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John Welsh papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
1529
Repository:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent:
8.0 linear feet (; 9 boxes, 45 volumes, 2 flat files)
Language:
English
Date:
1840-1880 (bulk) and 1806-1935, undated (inclusive)
Creator:
Welsh, John, 1805-1886.
Form:
Broadsides., Correspondence., and Diaries.
Abstract:
This collection contain the papers of John Welsh, president of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, financial manager for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia merchant, and American diplomat to the British mission under President Hayes. The collection spans from 1806 to 1935 and consists of correspondence, financial files, his diaries, and documents created by both Herbert Welsh and Edward Lowber Stokes.

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Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Willhem Echevarria.
Finding Aid Date
2012
Sponsor
This collection was processed as part of the Civic Engagement Collections Project. Funding for this project was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

This portion of the collection is arranged by year and includes letterpress copybooks of outgoing correspondence. Letters after John Welsh's death (1886) are authored by his son Herbert Welsh and by Edward Lowber Stokes, former U.S. representative for Pennsylvania and John Welsh's grandson.

Correspondence (1806-1809).
Box 1 Folder 1
Correspondence (1837).
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence (1838).
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence (1839-1841).
Box 1 Folder 4
Correspondence (1842).
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence (1852).
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence (1853-1859).
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence (1860-1864).
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence (1865-1866).
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence (1867-1868).
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence (1870).
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence (1871-1872).
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence (1873-1875).
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence (1876).
Box 1 Folder 14-15
Correspondence (1876).
Box 2 Folder 1-2
Correspondence (1877).
Box 2 Folder 3-5
Correspondence (1878).
Box 2 Folder 6-11
Correspondence (1878).
Box 3 Folder 1
Correspondence (1879).
Box 3 Folder 2-5
Correspondence (1880).
Box 3 Folder 6-7
Correspondence (1881-1882).
Box 3 Folder 8
Correspondence (1883).
Box 3 Folder 9
Correspondence (1884-1885).
Box 3 Folder 10
Correspondence (1886).
Box 3 Folder 11
Correspondence (1887-1888).
Box 3 Folder 12
Correspondence (1895-1926).
Box 3 Folder 13
Correspondence (1931-1935).
Box 3 Folder 14
Correspondence (undated).
Box 4 Folder 1-3
Letterpress Book (1855-1863).
Volume 1
Letterpress Book (1870).
Volume 2
Letterpress Book (1877-1878).
Volume 3
Letterpress Book (1875-1886).
Volume 4
Letterpress Book (1878-1879).
Volume 5

Scope and Contents

This series contains John Welsh’s diaries, prints, financial documents, John Welsh Centennial Exhibition Testimonial and other papers related to the Centennial Exhibition, invitations and programs, and miscellanoeus printed matter.

Centennial Commission (1876-1877).
Box 4 Folder 4-6
Centennial Commission--John Welsh Testimonial (1877).
Volume 6
Diary (1844).
Volume 7
Diary (1852).
Volume 8
Diary (1854).
Volume 9
Diary (1855).
Volume 10
Diary (1856).
Volume 11
Diary (1857).
Volume 12
Diary (1858).
Volume 13
Diary (1860).
Volume 14
Diary (1861).
Volume 15
Diary (1862).
Volume 16
Diary (1863).
Volume 17
Diary (1865-1866).
Volume 18
Diary (1867).
Volume 19
Diary (1868-1870).
Volume 20-22
Diary (1871).
Volume 23
Diary (1872).
Volume 24
Diary (1873).
Volume 25
Diary (1874).
Volume 26
Diary (1875).
Volume 27
Diary (1876).
Volume 28
Diary (1878).
Volume 29
Diary (1878).
Volume 30
Diary (1879).
Volume 31
Diary (1879).
Volume 32
Diary (1883).
Volume 36
Diary (1880).
Volume 33
Diary (1881).
Volume 34
Diary (1882).
Volume 35
Diary (1884).
Volume 37
Diary (1885).
Volume 38
Diary (1886).
Volume 39
Dinner Menu Diary (1878).
Volume 40
Fairmount Park (1869-1873).
Box 4 Folder 7
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1850-1869).
Box 4 Folder 8
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1870-1873).
Box 4 Folder 9
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1874).
Box 4 Folder 10
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1875).
Box 4 Folder 11
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1876).
Box 5 Folder 1
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1877-1879).
Box 5 Folder 2
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1880-1891).
Box 5 Folder 3
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1892-1898).
Box 5 Folder 4
Financial--Bills & Receipts (1899-1903).
Box 5 Folder 5
Financial--Bills & Receipts (undated).
Box 5 Folder 6
Financial--Rent Collection (1886-1902).
Box 5 Folder 7
Financial--Taxes (1886-1894).
Box 5 Folder 8
Financial--Taxes (1895-1899).
Box 5 Folder 9
Financial--Taxes (1900-1902).
Box 5 Folder 10
Financial--Account Book (undated).
Volume 41
Financial--Account Books (undated) [1 blank].
Volume 42-43
Financial--Account Book--Wages (1850-1866).
Volume 44
Financial--Checkbooks (1877-1879).
Box 8
Goldsborough Estate (1854-1888).
Box 5 Folder 11-13
Invitations & Programs (1876-1886, undated).
Box 6
Invitations & Programs (1876-1886, undated).
Box 7 Folder 1-3
Prints (1886, undated).
Box 7 Folder 4
Miscellaneous Printed Matter--Leaflets, Resolutions, Acts (1852-1920).
Box 7 Folder 5
Miscellaneous Printed Matter--Broadsides, Newspaper Clippings, Statements (1852-1920).
Oversize Flat File # 1
Miscellaneous Printed Matter--Tables, Statements, Broadsides (1852-1920).
Oversize Flat File # 2
Miscellaneous--Files, Letters, Prescriptions, and Sundry (1844-1886).
Box 7 Folder 6
Miscellaneous--In Memoriam Album (undated).
Volume 45

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