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United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

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Ross, Walter, fl. 1773-1787. Letter: 1787 Oct. 25, Edinburgh, to Lord Buchan / Walter Ross.

Title: Letter: 1787 Oct. 25, Edinburgh, to Lord Buchan / Walter Ross. 1787.

Concerns John Donaldson, painter in miniatures and enamel.

ArchivalResource: [5]p.

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Stephen Girard papers, 1793-1857., 1793-1857

Title: Stephen Girard papers, 1793-1857. 1793-1857

From the Board of Trustees of the Estate of Stephen Girard, these films are the complete archive of one of the largest mercantile and financial operations in the United States of his day. The collection includes correpondence, with translations of letters in French (139 reels). It also includes bank records, account books, ledgers, cash books, and journals; papers, documents, and records of trading voyages (arranged by vessel and date); records of Girard's country house, "The Place"; records of real estate, rents, etc.; prices current of ports of the world. There is a card index of correspondents and ships (14 reels). Included is a card file, a unique and invaluable research tool, this is an index of names and places and alphabetical abstracts of Philadelphia newspaper items and advertisements for the period covering ca. 1718-1795. Roach made a systematic search through eighteenth-century newspapers and several other sources, for biographical and subject information on Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians of the period. It is primarily biographical , but subject headings, such as "The Barracks," "Blue Lion, Sign of the," "Custom House," are scattered throughout. The source of each entry is cited, and there are brief annotations. There is also a miscellaneous assortment of volumes that were received with the Kane family papers.

ArchivalResource: 600.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829. Memoir: 1804 Dec. 31, Edinburgh, of John Donaldson / Earl of Buchan.

Title: Memoir: 1804 Dec. 31, Edinburgh, of John Donaldson / Earl of Buchan. 1804.

Concerns John Donaldson, painter in miniatures and enamel.

ArchivalResource: [8]p.

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