Philadelphia Area Archives

Start Over Language English Year 1890 to 1894

Collection of business invoices, 1838-1917 (inclusive)

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.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Walker family recipe book, 1837-1915 (inclusive)

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.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

British cookbook, circa 1861-1890 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains 96 recipes, a passage about being the "mistress of a household," and a reading list and was created and compiled in England between 1861 and 1890.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Stanley Wolpert papers, 1885-2019, bulk 1945-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:: 11.5 linear feet (12 boxes) and 683.3 megabytes
Abstract:: Stanley Wolpert (1927-2019) was an American historian and author on the history of India, Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent. The Stanley Wolpert papers measure 11.5 linear feet, date mostly from 1945-2000, and consist primarily of material relating to Wolpert's research on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the history and politics of the Indian subcontinent.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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