Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963
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Between the 16th and first half of the 19th century, approximately 400,000 African slaves were brought to Nueva Granada through the ports of Havanna, Veracruz, Buenos Aires, and Cartagena. Cartagena received more than 60% of the traffic destined for the Virreinato Peruano. The late 18th century saw the rise of movements to abolish the institution of slavery, movements that were often part of the struggles for independence from Spain. In Colombia, Simon Bolivar was involved in an imp...
Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914
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Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia physician and author. After graduating from medical school, he studied in Europe, joined his father's practice, and ran Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, becoming the preeminent American neurologist of his generation. In addition to numerous medical papers and texts, he published popular novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Born on 15 Feb. 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of physician John Kear...
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Peale, Harriet Friel.
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Robinson, Angelica Kauffman Peale, 1775-1853.
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Peale family.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Thornton, William, 1759-1828
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William Thornton, architect, inventor, and public official, was born in the Virgin Islands on May 20, 1759, of English parents. He came to the United States in 1787 and became a citizen in 1788. On September 12, 1794 Thornton was appointed one of the commissioners of the new federal city of Washington. He championed his own design for the Capitol and the north wing had been constructed in accordance with his ideas by the time Congress removed to Washington in 1800. In 1802 Congress abolished the...
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
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Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American revolutionary, statesman and Founding Father of the United States. Hamilton was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, the founder of the Federalist Party, as well as a founder of the nation's financial system, the United States Coast Guard, and the New York Post newspaper. As the first secretary of the treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of the administration of P...
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...
Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865
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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...
Peters, Richard, 1744-1828
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Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. Born at...
Osgood, Samuel, 1747-1813
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Samuel Osgood (February 3, 1747 – August 12, 1813) was an American merchant and statesman. He served in the Massachusetts and New York State legislatures, represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress and was the fourth Postmaster General of the United States (the first under the current Constitution), serving from 1789 to 1791. Born in Andover in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (now North Andover, Massachusetts), Osgood attended Dummer Academy (now The Governor's Academy) and Harvar...
Cambridge University Library
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Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Peale's Museum was established by Charles Willson Peale in 1784. It was public rather than private in character and was governed initially by a Society of Visitors. The museum was moved to the Hall of the American Philosophical Society in 1794 and in 1802 by act of the Pennsylvania Assembly it ws granted the free use of the State House (Independence Hall) recently vacated by the legislature. It was subsequently incorporated as the Philadelphia Museum Company under the direction of a board of tru...
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
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John Armstrong Jr. (November 25, 1758 – April 1, 1843) was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War in the James Madison administration. Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he received his early education there before studying at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Armstrong broke off his studies in Princeton in 1775 to return to Pennsylvania and join the fight in the Revo...
Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829
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Timothy Matlack (March 28, 1736 – April 14, 1829) was a brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War, Secretary of Pennsylvania during the war, and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1780. He became one of Pennsylvania's most provocative and influential political figures, but he was removed from office by his political enemies at the end of the war; however, he returned to power in the Jeffersonian era. Matlack was known for...
Roberdeau, Daniel, 1727-1795
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Daniel Roberdeau (1727 – January 5, 1795) was an American Founding Father and merchant residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the time of the American War of Independence. He represented Pennsylvania from 1777 to 1779 in the Continental Congress, where he signed the Articles of Confederation. Born on the Island of St. Christopher in the West Indies, he immigrated to Philadelphia with his mother and sisters following his father's death. Roberdeau became a timber merchant there. He was elec...
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
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John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 [O.S. November 2, 1732] – February 14, 1808) was a Founding Father of the United States. A solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, he was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768. Born at his family's tobacco plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, Dickinson was educated at home by his parents and by recent immigrants employe...
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...
Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864
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George Pope Morris (October 10, 1802 – July 6, 1864) was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. With Nathaniel Parker Willis, he co-founded the daily New York Evening Mirror by merging his fledgling weekly New-York Mirror with Willis's American Monthly in August 1831. Morris is credited with the longevity the Evening Mirror would enjoy and for giving it a wide scope, covering not only news and entertainment but reviews of the fine arts, editorials, and many original engravings. Morris al...
New-York Historical Society
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Abert, John James, 1788-1863
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John James Abert (1788-1863) was a topographical engineer for the United States Army. He supervised many early national engineering projects, including the planning for a wagon road from Genoa, Utah to Carson Valley, Nevada. From the description of John James Abert letter, 1861 February 7. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 159957417 ...
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867
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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dalla...
Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903
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When J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, he intended for the Presbyterian ministry, but when ill health intervened, he was set off on a path that would make him one of the most influential geologists in 19th century Pennsylvania. In order to help rebuild his strength and restore his health, Lesley accepted an appointment with the first Pennsylvania Geological Survey under the direction of Henry Darwin Rogers and engaged in structural a...
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
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Adams, John, 1735-1826
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John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He served as defense counsel for British soldiers accused of Boston Massacre in 1770; as delegate to Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778; as member of committee charged with drafting Declaration of Independence in 1776; as congressional commissioner to France from 1778 to 1779; as minister to United Provinces in 1780; and negotiated a loan from Dutch bankers in 1782. Adams join...
Vaughan, John, 1756-1841
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John Vaughan (1756–1841, APS 1784) was a wine merchant, philanthropist, and long-time treasurer and librarian of the American Philosophical Society. A native of England, Vaughan moved to Philadelphia in 1782. He soon was one of the most respected members of Philadelphia society, largely because of his tireless support of numerous literary, scientific and benevolent causes. Over the course of his five decades of service to the American Philosophical Society, Vaughan met and correspo...
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...
United States. Department of State
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Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814
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Elbridge Thomas Gerry (July 17, 1744 (OS July 6, 1744) – November 23, 1814) was an American politician and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from March 1813 until his death in November 1814. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after Gerry. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally opposed British colonial policy in the 1760s and was active in the early stages of organizing the re...
Sherman, John, 1823-1900
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Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. After Taylor's death in 1815, his son Charles, newly married to Mary Hoyt, moved the family west to Ohio. Several other Sherman relatives soon followed, and Charles becam...
American Philosophical Society
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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...
Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912
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Burton Chance, a prominent Philadelphia ophthalmologist, wrote "Ophthamology" (1939) and "Early printing of medical books..." (1948). From the guide to the Burton Chance correspondence, 1930-1952, 1930-1952, (American Philosophical Society) Quaker physician and surgeon, developed antiseptic prevention of wound infections. From the description of Papers, 1900-1902 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35160658 Joseph Lister was a British sur...
Sellers, John, 1762-1847.
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John Sellers was a surveyor, farmer, and miller in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. From the description of Records, 1783-1852. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122473976 ...
Madison, James, 1751-1836
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James Madison (1751-1836) was the fourth president of the United States, born in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1786, and the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783. His proposals at and management of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 earned him title "father of the U.S. Constitution." He cooperated with Alexander Hamilton and Jay in writing a series of papers (pub. 1787-88 under title of The Federalist) explaining the ne...
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Alsop, Jessie M.
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Sellers, Elizabeth Coleman, 1751-1832.
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Dallas, Alexander James, 1759-1817
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Lawyer; U.S. district attorney for eastern Pennsylvania, 1801-1814; secretary of the Treasury, 1814-1816. From the description of AL (draft), [ca. 1811 Aug.], Philadelphia, to [Caesar Augustus Rodney?]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524906 From the description of AL, [ca. 1809 Nov.], Philadelphia, to Albert Gallatin. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122585765 U.S. secretary of the treasury, lawyer, and author. ...
Hambel, Frederick William
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Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
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Du Ponceau was a Philadelphia lawyer who arrived in Portsmouth, N.H., from France in 1777, achieved early prominence as an aide to von Steuben, and as secretary to Robert Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Congress in 1781. Du Ponceau was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1785 where his familiarity with both American and European law brought him an important practice. His intellectual interests included both history and linguistics and he published extensively in both fields. He ...
Ord, George, 1781-1866
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George Ord was a naturalist and philologist. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1817. From the description of Correspondence, 1844-1852, to Titian Ramsay Peale. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632852 From the description of Notes, [n.d.], on the use of French verbs. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122380137 Ord was a naturalist and philologist. From the description of Geo...
Stevenson, R. J.
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Ricord, Alexander
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Huffey, Robert
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Bogart, James
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British journal of photography
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Hall, Hannah A.
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Talcott, Joshua. Estate
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Baldwin, Matthias W. (Matthias William), 1795-1866
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Mascourt, Charles
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Dancer, G.
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Taylor, John
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Epithet: of Liverpool; of Add MS 42582 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0002ad Epithet: Merchant of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x00027d Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0002af Epithet: of ...
Whetstone, John L.
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Leffingwell, M.
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Peale, Joseph M.
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Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825
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Painter; Philadelphia, Pa. Son of Charles Willson Peale. From the description of Raphaelle Peale letter, 1816 Sept. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566086 ...
Norris, William, 1802-1867
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Norris was chief of the C.S.A. Signal Corps; later military advisor to the Khedive of Egypt. From the description of Scrapbook of Col. William Norris, Signal Corps, C.S.A. [manuscript] 1846-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970658 ...
Sellers, George
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Corner, Thomas Cromwell, 1865-1938
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Pennock, Joseph L.
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Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865
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Still life and animal painter, museum administrator. Son of Charles Willson Peale. From the description of Rubens Peale diaries, 1855-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83213749 Rubens Peale managed his father Charles Willson Peale's museum in Philadelphia from 1810 to 1822 and later directed museums in Baltimore, New York City, and Utica. In 1840, he settled on a farm in Pottsvile, where he farmed and sketched. From the description of Sketchbook, 1864. (Unknow...
Peel, John, 1776-1854
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Braden, George
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Rogers, Fairman, 1833-1900
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Fairman Rogers (1833-1900) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an A.B. in 1853 and an A.M. in 1856. He served as Professor of Civil Engineering until 1864 and as a Trustee from 1871 to 1886 at the University of Pennsylvania. He was engaged in surveys of the Potomac River for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was well published on engineering topics, but was equally well known for riding and driving matters as he was the founder of the Philadelphia Coaching Club and t...
Pickets, Nicholas
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Graham, J. D. (James Duncan), 1799-1865
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James Duncan Graham (1799-1865), Major, Corps of Topographical, U.S.A. From the description of J.D. Graham papers, 1804-1896 (bulk 1848-1865). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132881 James Duncan Graham was born 4 April 1799 in Prince William County, Va. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1817 and served in the United States Army as a topographical engineer. He directed the re-survey of the Mason-Dixon line and served on the boundary commis...
Moore, William Hill
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Franklin Institute Philadelphia, Pa
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Escher, Heinrich, 1789-1870
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Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820
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British-born American architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol and other public buildings in the United States. -- Joseph Donath was a Philadelphia merchant who is best remembered for supplying glass to Thomas Jefferson. From the description of [Letter] 1805 Sep. 19, Ironhill, Del. [to] Jos. Donath & Co. / B. Henry Latrobe. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 245178736 British-born architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, most famous for designing the ...
Grant, Grace Minor, 1670-1753
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Losanitch, Helen
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Talcott, Joshua, 1750-1804
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Smith, Oberlin, 1840-1926
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Geneva. Société des arts. Classe d'industrie et de commerce.
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Aylmer, John Tucker
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Frazer, Persifor, 1844-1909
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Persifor Frazer was a geologist and mineralogist. From the description of Papers, 1884. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632840 Persifor Frazer (1844–1909, APS 1872) was a geologist and handwriting expert. He participated in geological surveys for the United States and for Pennsylvania and, after 1870, held the chair in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He also published a manual on handwriting and, as a specialist in t...
Sellers, Martha
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Coleman, Ann Bettle
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Robinson, Angelica Kaufmann, 1755-1853
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Sellers, David, 1757-1813
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Vilas, William F. (William Freeman), 1840-1908
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Wisconsin law professor and Civil War lieutenant colonel who was appointed Postmaster-General by President Cleveland in 1885 and then in December, 1887, was transferred to the Department of the Interior. From the description of Letter, March 29, 1888. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 56089358 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of Commodore James Barron (1769-1851) and son of Wilton Hope and Jane Armis...
Lee, L. C.
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Institution of Civil Engineers
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Cassatt, A. J. (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906
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Alexander Johnston Cassatt was a civil engineer and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1899-1906). He was the brother of artist Mary Cassatt. From the description of Letterbook index, 1894-1896; 1898-1903. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523418 ...
Grammer, G. J.
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Tourrettini
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Sellers, Louisa S.
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Kelvin, Lady Frances Anna Blandy Thomson
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Grant, Catharine, d. 1834
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Wyllys, George, 1710-1796
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White, Horace, 1834-1916
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Journalist and economist. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : to [Horton?], 1886 May 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805830 Journalist and editor for Chicago Tribune (1857-1874) and New York Evening Post (1881-1903). Author of several books including a biography of Lyman Trumbull. From the description of Letters, November 1863, July 30, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 145746010 From the desc...
Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864
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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...
Hodgson, Richard, 1855-1905
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6862hsn (person)
Australian psychologist and psychical researcher. From the description of Papers, 1887-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155488038 ...
Bristol, William, 1779-1836
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Hopkins, Alice J.
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Harris, Samuel
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Epithet: of Tangier British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x000270 ...
Humane Society of Philadelphia
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Smith, Allen
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Pennock, Sarah
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Holden, Isaac
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Epithet: MP, 1st Baronet 1893 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x00007d ...
Peale?, Louise
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Wormser, Richard S. (Richard Samuel), 1898-1975
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Founder and second president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. Also served as president of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Known for his concern with ethical standards in the book trade, his expertise in targeting client interests, and his familiarity with sources in science, technology, and history. Recognized as a specialist in foreign language editions of American literature, as well as in American editions of foreign literatures. From th...
Stetson, Charles Augustus, 1810-1888.
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Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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The Pennsylvania Hospital was established in 1751. The original section of its building was designed by Samuel Rhoads; construction began in 1755. From the description of Photographs, [ca. 1910]. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122548463 The Pennsylvania Hospital was founded in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin. Chartered by the Colonial Government, the Pennsylvania Hospital has the distinction of being the first hospital in America to care for the sick...
Wolcott, Roger, 1679-1767
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w380tq (person)
The Wyoming Controversy was a conflict between the governments of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Britain, the Continental Congress, and the Indians over land in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Documents relating to the Wyoming Controversy, 1751-1814, 1823, 1751-1823, (American Philosophical Society) Governor of Connecticut, businessman, army officer, jurist, and author. From the description of Papers of Roger Wolcott, 1749-1754. (Unknown...
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
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Peale, Charles Linnaeus, 1794-1832.
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Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838
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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, class of 1800, Harvard College, was a lawyer and later a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. He was in charge of the design and construction of dry docks at the Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yards. His father (Loammi Baldwin, 1745-1807) was one of New England's first civil engineers, and his brothers, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford B...
Farr, Martha
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Bacon, Elizabeth
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Epithet: of Add MS 45877 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x0002fc Epithet: of Add MS 32489 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x0002fb ...
Clarke, Thomas, of Waterford
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Epithet: FRS; Master of the Rolls British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x00024d Epithet: of Add MS 38650 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000216 Epithet: son of Nicholas Clarke of Somersall, gentleman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Desc...
Longmire, Francis B.
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Sellers, William, 1824-1905
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Rhoads, Hannah, 1793-1865
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tn9zv1 (person)
Perine, George Corbin, 1874-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69725fp (person)
Peale, Lui S.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6206rs4 (person)
Adams, Edward Dean, 1846-1931
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Harrold, W.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k7764f (person)
Ball, M. V. (Michael Valentine), 1868-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65172x9 (person)
Little, John R., 1960-
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Epithet: Robin Hood's Companion British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x000272 ...
Brown, James
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Epithet: of Add MS 38201 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x0002bc Epithet: of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000704.0x000249 Epithet: of Campsie British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000704.0x000247 Epithet: of the ...
Zandt, Anne B.
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Sellers, Rebecca J.
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Summers, Andrew, 1795-1843
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Draper, Anna Palmer
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Shay, Samuel J.
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Hunt, Hannah
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Carpenter, Samuel S.
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Sellers, Eleanor Peale
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d63b0w (person)
Rudolph, Ann
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Stuart, Dudley, lord, 1803-1854
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Dudley Coutts Stuart was born in London on 11 January 1803. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated in 1823. He was elected as MP for Arundel in 1830 and again in 1831, 1833, and 1835, and was MP for Marylebone from 1847. From the 1830s, and after the visit to England by Prince Adam Czartoryski in 1831 and his accounts of Russian Tsarist oppression in Poland, Stuart became a strong advocate for Polish independence. He organised public subscriptions and annual balls to supplement ...
The American Democracy
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Sellers, Cyrus Cadwallader
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Oury, George
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Devis, James, active 1733-1756
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Shepherd, Abraham
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Wheatley, Charles M. (Charles Moore), 1822-1882
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Charles Moore Wheatley was a natural scientist and mine owner. From the description of Papers, 1840-1882. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440279 From the guide to the Charles M.(Charles Moore) Wheatley papers, 1840-1882, 1840-1882, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Centennial exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Rudolph, M. M.
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Second New Jerusalem Church of Philadelphia
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Cadwallader, Elizabeth
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Ferris, E. M.
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Perry, Nelson W.
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Bramwell, F. J. (Frederick Joseph), 1818-1903
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hg0gzn (person)
Powell, Abram
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Smith, Thornley, 1813-1891
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De Peyster, John, 1765-ca. 1849.
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Tatham, W. P. (William Penn), 1820-1899
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Polk, D. F.
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Sellers, Elizabeth
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Merritt, Jesse, 1889-1957
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Peale, Edmund, 1805-1851
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Shober, Em
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Wells, Oliver, 1742-1777
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Sellers, Sophonisba Peale, 1786-1859
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Barton, J. Hervey
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Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930
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Archaeologist, historian, ceramist, collector, and founder of the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1863-1930. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70924616 Archaeologist, collector, and historian, of Bucks County, Pa. From the description of Index, [undated]. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70966771 Archaeologist, collector, and historian; of Bucks County, Pa. From the d...
Godman, John D. (John Davidson), 1794-1830
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Beeker, Augustus
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Newell, William Wells, 1839-1907
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Fevree, Barr
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Peale, Lucinda
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Turner, W. W.
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Sharpless, Joshua
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Conley, Edward
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American Society of Civil Engineers
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Peale, Eliza Burd Patterson, 1795-1864.
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Harrison, Walter
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Harrold, Frances Elizabeth
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Sellers, Harry
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Cornwell, George
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Sellers, Cyrus C.
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Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922
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John Wanamaker was founder of a Philadelphia department store. From the description of Collection, 1779-1892. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122632980 John Wanamaker, 1838-1822. Born Philadelphia, created first department store, pioneered use of price tags, money back guarantees, newspaper ads, and white sales. Instituted employee health care, pensions, and fringe benefits. Samuel Sydney McClure, 1857-1949. Founder, editor,...
Bergner, Heinrich, 1865-1918
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Riter, George W.
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Baillie, James, Master of Arts
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Epithet: Vice-Chancellor Leeds University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0002b4 Epithet: of Add MS 29166 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000677.0x0000ca Epithet: MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000000067...
Yeates, Casper
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Peale, James, 1749-1831
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James Peale was an artist, and a brother of Charles Willson Peale. From the description of Sketchbook, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466157 From the guide to the James Peale sketchbook, [n.d.], n.d., (American Philosophical Society) ...
James Watt and Company (Birmingham, England)
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Sellers, Ann Ash, d. 1856
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Henslow, Edwin J.
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Poole, Elizabeth
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Epithet: afterwards Bacon singer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x00017f ...
Rugan, John
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Lampson, Camilla Ridgely
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Forbes, George, 1849-1936
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Engineer and astronomer. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1873-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81069595 From the description of Papers, 1871-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122564559 Epithet: Lord Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard (1734); Ambassador to Russia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001242.0x0002ef George Forbes, the electrical engineer, was ...
Griffith, Thomas
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Epithet: of Add Ch 6031 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001089.0x0002d6 ...
Sellers, Eleanor Peale, 1835-1855
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Peale, Caroline, 1798-1878
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Ringel, Matilda
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Wayne, Francis
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Sellers, John, Jr.
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Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
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Strickland, William, 1787-1854
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Sellers, Ann Evans Ash
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Keyser, Mr.
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Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66w9cjs (person)
Philadelphia painter and naturalist. From the description of ALS : Philadelphia, to David Porter, 1823 Nov. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86165786 Charles Willson Peale was an artist and naturalist. From the description of Sketchbook, 1801. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465905 From the description of Portrait list, [ca. 1772]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122439811 From the descrip...
Maize, H. D.
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Hill, George W., 1815-1893
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Marshall, John
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Epithet: LLD; Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x000022 Epithet: of South Queensferry?; Scots captive in Algiers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x000041 Epithet: of Tenterden British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ...
Steward, James
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United States. Post Office, Philadelphia
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Mengarini, Guglielmo
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Brent, Hally Carrington
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Cooley, Samuel. Estate
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Anthony, John Gould, 1804-1877
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Mills, Coleman S.
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Cousin Mary
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Tocobe, Alban E.
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Culnan, Charles
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Sellers, Ellen
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Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
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José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat. From the guide to the José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823, 1810-1823, (American Philosophical Society) English naturalist From the guide to the Sir Joseph Banks letters, 1802, 1803, 1804, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Scientist and explorer. President of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters and pa...
Sharpless, John
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Peale, James, 1789-1876
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Fox, Daniel M. (Daniel Miller), 1809-
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Kenyon, Henry
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Kite, Anna Maria
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Wharton, Robert
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Epithet: Secretary to the Treasury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x0001e1 ...
Smith, F. R. (Frederick Richard), 1876-
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Peale, Sophonisba Angusciola, 1786-1859
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mx55b5 (person)
Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers was a daughter of Charles Willson Peale. From the guide to the Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers account books, 1834-1845, 1834-1845, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Wilson, Edward Stansbury, 1841-
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Wells, Charles, 1786-1866
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Lloyd, Hugh, 1923-2008
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Forney, Matthias N. (Matthias Nace), 1835-1908
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Hartford (Conn.). Commission on the City Plan
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United States. Continental Congress.
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Hoadley, J.C. (John Chipman), 1818-1886
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Lee, R. B.
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Bunting, John, 1756-1832
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Paret, Thomas Dunkin, 1837-
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Hawkins, John Isaac, 1772-1855
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Unidentified
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Zentmayer, Joseph, 1826-1888
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Dewlap, John R.
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Thaxter, Karl
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Morris, Isaac Paschall, 1803-1869
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Coleman Sellers & Sons.
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Seeley, J. B., & Company
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Sellers, Nathan & David
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Stocken, N.
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Fassitt, F. T. (Francis T.)
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Peale, Rubens H.
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Ridgely, J. O. D.
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Gibson, David
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Società torinese Protetfrice degli animali
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Niles & Co.
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Webb, Rebecca
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Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848
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Edward Shippen Burd was a Philadelphia lawyer and a member of a prominent Pennsylvania family active in social, economic and political affairs. From the description of Legal Commonplace book, 1802. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122644948 Edward S. Burd, 1779-1848, was a lawyer in Philadelphia. From the description of Collection, 1792-1870. (Dickinson College). WorldCat record id: 18762818 Edward S. Burd was a Philadelphia lawy...
Coyle, Nicholas
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Hayward, Elizabeth Bullitt, Mrs.
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Key, Moses
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Dyers, A. B.
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White, John Blake, 1781-1859
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Artist, dramatist, and lawyer. Born in Eutaw Springs, S.C., White later resided in Charleston, S.C. In 1800 he went to London (England) to study painting under Benjamin West; in 1808 he was admitted to the bar in South Carolina. White produced a number of paintings including portraits, miniatures, and historical paintings. He also authored several plays which were produced in the theaters of Charleston and elsewhere. His first wife was Elizabeth Allston (d. 1817). From the descriptio...
Forman, Thomas Marsh, 1758-1845
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Higgins, B.
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Price, John Sergeant, 1831-1897
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Page, Rufus
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Pendleton, David
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Gillespie, E. D. (Elizabeth Duane), 1821-
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Sellers, Sarah Ann
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Folger, William Mayhew, 1844-1928
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Peale, Sophonisba Angusciola, 1786-1859
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Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers was a daughter of Charles Willson Peale. From the guide to the Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers account books, 1834-1845, 1834-1845, (American Philosophical Society) ...
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Elsworth, Charles, Jr.
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Higham & Company
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Coleman, William, 1735-
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Hewitt, William
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Epithet: detained by the French in Dominica British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x000035 ...
Goodman, John
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Epithet: Roman Catholic Priest British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000702.0x0003cc ...
McCarty, William
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Newton & Son
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Barnum, Richardson Co.
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Steinmetz, H
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Peale, Charles L.
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Philadelphia Dispensary
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Burd, Sarah Shippen, 1731-1784
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Hill, Peter, d. 1857.
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Sanford, Herbert B.
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Peale-Sellers families.
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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 chi...
Simes, Jane Ramsay Peale, 1785-
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Bennent, Clarence S.
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Crèvecoeur de Perthes, Jacques Boucher de.
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Donovan, Michael, -1876
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Price, James M. (James Martin), 1825-1899
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The Price family was a Quaker family of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. Philip M. Price and Matilda E. Greentree were married at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825 but soon became disillusioned with the experimental community and returned to Philadelphia. James M. Price, son of Philip's deceased brother Isaac, was raised by them in an extended family. James married Sarah D. Lightfoot in 1852, and they had seven surviving children. Their sons were prominent architects, and three of the daughters...
Brewer family
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Ely, Alfred B. (Alfred Brewster), 1817-1872
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Richardson, Hester Dorsey, 1867-1933
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Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912
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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x00006d ...
Peale, Martha McGlathery, 1775-1852
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Burd, John, d. ca. 1760
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Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870
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Benjamin Franklin Peale was a son of Charles Willson Peale, and a naturalist, paleontologist, and traveler. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1833. From the description of Songs, 1822-1823, for guitar and piano. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440418 From the guide to the Songs, 1822-1823, for guitar and piano, 1822-1823, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Holden, Edith
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Edith Holden was born in 1871 in Worcester, England and died by accidental drowning in 1920 in Richmond, England. She wrote four books, one of which is a children's book. From the guide to the Edith Holden Collection, 1978, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...
Grant club
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Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861
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French naturalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified lady, 1844 Oct. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269579006 French zoologist; defined a system of "parallel" evolution and followed the Lamarckian tradition of classification. From the description of Histoire naturelle generale des regnes organiques, ca. 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122332787 Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist and an...
Warner, Joseph
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Epithet: of the W Indies British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x0001c6 Epithet: late of St Vincent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x0001b3 Epithet: FRS; Surgeon to Guy's Hospital British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/v...
Coleman, Thomas, 1688/9-1733.
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Fitzsimmons, Charles
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Habacker, William
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Bradford, Julius, 1829-
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Bordley, J. B. (John Beale), 1727-1804
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Rice, A. C.
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Underwood, Rosalba Carriera Peale
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Peale-Sellers
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Marshall, Charles
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Epithet: alias 'Heraclitus Grey'; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x0003bf Epithet: perukemaker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x0003e6 ...
De Peyster, William, 1735-1803
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Macnamara, Michael, 1925-
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Smithsonian Institution
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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...
Sellers, Rachel Parrish
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Mills, Peter, Jr.
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Sharpless, Townsend, b. 1793
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Dana, Charles D.
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Patterson, William Augustus, 1792-1833
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Philadelphia. Collector of taxes.
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Philadelphia. First New Jerusalem Church
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Parsons, Theophilus, 1750-1813
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Parsons practiced law in Massachusetts from 1774. He was active in discussions of the new constitution proposed in Massachusetts in 1778. He served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1806-1813). From the description of Precedents book of Massachusetts law, 1775. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 80246091 Parsons practiced law in Massachusetts from 1774, was active in discussions of the new constitution proposed for Massachusetts (17...
Ramsay, James B.
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Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
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George Washington Parke Custis was the son of John Parke Custis who was the stepson of George Washington. Custis' mother was Eleanor Calvert. He grew up at Mount Vernon in Virginia after the death of his father. He married Mary Lee Fitzhugh and lived at "Arlington." His daughter Mary Anna Randolph Custis married Robert E. Lee. George Washington Parke Custis was a playwright and agricultural reformer....
Mitchell, Stephen Mix, 1743-1835
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Stephen Mix Mitchell (December 9, 1743 – September 30, 1835) was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Wethersfield, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate and was chief justice of the state's Supreme Court. Born in Wethersfield in the Colony Connecticut, Mitchell pursued academic studies, ultimately graduating from Yale College in 1763. He went on to serve as a tutor at Yale from 1766 to 1769 while he studied law. Mitchell was admitte...
Johnson, Mary A. Peale
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Swann, John
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Johnston, John W. (John Warfield), 1818-1889
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Lawyer, judge, and U.S. Senator, from Abingdon (Washington Co.), Va. From the description of Papers, 1778-1890. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19934075 ...
Burd, James, 1726-1793
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James Burd was a Pennsylvania merchant and farmer. He also commanded at Fort Augusta (Pa.) and elsewhere during the French and Indian War, 1755-1763. From the description of Business records and accounts, 1747-1768. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122316269 James Burd was born in Scotland. He immigrated to Philadelphia in 1747 and became a merchant there. He moved to Shippensburg in 1752. He played a prominent role in the French and Indian War a...
Witler, Charles J., ca. 1781-1865
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Carré, Jn. Th.
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Peale, Charles Linneaus, 1794-1832
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Constable, William, 1721-1791
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On title page: "A synopsis of Stukeley's works with many original observations of great interest on antiquities and on Stukeley's notes by William Constable July 1872" From the guide to the Dr. Stukeley's Works, common-place book, 1872., 1972 July, (Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections) ...
Peale, George P.
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Ely, Theodore D.
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Peale, John Bushnell
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Claypoole, Elizabeth Polk, b. 1770
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Orbison, James
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Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison.
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Grubb, Martha S.
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Truesdail, William
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Blitz, Antonio, 1810-1877
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Sellers, Harvey Lewis, 1813-1892
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Watson, Charles N., 1939-
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Epithet: of Fulmer Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x0001ba Epithet: Admiral; of Add MS 32848 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x0000f3 Epithet: of Bradford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ...
Perkins, A. R.
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Purinton, Betsy (Elizabeth)
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Marshall, T. W. M. (Thomas William M.), 1818-1877
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Carr, Elizabeth
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Barnard, James
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Chauncey, Charles, 1777-1849
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William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the guide to the Nicholas Biddle correspondence, 1815-1893, 1815-1893, (American Philosophical Society) Attorney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chauncey was born in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 17, 1777. He graduated from Yale in 1792 ...
Port, Tomlinson
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Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
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Powell Stackhouse (1785-1863) and his wife, Edith Stackhouse (1786-1866) were members of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Northern District (of the Religious Society of Friends) in 1842, later Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. From the description of Petition to the Senate [manuscript] [1842]. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 693340215 ...
Lee, William
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Epithet: of the Adelphi Theatre British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000219.0x0002ec Epithet: of Lothbury London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x0002de Epithet: RC Bishop of Clifton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x0001e6 Epithet:...
Howell, Isaac, 1722-1797
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Stagg, John, 1758-1803
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Browne, John D.
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Lewis, William D.
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Great Britain. Office of the commissioners of patents
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Howell, Benjamin Betterton, -1841
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Merchant of Philadelphia. From the description of Notebook and scrapbook, 1832. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758126 ...
White, James J. B., & Co.
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Bishop, Charles
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Elliott, J. D
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Stretch, Carolyn Wood
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Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914
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George Westinghouse was a well-know investor and businessman in various fields including railroads and electricity. George and Marguerite Westinghouse were prominent citizens of Pittsburgh and also owned houses in Lenox, MA, New York City, and Washington, D.C. These materials came from descendants of the Uptegraff family, who worked for both Mr. and Mrs. Westinghouse for many years. From the description of George and Marguerite Westinghouse Collection 1898-1914. (Historical Society o...
Griffiths, William
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Troyon, Frédéric (1815-1866).
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Seixas, David G., 1788-1864
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Wells, Lester
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Shippen, Edward, approximately 1703-1781
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Edward Shippen was a merchant, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1768. From the description of Letters and papers, 1727-1781. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122540100 The Shippen family was one of the most industrious and illustrious of Philadelphia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They were active in government, the military, and in their various businesses: land acquisition and speculation, house...
Harrison, Joseph, Jr. Estate
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Wood, William W. (William Woodhull), 1921-
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Sellers, Cornelia Wells, 1831-1909.
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Cornelia Wells Sellers was the wife of Coleman Sellers. From the description of Correspondence and diaries, 1856-1909. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122644707 ...
Sellers, Coleman, 1827-
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Coleman Sellers was an engineer and inventor. From the description of Letterbooks ; letters, 1863-1899. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122644639 ...
Smith, Elizabeth
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Epithet: Executrix of Edward Smith British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00032c Epithet: niece of Sir T Smith British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00032d Epithet: of Add MS 36050 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x000126 Epithet:...
Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889
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Jurist and clergyman. From the description of Francis Wharton notes, 1886-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981343 American jurist and clergyman. From the description of Letter & print, n.d. [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812249 ...
Davenport, C., Railroad Car Manufactory.
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Simpson, Charlotte Harrold
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Runkle, John Daniel, 1822-1902
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John Daniel Runkle, 1822-1902, SB, MA, 1851, Harvard College, was the second president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1870 to 1878, having served as acting president from 1868 to 1870. He was professor of mathematics from 1865 to 1902. Earlier in 1860 he was a member of the committee that prepared the " Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology," which led to the establishment of MIT in 1861, and he worked closely with the founder and first president of...
Remsen, Henry, 1762-1843
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Henry Remsen, Jr. (1762-1843) was a financier and bank executive in New York City. He also served as private secretary to Thomas Jefferson during Jefferson's presidency. From the description of Henry Remsen, Jr. papers [microform], 1730-1846, (bulk 1827-1841). (Jefferson Library, Thomas Jefferson Foundation). WorldCat record id: 166242369 From the guide to the Henry Remsen, Jr. papers, 1730-1846, 1827-1841, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...
Mathews, Boaz
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Fry, Clare
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Sellers, James, 1783-1857
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Cunningham, Charles Crehore, 1910-1979
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Charles Crehore Cunningham (1910-1979) was a museum curator and lecturer, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute of Williamstown, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Charles Cunningham, 1977 Apr. 18-19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477483 In 1950 Sterling and Francine Clark chartered the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute as a home for their extensive art collection. Opened to the public in 1955, the Institute has built upon this extraord...
Shoemaker, E.
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Pendleton, Alexander R.
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Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee for fitting up assembly room
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St. Amour, E. Renaud de
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Grimmer, Louisa Peale
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Benirn, William
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Society for the institution and support of...Sunday schools.
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Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, 1862-1929
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Thomas Lynch Montgomery was born on March 4, 1862. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1884, where he had his first experience with library work at a local Sunday school. Montgomery was hired at the Wagner as actuary in 1886, and later assumed responsibilities of librarian. Over the course of his 17-year career at the Wagner, his duties ranged from collecting rents from tenants on properties owned by the Institute and obtaining estimates for work to be done on the bu...
Simpson, G. Wharton (George Wharton), 1824-1880
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Epithet: writer on photography British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x0003c2 ...
Ploss, Henry
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Hall, Basil, 1788-1844
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Scottish naval officer and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (47) : London, Portsmouth, etc., primarily to his publisher, Edward Moxon, 1830 Feb. 8-1842 July 26 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270507502 Basil Hall, British naval officer and author best known for his Fragments of Voyages and Travels. From the description of Basil Hall manuscript material : 9 items, 1829-1830 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 30212336...
Stretch, Caroline Wood
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Bliss, George, 1793-1873
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Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796
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David Rittenhouse was a maker of clocks and astronomical instruments in Norriton (Norristown) and Philadelphia, Penn. From the description of Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1770-1780. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 668311544 From the description of Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1765-1775. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 668311425 From the description of Brass dial wall clock, ca. 1774. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 668311652 ...
Peale family.
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Morris, Rachel
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Morlot, A. (Adolphe), 1820-1867
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Binny & Ronaldson
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Patterson, Elizabeth De Peyster Peale, 1802-1857
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Summers, Sibylla Miriam Peale, 1797-1856
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Broom, James M. (James Madison), 1776-1850
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Belgium. Commission de l'Exposition belge des beaux-arts à Philadelphie
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Pepper, William, 1843-1898
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William Pepper was provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1890. The University commissioned Muybridge to complete his animal locomotion studies under their auspices. The results were published in 1887. From the description of William Pepper papers on Eadweard Muybridge, 1883-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566066 Physician and professor of medicine of Philadelphia. From the description of Papers, 1872-1886, Philadelphia. (Duke University)....
Kelly, Leon, 1901-
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Leon Kelly (1901-1982) was an American surrealist painter. In his manuscript of the history of the Kelly family, Leon Kelly states that he was born in Perignan, France. His father, however, persuaded the family physician in Philadelphia to have the birth recorded as having taken place there. As a child, Kelly studied art privately then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art (1921-1924), and maintained a studio in France for several years until 1930. He taught art at the Brooklyn Museum ...
Philadelphia. City commissioners
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Smith, Elizabeth W.
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Wright, Hannah
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Summers, Sybilla Miriam Peale, 1797-1856
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Ridgely, Ruxton M.
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Vaux, George
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The George Vaux Papers center on the family and business concerns of the surgeon, George Vaux V (1721-1803), and his lineal descedants, George Vaux VII, and George Vaux VIII (1832-1915). Many of the Vauxes, Quakers, were involved in charitable and reform activities, including anti-slavery, poor relief, and Indian missions. Other, related families represented in the collection are the Warders, Sansoms, Heads, Graffs, Morrises, Cressons, and Mayberrys. From the guide to the George Vaux...
Sellers, Samuel, 1780-1850
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Dean, John
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Biddle, Clement C. (Clement Cornell), 1784-1855
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Epithet: American economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x000056 Charles Babbage was a mathematician and inventor. From the guide to the Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871, 1827-1871, (American Philosophical Society) Thanks Mr. Swett for five sermons written by Swett's son and praises them at length. Mentions that Mrs. Biddle is ill and confined to her chamber. ...
Evans, W. W.
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McAllister, John, 1753-1830
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Calhoun, Walter H.
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Swann, James
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Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912
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American Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Letters : to Dr. John C. Rolfe, 1910. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79028412 Shakespearean scholar. From the description of Papers of Horace Howard Furness, 1872-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349747 Horace Howard Furness was a lawyer and Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Scrapbook, 1869-1911. (American Philosophical Society Library). Wor...
Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817
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Martha Routh or Martha Winter (25 June 1743 – 18 July 1817) was a British Quaker minister and writer. Martha Winter was the last child, born in Stourbridge in 1743, to Henry and Jane Winter. She had nine siblings, although only five survived childhood. By the age of 24, she was the head of a Quaker boarding school in Nottingham after starting to teach there when she was seventeen. She was made a minister in 1773 and, after her marriage to Richard Routh in 1776, she devoted herself to Quaker mi...
Heth, John
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Brandt, John
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Imperial institute of the United Kingdom, the colonies and India.
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Ferris, George B.
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Zehnder, J. B.
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Lockwood, George R.
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Sellers, William, 1824-1905
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Robinson, O. M.
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Taylor, John, 1779-1863
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Swift, J. S.
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Foote, John P. (John Parsons), 1783-1865
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Chryssa is a sculptor, N.Y., N.Y. From the description of [Chryssa] / [graphic] John Foote. [1968.] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220201609 ...
Philadelphia. Citizens
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Peale, Robert R.
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Peale, Rosalba Carriera, 1799-1874
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Bonsall Bros.
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Koenig, George Augustus, 1844-1913
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George A. Koenig delivered a paper "On the composition of Schorlomite" before the National Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia in November 1875, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In this notebook, Koenig mentions delivering a paper to the Academy September 5, 1876. From the description of On the oxyds of s[c]horlomite, current notes of the investigation : manuscript, 1875-1878. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155904578 ...
Dredge, James, 1840-1906
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Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883
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New York and Brooklyn Bridge. Trustees
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Peale, Augustin Runyon
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Peale, Harriet Friel
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Amies, A.
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Allen, William R.
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Cope, Herman, 1789-1869
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Fitch, Elijah, 1746-1788
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Sellers, Anna, 1824-1908.
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Patterson, George, 1824-1897
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935
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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...
DuPré, Lewis, 1762-1813
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Sellers, Charles, 1806-1898
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Noxon, Frank W.
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Peabody, John J.
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Sellers, Rachel Lewis, d. 1860
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Davis, Joseph Barnard, 1801-1881
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Epithet: craniologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0003e8 ...
Robbins, Clara Fedderhoff
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Humphreys, Richard, 1750-1832
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Dudley, Chester B.
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Cartwright, Janet Findlay
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Collyer, Robert H.
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Forrest, French, 1796-1866
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French Forrest (1796-1866) was born in St. Marys County, Maryland. On June 9, 1811 he was appointed midshipman and thus began a long naval career. On March 30, 1844 he was commissioned captain in the U.S. Navy and held that rank until he cast his lot with Virginia in April, 1861. He assumed command of the Norfolk Navy yard and Station from April 1861-March 1862. From the description of Commission : Captain, Confederate Navy, issued by secretary of the Navy S. R. Mallory, 1861 June 11...
Sellers, Annie Settler
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Scott, Robert Forsyth, 1849-1933
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Epithet: Master of St John's College Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x0002f3 ...
Jennings, Walter, 1858-1933.
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Fraley, F. (Frederick), 1804-1901
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Duncan, Anna Claypoole Peale Staughton, 1791-1878
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Moore, C.
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Boysen, ...
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Kate
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Higbee, Thisbee G.
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Peale, C. W.
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Jenkinson, Francis, 1853-1923
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Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923) was born at Forres, Morayshire, on 20 August 1853. He was educated at a private school at Woodcote, near Henley-on-Thames, and at Marlborough College. In 1872 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1876; M.A., 1879), where he became a Fellow in 1878. He was college lecturer in classics, 1881-1889, and Cambridge University Librarian, 1889-1923. He died at Hampstead on 21 September 1923. From the guide to the Francis John Henry Jenkinson: ...
Margaretta
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Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970
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Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc.
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Huddleson, Elizabeth Sellers Hill
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Pennsylvania. General Assembly
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On Apr. 10, 1862, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed an act "for the improvement and grading of the public roads leading from Eshleman's Mill to the Long Lane" in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. From the description of Roads and internal improvements acts, 1789-1862. (Millersville University Library). WorldCat record id: 49291687 ...
Spackman, Henry S., 1810 or 1811-1875
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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
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Charles Dudley Warner was an American editor, essayist, and novelist. Born in Plainfield, Mass., Warner spent most of his childhood years in Charlemont, Mass. Following graduation from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and legal training at the University of Pennsylvania, Warner practiced law in Chicago, returning to the East Coast to assume editorial positions at The Hartford press (later Hartford courant) and Harper's magazine. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and ...
Haynes, Thomas William
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Jones, Washington, 1822-
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Haldane, J. W. C. (John Wilton Cuninghame)
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Wistar, Isaac J. (Isaac Jones), 1827-1905
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Isaac Jones Wistar was born in Philadelphia and educated at the Friends' Select School and Haverford College. He ran a dry goods store in Philadelphia, but in 1849 he travelled West with Dr. William Gambel as assistant curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. From the description of Autobiography, 1892. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122597453 ...
Philadelphia museum company.
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Mann, William, 1814-1881
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Woodward, John M.
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Guillou
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Forrest, James, 1825-1917
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Mount and Jones
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Driscoll, George M.
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Palmer, Ralph S. (Ralph Simon), 1914-2003
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Hill, Peter H.
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Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792-1844
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Dannfelt, Julie Widmark von
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Fisher, W. L. (William Logan), 1781-1862
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In March, 1772, Thomas Fisher married Sarah Logan, uniting two of the most prominent families in American Quaker society. Following in the footsteps of his father, Joshua, Fisher established himself early in life as a merchant, engaging in trade with Britain and her West Indian coloniesuntil the time of the Revolution. Imprisoned and deported from Philadelphia as a suspected loyalist during the Revolution, Fisher nevertheless survived the experience with his business concerns intact...
Westwood, J.O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893
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British entomologist and paleographer, an authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval manuscripts, and one of the pioneers in the publication of the pictures in illuminated manuscripts. From the description of Sketches and proofs for Illuminated illustrations of the Bible : copied from select manuscripts of the Middle Ages, 1846-1847. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79821976 British entomologist and paleographer, an authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval manuscripts...
Sellers, John, 1728-1804.
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John Sellers was a surveyor, farmer, and miller in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. From the guide to the John Sellers records, 1783-1852, 1783-1852, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture
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Price, William, 1794?-1868
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Epithet: of Knockholt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x00036e Epithet: of Add MS 38306 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x00036c Epithet: of Rhiwlas, county Merioneth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x00036f Epithet: of A...
Rippey, Howard
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Wells, Horace, 1797-1851
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Iglehart, Anne Calhoun
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Peale, Elizabeth De Peyster Coalman(?)
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Castle, William E. (William Ernest), 1867-1962
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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) William Ernest Castle was a zoologist and geneticist. He received his PhD from Harvard (1895) and taught there until 1936. He continued research in the genetics of coat colors in horses at the University of California at Berkeley until 1961. From the description of Pa...
Norris, John
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Epithet: Commissioner for repairing Rye harbour British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000269.0x00000e Epithet: Admiral; of Add MS 35584 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000269.0x00003b Epithet: senior British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000269.0x00001a ...
Goldsborough, R.
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Peale, Augustin Runyon, 1819-1856
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Rogers, Henry W., Mrs.
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Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932
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Jusserand was a French author and diplomat who was the French minister to Washington, 1902-1925. From the description of [Letters to] Prof. Yeomans / Jusserand. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 501844336 Jean Jules Jusserand was a French diplomat and author. He was ambassador to the United States from 1902 to 1925. A close friend of every U.S. President during that period, he did much to promote friendly Franco-American relations and to win the United States to the Allie...
Carr, Elizabeth?, d. 1812
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Stern, Max, 1903-1980
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Sellers, Nathan, 1708-1867
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Mordecai, Alfred, 1804-1887
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U.S. Army officer, engineer, and ordnance expert. From the description of Papers of Alfred Mordecai, 1790-1948 (bulk 1833-1887). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80026449 Biographical Note 1804, Jan. 3 Born, Warrenton, N.C. 1819 1823 Attended U...
Whitney, A., & Son
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United States. Dept. of the Treasury
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Ibotson, R. & P.
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Philadelphia. Recorder of deeds office
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Owen, Richard, 1810-1890
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Geologist, professor of natural sciences, Indiana University, and first president of Purdue University. From the description of Papers, 1821-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79714779 ...
Wilson, John, 1768-1835
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Peale, Lucinda MacMullen, d. 1885
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Pendleton, Charlotte Ramsay Robinson, 1819-1886
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Green, Duff, 1791-1875
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Journalist, politician, and industrial promoter. From the description of Papers of Duff Green, 1810-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070528 Businessman, publisher, printer for U.S. Congress, 1827-1833. From the description of Letter : Washington, to W.R. Smith, 1834 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22456195 From the description of Letter : Dalton, Ga., to H. Maynard, 1874 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22456215 Editor, indus...
Coleman, Mary Skinner, 1694-1786
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Sellers, Emilee
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Deane, F. B., Jr.
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Campbell, John, & Co.
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Lederer, Lewis
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Carew, Joseph, Jr.
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Howard, Benjamin, 1715-1803
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Fiske, Moses
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Lutterlok
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Guillon, Constant
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Dannfelt, G.
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Friel, P.
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Howard, Zebulon
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Morris, John
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Epithet: of Add MS 33980 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000390 Epithet: prisoner in the King's Bench British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000396 Epithet: of Add MS 38421 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000395 Epithet: M...
Browne, Peter A. (Peter Arrell), 1782-1860
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Henry, Morton P. (Morton Pearson), 1826-1901
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Adams, John P.
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Haviland, John, 1792-1852
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Architect who emigrated from England to the United States. From the description of Papers, 1806-1868. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213487056 ...
Peale, Elizabeth Burd Patterson, 1795-1864
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Sellers, James, 1926-
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Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906
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Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professory of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh). While at the Smithsonian he founded the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory....
Moore, John
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Epithet: of Add MS 43000 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x0002bc John Moore was born in Massachusetts and moved to Talladega, Alabama. Although he was educated as a doctor, he entered the mercantile business in Alabama. He lost all his property in 1855 and moved to Texas. From the guide to the John Moore papers, 1837-1866, (Manuscripts and Archives) Epithet: Alderman of Queenhithe a...
Ferguson, Richard
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Jung, Jacob
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Sellers, William, 1824-1905
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Chattanooga Times
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Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844
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Writer, politician and financier, of Pennsylvania. From the description of Nicholas Biddle letters, 1817-1840, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992389 José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat. From the guide to the José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823, 1810-1823, (American Philosophical Society) William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, writ...
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Mayer, George H.,, 1920-....
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Lesley, Robert W. (Robert Whitman), 1853-
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Randall, J. C.
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Pennock, Abraham Liddon, 1786-1868
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Reuling, George, d. 1915
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De Kalb, Courtenay, 1861-
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U.S. Collector of port of Philadelphia
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Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922
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American patent lawyer and writer; son of Park Benjamin, 1809-1864 From the guide to the Park Benjamin letter to Mrs. Ferris, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) From the guide to the Park Benjamin Papers, 1645-1925., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) ...
Wolcott, C. C.
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Forsyth, Robert, 1766-1846
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Sellers, Nathan, 1751-1830
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Nathan Sellers was a surveyor, scrivener, and manufacturer. From the description of Records, 1771-1844. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488778 From the guide to the Nathan Sellers records, 1771-1844, 1771-1844, (American Philosophical Society) Sellers was a wireworker in Philadelphia and Darby, PA who made molds for papermakers. From the description of Account books, 1775-1824. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 12...
Peale, Rembrandt, 1778?-1860
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Rembrandt and Harriet Peale (née Cany) were painters; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Rembrandt and Harriet Peale papers, 1824-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81263030 From the description of Printed material relating to Rembrandt Peale, 1830-1862 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80271418 Peale, from a family of artists, was a portrait, miniature and historical painter. From the description of Notes of the Painting Room. (Winte...
Robinson, Angelica Kaufmann Peale, 1775-1853.
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Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671
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Parliamentary general. From the description of Copy of the original letter : to Lord Hopton, 1646 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270536304 Epithet: Councillor of the North British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x00018b Epithet: of Menston British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x00017c Epithet: of...
Biddle, Julia Williams Rush
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Bell, John G.
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Mackenzie, Roderick
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Epithet: of Findon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x000140 Epithet: of Add MS 32726 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x0000fc Epithet: of Dalvennan; advocate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0...
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...
Philadelphia. City auction
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Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866
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George William Featherstonhaugh was a geologist and traveler, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1809. From the description of Papers, 1771-1856. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122464837 From the guide to the George William Featherstonhaugh papers, 1771-1856, 1771-1856, (American Philosophical Society) Epithet: diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:...
Adams Express Company
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The Adams Express Company was founded in Boston in 1839. Originally called Burke and Company, its name was changed to Adams and Company after only two weeks when Alvin Adams agreed to buy out his partner. By 1850, the company had spread throughout the south, southwest, and north. Much additional capital was invested at that time and the company's name was again changed to the Adams Express Company. During the Civil War, the company made a substantial amount of money shipping packages to and from...
Patterson, Elizabeth D.
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Coates, William.
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Epithet: junior, of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x0000b1 Epithet: of West Brighton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x0000fb ...
National Export Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Sellers, Anna E.
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Sellers, Frederick Harrold, 1834-
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Davidson, Robert B.
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Searight, S.
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Donkin, Byron, & Co.
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Summers, George
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Magruder, J. R.
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Paschall, Mary A.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...
Neidhard, C. (Charles), 1809-1895
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Swift, E.
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Philadelphia. Ward 15
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Renlean, J.
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Jenkins, William A.
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Newbold, W.
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Hutchinson, Bury
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Harrold, J. H.
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Bancroft, G. M.
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Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
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Joseph Henry (1797-1878, APS 1835), a physicist, was the first secretary and director of the Smithsonian Institution, a post he retained for over three decades. Henry was a leading experimental scientist whose contributions include several discoveries in the field of electromagnetics. He has been credited with the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph, among other things. Henry was born in 1797 in Albany, New York, the son of William Henry, a teamster, and his wife An...
Price, Mary G.
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Sellers, Georgiana
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Richardson, Hester Dorsey, 1867-1933
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Washington, George, 1732-1799
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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...
Newlin, Nathaniel
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Ramsay, Cyrus J.
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Peale, Charles Willson, 1821-1871
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Schraeder, J. F.
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Garrett, H.
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Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980
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Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980) was a noted historian of early America, best known for his numerous works on the life and artistic production of the family of his own great-grandfather, Charles Willson Peale. Born in Overbrook, Pa., in 1903, Sellers attended Haverford College (1925) and Harvard (MA 1926), before taking a position as librarian at Wesleyan College (1937-1949) and, later, Dickinson College (1956-1968). For several years in the late 1940s, Sellers worked at the American Philosop...
Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1850-1924
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Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854
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Robert Maskell Patterson was a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the U.S. Mint. His father, Robert Patterson, was a revolutionary soldier and mathematician. He taught mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, 1779-1814, and was the director of the U.S. Mint, 1805-1824. From the description of Papers, 1775-1853. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616093 Robert Maskell Patterson was a professor ...
Remsen, Daniel S. (Daniel Smith), 1853-1935
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Hill, Hannah Sellers
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Stewart, Ellen V.
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Browne, John A.
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Justis, R.
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West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
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American-born artist who was a charter member of the Royal Academy. From the description of ADS, 1819 November 12 : Kings Warehouse Customs, London. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16853753 American historical painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to "Sir", a gentleman with whose family his "friend and Relation Joshua Gilpin" is forming a connection in marriage, 1800 Jun. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705...
Sellers, Coleman, 1781-1834
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Coleman Sellers was a manufacturer and inventor. With his cousins he ran the family business, N. & D. Sellers, in manufacturing wool cards and paper molds in Pennsylvania. He also had separate companies for the manufacture of machinery. He was married to Sophonisba Angusciola Peale, daughter of Charles Willson Peale. From the description of Letters ; accounts, 1806-1838. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122608778 From the guide to the Coleman...
Sontag, Hannah
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Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931
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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...
Sellers, John, 1762-
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Callcus, P.
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Godman, Angelica Peale, 1800-1859
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Webb, Francis William, 1836-1906
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Peale, Sophonisba Angusciola. Estate.
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Porter, Samuel A.
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De Peyster, Henry
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Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943
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Nikola Tesla (b. July 10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)-d. January 7, 1943, New York, New York) was a Serbian-American inventor. electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. Tesla was best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. ...
Darlington, Edward, 1795-1884
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Davis, Daniel R.
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Morton, Henry, 1836-1902
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Peale, James Burd, 1833-
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Merritt, C.
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Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815
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Civil engineer, artist, and inventor. From the description of Letter : New York, to Edward P. Livingston, Clermont, [N.Y.], 1814 February 11. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50631960 Inventor, engineer, and artist. From the description of Papers, 1812-1815. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50799372 Inventor. From the description of Robert Fulton papers, 1809-1838. (Columbia University In the City of New York). World...
Hill, Peter, -1857
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Shay, John
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Sellers, David W. (David Wampole), 1833-1901
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White, Josiah, 1781-1850
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Josiah White was the builder of the first major economically operating canal in North America used to bring coal to Philadelphia from Lehigh as well as an inventor and designer of a school system based on manual labor. From the description of Papers, 1796-1949. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 32198185 Josiah L. White was a partner in the firm Scolley & White. The company performed carpentry and cabinet-work in Newton and later, Ashburnham, Ma. ...
Benclay, Joseph
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Walford, E. M.
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De Peyster, Philip, 1771-1846.
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Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
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Mathew C. Carey (1760-1839) was a publisher, economist, and humanitarian. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to America in 1784, after involvement in Irish revolutionary activity. He took up his trade as a printer, publishing the Pennsylvania Herald and the periodical, The American Museum. His book publishing ventures prospered and his firm was a leader in American printing and publishing in the period 1795-1835. He was an active proponent of the protective tariff, as well as an ardent cha...
Botelet, Alexander R.
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Cousin Emma
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Aylmer, John F.
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Teely, Elizabeth
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Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvements in the Commonwealth
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Yeatman, James E., 1818-1901
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Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865
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U.S. congressman 1830-1840 and senator 1845-1850; Ohio governor 1840-1842; U.S. sec. of the Treasury, 1850-1853. From the description of Letter, 1847 Jan. 26. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 41240210 American politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, 1849 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530944 Corwin's career included terms as Governor of Ohio (1840-184...
Van Horn, Israel
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Stockton, Eliza Ferguson Peale, 1799-1876
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Shallcross, M. C.
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Seymour, Edmund Bayly, Jr.
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Milholland, James A.
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Morris, Florence Walton
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Bright, Michael.
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Townsend & White
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Sellers, Nathan
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Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
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Charles Henry Hart was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1847, to Julia Leavey and Samuel Hart. He practiced law for a time, but then decided to devote himself to his interest in American art. He became a noted authority on portraiture, especially the works of Gilbert Stuart. Hart delighted in being able to expose fraudulent attributions. Hart was a noted author, penning a number of books and articles about art. He served as a director for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1882...
Panama Railroad Co.
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Susan
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Levy, E.
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Ransome, Frederick Leslie, 1868-1935
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Unwin, William Cawthorne, 1838-1933
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Epithet: Reverend; of Stock British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x00014a Epithet: of Burslem British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x000149 Born Coggeshall, Essex, 1838; educated at City of London School; lay student at New College, St John's Wood, London; employed by Sir William Fairbairn, [1856-1861]; Manage...
Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902
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Mary Jane Peale was the daughter of Rubens Peale and granddaughter Charles Willson Peale. From the description of Peale family papers, [ca. 1750-1940]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122473786 From the guide to the Peale family papers, [ca. 1750-1940], Circa 1750-1940, (American Philosophical Society) Mary Jane Patterson Peale was the daughter of Rubens Peale. From the description of Journal, 1844. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...
Darley, Félix Octavius Carr 1822-1888
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American draftsman and illustrator. From the description of Felix Octavius Carr Darley sketchbooks, [ca. 1840-1860]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64060713 Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Darley distinguished himself as an illustrator. In 1848, he moved to New York and became successful illustrating the works of Irving and Cooper. After his marriage in 1859, he and his wife moved to Claymont, Delaware. From the description of Mrs. Felix Octavius Car...
Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813
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"Father of American ornithology." From the description of Letter to Daniel H. Miller [manuscript], 1808 December 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647841763 From the description of Letter to Daniel H. Miller [manuscirpt], 1809 February 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48823462 Epithet: Secretary, Society for Emancipation of Industry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc...
Swayne, Samuel
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United States. District Court (Pennsylvania)
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U.S. district and circuit courts were created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 under the authority of the constitutional provision that the judicial power of the United States be vested in a Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Congress may establish. The Judiciary Act provided that these courts were to have original jurisdiction in cases involving crimes, remedies of common law, and aliens suing for a tort. The district courts were to have exclusive original cognizance of c...
Hollyday, R. C.
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Maskelyne, John Nevil, 1839-1917
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Gardiner, John H.
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Thompson, John Theophilas, ca. 1750-1826
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Sellers, Ann, 1785-
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Dorr, Dalton
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Dalton Dorr (1846-1901) was elected secretary of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, now known as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in 1880. In 1887, the title of curator was added to his duties that later culminated in the directorship of the museum in 1892. He administered these three tasks until 1899. Dorr enjoyed traveling. The “Notes of travel made from memoranda in old diaries” (B D735) is a hand-written account of recollections of his excursions. Written in the winter of 1...
Pennell, Abraham
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Haymond, Thomas
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Philadelphia. Common council
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Johnson's universal cyclopaedia
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Triggs, Margaret
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Gaskill, Charles B
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Dutton, John.
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Epithet: of Dutton, county Cheshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000752.0x0001b0 Title: Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000752.0x0001bd Epithet: of Sherborne Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000752...
Philadelphia. Select Council.
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De Peyster, Abraham B., 1763-1801
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Jennings, Edmund
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Thomas, William Widgery, 1839-1927
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Lawyer and diplomat; noted for his effort to bring Swedish colonists to northern Maine and the founding of the community of New Sweden, Me.; the last US ambassador to the united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway; b. Thomas William Widgery, Jr. From the description of Abstract of address delivered by Hon. William Widgery Thomas before Maine State Board of Trade at Camden, 1916 Sept. 21. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 317559307 ...
Ringel, Anna M
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Peale, Edmund, d. 1851
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Adams, G. Howe
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Harper, Joseph
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Holloway, Joseph Flavius, 1825-1896
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Binney, Horace, 1780-1875
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Lawyer and U.S. representative from Pennyslvania. From the description of Horace Binney correspondence, 1812-1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450670 American lawyer and legal writer. From the description of Horace Binney letters, 1828-1844. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936624 Horace Binney was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, elected to Congress in 1833. From the description of Letters to Rev. William Henry Furnes...
Pennock, J. M.
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Peale, Benjamin Franklin, 1795-1870.
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Henshaw, Henry Phillips
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Levering, A. R.
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Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council
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Andrew Galbraith (b. 1750) was the son of James Galbraith. He married Barbara Kyle in 1780. -- Roberts, Thomas. "Memoirs of John Bannister Gibson." James Trimble (b. 1755) was the son of Alexander and Eleanor Trimble. He was Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1777-1837. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an "American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, Franklin...
White, James W.
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Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891
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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dallas Bache wa...
Peale, Florida, 1825-1847
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Sellers family.
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Sunderland, La Roy, 1802-1885
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Abolitionist, author, Methodist clergyman until 1842, and later a proponent of atheism. From the description of La Roy Sunderland correspondence, 1843 October 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980558 ...
Grubb, Martha G.
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Nichols, Arthur St. C.
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Himes, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1838-1918
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Physicist (chemistry and physics of photography; binocular vision; total solar eclipses; educational appliances; historical investigations). A. B., Dickinson, 1855, A. M., 1858; Giessen, 1864-1865. Teacher in several seminaries; professor of mathematics, Troy University, 1860-1863; chemistry and physics, Dickinson, 1865-1884; physics, 1884-1896. From the description of Papers, 1852-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306538 From the description of Papers, 1852-1915. (Unk...
Dandridge, N. L.
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia
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Robins, Joanna
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Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898
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Bowles, Francis Tiffany, 1858-1927.
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N. & D. Sellers (Firm)
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Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889
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Civil engineer, inventor. A.B. Columbia, 1823. Resident engineer, Delaware and Hudson Company. Consultant for Erie Railroad; president 1843. Consultant for construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography. From the description of Diary, 1828. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269581245 ...
Warren, George
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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0003e1 ...
Kendall, Joseph G. (Joseph Gowing), 1788-1847
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Hatner & Smith
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Aylmer, Gerald George
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Fulton, Harriet Livingston
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Trevor & Encele
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Fitz-Gibbon, Ethel
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Board of Engineers of the Cataract Construction Co..
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Philadelphia. Register of Wills.
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Davenport, R. W. (Royal William), b. 1885
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Peale, Sarah Miriam, 1800-1885
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Marshall, Thomas, 1730-1802.
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Surveyor of Fayette County, Ky. From the description of Account book, 1780-1783. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49254294 ...
Mallory, W. M.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kb5vjz (person)
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company
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Barrington, Henry, d. 1882
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Settler, Hester
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Kean & Nichols
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Ruggles, John, 1789-1874
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U.S. Senator from Thomaston, Me.; served from 1835 to 1841. From 1831 to 1834 Ruggles served as justice of the supreme judicial court of Maine. From the description of John Ruggles autograph letter signed, 1832 Dec. 6. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978324 ...
Bennett, James
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Epithet: of Cadbury House, county Somerset British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x00010d James Bennett was a genealogist. From the guide to the James Bennett Collection, 1711 - 1997, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) Epithet: Representative of Inverkeithing at the Convention of Scottish Boroughs British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/8105...
Sellers, Elizabeth Morris
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Lindsay, James, merchant in Dysart
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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0000c0 Epithet: Captain; MP; Lieutenant -General and KCMG 1870 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0000fd Epithet: Captain; MP; KCMG 1870 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0000fc ...
Dodig, Matthew
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Wallis, Herbert
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Thomas, Mary
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James M. Crawford was a linguist who mainly studied Native American languages, including Cocopa, Yuchi, and Mobilian trade language. He came to the field of linguistics halfway through his lifetime after pursuing a career in forestry in the West and Southwest. After receiving his PhD in 1966 from the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to his birthplace, Georgia, where he taught in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia at Athens. From t...
De Peyster, Gerard, 1769-
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Worthington, Hobart
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McIlvain, John H.
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Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815
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This is a preparatory drawing for the painting "Julia, Third Viscountess Dudley and Ward" that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1800. From the description of [Study for Julia, third Viscountess Dudley and Ward] [graphic]. [1800] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 246658012 Painter, noted for portraits and historical subjects. Born in Boston, moved to England in 1775 because of Loyalist sympathies. From the description of ALS : London, to John Boydell, 1...
Sullivan, Elizabeth Buchanan
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Sellers, Lui Lucy
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Factory and industrial management
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Sellers, Anna, 1824-1805
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Elliott, Hubert J.
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Clifton, Anna Maria, -1811
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Anna Clifton was a resident of Philadelphia. From the description of Receipt book, 1795-1811. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 86165629 ...
Waln, Nicholas
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Peale, Charles, 1709-1750.
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Charles Peale, father of Charles Willson Peale, was a schoolmaster and painter. From the guide to the Charles Peale letterbook, 1745-1747, 1745-1747, (American Philosophical Society) Charles Peale was a schoolmaster and painter. He was the father of Charles Willson Peale. From the description of Letterbook, 1745-1747. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632813 ...
Sharpless, J. C.
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Remsen, William
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Poole, William, 1764-1829
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William Poole was a Quaker of Wilmington, Delaware. He was born in 1784, the son of William and Elizabeth Shipley Canby Poole. In 1791 he married Sarah Sharpless. He died in 1829. Poole was a distant relative of Benjamin Ferris, also of Wilmington. From the description of Letters to Benjamin Ferris, 1821-1825. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 34015646 ...
Jacobs, John
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Epithet: father of F Jacobs of the E India Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x00020c ...
Hermelin, Olof, 1827-1913
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Jones, Mary A.
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Walker, T.
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Epithet: Captain of Engineers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x00008c ...
Pitman, Thomas D.
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New Jerusalem. Church of the. Second
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Peale, Elizabeth F.
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Greek relief association
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Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811
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Member of the Continental Congress, judge for the Mississippi Territory. From the description of Treatise on Florida and Louisiana [manuscript], 1810. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647840343 From the description of Treatise on Florida and Louisiana, 1810. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31448217 Soldier and jurist. From the description of Letter, 1798, Mar. 26 : Dover, Delaware. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 3529780...
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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Yarrell, William, 1784-1856
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William Yarrell, an eminent British naturalist, was for many years a vice-president of the Zoological Society. He was also a Fellow of the Linnaean Society, and between 1825 and 1856 he contributed 81 papers to scientific societies and journals. He was the author of A HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES and A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. At his death, his collection of British fishes and other specimens were purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum. From the description of William Yarrell ...
Hill, J. Harrison
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Bovey, Henry Taylor, 1852-
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Stetson, Francis Lynde
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Devereux, Nicholson B., approximately 1813-
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Peale, St. George, 1745-1778.
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St. George Peale was a brother of Charles Willson Peale, and was a clerk of the Maryland Assembly, commissary of military stores. From the description of Accounts, 1777-1778, with the Board of War. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122540075 From the guide to the Accounts, 1777-1778, with the Board of War, 1777-1778, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Sellers, Rachel Brooks Parrish
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Rattow, William
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Hall, John, of Richmond
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Epithet: of Liverpool British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x00022a Epithet: schoolmaster, of Cambuslang British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000233 Epithet: of Egerton Ch 6171 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000225 The John Ha...
Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804
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Michael Hillegas (1729-1804) was a merchant, sugar refiner, and iron magnate who used his wealth to assist the American revolutionary cause. He was involved in the young government's affairs as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, treasurer of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety, and the first treasurer of the new United States of America. He married Henriette Boude (1731-1792) and with her had ten children. From the description of Michael Hillegas papers, 1757-1782,...
Todd, Charles H.
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Taylor, Israel, 1782-1850
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Ahrens, Ellen Wetherald
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Bancroft and Sellers
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Louisa Railroad Company
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Price, William R.
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Peale, James Burd, b. 1833.
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Sellers, William, & Co.
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Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
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Titian Ramsay Peale was a naturalist, explorer, and artist. From the description of Sketches, 1817-1875, [n.d.]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122624313 From the description of Correspondence, 1820-1868. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523569 From the guide to the Titian Ramsay Peale correspondence, 1820-1868, 1820-1868, (American Philosophical Society) Painter and naturalist. From...
Cromwell & Robinson
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MacVeagh, Wayne, 1833-1917
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Putnam, Emilie Sellers
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Harper, Joseph L.
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Barns, A.
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Oscar II, King of Sweden, 1829-1907
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De Peyster, John, 1765-1846
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Sellers, John, 1970-
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Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877
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Politician, reformer, and author Robert Dale Owen was born in Scotland; influenced by his father, he developed a strong interest in social reform. He moved to New Harmony, Indiana, where he joined the socialist community his father founded there, and he was active as an educator, editor, and author, including the first birth control pamphlet published in America. He next became active in politics, serving in the Indiana House of Representatives and later in the United States House, wh...
Bernuth, N.
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Wright, John, 1963-
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Coleman, Rachel
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Dickinson, John, 1894-1952
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Epithet: of Bermuda British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000355.0x000383 Epithet: solicitor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000355.0x000386 Epithet: of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000355.0x000384 ...
Ogden & Lee
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Scott, Samuel
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Epithet: Painter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x0000c9 Epithet: at Minorca British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x0000c7 ...
Shay, Sarah
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Swift, Edward, 1943-
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Randolph, Edward
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Randolph lived in Alabama and fought in the First Seminole War. From the description of Diary, 1818. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407741 Epithet: of Add MS 28089 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x000042 ...
Gregory, I. N.
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Finch, John, Sr.
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Peale, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1849-1914
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A. C. Peale (1849-1914) was a paleontologist who collected fossil specimens for the United States Geological Survey in Colorado during 1908. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_738_pid_EACP735 Albert Charles Peale, geologist, mineralogist, and paleobotanist, was born April 1, 1849, in Heckscherville, Pennsylvania, the son of Charles Willson Peale (1821-1871) and Harriet Friel. His father was the namesake of Albert's gr...
Brewer, Nicholas
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Hall, Sara Robinson
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Morris, Roland S. (Roland Sletor), 1874-1945
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Lawyer, diplomat, and educator. From the description of Papers of Roland S. Martin, 1910-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78028767 Roland S. (Sleator) Morris was a leader of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania and was the ambassador to Japan from 1917-1921. From the description of Roland S. Morris papers, 1856-1988 (bulk 1915-1929) (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 156054247 Biographical Note ...
University of Pennsylvania. Office of the Provost
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Wall, Alexander J. (Alexander James), 1884-1944
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Librarian, The New-York Historical Society. From the description of Alexander J. Wall papers, ca. 1907 - ca. 1942. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58780654 ...
Albertson, B.
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De Peyster, Christiana Dally, 1748-1813
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Sellers, Samuel
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Lawrence, Josiah
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Kelley, William D. (William Darrah), 1814-1890
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An organizer of the Republican Party in Pa. and delegate to the 1860 National Convention. Kelley served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1861-1890. From the description of Letter, 1863 November, 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122433968 Representative from Pennsylvania. From the description of Document signed : Washington, 1888 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270494602 William Darrah Kelley was an influential...
Cadwallader, Charles
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Lewis, William, 1708-1781
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Epithet: JP for Anglesey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x000210 Epithet: Reader at the Inner Temple British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x00021e Epithet: vicar of Hillingdon, county Middlesex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x000221...
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, duke of, 1823-1900
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x069vd (person)
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll in the peerage of Scotland, and 1st Duke of Argyll in the peerage of the United Kingdom, politician and scientist. From the description of George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll manuscript material : 1 item, 1891 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 80786960 From the guide to the George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll manuscript material : 1 item, 1891, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collectio...
Independent Club
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Crammer, E. Z.
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Fowler, Francis
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Peale, Edward Burd, 1836-
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Réau, Louis, 1881-1961
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Columbianum
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Sellers, Nathan, 1788-1867
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Paxton, J. D. (John D.), 1784-1868
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Sellers, George, 1768-1853
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Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry), 1807-1878
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Civil engineer of Baltimore, Md.; prominent in the development of the Baltimore & Ohio and other railroads. From the description of Benjamin Henry Latrobe papers, 1845-1846. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 31523222 ...
Jones, Thomas P., 1774-1848
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Thomas P. Jones was born in Herefordshire, England, in 1774, and emigrated to the United States before 1796. Trained as a physician, he became a popular lecturer and delivered speeches on a variety of scientific topics. In 1814, he joined the faculty of the College of William and Mary, and in 1824 he helped found the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jones became a professor of mechanics at the college and published The Franklin Journal and American Mechanics' Magazine (later kno...
Sellers, Coleman, & Sons
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Poole, Anna
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Taws, Lewis
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Haas, James H.
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Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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May(?), D. Corney
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Norris Brothers
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Cadwallader, David S.
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Baxter, John George
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Sellers, George Escol
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A descendant of Charles Willson Peale and the paper-maker Nathan Sellers, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) was a mechanic and inventor who spent much of his life in the paper-making trade. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he also lived in Upper Darby Township, Pa., Cincinnati, southern Illinois, and Chattanooga. From the guide to the George Escol Sellers papers, 1829-1898, 1829-1898, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Hill, Nathan Sellers
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Howard, Benjamin. Estate
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Barnard, Isaac Dutton, 1791-1834
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U.S. Army officer, U.S. senator, and public official from Pennsylvania. From the description of Isaac Dutton Barnard papers, 1812-1831. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984119 ...
Cadwallader, E.
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Barnet, Edward
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Harris, Martha
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Cambon, Jules, 1845-1935
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Ashbridge, Mary Kenyon
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Huddleson, Henry
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Society of Friends. Darby meeting
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Hudson, John
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Epithet: Bodley's Librarian, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x00032f Epithet: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Vicar of Kendal 1815-1843 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x000331 Epithet: victualler, of Milton, county Kent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Descr...
Pynchon, John, 1621-1703
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Merchant in Springfield, Mass., a town founded by his father, William Pynchon. From the description of Memorandum, 1659 May 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70975541 John Pynchon was a merchant in Springfield, Massachusetts, a town founded by his father William. John's son, also named John, followed his father into the merchant business. From the description of Account book [transcript, microform], 1638-1697. 1664-1670 (bulk dates). (Winterthur Library). WorldC...
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Speaker's Office
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Roche, M. B.
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United States. President
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The President of the United States is the chief executive office of the United States. In contrast to many countries with parliamentary forms of government, where the office of president, or head of state, is mainly ceremonial, in the United States the president is vested with great authority and is arguably the most powerful elected official in the world. The nation's founders originally intended the presidency to be a narrowly restricted institution. They distrusted executive authority because...
Page, James, 1795-1875
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Rudolph, Hans Michael
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Upper Darby Institute
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Dulany, Daniel, 1722-1797
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Lawyer, public official of Maryland (Colony), and loyalist. From the description of Letter of Daniel Dulany, 1768. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009565 American lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Baltimore Town, to John Galloway in Chester Town, 1783 Feb. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270744157 From the description of Copy of a letter : [Baltimore?], to an unidentified recipient, 1768 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...
Peale, Harriet Cany, approximately 1800-1869
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Gamble, Angelica E.
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Hummer, J. W.
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Mifflin, J. Houston (John Houston), 1807-1888
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James, Edgar
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Blodget, Lorin, 1823-1901
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Lorin Blodget was a statistician, climatologist, and publicist. From the description of Observers and correspondents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1854. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122347494 From the guide to the Observers and correspondents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1854, 1854, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Payne, William (Barrister-at-law)
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William Payne grew up in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, and later moved to Nebraska City, Nebraska, after his marriage. In Nebraska City he established the business Bradley and Payne, Forwarding and Commission Merchants, Steam Boat Agents, Dealers in Grain, and all kinds of Produce. He wrote letters to his brothers Thomas and Benjamin Payne, who both lived in Fayette, Missouri, to encourage them to relocate and to provide information on investment opportunities. His letters provi...
Bartlett, William
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Epithet: of Madeira British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000983.0x000213 ...
Garrett, E.
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Truxton, Thomas, Sheriff
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Leonard, P. A.
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New York City
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Brinton, L. A.
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Milnor, James, 1773-1845
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Milnor was a Representative to Congress from Pennsylvania; he had been a student at the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1812. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190872851 U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, lawyer, and later, an Episcopal clergyman in Philadelphia, Pa., and New York, N.Y. Variant spelling James Milner. From the description of James Milnor papers, 1811. (Unknown). WorldCat re...
Kapp, Gilbert
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Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824
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Philadelphia bookseller and publisher. From the description of Correspondence, 1813-1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82415715 Delaplaine (1777-1824) compiled Delaplaine's Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters (1815-1818). Ezra C. Gross was a Congressman, ca. 1820; Elizabeth, New York. From the description of Joseph Delaplaine letter : Philadelphia, [P.A.], to Ezra C. Gross, 1819 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 1223...
S.R.
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Vaughan, Hannah
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Abbott, Abiel, 1724-
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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896
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Barnard Gratz (1738-1801) and his brother Michael (1740-1811) immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1750s. They were merchants active during the Revolutionary period, and who formed partnerships with the merchants David Franks (1720-1794) of New York and Philadelphia, and Joseph Simon (ca. 1712-1804) of Lancaster, PA. Michael Gratz's two sons, Simon (1773-1839) and Hyman (1776-1857), inherited their father's business. From the description of Gratz-Franks-Simon Papers, 1752-1831 (inclusiv...
Sedgwick, M D & R
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Kelvin, William Thomson, baron, 1824-1907
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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617799 From the description of Papers, 1905-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80830683 From the description of Correspondence, 1836-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84971911 British mathematician and physicist. From the description of Letters signed (2) and autograph postcard signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1890 Jan. 25...
Bradford, R. B. (Royal Bird), 1844-1914
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Phreaner, Elmina
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Hall, Thomas, 1939-....
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Epithet: Servant to the Captain of Eyemouth Castle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000278 Epithet: of Bradford-on-Avon, county Wiltshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000270 Epithet: of Add MS 28234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000...
Morris, Anna Wharton, 1868-1957
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Anna Wharton Morris was the youngest daughter of Joseph Wharton, prominant Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist. She was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, active in prison reform and other social reform movements of her day, and was a profilic writer, primarily of short stories and essays. In 1896, she married Harrison S. Morris, Philadelphia author and arts administrator, and they had one child, Catharine Morris Wright. From the description of Papers, 1729-1957...
Port Folio Magazine
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Stagg, John Livingston, 1791-ca. 1836
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Sellers, Coleman, 1852-
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Sellers, Coleman, b. 1827
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Coleman Sellers was an engineer and inventor. From the guide to the Rubens Peale letterbooks, 1802-1814, 1824, Bulk, 1802-1814, 1802-1824, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Harrold, E. B.
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Taylor, W. W.
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Gunn, Katharine Mifflin
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Grant, Ellen
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Pennock, George
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Atkinson, Louisa, 1834-1872
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Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937
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Electrician, inventor with 700 patents under his name; winner of many honors, prizes, and medals. From the description of Letter to S[amuel] S[ydney] McClure, 1894 February 3. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55132441 Thomson joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1894, served as Acting President of the Institute, 1920-1922, and was a member of the MIT Corporation for many years....
American Institute of Civics
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Dudley, Charles Benjamin, 1842-1909
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Philadelphia. Watch house
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Watson, Sarah, Dr.
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Epithet: of the BBC World Service British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0001a5 ...
Hill, C. F.
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Tennant, John A., 1829-1893
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Harrold, Alfred, d. 1845
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Bradford, R. H.
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United States. District Court. (Ohio : Southern District)
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Ludlow, William, 1843-1901
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Epithet: of Andover British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000705.0x000153 ...
Elliott, Joseph John, 1835-1903
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Brown, Abner Porter
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Ohio Mechanics' Institute
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Harrold, Elizabeth Coleman Sellers, 1810-
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Gilpin, Thomas, 1776-1853
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John Pemberton of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a member of the Society of Friends, was imprisoned with 19 other men in Winchester, Virginia, between 1777 and 1778, after refusing to swear allegiance to the United States. Fearing collusion with invading British forces, the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania arrested 17 Quakers and three additional men in September 1777, and transferred the prisoners to Winchester, Virginia, later that month. The men were released in April 1778, though two d...
Fleeson, Plunket
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Robinson, J.F.
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Peale, Augustin Runyan, Jr.
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Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824
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T. P. Bennett, transcriber of these notes, received his A.B. from U. Pennsylvania in 1811 and A.M. in 1816. Robert Patterson was prof. of math. and nat. philosophy at U. Pennsylvania, 1779-1813. From the description of Compends of Spheric Geometry and Trigonometry, 1811(?). (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122527908 Robert Maskell Patterson (1787-1854, APS 1809) was a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at the University of Pen...
Sellers, James, Jr.
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Georgia
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On April 21, 1732, King George of England signed a charter establishing the colony of Georgia. The colony was settled by James Edward Oglethorpe in 1733. From the description of Georgia records, 1735-1822. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 174142600 The Commission to Attend a Treaty with the Creek Indians consisted of many well-known Georgia men, including James Hendricks (chair of the commission), General James Jackson, James Simms, Benjamin Hawkins, George ...
Haight, Frederick E.
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Harrold, Fanny (Frances Elizabeth)
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Brown, David Paul, 1795-1872
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Hubbard, Gardiner G. (Gardiner Greene), 1822-1897
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Lawyer, financier, philanthropist, founder and president of Bell Telephone. From the description of Gardiner Greene Hubbard letters to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 741788885 ...
Bolmar, A. (Anthony), 1797-1861
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Kelly, William D.
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Hayes, Joseph
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Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945
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Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945) was born in Lyon, France. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1903. Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and architect in Philadelphia, 1903-1937. Major works include Indianapolis Public Library, 1914-1917; Delaware River Bridge, Philadelphia, 1920-1926; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 1928-1932; Federal Reserve Board Building, Washington, 1935-1937. From the description of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C. : presentation, development an...
Philadelphia. Committee of accounts
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Young, John, 1820-1904
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Epithet: Secretary of the Artists' Benevolent Institution British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x00034a Epithet: Commissioner of Public Works in Canada 1851-2 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x00033a Epithet: junior, scale-maker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ar...
Sellers, Ann Gibson, 1730-
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Hinchman, Howard
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Longstreth, John R.
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Cooley, William
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Epithet: Collector of the Customs at Portsmouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x0001d6 ...
Allen, Alfred Reginald, 1876-1918
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Burke, Edward
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Epithet: Sergeant; formerly Of the Irish Recruiting Depot British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0000ab ...
Wilmington Boarding School (Wilmington, Del.)
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Sellers, Horace Wells, 1857-1933.
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Horace Wells Sellers was an architect. From the description of Papers, 1828-1930, on Independence Hall. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122578997 From the guide to the Papers, 1828-1930, on Independence Hall, 1828-1930, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Summers, Andrew
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McCreary, George D. (George Deardorff), 1846-1915
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Raguet, Condy, 1784-1842
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American economist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to William C. Preston, 1835 Feb. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616099 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to W.C. Little in Albany, 1841 Mar. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616094 Epithet: of Philadelphia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000799.0x00010a Phil...
Cassatt, Alexander J. (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906.
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Brother of painter Mary Cassatt. From the description of Selections from Alexander Johnston Cassatt's letterbook index, [ca. 1894-1903]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515751 Civil engineer Alexander Johnston Cassatt served as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1899-1906). He was the brother of artist Mary Cassatt. From the guide to the Alexander Johnston Cassatt letterbook index, 1894-1896; 1898-1903, 1894-1903, (American Philosophical Society) ...
University of Edinburgh
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Fleishman, Henry P.
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