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[Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…
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.....
Philadelphia
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“Compliments of Alonzo B. Jones Archts. [Architects]” [Inscribed photograph of an Architect’s Proposed Design for Library of Congress].
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...
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[Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or Square of Ground, situate in the City of Philadelphia: Bounded by Spruce Street and Pine Street and Schuylkill Fourth and Fifth Streets [...] The Property of Christ Church Hospital.
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.....
1898 Autograph Letter Signed by a Convict; Life as a Runner in Prison in Philadelphia.
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...
1797 Autograph Document Signed(?) by Benjamin Franklin’s Godson, Benjamin Franklin Scull.
A very brief two line manuscript receipt that appears to be in the hand, and autographed by, Benjamin Franklin Scull (c.1755-1828), the godson of Benjamin.....
1795 Philadelphia Manuscript Bill of Sale from Berniaud Dumas, & Jacques, French China and Glass Merchants.
An 18th century Philadelphia manuscript documenting the activity of Berniaud Dumas, & Jacques, French china and glass merchants who were located on South Second Street...
Caldwell Family Manuscript Heraldic Achievement with Calligraphy Decoration, likely 18th-Century, signed “Binning Pinxt.”
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...
[Collection of 18th Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by Philadelphian Samuel Breck].
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...
Introductory Lecture by C. Bentley Matthews, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania ... Delivered November 4, 1850. Published by the Class.
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.....
1826 Estate Financial Inventory and Accounts of 19th-Century New Orleans Banker and Millionaire Benjamin Morgan, formerly of the firm of Price and Morgan.
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...
1772 Philadelphia Document Signed by Surveyor Charles Lukens for Surveying Tracts of Land.
1772 bill of services from surveyor Charles Lukens billed to Samuel Wallis for surveying land on “Black Run”, “Marsh Creek”, and tracts “...above the Great.....
Paper Box Manufacturers’ Machines for Oval Cutting, Circular Cutting… Patented ... 1864 [opening lines of broadside].
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......
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Banking House of Cronise & Co., ...1857. We annex rates for SPECIE [opening lines of circular].
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...
The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected.
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...
1793 Philadelphia Document Signed for Painting the Brig ‘Amiable Creole.’
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.....
Patent Parabola Spectacles…affording altogether the best artificial Help to the Human Vision… [opening lines of broadsheet]
Stunning 1860 broadsheet circular printed in two colors advertising eyeglasses with “concavo-convex ellipsis” lenses patented by Edward Bohrek of Philadelphia. Advantages of these lenses were.....
An Historical Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. Compiled from the Minutes of the Society and Other Official Documents, by Edward Needles, and Published by Authority of the Society.
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.....
The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin Forrest, Act of Incorporation, By-Laws of the Board, and Application for Admission.
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...
An Inaugural Essay on the Mutual Subserviencies of the Different Parts of the Body, And the power of one part to perform the Function of Another.
Presentation Copy from the Author. Doctoral dissertation by physician Edwin M’Call, from the southern state of Georgia, submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of.....
About the War. Plain Words to Plain People by a Plain Man.
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...
Germania-Theater. 528–532 Nord Dritte Strasse…Donnerstag den 17. Sept….Eine Leichte Person…
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...
1845 Autograph Letter Signed by Jurist John Kintzing Kane, presiding Judge of the Fugitive Slave Law Trial of Passmore Williamson.
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...
Introductory Lecture to the Winter Course of Instruction in the Philadelphia College of Medicine, Delivered on Monday, at 5 O’Clock P.M., October 14, 1850.
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...
Introductory Lecture, delivered at the Winter Session of the Philadelphia College of Medicine. November, 1847.
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...
100 Years After Emancipation. (History of the Philadelphia Negro, 1787 to 1963).
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...