Repository: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts / Language: English / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1844">1844</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: Captain George A. Q. Miller was a Civil War veteran and a special agent in the United States Post Office Department during the 1870s. This collection, consisting of correspondence, a photograph, and a scrapbook of clippings and notes documents Miller's life, his career in the postal service and as an early proponent of the Civil Service Commission, and his uncertain position within the post-Civil War federal government.

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Extent:: 1.04 linear feet (3 boxes)
Abstract:: This material comprised part of the Dental Library's historical collection. It contains material on the history of the Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry University of Pennsylvania, the profession of dentistry, and biographical information on dentist Thomas W. Evans.

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Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Mary Ralph's remembrance album focuses on religion from her time as a missionary for the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, and New York City 1835-1855.

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Extent:: 0.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: Collection of over 50 invoices, receipts, and engraved and pictorial letterheads from a wide range of American businesses. Businesses represented in the collection include bakeries, dry goods merchants, tobacco shops, patent medicine dealers, railroads, carpet sellers, hardware stores, lumber dealers, iron works and others mostly in Baltimore and Philadelphia, circa 1860s-1880s.

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Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Single volume diary, "The Sea Cadet" recounts Leent (Lieut.?) Evans' descriptions of ports of call, impressions and feelings of life on his voyage. This unpublished verse narrative describes his last voyage, from Cowes in the Isle of Wight to Sydney, Australia, and back.

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Extent:: 1 volume (184 pages)
Abstract:: This volume contains 229 culinary, household, and medicinal recipes created and compiled between 1837 and 1915 by E. and N. Walker of Belper, Derbyshire, England.

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Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This commonplace book, written by Critta Meers between 1834 and 1850, likely in Kent, England contains excerpts from poetry and prose, mostly related to love and friendships, in addition to numerous sketches. There are several poems by Meers herself.

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