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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1802-1929
(Bulk: 1822-1899)
Creator:
Beasley, Frederick W., 1808-1878
Extent: 0.8 linear foot (2 boxes)
The Beasley family papers are comprised largely of documents relating to three generations of Beasleys who lived in the vicinity
of Philadelphia in the nineteenth century: Frederick Beasley (1777-1845), Frederick Williamson Beasley (1808-1878), and Frederick
Williamson Beasley, Jr. (1845-1873). The collection includes letters, certificates, published works of the Beasleys, memorabilia
from the University of Pennsylvania, guidebooks to the city of Philadelphia, and auction catalogues relating to the interests
of the Beasley and Bancker families. The collection includes items with dates ranging from 1802 to 1929, with the bulk of
the material falling between 1822 and 1899.
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies [Contact Us]
1846-1920
(Bulk: 1850-1912)
Creator:
Cohen, Charles J., (Charles Joseph), 1847-1927
Cohen, Mary M., 1854-1911 Extent: 4 linear feet (5 document cases)
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1861-1937
(Bulk: 1869-1870)
Creator:
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) was a humorist and folklorist from Philadelphia. The collection consists of fourteen illustrated
letters written to George Henry Boker which document one year of Leland's trip to Europe from 1869 to 1870; transcriptions
of the letters; and an article by donor and scholar Sculley Bradley about the collection.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1820-1942
(Bulk: 1850-1925)
Creator:
Clark Family.,
Madeira Family., Extent: 6 cubic feet
The Clark and Madeira Family Papers offers a perspective on the personal, social, and professional lives of a rich and vibrant
upper class Philadelphia family in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. It is reflective their affection for learning,
travel as well as their undying affection for each other.
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1759-1976
(Bulk: 1860-1920)
Extent: 23 cubic feet
The Curriculum and Lecture Notes Collection was created by the University Archives in the 1950s to assemble individual manuscripts
and small groupings of archival material relating to courses taught at the University of Pennsylvania throughout its entire
history. This collection documents the teaching methods used in the various schools of the University of Pennsylvania throughout
its history.
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1792-1891
(Bulk: 1830-1870)
Creator:
Du Rouvenoz et Cie.
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Collection of various documents, mostly from 1830-1870, relating to a distillery located in Annecy, France.
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1874-1954
(Bulk: 1874-1904)
Creator:
McCollin, Edward G., (Edward Garrett), 1858-1923,
Extent: 2 cubic feet
Edward Garrett McCollin was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and was active in Philadelphia's musical community.
The Edward G. McCollin Collection consists of material related to McCollin's time as a student at the University of Pennsylvania
and a composer in Philadelphia.
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1776-2004
(Bulk: 1860-1960)
Creator:
Frazer family.
Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 Frazer, John, 1882-1964 Frazer, Persifor, 1736-1792 Frazer, Persifor, 1844-1909 Extent: 55 cubic feet
The Frazer Family Papers span over 200 years of an American family. The collection provides insight into five generations
of University of Pennsylvania alum as well as three generations of educators, all in the field of chemistry, at the University
of Pennsylvania and contains the papers of Persifor Frazer, Robert Frazer, John Fries Frazer, Persifor Frazer, Robert Frazer,
John Frazer, John Frazer, Jr., and Tench Frazer, as well as a range of other family members and relatives. The collection
is particularly strong in representing the professional and personal activities of Persifor Frazer (1844-1909) and his son
John Frazer (1882-1964) from the 1860s to the 1950s.
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1841-1895
(Bulk: 1871-1892)
Creator:
Miller, G.A.Q. (George A.Q.)
Extent: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Captain George A. Q. Miller was a Civil War veteran and a special agent in the United States Post Office Department during
the 1870s. This collection, consisting of correspondence, a photograph, and a scrapbook of clippings and notes documents Miller's
life, his career in the postal service and as an early proponent of the Civil Service Commission, and his uncertain position
within the post-Civil War federal government.
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1760-1963
(Bulk: 1840-1950)
Extent: 2.5 linear feet
Gordon Alexander Block (1885-1964) was a Philadelphia lawyer and collector of Lincoln documents and memorabilia. The collection
includes twenty-three documents either signed by Lincoln or in his hand including a number of pleadings and court documents
from his years as a lawyer in Illinois. The collection also contains a variety of ephemera from the Civil War era, including
campaign ribbons and songbooks from 1860 and 1864 as well as broadsides, ribbons, and mourning cards issued after Lincoln’s
assassination. In addition, researchers will find a rich selection of visual representations of Lincoln in the collection,
including lithographs, prints, photographs, and engravings of the sixteenth president.
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1878-1907
(Bulk: 1878-1889)
Creator:
Spiller, William G. (William Gibson), 1863-1940
University of Pennsylvania.. Hospital.. Department of Neurology.., University of Pennsylvania.. Hospital.. Dispensary for Nervous Diseases.., Extent: 20 volume/s
When the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania opened in 1875, the Dispensary for Nervous Diseases was one of seven dispensaries
at the Hospital. The Dispensary Notebooks for Neurological Disorders consists of daily log of neurological cases treated and
cases studies on patient treatment grouped by specific diagnosis for the late nineteenth century.William G. Spiller Reprints
which include papers authored by William G. Spiller and a papers by physicians associated with the William Pepper Laboratory.
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1854-1982
(Bulk: 1854-1908)
Creator:
Stokes, Helen B., 1868-,
Stokes, Tyson, 1906-, Tyson family, Tyson, Henry, 1815-1872, Tyson, James, 1841-1919, Zimmerman, Maria, 1805-1881, Extent: 0.5 cubic feet
James Tyson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1863, and went on to a noted career as a physician
in Philadelphia. His interested in pathology led to his career as an educator, and he eventually rose in the ranks of the
Penn Medical School. The bulk of the James Tyson collection is his correspondence to his father Henry Tyson, his sister, and
his wife, Fannie Bosdevex.
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1854-1874
(Bulk: 1873-1874)
Creator:
Scott, John, 1824-1896
Extent: 0.8 linear feet (2 boxes)
John Scott (1824-1896) was an American lawyer who served as U.S. senator from Pennsylvania from 1868 to 1875. The collection
consists of letters written to him by colleagues and private citizens, and several of them feature Scott's shorthand reply.
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1802-1965
(Bulk: 1850-1871)
Creator:
Kane Family,
Extent: 0.5 cubic feet
The Kane family was prominent in Philadelphia society and politics during the nineteenth century. The Kane Family Papers consists
primarily of correspondence to Elizabeth D. Kane from her family.
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1832-1898
(Bulk: 1873-1895)
Creator:
Learned, Marion Dexter, 1857-1917
Extent: 35 boxes (+ 2 map drawers)
Comprises material relating to the production of German-language plays in Philadelphia, predominantly in the last quarter
of the nineteenth century. Material includes printed and manuscript plays with annotations, which served as prompt books;
manuscript scenarios; lists of props, as well as a few actual props; role books; librettos; musical scores; playbills; and
selected issues of German-language theater newspapers published in Philadelphia. Also includes a catalog of the Theater-Leihbibliothek,
handwritten by Theodor Bloch, owner of the lending library.
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1771-1992
(Bulk: 1872-1944)
Extent: 2.6 linear feet
The Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection is a fluid one, consisting of manuscripts that are unidentified or too small for
their own collection. Each sub-collection within the group is given a Miscellanous Manuscript Number which corresponds to
the collection. When a collection exceeds one folder, it is removed from the MM collection and is given its own collection
number (i.e. ARC MS #).
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1818-1950
(Bulk: 1847-1950)
Extent: 0.33 linear foot (1 box)
This is a collection of miscellaneous music material, including manuscript scores, printed scores, and printed sheet music.
In addition to the music material, there is a letter and a photograph which were sent to Benedict Nenninger.
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1852-1925
(Bulk: 1856-1918)
Creator:
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery.
Extent: 2.25 cubic feet
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery was founded in 1856. The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Records document the
administrative activities of the school.
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1869-1906
(Bulk: 1869-1905)
Creator:
McCredy, Richard Wilson, 1854-1924
Extent: 0.2 linear foot (1 volume)
The son of Thomas McCredy and Emma Dolores Wilson, Richard Wilson McCredy (1854-1924) was an iron merchant and alumnus of
the University of Pennsylvania (Class of 1874). A gift by McCredy, this scrapbook consists of a collection of about 750 playbills
and programs from Philadelphia and New York City, arranged in chronological order and pasted onto a volume of more than 200
pages.
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1752-1883
(Bulk: 1856-1883)
Creator:
Gere, Robert H., 1859-1928
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Robert H. Gere (1859-1928) was a senior partner at Gere & Church law firm and an active member of the First Presbyterian Church
of Syracuse, NY. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1883 with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and from Syracuse University
Law School in 1898. Before beginning his law career, Gere spent thirteen years working as a news reporter. He married Harriet
Sexsmith Gere in 1893 and together they had a daughter, Katharine. This collection contains materials dating between 1752
and 1883 and includes two diaries belonging to Robert H. Gere; a book entitled "Genealogy of the Geer Family," in which the
lines of George and Thomas Geer are traced from 1621 to 1856; a single leaf from a math copybook that includes a note in pencil
dating it to 1752; an oversize copy of The Luzerne Federalist; and the Susquehanna Intelligencer (a local periodical); and
an unused travel accounts book.
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1820-1991
(Bulk: 1830-1908)
Creator:
Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908
Bird, Mary E. Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854 Extent: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
This collection contains correspondence between Robert Montgomery Bird, his wife Mary E. Bird, their son Frederic Mayer Bird,
and other family members. It provides accounts of daily life in New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during
the 19th century.
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1835-1952
(Bulk: 1873-1912)
Extent: 1.5 cu. ft.
The Roswell G. Lamb Papers document the early life of a University of Pennsylvania graduate and the daily life of a Delaware
County and West Philadelphia resident from the 1870s to the 1910s.
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1845-1897
(Bulk: 1851-1897)
Creator:
Morais, Sabato, 1823-1897.
Extent: 11.5 linear feet (22 document boxes)
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1878-1983
(Bulk: 1878-1977)
Extent: 2.375 cubic feet
The School of Dental Medicine opened in 1878. A century later it was the third largest dental school in the United States.
The School of Dental Medicine General Records is an eclectic group of items that document the students and faculty from the
late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.
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1859-1978
(Bulk: 1879-1969)
Extent: 97 cubic feet
The School of Dental Medicine Student Records document the academic careers of students who attended the school from its founding
in 1879 to 1969.
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