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Humphreys, Joshua. Constitution.

Title: Constitution.

ArchivalResource: items in folder : ill., photos. ; 22 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20283222 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

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IId-ead.xml View

Jones and Clarke papers, 1784-1816.

Title: Jones and Clarke papers, 1784-1816.

Letters, accounts, and other business records relating to the commercial enterprises of William Jones and Samuel Clarke of Philadelphia and Charleston, who were engaged in trade with the West Indies and European countries, shipping sugar, coffee, turpentine, brandy, and other commodities. The papers contain information on British and French spoliation, embargoes, privateering, shipbuilding, finance, insurance, commodity prices. The correspondence includes letters, 1808-1812, of Nathaniel Macon, member of Congress from North Carolina, concerning congressional debates on the question of war with England in 1812; also letters of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, Captain Hugh G. Campbell, Thomas Willing, Joshua Humphreys, John Binns.

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86138678 View

Selected art related papers from the Simon Gratz Collection

Title: Selected art related papers from the Simon Gratz Collection

Selected letters, sketches, writings, clippings and printed material collected by Simon Gratz, primarily from the "Painters, sculptors, and engravers" section (ca. 400 items) of the Cultural life, arts and sciences autograph series. Other sections filmed include Benjamin West correspondence; Charles Thomson correspondence; Joshua Humphreys letters; and one or more letters from the following categories: American miscellaneous, European painters and sculptors, Chaplains colonial wars and revolution, Roman Catholic prelates, British Authors, British literary misc., European explorers and antiquaries, American poets, Univ. presidents, American scientists, American authors, American prose, American literary misc., U.S. Senators, and others.

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Wales, George Canning, 1868-1940. George C. Wales collection [naval architecture drawings], 1912-1938

Title: George C. Wales collection [naval architecture drawings], 1912-1938

This collection represents plans George C. Wales drew and collected of 18th and 19th century American vessels, including military vessels of the Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 106 sheets representing 71 designs

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64627609 View

Humphreys, Joshua. Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1750.

Title: Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1750.

Walnut-tall case clock. The hood has a cove and ovolo molded pediment with a flat top, rectangular sidelights, with applied moldings surrounding them, and a glazed door with a square opening. Waist with ogee moldings at the top and a case door with two circular peepholes and an astragal top. Base with ovolo moldings at the top, a small pendant drop at the bottom, and supported on bracket feet. Composite brass dial with applied chapter ring with roman hour numerals and arabic minute numerals and applied cast decoration in the spandrels. Inside the chapter ring, there is an engraved star pattern, circular punch work, and a calendar aperture. The dial is signed "Joshua Humphrys Charleston." Thirty hour movement.

ArchivalResource: H: 83.5" W: 15.75" D: 11.5"

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/668257509 View

Humphreys, Joshua, 1751-1838. Joshua Humphreys Papers.

Title: Joshua Humphreys Papers.

Philadelphia, PA shipbuilder and designer. Designed the first ships for the U.S. Navy. Collection consists of a photostat of his book, "Principal Dimntions & Scantling etc. of a ship of each class..." dated 1719.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear foot).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647992420 View

Lenthall, John, 1807-1882. Collection of ship plans and drawings by John Lenthall's mentors, 1790-1853.

Title: Collection of ship plans and drawings by John Lenthall's mentors, 1790-1853.

Architectural drawings and data on approximately 20 American naval ships built from 1790 through 1853, many of them in response to a naval building program begun during and after the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 58 documents in 4 flat file drawers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24843472 View

Humphreys family. Humphreys family papers, 1840-1918.

Title: Humphreys family papers, 1840-1918.

General correspondence, 1865-1892; business materials, 1866-1869; financial and legal materials, 1840-1892; diaries and copied poetry, 1866-1873; and genealogical documents relating to the Humphreys family. Items focus on the family of Joshua Humphreys (1813-1873). Some of the correspondence deals with business ventures undertaken by Joshua Humphreys following the Civil War, one a general store in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and the other the General Southern Land Agency, which bought and sold real estate, furnished labor, and negotiated loans for southern companies. The remainder of the correspondence relates to the activities of individual family members. Also included are wills, accounts, contracts, and other legal and financial materials, 1840-1892; diaries containing details of the domestic life of Joshua Humphreys and his family after the Civil War; genealogical records containing biographical information about the Humphreys family; copies of poems; and other items.

ArchivalResource: 200 items (0.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57565969 View

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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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa 1743-1806

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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Humphreys, Joshua, 1751-1838. Papers, 1682-1835.

Title: Papers, 1682-1835.

Business records of shipbuilding enterprise: letter books, 1793-1835; account books, 1784-1813, 1792-1806; ledgers, 1766-1777, 1772-1773, 1784-1805; roll call book, 1794-1799; a daybook, 1791-1823; navy yard mast book, 1797-1806; records of the building of the United States, 1798-1801; Wharton and Humphreys notebook with plans for construction of warships, drawings, and details of the building of the Constitution, Franklin, and other ships. In addition to these papers there are Humphrey's correspondence, 1775-1831; miscellaneous papers, accounts, agreements, 1738-1823; deeds and marriage contracts 1682-1758; account book, 1747-1748; notebook of Daniel Humphreys, 1638-1716; ciphering book of Joshua Humphreys, 1800-1802; his "Journal of a Voyage from Philadelphia to Lisbon," 1809; Clement Humphreys journal, 1798; and 2 copies of the American Repository, 1796, 1798.

ArchivalResource: 20 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/151373762 View

Humphreys, Joshua. Daybook, 1799-1800 (inclusive).

Title: Daybook, 1799-1800 (inclusive).

Daybook 3, January 29, 1799-August 15, 1800, of a general store.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86148569 View

Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Title: Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

ArchivalResource: 14,250 items

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003008 View

Smith, Uselma Clarke, 1841-1902. Collection, 1791-1888.

Title: Collection, 1791-1888.

This collection contains William Jones material. The incoming correspondence, 1791-1827, is mainly addressed to Jones in his capacities as Secretary of the Navy, acting Secretary of the Treasury, and Second Bank of the United States president. It includes a small group of letters, 1813, mostly from Judge Joseph H. Nicholson of Baltimore, concerning Joshua Barney's duel with Lemuel Taylor. There are a few letters from family or mercantile business associates including Joshua and Samuel Humphreys. Among other William Jones papers are: a logbook, 1805-1806, kept by Jones as master of the ship Ploughboy; copies of U.S. Navy estimates for dimensions and equipment of ships of war; estate papers; newspaper clippings; and Smith's biographical notes. The collection includes other miscellaneous letters and genealogies of Smith's family. Clarke, Jones, Loxley and related lines are represented. There is a logbook kept by Lloyd Jones, 1797-1798, of two voyages made by the brig Benjamin Franklin between Philadelphia and Bordeaux. Uselma Clarke Smith's own papers are few: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice George Sharswood letters, 1864-1871, concerning property settlement; letters and documents, 1868-1888, relative to the schooling of his son Robert M. Smith at Bordentown Military Institute; estate papers, 1863-1899, of Jane Loxley Clarke, Charlotte Jones Smith Goodrich, Catherine Loxley Jones, Mary P. Loxley, and others; law school notes; and miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122689673 View