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Charles Frederick Winslow, Michael Tuomey, and Alonzo Tyler Mosman [photograph], [ca. 1855].

Title: Charles Frederick Winslow, Michael Tuomey, and Alonzo Tyler Mosman [photograph], [ca. 1855].

Hand-colored sixth-plate ambrotype in brass mat and preserver of physician Charles Frederick Winslow, geologist Michael Tuomey, and surveyor Alonzo Tyler Mosman. The photograph was taken ca. 1855 by an unknown photographer.

ArchivalResource: 1 photograph : ambrotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible image 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 cm (sixth-plate), in preserver 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61204092 View

Winslow, Charles Frederick, 1811-1877. Charles Frederick Winslow letter book and miscellany : ms, 1849-1873.

Title: Charles Frederick Winslow letter book and miscellany : ms, 1849-1873.

Letter book with copies of 24 letters from Winslow to relatives and friends, Apr. 17-Oct. 19, 1849, describing Winslow's journey from Nantucket to San Francisco via Panama. Includes detailed description of time spent in Panama, as well as several letters written after his arrival in San Francisco. Topics mentioned include whaling, wages, slavery, lumber, shipping, finance, and real estate. Several letters are to Winslow's wife, Lydia. In addition to the letter book, there are four documents: a land indenture, a letter of introduction, a personal letter to his wife, and what appears to be an excerpt from a travel diary. Also includes a slip of paper containing genealogical notes on the Winslow family, stamped Feb. 18, 1949.

ArchivalResource: 4 folders (0.3 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122539379 View

Winslow, Charles Frederick, 1811-1877. Papers, 1860-1861.

Title: Papers, 1860-1861.

Copy of a typescript diary kept in Mass. and Conn. by physician and naturalist Charles F. Winslow from 8 Aug. 1860 - 14 Aug. 1861 noting Winslow's commentary on the 1860 Mass. gubernatorial election, in particular his support for his friend, John A. Andrew, the Republican winner of the election; and encounters between Gov. Andrew and abolitionist Wendell Phillips regarding the appropriateness of speeches advocating civil war in early 1861. Entries also document Winslow's scientific interests, including observations of meteor showers and a comet, and the outfitting of an explorer for an arctic expedition. The collection also contains a small amount of correspondence (1860-61) with Winslow, including a letter from Andrew, regarding the gubernatorial campaign.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39789849 View

Winslow, Charles Frederick, 1811-1877. Petition to President Ulysses S. Grant for the unconditional pardon of Cyrus W. Plummer, a prisoner in the Massachusetts state prison in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Title: Petition to President Ulysses S. Grant for the unconditional pardon of Cyrus W. Plummer, a prisoner in the Massachusetts state prison in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (25 leaves) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235928458 View

Winslow, Charles Frederick, 1811-1877. San Francisco real estate accounts, 1849 Jul-1870 Jun 30.

Title: San Francisco real estate accounts, 1849 Jul-1870 Jun 30.

Autograph manuscript account book for property owned by Winslow on Washington Street in San Francisco, California. Accounts for 1849-1856 list building expenses, names and rents of tenants, and income from gold dust; later accounts briefly summarize expenses and income. A printed admission ticket for a lecture by Winslow on "Theories of Creation," Oct 22, 1870, is affixed to the cover.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 35 p.) ; 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81256714 View

Penn, William, 1644-1718. Winslow, Foye/Elder collection, 1825-1941.

Title: Winslow, Foye/Elder collection, 1825-1941.

Nantucket, Mass., historical materials, including handwritten copies of religious writings by William Penn, Anna S. Jenks on Massasoit (1894), Cyrus Pierce to his former students (1839 Aug. 5), diary (1825) of Henry Coffin, article by Edward Rowe Snow entitled The Nantucket Heart, relating to the death of scientist diplomat Charles F. Winslow and the burial of his heart in Nantucket, diaries of Eliza Mitchell and Obed Macy, Quakers, and A Provincetown Chronicle by Mary Heaton Vorse; indexes, including typed glossary of costume terms; and six notebooks containing historical writings and poetry.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70946126 View

Winslow, Charles Frederick, 1811-1877. Papers, 1849-1873.

Title: Papers, 1849-1873.

Letter book with copies of 24 letters from Winslow to relatives and friends, Apr. 17-Oct. 19, 1849, describing his journey from Nantucket to San Francisco via Panama; together with four documents, including a list of his descendants.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28420633 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Winslow, Charles Frederick, 1811-1877. Papers, 1876-1926.

Title: Papers, 1876-1926.

Wills and a perpetual care agreement.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70948710 View

Warner, John, -1873. Letters and papers, 1850-1864

Title: John Warner letters and papers, 1850-1864

The major portion of this correspondence deals with the controversy which arose when Benjamin Peirce, after having seen the manuscript of Warner's "Studies in Organic Morphology" (Philadelphia, 1857), read a paper on morphology before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1855). Other topics discussed include the alleged "Harvard clique," the administration of the Dudley Observatory (Albany, N.Y.), and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

ArchivalResource: 255 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.W243-ead.xml View

Winslow, Charles Frederick, 1811-1877. San Francisco real estate accounts, 1849 Jul-1870 Jun 30.

Title: San Francisco real estate accounts, 1849 Jul-1870 Jun 30.

Autograph manuscript account book for property owned by Winslow on Washington Street in San Francisco, California. Accounts for 1849-1856 list building expenses, names and rents of tenants, and income from gold dust; later accounts briefly summarize expenses and income. A printed admission ticket for a lecture by Winslow on "Theories of Creation," Oct 22, 1870, is affixed to the cover.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 35 p.) ; 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702150228 View