Language: English / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1850">1850</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1899">1899</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Charles Thomson Letters, 1783-1988 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters and miscellanea of the educator, merchant, and first secretary of the Continental Congress Charles Thomson (1729-1824).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Phillips Family Papers, 1900-1940 (bulk) circa 1880-1973 (inclusive)

Extent:: 6 boxes and 4.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of photographs, manuscripts, diaries, and ephemera relating to Edward H. Phillips (1868-1944), his wife Marie Kempton Phillips (1881-1946), and their daughter Jean Sarah Phillips (1908–1985) that document ranch life in and around Montana around the turn of the 20th century as well as Ed Phillips' involvement in Wild West shows, including Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and his career as a Hollywood actor.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Princeton University Library Collection of Bartolomeo Borri Photographs, 1890s (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 3.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of photographs mainly of Corfu Island and other places in Greece, by Bartolomeo Borri, including Athens, the Acropolis and its monuments and Piraeus.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

360 Photographs of American Scenery Collected by Norman Selfe on the Spots Represented in 1884, 1870-1884 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 6.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of a photograph album containing over 300 photographs of urban and rural locations in North America, Hawaii, and New Zealand, collected by Australian engineer Norman Selfe (1839-1911) during his 1884 tour to inspect engineering and architectural works abroad. The photographs document street architecture in San Francisco, California; redwood logging ventures in Humboldt County, California; as well as locations in the Oregon, Washington, and Utah Territories; the states of Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Illinois, New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; federal buildings in Washington, D.C.; and cities and natural features in Canada, including British Columbia, Montreal, Toronto, Niagara Falls, and the St. Lawrence River. Includes photographs taken by William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890), George Fiske (1835-1918), I. W. Taber (1830-1912), and others.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Channing Pollock Correspondence, 1868-1927 (inclusive) 1926-1927 (bulk)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.05 linear feet
Abstract:: Channing Pollock was a playwright, journalist, and lecturer. The correspondence deals primarily with two of his most famous plays, The Fool and The Enemy.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Joseph Henry Collection, 1834-1878 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence and documents of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), the American physicist, inventor, and first secretary and director of the Smithsonian Institution.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

William Rankin Correspondence, 1881-1958 (inclusive) 1905-1940 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes
Abstract:: William Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A Short History of Italian Painting (1914). Consists of correspondence of Rankin.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

George Augustus Sala Correspondence, 1857-1890 (inclusive) 1857-1894 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:: George Augustus Sala was a nineteenth-century English journalist, artist, book illustrator, traveler, humorist, and novelist. The collection contains approximately 300 letters written to Sala by about 200 different people over the course of 40 years. Among the correspondents are prominent authors, journalists, artists, nobility, philanthropists, and other notables.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Alexander Autograph Collection, 1527-1937 (inclusive) 1775-1915 (bulk)

Extent:: 3 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of approximately 500 miscellaneous letters relating to the Alexander family of Princeton, N.J., including autograph letters collected by them.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Samuel McCoy Papers, 1868-1964 (inclusive) 1915-1963 (bulk)

Extent:: 29 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, drawings, and other material of the author, journalist, and Princeton graduate (Class of 1905) Samuel Duff McCoy (1882-1964).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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