Bining, Arthur C., b. 1893,. Collection, 1787-1957, 1787-1908, 1957.
Title:
Collection, 1787-1957, 1787-1908, 1957.
Letters and miscellaneous items collected by historian Arthur C. Bining of Philadelphia. About one-third of the collection is made up of letters, 1804-1844, which originally formed part of the correspondence of the United States Customs House of Philadelphia, dealing with routine custom matters and addressed to the Collector of Philadelphia. Major Custom House correspondents are: Joseph Anderson, William H. Crawford, Alexander James Dallas, George Mifflin Dallas, Henry D. Gilpin, Charles J. Ingersoll, Jared Ingersoll, Joseph R. Ingersoll, William Morris Meredith, John Meredith Read, Jonathan Roberts, Richard Rush, and Henry Miller Watts. About one-fourth of the collection consists of the papers, 1787-1812, in French, of Joseph R. E. Bunel, Paymaster General of the French colony of Santo Domingo [Haiti], and Marie F. M. Bunel, a businesswoman in Santo Domingo. In 1804, following the successful Haitian revolution, the Bunels moved to Philadelphia. Included are their incoming personal and business correspondence and a few miscellaneous financial records. The remainer of the collection contains letters by James Barker, 1814-1815, army officer and agent for fortification, Philadelphia; William Shaler, 1807-1832, United States Consul-General to Algiers and Cuba, and commissioner in the negotiation of the United States-Algiers treaty of 1815; Henry Stanton, 1843-1848, army officer; Abbot H. Thayer, 1876-1897, painter and naturalist; Edward Thursby, 1803-1819, merchant of Philadelphia; and James Trimble, 1809-1835, Pennsylvania political figure. There are also a few miscellaneous papers, 1853-1896, of August F. W. Partz, a German immigrant and inventor; papers, 1877-1878, relating to efforts by producers and carriers of anthacite coal in Pennsylvania to limit production and control prices; and a miscellanea of letters, business papers, deeds, military discharge papers, etc. by various persons and firms.
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850 items.
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