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American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

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Smithsonian Archives. Ru 60: Meteorological Project, 1849 1875.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Ru 60: Meteorological Project, 1849 1875.

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John Bartram Association. Archives, 1929-1932.

Title: Archives, 1929-1932.

This collection contains correspondence, chielfly of Francis W. Pennell, concerning the observance of the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of the first botanical garden in the American colonies by John Bartram. There is correspondence concerning the publication resulting from this observance as well.

ArchivalResource: 202 items.

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Bartram, John, 1699-1777. Diary, 1765-1766, of a journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

Title: Diary, 1765-1766, of a journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

Journal written between July 1, 1765 and April 10, 1766 on a trip through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with observations about flora, fauna, geography, and social life.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

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John Bartram Association archives, 1929-1932, 1929-1932

Title: John Bartram Association archives, 1929-1932 1929-1932

This collection contains correspondence, chiefly that of Francis W. Pennell, concerning the observance of the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of the first botanical garden in the American colonies by John Bartram. There is correspondence concerning the publication resulting from this observance as well. There is also one brief life of Bartram, and the list of the men on the program: review of book on Bartram and typescripts of three letters in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, from John Bartram to Peter Collinson; 1757-1759.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 202 items

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Earnest, Ernest Penney, 1901-. Papers, 1929-1982.

Title: Papers, 1929-1982.

The papers of this Philadelphia university teacher and writer includemanuscripts for both published and unpublished works focusing on Earnest's interests in the history of literature and Philadelphia subjects, such as botanist John Bartram and volunteer fire companies. The collection also includes readers comments on his work, correspondence, awards, leaflets, photographs, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft. (2 boxes)

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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Collinson-Bartram Papers, 1732-1773, 1732-1773

Title: Collinson-Bartram Papers, 1732-1773 1732-1773

This collection is principally letters to Collinson about seeds, plants, and gardens from seed cultivators and owners of country estates, including Cadwallader Colden, John Hanbury, Lord and Lady Petre, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Richmond, Sir Hans Sloane, and Daniel Solander. There are also several letters of John Bartram to William Bartram and Philip Miller.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 37 items.

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Weather Bureau

Title: Weather Bureau

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Conrad Wilson and William E. Frame genealogy research files on the Bartram family, 1957-1993

Title: Conrad Wilson and William E. Frame genealogy research files on the Bartram family 1957-1993

Conrad Wilson (1921-2005) and Colonel William Eber Frame Jr. (1924-2007) were descendants of "Father of American Botany" John Bartram (1699-1777). Both Wilson and Frame were avid historians and genealogists. The Conrad Wilson and Colonel William Eber Frame genealogy research files on the Bartram family, 1957-1993, consist of materials gathered by Frame and Wilson relating to Bartram family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet

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Bartram family. Bartram family letters, 1743-1766. (bulk 1765-1766).

Title: Bartram family letters, 1743-1766. (bulk 1765-1766).

Five autograph letters from John Bartram, and one autograph letter each from William Bartram, Isaac Bartram, and Moses Bartram, Jr. One letter from John to William has a short postscript written by Ann Bartram, John's wife and William's mother. Two letters, both by John Bartram, are of particular interest: the first to Cadwallader Colden, describing his recent expedition up the Susquehanna River; the second to William Bartram, which begins "Dear Billy, I have now a most grievious cough that teaseth me night and day yet I have sent thee six likely young negroes among which is [sic] two young breeding wenches..."

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (8 items)

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Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768. Collinson-Bartram Papers, 1732-1773.

Title: Collinson-Bartram Papers, 1732-1773.

This collection is principally letters to Collinson about seeds, plants, and gardens from seed cultivators and owners of country estates, including Cadwallader Colden, John Hanbury, Lord and Lady Petre, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Richmond, Sir Hans Sloane, and Daniel Solander.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

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Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865, 1738-1865

Title: Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865 1738-1865

Letters and papers to or from American scientists or about America, selected from the Linnean Society's collections. Includes letters to William Swainson from John Abbott, John J. Audubon, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Isaac Lea, and John E. LeConte; letters to Sir James Edward Smith from Jacob Bigelow, DeWitt Clinton, J.F. Correia da Serra, David Hosack, Theodore Lyman, William Dandridge Peck, Rafinesque, and Gotthilf H.E. Muhlenberg; letters to William Darlington; letters to Asa Gray; letters of John Bartram; letters of Peter Collinson to J.F. Gronovius; letters and papers of John Ellis, including letters from Alexander Garden, Samuel Martin, and Bernard Romans; letters to Carl Linnaeus from John Bartram, John Clayton, Cadwallader Colden, Correia da Serra, Peter Kalm, Adam Kuhn, James Logan, John Mitchell, and Charles Wrangel.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Film reel(s)

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Bartram, John, 1699-1777. Correspondence, 1735-1775.

Title: Correspondence, 1735-1775.

ArchivalResource: 719 items.

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Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818], Circa 1642-1818

Title: Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818] Circa 1642-1818

Letters collected by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., including correspondence and papers submitted to the Society. Pertains to APS members and associations. Includes letters by Franklin, Winthrop, Endecott, Eliot, etc. Scientific and historical references, primarily. Some of the subjects discussed are astronomy, botany, electricity, natural history, and Indian missions. Also included is Roger Curtis' "Journal of the Moravian Mission to Labrador."

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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John Bartram papers, 1738-1796, 1738-1796

Title: John Bartram papers, 1738-1796 1738-1796

Correspondence to and from John Bartram and his son, William Bartram.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Bartram, John, 1699-1777. Papers, 1738-1796.

Title: Papers, 1738-1796.

In addition to letters from and to John Bartram, there are letters from and to his son, William Bartram.

ArchivalResource: 15 items (on 2 microfilm reels).

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Abbot, E. O. Index of all plants mentioned in Darlington's Memorial of John Bartram (Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849), n.d.

Title: Index of all plants mentioned in Darlington's Memorial of John Bartram (Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849), n.d.

Consists of an undated manuscript index of plants in William Darlington's Memorials of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 volume).

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Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815. American Indian materials, 1789-1813.

Title: American Indian materials, 1789-1813.

This series includes Barton manuscripts (journals, notes, vocabularies) on Indians of New York State, and of South America, and on the Kaigana, Kaskaskian, Mandan, Tlaxcalan, and Tuscarora Indians.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

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[John Bartram, biographical materials]

Title: [John Bartram, biographical materials] 1922-

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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John Bartram Association collection on the Bartram family, 1768-2012

Title: John Bartram Association collection on the Bartram family 1768-2012

John Bartram (1699-1777), the "Father of American Botany," created a botanic garden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is widely considered the first true botanic collection in North America. In 1891 the City of Philadelphia purchased his estate as a historic site, and the John Bartram Association--primarily constituted of his descendants--was established in 1893 to help with the administration and interpretation of the property. The John Bartram Association collection on the Bartram family, 1768-2012, includes various materials created by or on the subject of John Bartram (1699-1777) and his descendants. It includes some original and many copies of Bartram family documents, photographs, book research, genealogical research, and plant information.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet

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Bartram, Isaac. Isaac Bartram Account Book, 1790-1803.

Title: Isaac Bartram Account Book, 1790-1803.

The Isaac Bartram Account book contains almost 250 pages of detailed accounts of transactions for pharmaceutical materials, many of which appear to have been the natural products of Bartram Gardens in Philadelphia. Many of the accounts are directed to his relatives, including John Bartram, who is listed for dispersals of cash and for advancing cash to his son James to use for laundry and for his studies under Benjamin Rush. Other family members mentioned are Moses, nephew James Bartram, and niece Ann Bartram. Isaac Bartram maintained accounts with a large number of customers over the years covered in this volume, including 22 women and many local physicians. Some of the physicians from southeastern Pennsylvania who were mentioned in the account book were Jacob Baker, Samuel Fahnstock, and Jonathan Kearsley. In addition to plants and plant products, Bartram dealt in glass, salt petre, bottles, pill boxes, knives, ochre and other pigments, and other goods used in the pharmaceutical trade. Four pages at the end of the volume list purchasers of rosewater, most of whom were women.

ArchivalResource: 246 pp.

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Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, 1686-1762. [Letter] 1751 Jun. 16, Leyden [to] Mr. Bartram / Joh. Fred. Gronovius.

Title: [Letter] 1751 Jun. 16, Leyden [to] Mr. Bartram / Joh. Fred. Gronovius.

Gronovius writes John Bartram catching up on their correspondence which has been sporadic due to war. He says he is sending Bartram a copy of Linneas's Bibliotheca botanica, and identifies some shells that Bartram sent him.

ArchivalResource: [5] p. ; 23 cm.

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Royal Society (Great Britain). Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818].

Title: Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818].

This collection pertains to American Philosophical Society members and associations. Some of the subjects discussed are astronomy, botany, electricity, and natural history. Also included is Roger Curtis' "Journal of the Moravian Mission to Labrador."

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

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John Bartram papers, 1738-1796, 1738-1796

Title: John Bartram papers, 1738-1796 1738-1796

Correspondence to and from John Bartram and his son, William Bartram.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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John Bartram Association research files, Bulk, 1980-2012, 1905-2012

Title: John Bartram Association research files Bulk, 1980-2012 1905-2012

John Bartram (1699-1777), the "Father of American Botany," created a botanic garden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is widely considered the first true botanic collection in North America. In 1891 the City of Philadelphia purchased his estate as a historic site, and the John Bartram Association was established in 1893 to help with the administration and interpretation of the property. The John Bartram Association research files, 1905-2012, consist of research materials relating to the Bartram family and Bartram's Gardens.

ArchivalResource: 16.25 Linear feet

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_HSP_BG03 View

Clayton, John, 1686-1773. Clayton papers, 1748-1765.

Title: Clayton papers, 1748-1765.

Copies of letters written by John Clayton author of Flora Virginica, to Carl von Linne [Carolus Linnaeus] concerning Linnaeus' published works, seeds, Gmelin's Flora Siberica, and Clayton's election to the Swedish Royal Academy of Science; and to [John] Bartram concerning seeds, and a trip by Bartram to Florida.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection, 1783-1817

Title: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection 1783-1817

A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics ( , 1798) were widely read, and his (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research. The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The Elements of Botany New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Linear feet

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American manuscripts, 1703-1806, from the British Museum, 1703-1806

Title: American manuscripts, 1703-1806, from the British Museum 1703-1806

This is a miscellaneous collection of manuscripts (ca. 35 items) from the British Museum, selected for filming by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Included are letters, botanical lists, illustrations, and other types of documents.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863. Letter : Hayfield, Ky., to Dr. William Darlington, 1850 Feb. 23.

Title: Letter : Hayfield, Ky., to Dr. William Darlington, 1850 Feb. 23.

Autograph letter signed. Signed by Short. Short compliments Darlington on his Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 26 cm.

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Brown, Carlotta Herring. Collection, 1699-1920.

Title: Collection, 1699-1920.

Botanical and horticultural material, including copies of and notes from original manuscripts relating to John Bartram, 1699-1777; correspondence relating to mosses, 1909-1918. There are also journals and notes containing material on the World War, 1914-1920.

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/151372549 View

Daniel McKinley research files on the history of natural history, 1963-1999

Title: Daniel McKinley research files on the history of natural history 1963-1999

Daniel L. McKinley (1925-2010) was a biology professor and historian of natural history. The Daniel McKinley book research files on natural history, 1963-1999, consist mostly of article reprints and an associated card file, but also feature biographical files on historically important naturalists. Featured in McKinley's biographical research are "the father of American botany" John Bartram (1699-1777) and his son, naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823).

ArchivalResource: 30.0 Linear feet

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Albany Institute Of History And Art, Library. Correspondence, 1795 1830.

Title: Albany Institute Of History And Art, Library. Correspondence, 1795 1830.

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