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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1709-2017 (bulk: 1776-1952)
Creator:
Biddle family.
Extent: 14.5 linear feet (32 boxes)
The Biddle family has a long history on American land with Quaker ancestors emigrating in 1681 and settling in Philadelphia
around 1725. This collection documents the family relationships, and to a lesser extent, the work and military service of
six generations of one branch of that family, starting with Clement Biddle (1740-1814), and following the descendants of two
of his sons: Thomas Alexander Biddle (1776-1857) and Clement Cornell Biddle (1784-1855). These papers tell the stories, to
varying degrees, of more than 30 individual Biddle family members through correspondence, financial records, professional
papers, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs.
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1903-2013
(Bulk: 1955-2012)
Creator:
Dies, Harold, 1914-2012
Extent: 9 linear feet (9 boxes)
Harold Dies (1914-2012) was a trustee of the Dreiser Trust from its establishment following Helen Dreiser's death in 1955
to his own death in 2012. The Dreiser Trust managed the income and approved contracts for sale of Theodore Dreiser's published
works. This collection documents Harold Dies' work with the Dreiser trust and includes financial information; agreements,
copyright, correspondence, and royalty statements relating to the works of Helen Dreiser, Theodore Dreiser (bulk), and Paul
Dresser; correspondence relating to the Trust and the estates of family members; legal and court records relating to estates
of family members; some personal material of Harold Dies and members of the Dreiser family (including Gertrude A. Hopkins
Dorn (niece of Theodore Dreiser), Helen Dreiser, Theodore Dreiser, Vera Dreiser, and Paul Dresser (brother of Theodore Dreiser));
and publications using Dreiser material or Dreiser-inspired content.
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1920-2001
Creator:
Wolfert family
Extent: 33 linear feet (35 boxes)
This collection includes material related to the lives and work of Helen (1901-1985), Ira (1908-1997), and Michael Wolfert
(1936-2001). It contains correspondence between the family and others; manuscripts by all three subjects, as well as others;
financial documents; personal documents; photos taken by and of the family; newspaper clippings collected by Helen and Ira;
and notes and miscellanea from all three subjects.
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1908-1980
Creator:
Mauchly, John W. (John William), 1907-1980
Extent: 37 linear feet (37 boxes)
John W. Mauchly (1907-1980) was a physicist, teacher, and a leader in the development of computers. With J. Presper Eckert,
he invented the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
(EDVAC), the Binary Automatic Computer (BINAC), and the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). This first installment of Mauchly's
papers documents Mauchly's youth, education, early career at Ursinus College, his work at the University of Pennsylvania Moore
School of Electrical Engineering, his partnership with J. Presper Eckert, with whom he formed two companies, the Electronic
Control Company (ECC) and the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), and his work through 1959 with Remington Rand/Sperry
Rand after its purchase of EMCC in 1950. Early work in programming, coding, compilers, routines and subroutines, and most
importantly, the application of electronic computers in government, business, and industry, as well as the history of the
computer, is well documented. Moreover, this collection provides a glimpse into the personal life of the remarkable man behind
this work through his interactions with family, friends, and colleagues.
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1770-1891, circa 1932
Creator:
Levis, Samuel Garret, 1812-1891
Lobb, Isaac Extent: 0.2 linear feet
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, the Levis family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania owned and operated mills, manufacturing
first paper and then cotton. This collection of Levis family papers contains a variety of documents including correspondence,
bills, contracts, estate records and newspaper clippings, dating from 1770 to around 1932. When possible, the papers have
been arranged by the creator of the material, or the Levis family member to whom they most directly relate.
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1875-1997
Creator:
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
Mumford, Sophia Wittenberg, 1899-1997 Extent: 23.22 linear feet (48 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
The Sophia Wittenberg Mumford papers contain, correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, memorabilia, audio-visual material,
financial and legal material documenting the private and public life of Sophia and her husband Lewis Mumford. A large majority
of this collection is remnants of Lewis Mumford's papers that remained in their house upon his death in 1990 and were finally
transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after her death in 1997.
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