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ANSP Buildings and Grounds Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0584
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to repairs, renovations, and improvements to Academy facilities, including bills, ocrrespondence, contracts, subscription lists, and tax reciepts.
Dates:
1868-1928
ANSP Buildings: Construction Plans
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0005
Scope and Contents
Includes agreements and specifications, bids and estimates of costs, accounts, reports of the Committee to Procure Plans, correspondence, lien releases, as well as plans and blueprints of the various buildings owned by the Academy between 1839 and 1892.
Dates:
1837-1893
ANSP bylaws
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0109
Scope and Contents
Drafts of the 1875, the 1893, 1899 and the 1924 bylaws are preserved here, along with revisions, amendments, and committee reports. The 1893 copy was corrected by A. E. Brown, the 1867 by Harrison Allen.
Dates:
1814-1951
ANSP Centenery Celebration papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0085
Scope and Contents
The papers in the present collection begin with a volume of the registration of delegates, continues thru programs and minutes of the Centenary committee under the charimanship of Edward J. Nolan. A sizeable volume is also devoted to documents, that is, stenographers notes, final reports, cards, circulars, programs, and accounts all set up by Nolan. The Corresponding Secretary, J. Percy Moore, maintained his file of correspondence in four letter files with a cross reference on cards to some...
Dates:
1911-1913
ANSP City Aid Papers
Collection — Container: Box Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0586
Scope and Contents
Letter and committee report considering request for financial aid from the City of Philadelphia.
Dates:
1923
ANSP collection of Botany papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0120
Scope and Contents
Ten volumes of accession books, catalogs, descriptions of collections and additions, "Contents of the Herbarium" by Redfield, Goddard and Bridges, "Index to Families", lists of collections from Ravenel, Standley, Rovirosa and Koelz and Parmanand. The Mexican plants of Rovirosa were indexed on cards by Redfield and these deposited in the manuscript library. Histories of the herbarium by F. W. Pennell begin with 1812 and carry through to 1938 with a separate history of a general nature without...
Dates:
1834-1938
ANSP collection of mastodon drawings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0281
Scope and Contents
The three folio watercolors are by an unknown artist, the designs possibly portraying Mastodon giganteus, which was mounted by James Hall in Albany. The three items are: watercolor of the mounted animal as a design for a
fountain, profile of skeleton with the foundation structure, and the foundation only, showing the plan of the water and fountain heads.During research for "All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins" Bob Peck determined that these paintings...
Dates:
undated
ANSP collection of papers related to the history of Philadelphia
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0282
Scope and Contents
Three vellum deeds, signed by William Penn, 1681-1713, some Confederate money, accounts of Pennsylvania Hospital, 1808, signed by Zaccheus Collins, a facsimile copy of Benjamin Franklin's first Boston publication, Civil War currency notes, Washington City Canal lottery tickets, 1796, and genealogical memoranda about Jonathan Leedom.Signers: Aubrey, Wm. 1713; Coats, Samuel, 1808; Collins, Zaccheus, 1808; Fox, Samuel, 1681; Morris, Anthony, 1713; Penn, William (3) 1681-1713;...
Dates:
1681-1865
ANSP Collections - Birds and Mammals Catalogs and Field Notes
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0724
Scope and Contents
Catalogs and field notebooks dealing with birds (McIlhenny, Lance, Rhoads and Vanderbilt), mammals (Slack, Parker, Ives, Morton, Rhoads, Vanderbilt, Cragg, Collins & Scull, Harrison, Morton Crania, Carter).
Materials deposited by Robert Grant of Academy staff with approval of H. Radclyffe Roberts, May 5, 1964.
Dates:
1857-1937
ANSP Collections (General) Papers
Collection — Container: Box Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0588
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and documents on handling of specimens, accession recording, storage, collecting and shipments.
No information on provenance.
Dates:
1828-1937
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- Ord, George, 1781-1866 8
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