave Becker, Alexander Graham Bell, Edward Bok, Andrew Carnegie, Calvin Coolidge, Walter Damrosch, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles William Eliot, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Carter Glass, Ulysses S. Grant, Daniel Guggenheim, Harry Guggenheim, Isaac Guggenheim, Meyer Guggenheim, Simon Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Wade Hampton, Victor Herbert, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, Stonewall Jackson, John Logan, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Mayo, William Mayo, Walter HInes Page, William Henry Pickering, John D. Rockfeller, John Philip Sousa, Charles Steinmetz, Nathan Straus, William Howard Taft, John Wanamaker, William Allen White, and Eli Whitney.

ArchivalResource: circa 45 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647999972 View