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1681-2000
(Bulk: 1681-1760)
Creator:
Elias, Archibald C., 1944-
Extent: 0.4 linear foot (1 box)
This collection consists of manuscripts and papers relating primarily to seveententh and eighteenth century Ireland and Great
Britain formerly owned by A.C. Elias, a literary scholar who wrote extensively on Jonathan Swift and his circle.
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1694-1791
Creator:
Compagnie de Commerce de Lorraine.
Extent: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Compagnie de Commerce de Lorraine was founded by Duke Leopold of Lorraine in 1724, with Regard d'Aubonne as director general
and Claude Regnault among its other directors, and dissolved by the 1760s. One purpose of the company was to protect commerce
in the duchy from the French economic crisis precipitated by the inflation and crash of the stock of John Law's Compagnie
des Indes. These 31 files include a few printed documents pertaining to the establishment of the Compagnie and numerous account
calculations and documents concerning the liquidation of the Compagnie.
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1582-1854
Creator:
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
Extent: 1.4 linear feet (4 boxes)
Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-1899) was a Philadelphia surgeon and anthropologist who created, collected, and donated collections
of books and manuscripts related to anthropology, colonization of the Americas, and native American linguistics. This collection
on Spain and New Spain documents, to a limited degree, Spain's relationships with its colonies and other European powers while
struggling to maintain its empire.
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1592-1810
Extent: 1 box
This collection contains 52 assorted English legal documents. Most are brief transactional records attesting to land sales,
contracts, or estate settlements. Though mostly unrelated, there are a few small groups of connected documents, such as the
five certificates of payment by Captain Roger Martin to various parties executed during December 1685. Beyond these transactional
documents are a 1679 record of arguments before the Privy Council as well as a 1770 warrant for the arrest of Nicholas Gwyn,
an Ipswich medical doctor.
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1437-1804
Extent: 5 boxes
Collection concerning Florentine families, organizations, trades, and industries covering the years 1437-1804. The documents
that compose the collection are divided into two broad sections, one dedicated to families and organizations, and the other
to subjects. The former, arranged alphabetically by name, then chronologically for each family or organization, features documents
pertaining to about 130 among the most important Florentine families, as well as institutions such as the Monte di pietà
and the hospital of Santa Maria Novella (referred to as Spedale). The families that are best-known in the collection include
the Acciaiuoli, Altoviti, Antinori, Corsi, Corsini, Guadagni, Rucellai, Salviati, and Strozzi; the best-represented families
in the collection are the Amadori, Capponi, Cassi, Lapini, and Ricciardi. A small number of documents containing information
on 3 ships is also present. The latter, arranged alphabetically by subject, and chronologically within each subject, is comprised,
for the most part, of numerous kinds financial documents (including accounts, receipts, orders, payments, etc.), and documents
related to different aspects of rural life and farm management (such as the purchase of cattle and grains). Other subjects
include the guilds of Florence, especially the one of the lanaoioli, wool workers, and that of the setaioli, silk weavers;
iron trade; and business relations between Florence and England and Florence and the Netherlands.
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1479-1896
Creator:
Macauley, Francis Campbell, died 1896
Extent: 0.6 linear feet (2 boxes)
This is an autograph collection compiled by Francis Campbell Macaulay. The collection is composed of letters by scientists,
politicians, and men of letters, and fragments with signatures. The collection reflects Macaulay's interest in Italian literature,
and includes letters from Ludovico Ariosto, Fortunato Cavazzeni Pederzini, and Alessandro Torri. Other notable autographs
in the collection are those of Alexandre Dumas, Robert Morris, and Millard Fillmore. The collection also includes several
letters to Macaulay regarding the Dante Society, and five volumes of Macaulay's notes for a vocabulary of the dialect of Nice.
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1533-1866
Creator:
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909
Extent: 0.8 linear feet (3 boxes)
Henry Charles Lea was a Philadelphian publisher, civil and public rights activist, mathematician, and and ecclesiastical historian.
This collection consists of original manuscripts including trial records, correspondence, a discourse, an edict, a royal proclamation
and unidentified French documents.
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1684-1942
Creator:
Morgadanes, Roberto
Extent: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Roberto Morgadanes, a native of Mexico, studied for his doctorate in Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania from
1940 to 1942, specializing in the origin of colonial Mexican drama. This collection consists of documents relating to Roberto
Morgadanes's studies as well as original Mexican religious dramas, mainly dating from the late 19th century to the beginning
of the 20th century.
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1662-1977
(Bulk: 1685-1715)
Creator:
Southwell, Edward, 1671-1730
Southwell, Robert, Sir, 1635-1702 Extent: 1 box
This collection consists primarily of documents concerning government administration in Ireland during the tenures of Sir
Robert Southwell (1635-1702) and his son Edward Southwell (1671-1730) as Secretaries of State for Ireland. The documents here
are largely miscellaneous in nature but are clustered around a few themes. Highlights include lists of rents and financial
transactions from the period after Cromwell’s invasion and before the Williamite war in Ireland, a 1689 eyewitness letter
recounting the battle of Derry, a series of documents related to admiralty, smuggling, and collecting maritime revenue in
the first decade of the eighteenth century, an inventory of maps of Ireland, and a substantive series of petitions relating
to Richard Blake of Ardfry.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1681-1853
(Bulk: 1740-1820)
Creator:
University of Pennsylvania. College of Arts and Sciences.
University of Pennsylvania. Office of the Secretary. University of Pennsylvania. Office of the Treasurer. University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine. University of Pennsylvania. Extent: 30 cubic feet
The General Administration Collection Pre-1820 documents the institutional and education activities of the University of Pennsylvania
from its founding in 1749 to 1820.
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1690-1871
(Bulk: 1748-1804)
Creator:
Smith, William, 1727-1803,
Extent: 2 cubic feet
The Rev. William Smith (1727-1803) was the first Provost of the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
In addition to his teaching duties, Smith was an Anglican clergyman in Philadelphia and active in Pennsylvania politics in
support of the Penn family prior to the American Revolution. The papers primarily document Smith's public and political activities
from 1753 to 1775.
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