Collection, 1708-1884.

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Collection, 1708-1884.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122624886

This highly miscellaneous collection of deeds, surveys, and correspondence relates in part to Chester and Delaware Counties, PA and includes: plans for the new Free Quaker Meeting House in Philadelphia, 1783; Caleb Cresson receipt book, 1799-1817; anonymous hardware store journal, 1800-1802; "Book of Truth," 1842-1843, containing revelations made to an anonymous Philadelphian; Granite Arch Club (a "society for social, moral, and intellectual improvements") minute book, 1845-1846; Benjamin Eakins, Philadelphia ornamental writing master, journal, 1883-1884, of personal and business accounts kept by his son, Thomas Eakins.

300 items.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6794375

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Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916

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Realist painter Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was encouraged by his parents to develop his talent in art, and in 1862 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Also during this period Eakins developed an interest in anatomy, revealed later in the realistically detailed Gross Clinic, painted in 1875. In 1866 he moved to Paris, where he studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for three years, and briefly with sculptor Augustin-...

Adelman, Seymour,

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Eakins, Benjamin, 1818-1899

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Cresson, Caleb, 1742-1816

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Caleb Cresson was a Philadelphia merchant and a Quaker. From the description of Diary, 1791-1792. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122347700 Quaker merchant of Philadelphia. From the description of Cresson poetry, manuscript, 1783-1792. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58663010 Mary Armitt was born Mary Emlen in Philadelphia, Pa., on Nov. 1, 1707, the daughter of George and Hannah Emlen. She married Joh...