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Peale-Sellers families. Correspondence, 1686-1963.

Title: Correspondence, 1686-1963.

This collection includes wide-ranging, miscellaneous correspondence, with some other manuscripts, of members of the Peale and Sellers families, on natural history, the Philadelphia Museum, engineering, current events, and family matters. There is a group of letters and papers of Titian Ramsay Peale, including a sketchbook and a large number of loose sketches. There is also a group of letters of Rubens Peale and one of letters of Raphaelle Peale.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584100 View

Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903. Papers, 1826-1898

Title: J.P. Lesley Papers 1826-1898

After a brief career in the Congregational church, J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) left the ministry in 1852 to work full-time as a geologist. Having gained experience in structural geology and stratigraphy with the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1836-1842), Lesley became an expert in the geology of coal, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations and conducting some of the first systematic studies of the state's hydrocarbon resources. A long-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he was elected to the APS in 1856, serving variously as its librarian, secretary, and vice president, and he was selected as Director of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1875-1889). The Lesley Papers include letters to and from Peter Lesley and his wife, Susan on geology, coal and iron mining, abolition, educational reform, organized charity, and Unitarianism. The collection offers important insight into academic and applied geology in late 19th century Pennsylvania, the development of the coal and iron industries, as well as into the Lesleys' progressive social and intellectual milieu. It is divided into three series: Lesley's general correspondence, his correspondence with his brother Joseph, and microfilms of Lesley's research notes.

ArchivalResource: 7.75 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.L56-ead.xml View

Westcott, Thompson Seiser, 1862-1933. Clinic notes [from the University of Pennsylvania, the Almshouse, and the Children's Hospitals] 1885-86., 1885-86.

Title: Clinic notes [from the University of Pennsylvania, the Almshouse, and the Children's Hospitals] 1885-86., 1885-86.

ArchivalResource: 146 p. 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20126417 View

Pepper Family. Papers, 1867-1930.

Title: Papers, 1867-1930.

Contains a document outlining the distribution of the estate of William Pepper I; a two-volume typescript of The Life of Willaim Pepper, M.D., LL. D. (1843-1898) by Francis Newton Thorpe, (1900); research material collected by William Pepper II for a book on American climatology; addresses and essays on education and medical topics by William II; correspondence with William J. Latta relating to the founding of the University Museum (1895-1896); also professional correspondence, reports and addresses of William II relating to his tenure as Dean, School of Medicine (1912-1945) including the amalgamation of that school with Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia (1916) and the proposed amalgamation with Jefferson Medical College.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122528460 View

Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897. Papers, 1848-1940 (bulk 1855-1896).

Title: Papers, 1848-1940 (bulk 1855-1896).

Letters, notes and sketches related to Cope's work in paleontology and related sciences. Includes notebooks on animal classification, also sketches of birds, reptiles and amphibians. Includes letters on various scientific subjects from Alexander Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, Alexander Graham Bell, J. Bevan Braithwaite, Julius Victor Carus, Pliny Earle Chase, Francis Darwin, Bashford Dean, Havelock Ellis, Albert Gaudry, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, A. Guyot, Ernst Haeckel, Joseph Henry, Oliver Wendell Holmes, T.H. Huxley, Joseph LeConte, James McCosh, Maria Mitchell, Alfred Newton, Richard Owen, Robert E. Peary, William Pepper, Edward B. Poulton, Ira Remsen, James Evans Rhoads, George John Romanes, Daniel B. Smith, Herbert Spencer and others.

ArchivalResource: ca. 110 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25540988 View

University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism. Records, 1884-1922.

Title: Records, 1884-1922.

Collection consists of 9 series. External Correspondence (3 boxes) includes letters from mediums and spiritualists such as John Bellerjeau, Joseph Caffray, Andrew Jackson Davis, Fred Evans, Margaret Fox, W.M. Keeler, Henry Kiddle, Maud E. Lord, J.V. Mansfield, Mayer May, A.E. Newton, R.C. Simpson, Henry Slade, Hudson Tuttle, and Alfred Russel Wallace.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes + 1 oversize chart.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155862267 View

Swan, John M. (John Mumford), 1870-1949. Notes on the lectures on the theory and practice of medicine delivered to the medical class of the University of Pennsylvania by William Pepper, M.D., L.L.D., 1891-1893 / J.M. Swan.

Title: Notes on the lectures on the theory and practice of medicine delivered to the medical class of the University of Pennsylvania by William Pepper, M.D., L.L.D., 1891-1893 / J.M. Swan.

Five volumes of lecture notes on the practice of medicine delivered by William Pepper at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1891-1892 and 1892-1893 sessions. Topics include infectious diseases, eruptive diseases, diseases of the respiratory and circulatory systems, fevers, and diseases of the digestive and urinary tracts.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122440765 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

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

Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913. John Shaw Billings Papers at New York Public Library, 1854-1913 [microform].

Title: John Shaw Billings Papers at New York Public Library, 1854-1913 [microform].

Correspondence and papers relating to Billings' work with the United States Army Medical Department, 1861-1895; Johns Hopkins Hospital (especially building plans), 1873-1890; National Board of Health, 1879-1881; the 10th and 11th Census, University of Pennsylvania Hospital and Laboratory of Hygiene, 1890-1895; as first director of the New York Public Library, 1895-1913; Committee of Fifty on the Liquor Problem, 1893-1904; Carnegie Institute, 1902-1913; National Academy of Science, 1875-1911; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Family correspondence, including letters from Billings to his wife regarding his Civil War experiences; texts of lectures and addresses; notes; and miscellaneous papers. Also, scrapbooks about the Civil War, National Board of Health and health issues, 1861-1903; diaries; photographs and travel notebooks; and material about infectious diseases and epidemics. Correspondents include Alexander Agassiz, Alexander G. Bell, John Bigelow, Henry P. Bowditch, Henry C. Burdett, John L. Cadwalader, Andrew Carnegie, Melvil Dewey, Robert Fletcher, Francis Galton, Daniel C. Gilman, Silas W. Mitchell, William Pepper, Stephen Smith, and George Sternberg.

ArchivalResource: 61 microfilm reels

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/257349449 View

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

Pepper, William, 1843-1898. Papers, 1872-1886, Philadelphia.

Title: Papers, 1872-1886, Philadelphia.

ALS to a E.K. Price and TLS to a J.C. Green, thanking them for copies of articles received.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35251901 View

Papers of Sara Yorke Stevenson, 1890-1921

Title: Papers of Sara Yorke Stevenson, 1890-1921

Sara Yorke Stevenson, archeologist, Egyptologist, civic leader, newspaper editor and columnist, was one of the principal founders of what is now the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. In 1894 she became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Penn. Stevenson served as Curator of the Egyptian and Mediterranean Section and member of the Museum's governing board from 1890 to 1905 when she resigned, apparently because of the way the board handled disputes surrounding Hermann Hilprecht, Curator of the Babylonian Section. Stevenson was a founder and first president of the Equal Franchise Society, co-founder and two-term president of the Civic Club (a women's group pushing for reform and civic improvement), chair of the French War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, and had a leadership role in many other Philadelphia charitable organizations. For more than a decade she was also literary editor and columnist for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, writing under the pen names "Peggy Shippen" and "Sallie Wistar." These papers were removed in 2006 from a home once lived in by Stevenson's friend Frances Anne Wister. They cover the full range of Stevenson's interests. Highlights include her newspaper clippings and comments on the Hilprecht dispute, copies of hundreds of letters to her from her good friend William Pepper, Jr. (physician, provost at Penn and civic leader), and letters to her from many other Philadelphia notables.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot ; in 3 file boxes (32 x 40 x 18 cm.) + 1 folder list (3 p. ; 28 cm.)

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Dunham, Etta Lathrop. Correspondence to William Pepper, n.d.

Title: Correspondence to William Pepper, n.d.

Item was originally sent to William Pepper, but was forwarded by Pepper to Brinton for his attention. It consists of a request to be put in touch with someone who could assist her with the subject of Mayan hieroglyphics.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226044127 View

Pepper, William, 1843-1898. Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1886.

Title: Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1886.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155884599 View

William Pepper papers on Eadweard Muybridge

Title: William Pepper papers on Eadweard Muybridge

Correspondence between Eadweard Muybridge and William Pepper regarding the production and publication of Muybridge's ANIMAL LOCOMOTION under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. The letters relate to the ownership and dispersement of the plates, negatives, and lenses; Muybridge's contract with the University; and a title for the work.

ArchivalResource:

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIg, 1887-1891

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIg 1887-1891

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.IIg-ead.xml View

Knox Family. Papers 1846-1920.

Title: Papers 1846-1920.

Papers include personal correspondence, educational material, printed speeches of Philander C. Knox and other sundry material. The speeches pertain to Knox's views on foreign affairs in the early 1900s.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30430359 View

Frazer family. Papers, 1779-1979 (bulk: 1860-1909)

Title: Papers, 1779-1979 (bulk 1860-1909).

Correspondence, publications, diaries, articles, notebooks, lectures, diplomas, photographs, chemical instruments, and memorabilia which provide insight into three generations of educators, all in the field of chemistry, at the University of Pennsylvania. The bulk of the collection contains the Persifor Frazer papers, [1860]-1909. Correspondence, 1866-1909, covers a variety of topics related to Frazer's professional interests including: chemistry, minerals, anthracite coal, the Geological Survey, scientific apparatus, the Centennial, administrative and professional duties at the University of Pennsylvania, alumni efforts, and professional organizations.

ArchivalResource: 26 Cubic ft.

http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/frazerfam.html View

Pepper, William, 1843-1898. Correspondence with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1889-1894.

Title: Correspondence with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1889-1894.

Provost, University of Pennsylvania, 1881-1894.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (8 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555103 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Meigs, J. Forsyth (John Forsyth), 1818-1882. Notes.

Title: Notes. [n.d.]

Notes taken from Meigs and Pepper's Practical treatise on the diseases of children.

ArchivalResource: 143 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19563343 View

Burk, Jesse Y. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1886.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1886.

Letter to Dr. William Pepper, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, itemizing the books in the University Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155887586 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIh, 1892-1896

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIh 1892-1896

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.IIh-ead.xml View

Pepper, William, 1843-1898. Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1884-1898.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1884-1898.

Comprises 52 items from Pepper, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and 20 items from Lea. Subjects include Lea's donation of funding for the Institute of Hygiene at the University; support for the University Museum's Babylonian Expedition; the American Philosophical Society; and the Wistar Party.

ArchivalResource: 72 items (78 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63556440 View

John Shaw Billings papers, 1862-1913.

Title: John Shaw Billings papers, 1862-1913.

Collection consists of correspondence and papers relating to Billings' work with the United States Army Medical Department, 1861-1895; Johns Hopkins Hospital (especially building plans), 1873-1890; National Board of Health, 1879-1881; the 10th and 11th censuses, University of Pennsylvania Hospital and Laboratory of Hygiene, 1890-1895; The New York Public Library, 1895-1913; Committee of Fifty on the Liquor Problem, 1893-1904; Carnegie Institute, 1902-1913; National Academy of Science, 1875-1911; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (109 boxes).Selected materials: 53 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346189 View

John Shaw Billings papers, 1862-1913

Title: John Shaw Billings papers 1862-1913

John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) was an American surgeon, hospital planner and librarian. He served as a U.S. Army surgeon and was responsible for creating the nation's foremost medical library, now the National Library of Medicine. He served as special advisor to the trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital in planning and organizing that institution. After retiring from the Army in 1895, Billings was named the first Director of the New York Public Library. He helped create the NYPL by combining the Astor and Lenox Libraries into a public research library and building a branch library system for three of the boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx). He also planned and oversaw the construction of the Central Library building which was opened to the public in 1911. Collection consists of correspondence and papers relating to Billings' work with the United States Army Medical Department, 1861-1895; Johns Hopkins Hospital (especially building plans), 1873-1890; National Board of Health, 1879-1881; the 10th and 11th censuses, University of Pennsylvania Hospital and Laboratory of Hygiene, 1890-1895; The New York Public Library, 1895-1913; Committee of Fifty on the Liquor Problem, 1893-1904; Carnegie Institute, 1902-1913; National Academy of Science, 1875-1911; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Other papers are family correspondence, including letters from Billings to his wife regarding his Civil War experiences; texts of lectures and addresses; notes; and miscellaneous papers. Also, scrapbooks about the Civil War, National Board of Health and health issues, 1861-1903; diaries; photographs and travel notebooks; and material about infectious diseases and epidemics. Correspondents include Alexander Agassiz, Alexander G. Bell, John Bigelow, Henry P. Bowditch, Henry C. Burdett, John L. Cadwalader, Andrew Carnegie, Melvil Dewey, Robert Fletcher, Francis Galton, Daniel C. Gilman, Silas W. Mitchell, William Pepper, Stephen Smith, and George Sternberg.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (109 boxes); 53 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/304 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIi, 1897

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIi 1897

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.IIi-ead.xml View

John Shaw Billings Papers at New York Public Library [microform], 1854-1913

Title: John Shaw Billings Papers at New York Public Library [microform] 1854-1913

When John Shaw Billings left the Army in 1895 to become first a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter the director of the New York Public Library, he took with him many of his personal and professional papers.

ArchivalResource:

http://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/billings25 View

Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition papers, 1886-1896.

Title: Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition papers, 1886-1896.

Correspondence, diaries, notes, work schedules, budget information, supply requests to merchants, and other papers. Includes correspondence to and from Frank Hamilton Cushing , Frederick Webb Hodge, and Margaret Magill. Daily reports of the expedition by Cushing, Margaret Magill's diary, notes and transcript, directions for daily operations, and various reports included. Also nine letter books of Cushing, much of the correspondence relating to the Hemenway expedition written from Camp Hemenway in Tempe Arizona. Some of the letters include illustrations of artifacts and the dig site. There are also laid in items such as telegrams and incoming correspondence. The some of the letter books have name index at the front. Letter books include: Number 1 November 1886 - July 1887; Number 2 July 1887 - November 1887; Number 3 November 1887 - March 1888; Number 4 October 1887 - July 1888; Number 5 March 1888 - October 1888; Number 6 October 1888 - May1889, Number 7 February 1890 - May 1892; Number 8 September 1893 - June 1894; November 1895 - December 1896.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM09186.xml View

Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Zelia Nuttall papers, Bulk, 1896-1897, 1893-1903

Title: Zelia Nuttall papers Bulk, 1896-1897 1893-1903

In 1896 the University of Pennsylvania Museum sponsored its first expedition to Russia. The Museum sent Zelia Nuttall (now remembered mainly for her work in the area of Mexican studies) as its representative on a trip to establish cordial relations and a system of exchanges and cooperation, and to obtain archaeological and ethnological specimens by gift or exchange. Nuttall traveled to Moscow, Kiev, Troitzkoi, Rostov, Nijni-Novgorod, and Riga. She also attended ceremonies for the coronation of Nicholas II and there acquired commemorative prints which she donated to the Museum and to Mrs. Hearst. The collection consists mainly of correspondence from Nuttall to William Pepper and Sara Yorke Stevenson, inventories of objects acquired, and images collected at the Pan-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition at Nijni-Novgorod (modern Gorki).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear foot

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_UPENN_MUSEUM_PUMu1056 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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