Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1850">1850</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1854">1854</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Taylor Family Papers, 1865-1890 (bulk) 1850-1904 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Contains miscellaneous nineteenth-century papers of several members of the Taylor family.

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Lee Family Collection, 1780-1886 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected letters and documents by and about members of the Lee family of Virginia. The Lee family is a historically significant Virginia political family, whose many prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics and the military. They are descended from the Lees of Shropshire, England, and became prominent in colonial America when Colonel Richard Lee emigrated to Virginia and made his fortune in tobacco. Members of the family represented in this collection include Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) and Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), both signers of the Declaration of Independence, Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee (1756-1818), and, most famously, Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), commander of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War.

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Cooley Family Papers, 1796-1942 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers relating to the Cooley family of Alexandria, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

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Joseph Miller Collection, 1783-1929 (inclusive) 1820-1860 (bulk)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists mainly of professional and personal correspondence, some documents, and printed matter of Joseph Miller, a nineteenth-century English civil engineer primarily concerned with the construction of steam engines and other machinery for naval vessels.

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John A. Roebling's Sons Company Records, 1821-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.4 linear feet
Abstract:: The John A. Roebling's Sons Company was a family-run wire rope manufacturing business based in Trenton, New Jersey, and established in 1848 by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), a German-born American civil engineer best known for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge. The records consist of 10 bound volumes of business records, correspondence, and clippings kept by the company during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including typescript copies of John A. Roebling's professional correspondence, a company address book and manufacturing specifications catalog for wire rope, Ferdinand W. Roebling, Jr.'s business ledger, a minute book for the Roebling Construction Company, a volume of John Ferreol Monnot's patents, and a two-volume scrapbook on the German civil engineer and bridge-builder Karl Bernhard.

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Princeton University Library Collection of William Holman Hunt Materials, 1853-1926 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of selected correspondence of William Holman Hunt, the British painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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Business Correspondence of Smith, Elder, and Co., 1850-1908 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: Consists, for the most part, of business correspondence of George Smith relating to the Cornhill Magazine, which he founded in 1859, and other publishing business of Smith, Elder, and Co., the London publishing firm.

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Princeton University Library Collection of John Ruskin Materials, 1840s-1933 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 2.42 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellanea of the nineteenth-century English art critic, social reformer, and educator John Ruskin.

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Alexander Family Collection, 1815-1914 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of miscellaneous material relating to various members of the Alexander family, many of whom lived and worked in Princeton, N.J.

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Armstrong and Kaines Autograph Collection, 1803-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters, mostly autograph, from twenty-one United States Supreme Court justices, collected by Edward Ambler Armstrong and Richard Kaines.

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Blanckley Family Papers, 1813-1890 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of family correspondence and documents of the Blanckley family, centering on Henry Stanyford Blanckley (1752-1820), British consul in Algeria and the Balearic Islands, and his children and grandchildren. Materials also document the Tonna, Philippides Cammenos, Androutsos, and Rogers families in Great Britain, Malta, the Balearic Islands, France, and Greece.

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John Elphinston Papers Relating to the Russo-Turkish War, 1769-1850 (inclusive) 1769-1771 (bulk)

Extent:: 5 boxes
Abstract:: The John Elphinston Papers Relating to the Russo-Turkish War consists of log books, letter books, letters, and documents.

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Emily Treslove Diaries, 1818-1910 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.83 linear feet
Abstract:: Diaries spanning several years that belonged to Emily Treslove, wife of prominent English Barrister Thomas Crosby Treslove, as well various miscellaneous materials.

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Roswell H. Lamson Papers, 1845-1894 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, diaries (1864, 1870, 1887), photographs, documents, memorabilia, and printed matter of U.S. Naval officer Roswell H. Lamson.

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Duffield Family Papers, 1838-1948 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes and 2.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected papers of the Duffield family of Princeton, N.J.

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R. D. Blackmore Collection, 1630-1956 (inclusive) 1873-1899 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection contains 120 letters, which is mostly personal correspondence, by English novelist and poet R. D. Blackmore.

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Selected Papers of Herbert Spencer Murch, 1902-1943 (bulk) 1852-1943 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.3 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and a scrapbook of Herbert Spencer Murch, a professor of English at Princeton (1906-1944).

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Daniel Webster Collection, 1824-1852 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence and documents of and about Daniel Webster, the nineteenth-century American attorney, congressman, and secretary of state.

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General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection, 1502-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:: 120 boxes and 67.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of over 3000 miscellaneous items of primarily American literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents.

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George Cruikshank Collection, 1782-1894 (inclusive) 1825-1878 (bulk)

Extent:: 35 boxes, 192 items, and 19.5 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection integrates numerous accessions of English artist and caricaturist George Cruikshank material, including large amounts of correspondence as well as original drawings and sketches.

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