This collection consists of 36 items, 23 of which are photocopies (including one photographic negative). Five of the photocopied items include documents signed by William Penn: two land transactions, an indenture, and an Indian treaty dated in the 1600s. Twelve items from the 1700s are photocopies, including William Penn's will, a deed between the six Indian Nations and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, letters, plans for forts at Augusta and Halifax, Catharina Moser's birth and baptismal certificate in German with Fraktur embellishments, a ship's roster, land surveys, and the Bill of Rights and Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Ten items (including three photocopies) date from the 1800s. These include newspapers from New York, North Carolina, and Mississippi, 4 issues of the Pennsylvania Legislative Report, a blank purchase form, two certificates, and a photographic collage of the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives. Four items date from the 1900s: prints of Civil War engravings, genealogical maps, a Pennsylvania tri-centennial proclamation, and a poster on General Sullivan's Indian expedition. Photocopies of two lithographs, the "Peepist Warning," a description with bond for the Little Saw Mill Run Rail Road, one photographic negative print (Penn's treaty with Indians), and unidentified newspaper clippings about the history of the Whiskey Rebellion (all undated.).
