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John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871, 1834-1871

Title: John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871 1834-1871

Principal correspondents in the lettes of John Fries Frazer include Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale who discuss mainly general scientific topics, although personal and family matters are discussed with Bache. Topics include the University of Pennsylvania, boiler explosions, chemistry, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, the American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet, 6 boxes, ca. 683 items

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc, 1826-1836

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc 1826-1836

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884. [Admittance cards] [realia] 1811-1880

Title: [Admittance cards] [realia] 1811-1880 1811-1880.

.Admittance, matriculation, and "Order of Lecture" cards are from a number of medical students from 1811-1880 in the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical College, Long Island College Hospital (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Harvard University Medical School, Philadelphia School of Anatomy, New Hampshire Medical Institution, Berkshire Medical Institution, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England). They contain the autographs of the most eminent professors of the day: i.e., Samuel Gross, Franklin Bache, Benjamin Rush, Austin Flint, Samuel Jackson, S. Weir Mitchell, J. K. Mitchell, Charles D. and James A Meigs, John Barclay Biddle, et al. The St. Bartholomew's Hospital card is signed by Ludford Harvey, John P. Vicent, and John Abernethy, the latter (1764-1831) being an eminent English surgeon and founder of the Medical School of St Bartholomew's. The "Order of Lecture" cards from Jefferson Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania list curricula, faculty and their residences, schedules of lectures and texts. Admittance cards, 1850-1853, are for courses at the Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. They include two matriculation cards for William D. Watson of Chatham County, N. C., dated Nov., 1850, and Oct., 1852, and an examination card Oct., 1852-1853, which is signed by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell as professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology. Dr. Watson returned to Chatham County after his graduation. His house was destroyed during the Civil War. The portion of his medical library saved and stored in a neighboring attic eventually was placed in the historical Collection of the library of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

ArchivalResource: 98 cards 1 box 23 x 16 cm.

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Meigs family. Meigs family papers 1848-1958 (bulk 1875-1910).

Title: Meigs family papers 1848-1958 (bulk 1875-1910).

The Meigs family papers consist of correspondence between three generations of the family. It represents a portion of the family's papers that passed into the possession of Cornelia Meigs and was left in the ancestral family summer home at Havre-de-Grace, Maryland. The papers are primarily family-centered correspondence, including letters, postcards, and ephemera and deal with family affairs, including illnesses, deaths and condolences, travel, education, and to a lesser extent, business and civic affairs. Taken as a whole, the papers give a picture of the private, everyday life of a notable family with elite military traditions. Among the papers of Montgomery C. Meigs is a copy of the letter from President Lincoln to Gen. Winfield Scott appointing Meigs to the post of Quartermaster General. However, the bulk of these papers are family-oriented, including correspondence with his children and his brothers William and (Samuel) Emlen Meigs. Most correspondence is with his son, Montgomery, covering the latter's time at West Point and his early engineering career. The papers of Montgomery Meigs include some description of his engineering work on the upper Mississippi and his life in Keokuk, including his involvement with the Army Corps of Engineers and the local arm of the "good roads movement." A large number of letters deal with the illness and death of his wife Grace Lynde Meigs. There is extensive correspondence with his children. The husbands of Alice Meigs Orr and Mary Meigs Atwater spent much of their professional lives abroad, and both daughters regularly sent letters and postcards from foreign countries, particularly, in the case of Alice, from Japan. Alice's papers include a large Japanese woodcut of samurai and a program of the annual festival of the Great Temple of Nikko. The papers of Cornelia Meigs include yearbooks and other material relating to her life at Bryn Mawr College in the early 1900s, with an emphasis on extra-curricular activities. Her later letters discuss family affairs and travel, and her treatment for nervous disorders at Cook County Hospital and at Devereaux Mansion in Marblehead, Mass. At Devereaux, Cornelia befriended Dr. Herbert J. Hall, a pioneer in the "work cure" method of occupational therapy. Hall also wrote children's poetry, and he and Cornelia exchanged poems, criticisms and suggestions. Cornelia collected Hall's poems and letters into a bound volume after his death in 1923. There are smaller amounts of correspondence for members of the Rodgers family line.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

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Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869. Meigs / Rodgers family papers, 1825-1866.

Title: Meigs / Rodgers family papers, 1825-1866.

The collection consists of papers of the Meigs family of Philadelphia (Pa.) and the Rodgers family of Washington (D.C.) from 1825-1866. The papers contain correspondence (1825-1866) of Charles C. Meigs mainly to his wife Mary Montgomery Meigs and to his son Franklin B. Meigs who was living in Hong Kong (1847-1848); letters (1846-1852) from Mary Montgomery Meigs also to her son, Franklin in Hong Kong; letters (1848-1852) from Montgomery C. Meigs mostly to his mother Mary Montgomery Meigs; letters from Lousia R. Meigs (1843-1853) in Rouses Point (N.Y.) and Detroit (Mich.) to her mother Minerva Denison Rodgers in Washington, D.C.; and letters (1843-1844) from Minerva Denison Rodgers to Ann Minerva Rodgers (Macomb) in Detroit. The correspondence mostly discusses family matters and social life.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476347 View

Emlen, Samuel, 1789-1828. Notes on a tour through England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc.; Note Book no. 2., 1813-1814, by Samuel Emlen.

Title: Notes on a tour through England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc.; Note Book no. 2., 1813-1814, by Samuel Emlen.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. 15 cm.

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Rodgers Family Papers, 1740-1987, (bulk 1804-1932)

Title: Rodgers Family Papers 1740-1987 (bulk 1804-1932)

United States Navy and Army officers and family members. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, logbooks, photographs, recollections (memoirs), financial papers, and printed matter centering primarily on the naval career of Commodore John Rodgers (1773-1838).

ArchivalResource: 14,850 items; 74 containers plus 4 oversize; 28.4 linear feet

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Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869. Mémoire sur le corps jaune, [after Dec. 1846]

Title: Mémoire sur le corps jaune, [after Dec. 1846]

ArchivalResource: [3] p.

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Elias Durand biography: Some Recollections of an Old Corner 1886 Durand, Elias biography: Some Recollections of an Old Corner

Title: Elias Durand biography: Some Recollections of an Old Corner 1886 Durand, Elias biography: Some Recollections of an Old Corner

This volume (22 pages) is a typewritten biography of Elias Durand, a French immigrant who became a notable pharmacist and botanist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the mid-19th century. The biography, written by a former apprentice, concentrates on Durand's final years in France and on his pharmaceutical career in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-4386dur?rgn=main;view=text View

Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914. Personal papers, 1839-1941.

Title: Personal papers, 1839-1941.

Personal papers, 1839-1941, including items concerning S. Weir Mitchell's estate and royalties statements. Includes papers left on Mitchell's desk at death, will, and appraisals of wines, books, and china. Also includes list of items sold at sheriff's sale in the 1930s and inventory of Mitchell's rare book and autograph collection. Subseries 1.2 contains royalties statements documenting earnings from medical books, novels, and poems. Also includes academic transcript and notes, 1849-1850, on Charles D. Meigs's lectures on obstetrics at Jefferson Medical College; photographic prints of S. Weir Mitchell and John K. Mitchell; records of military service of Mitchell's younger brothers; typescript play, 1894, by Thomas Wharton and Owen Wister based on Mitchell's Francois Villon; and signed, typescript poem, 1892, by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 boxes and 1 oversize folder (.6 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122440834 View

Holt, Charles Alfred, 1820-1891. Charles Alfred Holt papers, 1842.

Title: Charles Alfred Holt papers, 1842.

This collection pertains to Charles Alfred Holt's application for a position as naval surgeon in February-April 1842. It includes a letter of recommendation from Dr. Charles D. Meigs; a certificate of health addressed to the Naval Medical Board of Examination; and a note from his father, John L. Holt, attesting to Charles Holt's age and date of birth.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/725508303 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId, 1837-1844

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId 1837-1844

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, 1799-1892, (bulk 1849-1892)

Title: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers 1799-1892 (bulk 1849-1892)

Army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist. Correspondence, diaries and journals, notebooks, family papers, military papers, drawings and plans, scrapbooks, and other papers relating primarily to Meigs's work in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, his service as quartermaster general during the Civil War, and family matters.

ArchivalResource: 11,000 items; 52 containers plus 10 oversize; 27 linear feet; 51 microfilm reels

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Adams, John, d. 1855. [Collection of 19th-century matriculation tickets, lecture admission cards, schedule cards, and graduation tickets from various colleges of medicine and pharmacy.].

Title: [Collection of 19th-century matriculation tickets, lecture admission cards, schedule cards, and graduation tickets from various colleges of medicine and pharmacy.]. [1807-1898]

ArchivalResource: 119 items : ill., ports. ; 9 x 13 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/738426874 View

Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903. Papers, 1826-1898

Title: J.P. Lesley Papers 1826-1898

After a brief career in the Congregational church, J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) left the ministry in 1852 to work full-time as a geologist. Having gained experience in structural geology and stratigraphy with the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1836-1842), Lesley became an expert in the geology of coal, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations and conducting some of the first systematic studies of the state's hydrocarbon resources. A long-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he was elected to the APS in 1856, serving variously as its librarian, secretary, and vice president, and he was selected as Director of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1875-1889). The Lesley Papers include letters to and from Peter Lesley and his wife, Susan on geology, coal and iron mining, abolition, educational reform, organized charity, and Unitarianism. The collection offers important insight into academic and applied geology in late 19th century Pennsylvania, the development of the coal and iron industries, as well as into the Lesleys' progressive social and intellectual milieu. It is divided into three series: Lesley's general correspondence, his correspondence with his brother Joseph, and microfilms of Lesley's research notes.

ArchivalResource: 7.75 Linear feet

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Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

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Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852. Daniel Drake letter to Charles D. Meigs [manuscript], 1847 June 19.

Title: Daniel Drake letter to Charles D. Meigs [manuscript], 1847 June 19.

Drake discusses obtaining and sending a copy of "A discourse on Northern lakes and Southern invalids"; expecting to attend the Baltimore convention; planning to spend time in Philadelphia overseeing the printing of his book; visiting Meigs; and leaving for a tour of the Allegheny Mountains and the St. Lawrence.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505834256 View

Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872. Papers, 1834-1871.

Title: Papers, 1834-1871.

This collection consists principally of correspondence with Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale on general scientific topics, although personal and family matters were discussed with Bache. Topics discussed in the letters include the University of Pennsylvainia, boiler explosions, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications.

ArchivalResource: ca. 650 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523586 View