Text of a lecture delivered by Dr. Jesse R. Burden, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Burden urged the...
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the.....
This collection consists of 12 items, by chronology: 1. 1808 manuscript receipt attesting Abigail Physick has bought a share of the Frankford Turnpike Stock for...
Three manuscripts pertaining to the estate of Benjamin Morgan (?–1826), Philadelphia merchant and sugar planter, later President of the Bank of Orleans at New Orleans...
The Germania Theater in Philadelphia was founded in 1877 by Gottlob Hammer and Heinrich Oberkirsch. The theater served a thriving German-speaking community until 1895 — a remarkable...
It always seems amazing how one’s surname is often so closely aligned to one’s occupation (Dr. Foot, the podiatrist, etc.). Here we have Charles W......
After the California Gold Rush of 1848–1855, gold bullion was minted in San Francisco into official United States coins. Some of these coins and gold...
Unrecorded 1902 sewn pamphlet describing the function and purpose of the Edwin Forrest Home in Philadelphia located at 4849 Parkside avenue. The Home was established...
Constitution Day speech by former U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, George Wharton Pepper (1867–1961), critical of president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal:” Now I make.....
In this two page letter written in Philadelphia on September 12, 1804, to John H. Christopher Heineken (?–1808) — a consul-general from the United Provinces...
Interesting Philadelphia engraved sheet music, possibly composed by a woman, with English and German-language lyrics. The latter is printed in English and German typeface; an...
Four legal manuscript documents ca. 1780 concerning the sale of a “plantation in Oxford Township,” in the County of Philadelphia, part of the estate of.....
This pamphlet collected the remarks delivered at the December 11, 1880 meeting of the Philadelphia Bar on the occasion of the death of Union officer...
A rendering of the proposed exterior submitted by nineteenth century Philadelphia architect Alonzo B. Jones, for the building design competition for a new structure to...
Almost like being there —not souvenirs or recollections— but five primary and immediate artifacts from the United States’ first world’s fair and its celebration of.....
These modest forms are survivals of the auctioneering of John Chaloner who was appointed the city of Philadelphia’s auctioneer in August, 1791. On these forms.....
William P. Cresson Co. of Philadelphia was actively engaged in the hardware commission business in the 1830’s and 1840’s. The company offered a variety of.....
This unusual artifact came to us from an old Philadelphia estate a good number of years ago where a number of 18th and 19th century...
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