![3729964] [1846 United States Mint Partly-Printed Certificate of Deposit Autographed by Isaac...](/pictures/thumb/3729964_1.jpg?v=1610402762)
An 1846 certificate of deposit accomplished and autographed by Treasurer of the Mint Isaac Roach. Roach was a hero of the War of 1812, imprisoned..... Read More about 1846 United States Mint Partly-Printed Certificate of Deposit Autographed by Isaac Roach, U.S....
![3729946] [1807 Manuscript Document requesting Patriot attorney Peter S. Du Ponceau to pay his law...](/pictures/thumb/3729946_1.jpg?v=1609892944)
Ephemeral manuscript document asking Patriot attorney Peter S. Du Ponceau (1760–1844) of Philadelphia to pay his law office rent. Du Ponceau emigrated from Paris in..... Read More about 1807 Manuscript Document requesting Patriot attorney Peter S. Du Ponceau to pay his law office...
![3729782] For Appraisement of Damaged Goods. [two partly-printed forms “Printed for William...](/pictures/thumb/3729782_1.jpg?v=1601415905)
Two early and substantial partly-printed forms, dated 1806. Both forms were printed by a job printer, likely in Philadelphia for William Banks, Ship-Broker. The form..... Read More about For Appraisement of Damaged Goods. [two partly-printed forms “Printed for William Banks,...
![3729775] An Address Delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture at its...](/pictures/thumb/3729775_1.jpg?v=1602520339)
Presentation copy; inscribed and initialed by author Chief Justice Tilghman to his Pennsylvania Supreme Court colleague, Justice John Bannister Gibson (1780–1853), who succeeded Tilghman as..... Read More about An Address Delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture at its Anniversary...
![3729408] Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia 1860-1900. (Signed). Roger Lane](/pictures/thumb/3729408_1.jpg?v=1595965821)
Signed and dated by the author. “Lane reveals how social and economic discrimination created a black criminal subculture. This subculture, overlooked by those histories depending..... Read More about Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia 1860-1900. (Signed
![3726508] Report of a Special Committee of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, upon the law of...](/images/noimage-req.png)
An 1860 edition is known; this 1861 issue with the same pagination of the former, apparently only held by AAS. Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers..... Read More about Report of a Special Committee of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, upon the law of collisions at...
![3729287] Happy New Year. Season of 1882…Elocutionist and Dramatic Reader, John M....](/pictures/thumb/3729287.jpg?v=1593125755)
Promotional circular for teacher of elocution and public dramatic reader and entertainer, John M. Stephen of Reading, Pennsylvania. Stephen was a graduate of Philadelphia’s National..... Read More about Happy New Year. Season of 1882…Elocutionist and Dramatic Reader, John M. Stephen…awarded the...
![3729245] Constitution et Règlements ou By-Laws de la Société Française de Bienfaisance de...](/pictures/thumb/3729245_1.jpg?v=1614215273)
Civil War-era Constitution for this Franco-American society promoting philanthropy and including a brief account of its history. Pages 14 to 27 prints the Constitution in..... Read More about Constitution et Règlements ou By-Laws de la Société Française de Bienfaisance de...
![3729053] Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons Award of Merit to Tuscan Morning Star Lodge F....](/pictures/thumb/3729053_1.jpg?v=1576019298)
Certificate or “Award of Merit” presented by Philadelphia’s Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons to that city’s Tuscan Morning Star Lodge, an African American..... Read More about Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons Award of Merit to Tuscan Morning Star Lodge F. &...
![3728915] [1886 American Prison Art by an Italian-American Circus Performer Incarcerated for...](/pictures/thumb/3728915_1.jpg?v=1642471487)
Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 1886 American Prison Art by an Italian-American Circus Performer Incarcerated for Murder,...
![3728750] The Misses Mary & Rosina Shaw of Philadelphia, will give a Grand Vocal Concert [opening...](/pictures/thumb/3728750_1.jpg?v=1556745094)
Handsome concert announcement broadside for the popular Shaw Sisters of Philadelphia. The broadside as two blank spaces for location and date to be handwritten. The..... Read More about The Misses Mary & Rosina Shaw of Philadelphia, will give a Grand Vocal Concert [opening lines...
![3725386] 1790 Philadelphia Merchants’ and Importers’ Declaration of Association against...](/pictures/thumb/3725386_1.jpg?v=1572992740)
Declaration of association signed by 51 Philadelphia merchants or firms against “Agents of European houses trading to this Country…” The merchants state plainly that these..... Read More about 1790 Philadelphia Merchants’ and Importers’ Declaration of Association against European Agents
![3728145] Observations on a Letter from Dr. N. Chapman, of Philadelphia, to Dr. W.B. Tyler, of...](/pictures/thumb/3728145_1.jpg?v=1544633432)
Letters on “pestilential cholera” by Dr. Nathaniel Chapman of Philadelphia, reprinted from newspapers and private correspondence. Includes a fold-out statistical table of “Hospital Reports to..... Read More about Observations on a Letter from Dr. N. Chapman, of Philadelphia, to Dr. W.B. Tyler, of Frederick...
![3724555] The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected. William Duane, 1760–1835,...](/pictures/thumb/3724555_1.jpg?v=1541009428)
In 1809, The American Prose Miscellany, was published by Johnson, Conrad, and Carey in Philadelphia. In the same year, under the same imprint, The American..... Read More about The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected
![146343] [Collection of Eighteenth-Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by...](/pictures/thumb/146343_1.jpg?v=1539123806)
A young Philadelphian in Paris: a bound volume of sixty-four compositions for contra dance, guitar, etc. kept by Samuel Breck, Jr. (1771–1862), the merchant, politician..... Read More about Collection of Eighteenth-Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by Philadelphian...
![3727593] Guide. Liberty Bell Bird Club. Washington Square Philadelphia. [cover title]. The...](/pictures/thumb/3727593_1.jpg?v=1538000964)
Guide book and advertising prospectus for the Liberty Bell Bird Club. The club was sponsored by The Farm Journal magazine whose founder and editor, Wilmer..... Read More about Guide. Liberty Bell Bird Club. Washington Square Philadelphia. [cover title
![3727521] Constitution of the Grand Lodge and By-Laws of Kensington Lodge, No. 5 Knights of...](/pictures/thumb/3727521_1.jpg?v=1607364599)
Rare constitution for this Philadelphia fraternal organization, likely started by Freemasons, to help widows and orphans of deceased members.. In addition to the charter and..... Read More about Constitution of the Grand Lodge and By-Laws of Kensington Lodge, No. 5 Knights of Birmingham of...
![3726692] [Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…....](/pictures/thumb/3726692_1.jpg?v=1534362443)
Delightfully humorous program for a concert of antique music performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Likely getting into the spirit of the nation’s..... Read More about Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…
![3726613] S. Kind & Sons Jewelers ... Catalog 1942 ... Philadelphia. S. Kind, Sons Jewelers](/pictures/thumb/3726613_1.jpg?v=1534962554)
While Second World War Americans were advised to live a life of thrift and frugality, S. Kind & Sons, Philadelphia jewelers, established 1872, suggested an..... Read More about S. Kind & Sons Jewelers ... Catalog 1942 ... Philadelphia
![3726504] [Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or...](/pictures/thumb/3726504_1.jpg?v=1534362398)
Unlisted in OCLC, an apparently unrecorded pamphlet devoted to the property definitions of Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia. “Christ Church Hospital, located at Forty-Ninth Street..... Read More about Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or Square of...
![3726455] [1888–1910 Archive of Arkansas-based United States Antimony Company]. Secretary...](/pictures/thumb/3726455_1.jpg?v=1623963898)
Early letters and documents of the United States Antimony Company, founded in 1887 during the Great Arkansas Gold and Mineral Rush. The archive includes an..... Read More about 1888–1910 Archive of Arkansas-based United States Antimony Company
![3726441] First Judicial District Court. The State of Louisiana .... [Citizens Bank of Louisiana...](/pictures/thumb/3726441_1.jpg?v=1658513135)
Writ of execution issued by New Orleans judge Charles Watts in the case of Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan..... Read More about First Judicial District Court. The State of Louisiana .... [Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan,...
![3726276] Address Book and Letters kept by Philadelphia Homeopathic Physician Walter M. James, ca....](/pictures/thumb/3726276_1.jpg?v=1655172553)
Address book, calling cards, and letters addressed to Walter M. James of 1231 Locust Street, Philadelphia, a physician, author, and publisher of the Homeopathic Physician..... Read More about Address Book and Letters kept by Philadelphia Homeopathic Physician Walter M. James, ca. 1904
![3726191] 1845 Autograph Letter Signed by Jurist John Kintzing Kane, presiding Judge of the...](/pictures/thumb/3726191_1.jpg?v=1534362340)
Jurist John Kintzing Kane (1795–1858) was the father of noted Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane. Judge Kane was best known for his pro-slavery decision, ten..... Read More about 1845 Autograph Letter Signed by Jurist John Kintzing Kane, presiding Judge of the Fugitive Slave...
![3726128] An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the...](/pictures/thumb/3726128_1.jpg?v=1565731848)
Doctoral dissertation by Philadelphia physician and surgeon Joseph Parrish (1779–1840), submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Parrish here investigates..... Read More about An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the Production and...
