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BOX 5-16 Practical Arts, 1700-1994
Correspondence, family and personal papers, financial and legal documents, deeds and indentures, accounts and receipts, speeches and writings, notes and notebooks, prints and photographs, illustrated and printed ephemera and other printed matter, background and reference material, and miscellaneous items concerning the practical arts and professions, including advertising, food and wine, industries and trades, law and government, photography, science and medicine, textiles, and transportation.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, topic, or type of material.
BOX 5 Advertising
(25)
Broadsides, illustrations, and printed matter, 1849, 1855-1858, 1865, 1873-1876, undated See also Oversize
Illustrated billheads, covers, and letterheads
Agriculture, 1859, 1873-1875, 1883-1901, 1912, undated
(2 folders)
Amusements, sports, and toys, 1853, 1864-1867, 1885-1901, undated
Booksellers and publishers, 1858-1881, 1890-1902, 1914, 1935, undated
Chemicals, drugs, and medicine, 1854-1867, 1884-1900, undated
BOX 6 Clothing, food, liquor, and tobacco, 1854-1863, 1869-1899, 1913-1916, undated
(2 folders)
Hardware and machinery, 1852, 1858, 1864-1894, 1901, undated
(2 folders)
Hotels and resorts, 1816, 1851-1899, 1905-1909, undated
(3 folders)
Household goods, 1854-1860, 1867-1918, 1953, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 7 Insurance, 1867, 1877, 1889, undated
Politics and propaganda, 1897, 1908, 1945, undated
Professions and services, 1861-1863, 1876-1907, undated
Public offices, 1860-1866, 1873-1881, 1888-1894, undated
Schools, typewriters, and writing, 1850, 1860, 1886-1898, 1910, undated
Transportation, 1863, 1881-1886, 1893-1895, 1904, 1912, 1928, undated
Illustrated cards and circulars
Fold-down cards, 1888, undated
Humorous, 1910, undated
Miscellaneous, 1880-1881, 1892-1900, undated
(2 folders)
Theatrical and literary, 1881-1882, undated
Food and cooking
(26)
Background and reference material, undated
Correspondence, 1866
Financial and legal documents, 1745, 1777-1788, 1796, 1833, 1841, 1857-1864, 1887, 1899, undated
Funeral, 1829 See Container 34, same heading
(26.3)
Printed matter, 1858, 1886
(26.7)
Refrigerators, 1858, undated
Stoves
Background and reference material, 1968-1969
Accounts and receipts, 1775-1785, 1816, 1824, 1840, 1846-1849, 1857-1875
Correspondence, 1859
BOX 8 Printed matter, 1850, 1856-1858, 1871, 1876, 1882, 1888-1889, undated
General science
(29)
Background and reference material, 1954, 1993, undated
Chemistry, hardware, and other manufactured items
Background and reference material, 1994, undated
Accounts and receipts, 1738, 1765-1775, 1782-1794, 1823, 1859-1871
Correspondence, 1841-1842, 1849-1854, undated
Illustrations and printed matter, 1856, undated
Du Ponceau, Peter S., 1823, 1829
(29.1)
Inventions
Correspondence, 1844, 1866
(29.2)
Rumseian Society, 1788
(29.2.a)
Medicine
(29.3)
Background and reference material, 1993
Dentistry, 1815, 1861, 1867-1869, 1876-1877, 1883, 1913
Letters and documents, 1700, 1729-1738, 1788-1798, 1824
Metallurgy, notebook on weights and measures, undated
Miscellany, undated
Physicians and scientists
(29.5)
"A-B" miscellaneous, 1758-1885, undated
Cooke, John E., 1827
Cooper, Thomas, 1818, 1825, 1831
Coxe, William S., 1823-1826, undated
Cresson, Caleb, 1817-1818
"C-D" miscellaneous, 1777-1929, undated
Emlen, Samuel, 1816-1817, 1826-1829
"E-G" miscellaneous, 1784-1881, undated
Hahnemann, Samuel, 1833
Hare, Robert, 1838, undated
Henry, Joseph, 1857-1861
"H" miscellaneous, 1787, 1827, 1838-1843, 1853-1855, undated
James, Thomas C., 1819, undated
Jenner, Edward, 1809-1813, 1824
"J-L" miscellaneous, 1782-1892, undated
Morton, Samuel George, 1841-1846, undated
"M" miscellaneous, 1787-1793, 1826-1829, 1854-1856, 1877, 1883, undated
Nightingale, Florence, 1871
"N" miscellaneous, 1787, 1847, 1858, 1881-1887, undated
BOX 9 Ord, George, 1816-1836, 1855
(29.3)
"O" miscellaneous, 1756
Pleasants and Graff, 1820-1829, undated
Physick, Philip Syng, 1801-1802, 1822-1823
"P" miscellaneous, 1761, 1770-1772, 1798, 1803, 1849, 1874, 1882
Rush, Benjamin, 1793-1794, 1801, 1807-1813
"R" miscellaneous, 1791, 1862, 1882
Say, Thomas, 1797-1799, 1833-1834, undated
Shippen, William, 1786-1791
Swaim, William, 1828, 1846, undated
"S-V" miscellaneous, 1789-1892, undated
Wetherill, Samuel, and family, 1767-1773, 1811, 1824-1829, 1840, 1865
Wistar, Caspar, and family, 1802-1819, 1826, undated
"W-Z" miscellaneous, 1730-1889, undated
Industries and trades
Baths and washers, 1876, undated
Clothing and dry goods, 1808, 1818, 1830-1832, 1840-1884, 1894, undated
Hairdressing and wig making, 1833-1840, undated
Heating and ventilating, 1853, 1864, 1889
Locks and locksmithing, 1789, 1806, 1841-1842, 1858-1866, 1876, undated
Mining
Background and reference material, 1952-1958, 1977, undated
Coal, 1828-1833, 1849-1864, undated
Duncannon Iron Works, 1848-1849
Perkiomen Consolidated Mining Co., annual report, 1852
Miscellaneous, 1783, 1858-1860, 1866-1879, 1902, undated
Papermaking
Background and reference material, 1951, 1977, 1988-1991, undated
Accounts and receipts, 1782, 1788-1794, 1827-1829, 1867, 1875
Cadwalader, Charles and John, 1799-1802, undated
BOX 10 Correspondence, 1845, 1857, 1863
Illustrations and photographs, 1854, undated
Marble paper and pockets, 1819-1821, 1910, undated
(4 folders)
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