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Jacob Stauffer Papers, 1844-1879, 1844-1879

Title: Jacob Stauffer Papers, 1844-1879 1844-1879

These letters concern various scientific subjects, such as fishes, insects, snakes, mice, fossils, and mosses. Other subjects include learned institutions, notably the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and men of science. Correspondents include S. S. Haldeman, Walter J. Hoffman, Spencer F. Baird, Edward D. Cope, and Leo Lesquereux.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet, Ca. 235 items

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Leeds, Josiah W. (Josiah Woodward). Scrapbooks, 1872-1907.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1872-1907.

Scrapbooks containing correspondence, clippings, tracts and other misc. papers of Josiah W. Leeds related to his interest in various areas of social reform. Includes published editorials, articles and tracts by Leeds on peace, temperance, "pernicious" literature and art, the theater, John Wycliffe, simplicity of attire, "social purity," secret societies, gambling and other related concerns. Correspondence (ca. 2,000 letters) relates to his reform activities and includes letters from John Bellows, George Dana Boardman, Gertrude Whittier Cartland, Anthony Comstock, Wilbur F. Crafts, John H. Dillingham, Neal Dow, E.E. Flagg, Anna A. Gordon, W.T. Harris, Herman Haupt, Alfred H. Love, Thomas Meehan, Clement B. Penrose, Jonathan E. Rhoads, Theodore Roosevelt, George J. Scattergood, Isaac Sharpless, Clarkson Sheppard, Hannah Whitall Smith, William Tallack, William P. Townsend, Benjamin F. Trueblood, John Wanamaker, Herbert Welsh, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis E. Willard, Julia McNair Wright and others.

ArchivalResource: 22 v. ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28733930 View

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1894-1898.

Title: Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1894-1898.

Items are from Academy librarian Angelo Heilprin and the members of the Academy's committee.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225608468 View

LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883. Papers, 1812-1897

Title: John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897

This collection contains mostly entomological material, with much information on the description and identification of particular insects, entomological collections, and the study of entomology in Europe and the United States. In addition, there are materials on medicine and hospitals during the American Civil War, on the Corps of Topographical Engineers, the United States Army, on natural history in the United States, and on the LeConte's family. Some letters are written to President Rutherford B. Hayes and concern the Commissionership of Agriculture, for which LeConte was considered, but not appointed. Letters of John Eatton LeConte and Joseph LeConte are included.

ArchivalResource: 7.7 Linear feet, Ca. 1900 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.L493-ead.xml View

Butler, William Colflesh, 1859-. Diary of Wm. C. Butler, 1880-1916 (bulk 1880-1881).

Title: Diary of Wm. C. Butler, 1880-1916 (bulk 1880-1881).

Contains Butler's diary (including especially his attempts to secure a position in his chosen line of work and notes about his conversion and church activities) and tabulation of personal income and expenses for the years 1880 and 1881. In addition, Butler writes about his stay in Atlantic City, NJ during the summers of 1881: leaves 1-77. There is a biographical sketch of his father on leaves 78-84 and a sketch of his mother on leaves 85-88.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (180 p.) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134475 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj, 1898-1988

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj 1898-1988

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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Jeannette Meehan Anderson collection on Thomas Meehan, Bulk, 1985-1994, 1890-1994

Title: Jeannette Meehan Anderson collection on Thomas Meehan Bulk, 1985-1994 1890-1994

Thomas Meehan (1826-1901) was a horticulturalist and nursery owner in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His nursery shipped plants across the globe, and his writings on horticulture influenced taste and design. The Jeannette Meehan Anderson collection on Thomas Meehan, 1890-1994, is comprised almost entirely of photocopies (primary source materials, contemporary articles on Meehan, and more recent scholarly articles). There are also drafts of articles by Anderson about Meehan, Anderson's correspondence about Meehan, Sotheby's appraisals of original Meehan papers and objects, and small number of original Thomas Meehan documents.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 Linear feet

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_HSP_GHS33 View

National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry records, 1842-1994.

Title: National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry records, 1842-1994.

Includes the files of Albert S. Goss (1924-1951) and Herschel D. Newsom (1943-1958), National Masters; Charles B. Bowling (1938-1966), Transportation Consultant; Lloyd C. Halvorson (1941-1957), Economics Cnsultant; C.W. "Jack" Jackson (1948-1961), Public Relations Director; Wib Justi (1949-1967), Director of Youth Services; the Executive Committee (1867-1959); and the Diamond Jubilee Building Fund (1940-1942). Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, financial records, minutes, agenda, constitution and bylaws, resolutions, reports, speeches, certificates, legislative bills, clippings, pamphlets, a volume of Grange melodies, a scrapbook, photographs, and broadsides concerning the administration of the national and state granges, other agricultural organizations, farm credit, insurance, bonding, prices and price control, parity, taxation, Grange history, conferences, the "National Grange Monthly", and the building of the National Grange headquarters. Also included are personal papers (1847-1929) of William Saunders, horticulturist, landscape architect, and first National Master, consisting of correspondence, a diary, journals, notes, articles, pamphlets, scrapbooks, plans, sketches, stereoscopic slides, photographs, and memorabilia regarding the U.S. Experimental Gardens, the introduction of new plants to the U.S., his designs for the national cemetery at Gettysburg, the grounds of the Lincoln Monument at Springfield, Illinois. U.S. Department of Agriculture exhibits at various international exhibitions, and the National Grange; and personal papers (1842-1926) of Oliver H. Kelley, founder and first National Secretary, consisting of correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Grange, and the Kelley family. Correspondents include D. Wyatt Aiken, Spencer F. Baird, Patrick Barry, Roy Battles, Ezra T. Benson, Earl L. Butz, Harry B. Caldwell, Harace Capron, Richard C. Carrick, Roscoe Conkling, C. Jerome Davis, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles M. Gardner, C.M. Hall, Alvin E. Hanson, L. James Harmanson, Jr., T. Harvey Hedgepeth, Harold E. Heldreth, John D. Hervey, Warren G. Magnuson, Thomas Meehan, Isaac Newton, Franklin C. Nixon, Richard M. Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William H. Seward, E.R. Shankland, George A. Smathers, John W. Stokes, W. Stuart Symington, Louis J. Taber, George Thurber, Luther C. Tibbets, Mortimer Whitehead, William Whitsitt, and Oliver F. Winchester.

ArchivalResource: 64 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64071891 View

National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry records, 1842-1994.

Title: National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry records, 1842-1994.

Includes the files of National Masters and other Grange officials, the Executive Committee, and the Diamond Jubilee Building Fund. Material concerning the administration of the national and state granges, other agricultural organizations, farm credit, insurance, bonding, prices and price control, parity, taxation, Grange history, conferences, the "National Grange Monthly", and the building of the National Grange headquarters. Also included are personal papers of William Saunders, horticulturist, landscape architect, and first National Master; and personal papers of Oliver H. Kelley, founder and first National Secretary.

ArchivalResource:

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Francois André Michaux papers, 1802-1911, 1802-1911

Title: Francois André Michaux papers, 1802-1911 1802-1911

Relating especially to American Philosophical Society business, these papers contain letters to and from men of science and institutions in Europe on the purchase and shipment of books and on the pubications of the Society. Many of the letters are to or from John Vaughan.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, Ca. 300 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M58.1-ead.xml View

Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901. Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1896.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1896.

Comprises 8 letters to Lea, most on botanical questions, one dated 25 December 1890 discusses Lea's essay, "Is there a Catholic Church?" in the Independant.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (9 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63556286 View