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William Bacon Evans notes for the Dictionary of Quaker Biography, unknown

Extent:

3.5 linear ft. (7 boxes)

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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Map of [New] York Yearly Meeting, Undated.

Extent:

0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)

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This collection contains a map of all the Meetings belonging to [New] York Yearly Meeting. The first known Quaker meeting in New York took place in Manhattan, 1671. The New York Yearly Meeting held their first meeting in 1696 after setting up at the New England Yearly Meeting in 1695.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Leaf from Shahnameh, unknown (inclusive)

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.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

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Leaf from a manuscript of the Persian epic poem Shahnameh.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Harvey Denison Kitchel Micrographical Notes

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Fascinating notations of an amateur scientist whose profession and training was as a man of the cloth who acquired a fine microscope and was very diligent in making observations of algae, mosses and blood of animals and humans. Reverend Kitchel made beautiful colored illustrations of his observations and consulted with others regarding his observations. He classed his observations as field notes. He and his family had a number of connections to Lehigh University.

Held at: Lehigh University Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Andrew J. Odenwelder Ledger

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A nineteenth century ledger contains example of calligraphy and extensive examples of arithmetic calculations in preparation for various trades such as carpentry, mercantile, roofing and masonry by Andrew Jackson Odenwelder of East Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Held at: Lehigh University Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Medical Practice Ledger

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A nineteenth-century ledger illustrating the transactions of a combined mercantile and medical practice in Cumberland County (Pa.). The most of the ledger deals with costs of medical services and the mercantile goods available to the farming residents.

Held at: Lehigh University Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Peter N. Heydon Collection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Furniture, undated

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8 items

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Includes a few artifacts of British poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Robert Browning (1812-1889).

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