Papers, 1735-1931.

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Papers, 1735-1931.

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Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of a Philadelphia historian include material on: the thrift movement, establishment of school savings banks and thrift savings banks in the United States, 1886-1928; Historical Pageant of Philadelphia, 1912, data on its organization, administration, finance, and executive committee meetings, with water color drawings of costumes and pageantry, posters, names of subscribers and of members, souvenirs, etc.; Indian Welfare in Oklahoma; Civil War; abolition of slavery; Temperance Union; Valley Forge Commission; education; motion picture censorship; League for Better Moving Pictures; Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, etc. A portion of correspondence relates to publications, essays, lectures, and biographies of Robert Morris, Jay Cooke, Salmon P. Chase, Charles B. Brown, and others; included in this group of papers are Sarah Louisa Oberholtzer's letters, poems and essays. Papers of an earlier period include: deeds of grants of land in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, 1735-1809; inventory of the estate of Thomas Potts, 1762; Uwchlan Society of Friends, notes and minutes of meetings, 1806; John and Paxson Vicker correspondence, 1823-1844; papers relating to the Pickering Valley Railroad, 1869-1870; and other items of social and political character.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Pickering Valley Railroad.

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League for Better Moving Pictures.

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Valley Forge Commission.

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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

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Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...

Vicker, John

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Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 1868-1936

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Potts, Thomas, 1777-1814

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Temperance Union.

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810

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Native of Philadelphia, novelist, journalist, the first person in the United States to make authorship his primary profession. Brown earned considerable distinction for a number of his novels. From the description of Travel journal, ca. 1800. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213494884 ...

Oberholtzer, Sarah Louisa.

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Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905

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Banker, financier, and fiscal agent for the U.S. Treasury Dept. during the Civil War. From the description of Jay Cooke correspondence, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983928 During the Civil War, Jay Cooke & Co. of Philadelphia developed the idea of selling government bonds, which capitalized on feelings of patriotism at the time and which were a major source of financing the war. Jay Cooke later was heavily involved in finanacing (unsuccessfully) the Northern Pa...

Vicker, Paxson.

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