Pennsylvania
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Gallatin papers
Collection — Folder S499
Identifier: S0499
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed transcription of al letter from Albert Gallatin in Washington, D.C. on August 14, 1806 regarding the surveying of several roads through Indiana to Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1806/08/14
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Albert Gallatin papers
Charles A. Hottenstein collection
Collection
Identifier: S2097
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one folder from Charles A. Hottenstien in Warren County, Indiana ranging from 1855 to 1888 regarding his account books.
Dates:
1855-1879
Cornelius H. and Jean Hornstein Menger collection
Collection
Identifier: L105
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of letters, telegrams, and postcards to Jean Hornstein (later Menger) from her beau, then husband, Cornelius H. Menger, ranging from 1917 to 1940. The letters date from the time when Cornelius Menger served as a U.S. Army captain in World War I, and continue through his time in the armed service and after his discharge (1917-1940). Letters from Menger originate from France; England; New York City; Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; Birmingham, Alabama;...
Dates:
1899-1957
Donald MacDonald collection
Collection
Identifier: L097
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photostat copies of diaries from Donald MacDonald in England and the United States, ranging from 1824 to 1826, describing his travels from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he visited many places, including New Harmony, Indiana.
Dates:
1824-1826
Duncan family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-007
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the research material of Mary Ann Duncan Dobson.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Genealogy
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Duncan family collection
Edna Harvey Joseph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-053
Scope and Contents
This collection includes genealogical research from Edna Joseph ranging from 1929 to 1969. Some of the research in the collection may be attributed to William Wade Hinshaw. After Ms. Joseph died Willard Heiss received her research, he deposited some of it at Guilford College in North Carolina.
Dates:
1851-1969
Found in:
Genealogy
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Edna Harvey Joseph collection
Erasmus W. Reed letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2239
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 60 letters written by Erasmus W. Reed and sent to his family while he served in Company B, 96th Pennsylvania volunteer infantry during the U.S. Civil War. Ranging from October 1861 to July 30, 1864, the letters were written mostly from camps in Maryland and Virginia, but one was written "on the road between Gettysburg and Chambersburg, Pa." Three letters in the collection are undated and three others are undated and incomplete.
Dates:
1861-1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Erasmus W. Reed letters
Floyd Leslie Kresge papers
Collection
Identifier: L085
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, much of it business communications, and diaries from Floyd Leslie Kresge, Thomas Kresge, and others in Indianapolis, Indiana; Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Detroit, Michigan, ranging from 1901 to 1957 and undated, regarding business and family matters. There are also Christmas cards.
Dates:
1901-1957, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Floyd Leslie Kresge papers
Francis Vigo indentures and bond
Collection — Folder S1341
Identifier: S1341
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a Photostat indenture transferring land from Francis Vigo to John Healy of Menongolia County, Virginia, dated May 12, 1800; a Photostat indenture transferring land from John Healy of Morgantown, Pennsylvania to John Healy of Adams County, Pennsylvania, dated June 21, 1800; a bond signed by Francis Vigo as administrator and John Price Jones as surety, dated 1801; and a typed explanation of the "attached bond" written by Guy Morrison Walker on January 23, 1917.
Dates:
1800-1801, circa 1917
Frederick Rapp letter
Collection — Folder S1096
Identifier: S1096
Scope and Contents
This one photocopied letter, the original of which is in the Chicago Historical Society's collection, is three pages, handwritten, plus the envelope which makes four pages. Frederick Rapp wrote to Mr. William Young, No. 10 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 1823. He began his letter thus: "After a short and pleasant voyage down the Ohio River, I arrived here on the 12th in good health among my friends, whom I found generally well and as glad to see me as I was to see...
Dates:
1823
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Frederick Rapp letter
