Repository: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1800">1800</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1849">1849</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

British family collection of recipes, 1747-1807 (inclusive)

Extent:: .2 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: This collection dates from 1747 to 1807 and consists of culinary, household, and medicinal recipes written and compiled in England, likely by one family or household. There is a vellum bound recipe book, a stitched recipe booklet, and numerous loose sheets with recipes, many of which are to or by the Nicholls family.

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Margaret W. D. Campbell remembrance book, 1833-1844 (inclusive)

Extent:: .1 linear_foot (1 volume)
Abstract:: This volume was given to Margaret W. D. Campbell in remembrance of T. C. in 1833. It is unclear what relationship Margaret had with T. or who gifted the volume. The volume consists of a decade's worth of contributions of poems, drawings, songs, and a dictionary of floral emblems by a number of people probably living in the Glasgow area of Scotland. Topics of contributions relate, primarily, to death and mourning, Scotland, music, and flowers.

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Frederick Huth & Co. Spanish banking letters, 1814-1850 (inclusive)

Extent:: .25 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: The Frederick Huth & Co. Spanish banking letters measure .25 linear feet in one box, date from 1814 to 1850, and contain 83 letters, mostly written in Spanish, sent to the company's founder and proprietor, Frederick Huth, by company agents in Spain. Frederick Huth & Co. was a British bank specializing in trade with Germany, Spain, and South America.

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Henrietta F. Butler cookbook, 1826-1831 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains 130 culinary and 1 household recipe and was created and compiled by Henrietta F. Butler between 1826 and 1831 in Kensington, London, England.

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William Pybus book of recipes, remedies, and experiments, 1815-1816 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume was written and compiled by William Pybus in England between 1815 and 1816. It contains 382 recipes, remedies, processes, experiments, and inventions, mostly attributed to English scientific and miscellanea journals from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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British recipe book, 1827-1832 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains 94 culinary, medicinal, and household recipes written and compiled by an unknown creator in England between 1827 and 1832.

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Maria Catharina Neuwieller cookbook, circa 1830s (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains 302 culinary recipes and was written and compiled by Maria Catharina Neuwieller possibly in British Guyana and the Netherlands in the 1830s.

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William Huxtable notebook with Dr. Newbolt medical recipes, circa 1840s-1887 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains 86 pharmaceutical recipes by Dr. Newbolt, likely compiled by William Huxtable in South Molton, Devon, England from around the 1840s through 1887. This volume also contains summary financial accounts of the compiler's father and details of a property dispute between Huxtable and Thomas Ridler.

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Eliza Dwight Pierce cookbook, 1847-1892 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains 94 recipes written and compiled by Eliza Dwight Pierce (1799-1878) in Greenfield, MA between 1853 and 1892 and two pages of financial accounts dating from 1947 to 1948.

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Wistar, Pennock, Lukens, Miller, and Davis family papers, 1686-1967 (inclusive) 1740-1920 (bulk)

Extent:: 1.5 linear feet (4 boxes)
Abstract:: The Wistar Family papers measure 1.5 linear feet, date from 1686-1967, and are comprised of correspondence; family and estate documents; genealogical research; and other family material. The collection documents the personal and family lives of Dr. Caspar Wistar II (1740-1811), Mary "Polly" Franklin Wistar (1735-1804), Mary Pearsall Franklin (1703-1786), Sarah Wistar Pennock (1770-1845), Caspar Wistar Pennock (1799-1867), Sarah "Sallie" Wistar Pennock Miller (1840-1909), Virginia Preston Weaver Miller (1868-1951) and Virginia Weaver Miller.

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