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 19th Century American Prison Art, possibly of African-American Slaves or Sharecroppers, by an...
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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…
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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..... Read More about “Compliments of Alonzo B. Jones Archts. [Architects]” [Inscribed photograph of an...
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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...
Arthur, a convict, prisoner No. 1203, writes a very full 4-page letter to his friend Hal. This is explained as he has must write his..... Read More about 1898 Autograph Letter Signed by a Convict; Life as a Runner in Prison in Philadelphia
An 18th century Philadelphia manuscript documenting the activity of Berniaud Dumas, & Jacques, French china and glass merchants who were located on South Second Street..... Read More about 1795 Philadelphia Manuscript Bill of Sale from Berniaud Dumas, & Jacques, French China and...
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..... Read More about Caldwell Family Manuscript Heraldic Achievement with Calligraphy Decoration, likely 18th-Century,...
Sixty-four individual musical compositions. A bound volume of eighteenth-century French sheet music for contra dance, guitar, etc. collected by Samuel Breck (1771–1862), noted Philadelphia merchant..... Read More about Collection of 18th Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by Philadelphian Samuel...
Introductory lecture to an 1850 course of homeopathic medical studies by C. Bentley Matthews, M.D., i.e., Caleb Bentley Matthews, (1801?-1851). Dr. Matthews was Professor of..... Read More about Introductory Lecture by C. Bentley Matthews, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics...
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..... Read More about 1826 Estate Financial Inventory and Accounts of 19th-Century New Orleans Banker and Millionaire...
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...... Read More about Paper Box Manufacturers’ Machines for Oval Cutting, Circular Cutting… Patented ... 1864...
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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..... Read More about Banking House of Cronise & Co., ...1857. We annex rates for SPECIE [opening lines of circular
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
A small manuscript artifact, in various hands, documenting the Brig ‘Amiable Creole’ which plied the waters from Philadelphia to the West Indies until being condemned..... Read More about 1793 Philadelphia Document Signed for Painting the Brig ‘Amiable Creole.’
Memoir of the first American abolition society; scarce to commerce and with no auction records found over the last thirty years. The compiler, Quaker Edward..... Read More about An Historical Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; the...
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..... Read More about The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin Forrest,...
Union Pamphlets 22: “[A] simple historical and constitutional sketch of the background of the conflict, apparently aimed at those Philadelphia workingmen who were voting so..... Read More about About the War. Plain Words to Plain People by a Plain Man
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..... Read More about Germania-Theater. 528–532 Nord Dritte Strasse…Donnerstag den 17. Sept….Eine Leichte Person…
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...
Text of a lecture delivered by Dr. James McClintock, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. As the animal machine, although..... Read More about Introductory Lecture to the Winter Course of Instruction in the Philadelphia College of Medicine,...
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..... Read More about Introductory Lecture, delivered at the Winter Session of the Philadelphia College of Medicine....
A comprehensive report on the social and economic condition of the African American community in Philadelphia from 1787 to 1963. From the preface, “This book..... Read More about 100 Years After Emancipation. (History of the Philadelphia Negro), 1787 to 1963
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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..... Read More about Sales at John Chaloner’s Auction, on Account of Mr [in manuscript:] John Fairbairn. [Two...
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..... Read More about International Exhibition of 1876. Opening Ceremonies. Order of Exercises, Fairmount Park,...
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Inscribed and autographed in 1996, the date of publication, by both John Guinther and Edmund N. Bacon to an individual. Direction of Cities explains how..... Read More about Directions of Cities [First Edition, Autographed
