Repository: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1900">1900</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1949">1949</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Margaret Deland manuscript and draft of Golden Yesterdays, 1935-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: Margaret Deland (1857-1945) was American novelist and poet. This collection includes the original manuscript and drafts for Deland's final book, Golden Yesterdays, a memoir published in 1941 when she was 84 years old and which follows her early life from her teens through her courtship and relationship with her husband, Lorin Deland.

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John Louis Haney papers, 1885-1958 (inclusive) 1903-1958 (bulk)

Extent:: 8 linear feet (16 boxes )
Abstract:: This collection contains material related to the professional, academic, and personal life of John Louis Haney (1877-1960), a high school principal, scholar, and book collector. It contains correspondence; research notes on various topics; and manuscript drafts of essays, talks, and radio transcripts, as well as an inventory of his library and journals concerning his undergraduate and graduate education.

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Second Lancers photograph album, 1909-1913 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: The Second Lancers, established in 1809 by William Linnaeus Gardner (1770-1835), was a cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It is probable that the creator of this album was a British or Indian officer who served with the Second Lancers between 1909 and 1913. For the most part, military life is not documented--instead the volume consists of formal portraits of British and Indian soldiers; candid photographs of soldiers; portraits of horses; and photographs of a trip to England, equine sports in India (including racing and polo), and a trip to Delhi for the Delhi Durbar held in December 1911 to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India.

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Albert E. Clattenburg, Jr. collection of International Red Cross conference materials, 1930-1949 (inclusive) 1947-1949 (bulk)

Extent:: 5 linear feet (5 boxes)
Abstract:: Albert E. Clattenburg, Jr. (1906-1987) was an official and a diplomat with the United States State Department who was involved in the revisions of the Geneva Convention from 1947 to 1949. This collection contains eighteen bound volumes of materials documenting Clattenburg's involvement in the International Red Cross Conferences relating to the Geneva Conventions. While most of the material is printed and was clearly disseminated to all members of committees and delegations, these are Clattenburg's working copies of minutes, reports, and amendments.

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Francis Willing Lockwood Wharton family letters, 1852-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.4 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: Francis Willing Lockwood Wharton (1869-1966) was a Philadelphia based woman who was married to Henry Wharton Jr. This collection of papers documents their courtship in 1890, and contains various familial correspondences throughout the early twentieth century.

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Edwin Pugh letters to C. F. Cazenove, 1903-1915 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.4 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: Edwin William Pugh (1874-1930), an author known for his works in the style of "the British Cockney School," frequently corresponded with his literary agent, Charles Francis Cazenove (1870-1915). These letters, dating between 1903 and 1915, represent a period of decline in Pugh's literary career; and the letters, postcards, telegraphs, and telegrams in the collection relate not only to the logistics behind the creation and publication of Pugh's fiction, but also to the author's personal struggles, including poverty and poor health.

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Georgij Sanji Zagadinow collection of Kalmyk materials, 1834-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 10 linear feet (19 boxes)
Abstract:: Georgij Sanji Zagadinow (1925-1999) was a Kalmyk immigrant to Philadelphia who spent much of his life working on a Kalmyk-English dictionary. The materials in this collection include literary and other sources from Soviet Kalmykia, as well as extensive documentation of the Kalmyk communities in the United States. Researchers interested in Inner Asian studies and US immigration history may wish to consult this collection.

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Paul Eldridge papers, 1909-1982 (inclusive)

Extent:: 13.5 linear feet (16 boxes)
Abstract:: Paul Eldridge (1888-1982) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and teacher. Most prolific in the 1940s, Eldridge's writing focused on issues of World War II, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, and Zionist and Jewish issues more generally. This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, and reprographic copies of Eldridge's poems, stories, and essays; scrapbooks of clippings related to Eldridge's writing and other activities; dustjackets; photographs; issues of newspapers and periodicals in which his columns appeared; and correspondence related to Eldridge's writing and career.

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Richard Wilson McCredy scrapbook of Philadelphia and New York City playbills, 1869-1906 (inclusive) 1869-1905 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.2 linear_foot (1 volume)
Abstract:: The son of Thomas McCredy and Emma Dolores Wilson, Richard Wilson McCredy (1854-1924) was an iron merchant and alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania (Class of 1874). A gift by McCredy, this scrapbook consists of a collection of about 750 playbills and programs from Philadelphia and New York City, arranged in chronological order and pasted onto a volume of more than 200 pages.

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Photograph album by a British soldier, 1944-1945 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.3 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: Photograph album kept by an unidentified British soldier in the Royal Air Force stationed in India during World War II. The album spans from 1944-1945 and is comprised of 330 photographs.

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Carolina Playmakers collection of playbills and programs, 1918-1953 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear_foot (4 boxes)
Abstract:: The Carolina Playmakers was the theatrical company in residence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from 1918 to 1976, when it was succeeded by the PlayMakers Repertory Company. Although they often staged classic and contemporary plays, the Playmakers specialized in the writing and production of folk plays, a dramatic genre "concerned… with the legends, superstitions, customs, environmental differences, and the vernacular of the common people." The Carolina Playmakers collection of playbills and programs consists of about 350 items documenting the theatrical activities organized or sponsored by the Playmakers, Frederick H. Koch, and, more generally, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, between 1918 and 1953.

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Biddle family papers, 1709-2017 (inclusive) 1776-1952 (bulk)

Extent:: 14.5 linear feet (32 boxes)
Abstract:: The Biddle family has a long history on American land with Quaker ancestors emigrating in 1681 and settling in Philadelphia around 1725. This collection documents the family relationships, and to a lesser extent, the work and military service of six generations of one branch of that family, starting with Clement Biddle (1740-1814), and following the descendants of two of his sons: Thomas Alexander Biddle (1776-1857) and Clement Cornell Biddle (1784-1855). These papers tell the stories, to varying degrees, of more than 30 individual Biddle family members through correspondence, financial records, professional papers, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs.

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Franklin County Press printing samples, 1939-1941 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box (0.2 linear foot)
Abstract:: An oversize scrapbook comprising printing samples of items created by the Franklin County Press. The items were printed from the years 1939 to 1941.

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William Aiken Kneeland scrapbook, 1897-1904 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box (.12 linear foot)
Abstract:: A scrapbook comprising printing samples created by William Aiken Kneeland. He began his printing business named the Amateur Publishing Company at the age of 12 in 1897 and produced his last printed item in 1904.

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"American Pulp Fiction" true crime magazine collection, 1936-1943 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: This collection contains incomplete annual series of several true-crime magazines from the 1930s and 1940s, including Crime Confessions, Official Detective Stories, Secret Detective Cases, Sensational Detective Cases, and Tru-Life Detective Cases. They are collected in three binders, under the title "American Pulp Fiction, Volumes 1-3."

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Siegfried Weisberger papers, 1708-1955 (inclusive) 1923-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection includes material collected by Siegfried Weisbeger (1896-1984), proprietor of the Peabody Book Shop in Baltimore Maryland and confidante of H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), a noted writer, editor, and social provocateur, famous for his disdain for common morals and received wisdom. The collection contains correspondence between the two men and other correspondents of the Peabody Book Shop, manuscripts and published writings by and about Mencken (many of them signed), and autobiographical writings and poems written by Weisberger.

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Isidro Barquero Ortiz letters to Maruya Rodriguez Espinosa, 1939-1941 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.2 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: Isidro Barquero Ortiz was a prisoner held in the Montjuïc military prison following the Spanish Civil War and the Republicans' unconditional surrender to Francisco Franco in April, 1939. He was a prisoner from at least August 20, 1939 until August 1, 1940, when he was granted provisional release. This collection consists of letters written by Ortiz to his girlfriend Maruya Rodriguez Espinosa, of Mardrid, while imprisoned and after his release. Ortiz wrote, fairly regularly, on a weekly basis from August, 1939, until March, 1941, describing his love for Maruya and why he was still in prison after many others were released.

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Walter Woodburn Hyde papers, 1910-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.5 linear feet (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Walter Woodburn Hyde (1870-1966) was a professor of Greek and ancient history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1910 to 1940. This collection contains lectures and writings, largely from Hyde's time at the University of Pennsylvania, all related to his professional work and interests in Greek and Roman history and religion, and Olympic victor statues.

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Pictorial postcard albums, 1907-1909 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes (0.7 linear foot)
Abstract:: Two volumes comprised of 235 picture postcards compiled by an unnamed person, probably from Adelaide, South Australia. The postcards represent the compiler's journey throughout British occupied India spanning the years from 1907 to 1909. Twenty-eight postcards are of European cities. A majority of the postcards have handwritten commentary and remarks on the versos creating a postcard travel journal or diary.

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American publishing, printing, and book-related ephemera collection, 1827-1961 (inclusive) 1852-1961 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.4 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: This is a collection of Book-of-the-Month club news, mailings, and offers along with a few examples of other book-seller related materials such as advertisements, catalogs, lists, and financial and business documents, mostly receipts. The bulk of the collection is from the years 1850 to 1961 with a few outlying documents from the 1820s to 1840s.

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