Philadelphia Area Archives

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Sharpless family papers, 1891-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:: .01 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: This collection contains materials of the Sharpless family, related to the Anna T. Jeanes and Joseph Jeanes Fund and the George School.

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

Morris/Engle Family Papers, 1820-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: Although the central figure in this collection is the Philadelphia Quaker businessman and philanthropist, T. Wistar Brown (1826-1916), it also includes materials relating to his father Moses Brown, mother Mary Wistar Brown, and wife Mary Farnum Brown, along with other members of the Brown family. Among the papers are correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and deeds.

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

The Rohm & Haas Company archives, 1743-1998 (inclusive) 1907-1983 (bulk)

Extent:: 152 linear feet
Abstract:

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Photographs and Ephemera from the Records of the Chemists' Club, 1863-1990s (inclusive) 1940s-1990s (bulk)

Extent:: 6 linear feet (6 boxes; ca. 608 print photographs; negatives; lantern slides)
Abstract:: Photographs and lantern slides depicting group members, events, and buildings associated with The Chemist's Club in New York City, predominately from the 1940s through the 1990s.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Edith Ballinger Price Collection, 1881-1911 (inclusive)

Extent:: .01 linear feet (1 folder)
Abstract:: A collection of eleven offprints and one journal containing papers written by the American physical chemist Theodore William Richards and maintained by his niece, Edith Ballinger Price.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Thomas Nast Scrapbooks, 1871-1909 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of three scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and some letters chronicling the life of Nast when he was caricaturist for Harper's Weekly.

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

Channing Pollock plays, 1903-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists chiefly of typescripts of plays written by Pollock over a forty-year period but includes sheet music of songs containing his lyrics, playbills, and printed matter.

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

Princeton University Library Collection of Kōstas Zēmerēs Photographs, 1900-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.7 linear feet
Abstract:: Kostas Zēmerēs was born in 1886 in Katēchōri Pelion. He studied at the Commercial School of Volos, where he took his first lessons from the painter Iōannēs Poulakas. In 1904 he went to the United States where he worked in photo labs collaborating with painters and photographers. There he had the opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Saint Louis. He returned to Greece in 1912 where he was recruited during the Balkan Wars. Later, after the World War I, he remained in Athens working with great photographers, such as George Bouka and Nelly's. Finally he returned to Volos where he worked as a professional photographer and painter. He participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as in Calais (France) in 1925 and Liverpoool (England) in 1926. He received the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Thessalonikē (Greece) in 1932 and 1936. Zēmerēs gave us the unique photographs of the painter Theophilos Chatzēmichaēl. He died at the age of 96. Consists of an open...(see more)

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

Carl W. Jones Magic Collection, 1870s-1948 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes, 122 items, and 1.85 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of three scrapbooks of publicity photographs--compiled by C. A. George Newmann and collected by Carl W. Jones--of some 19th- but mainly 20th-century mentalists, magicians, ventriloquists, and illusionists.

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

Blaney Melodramas, 1896-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes and 1.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists mainly of typescripts of melodramas written by American dramatist Charles E. Blaney.

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

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