Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 114 Collections and/or Records:
Patricia Tyson Stroud Papers
Collection — Box 1-3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1014
Content Description
Collection contains three groupings of material: newsletters, fliers, meeting minutes, correspondence and other records Stroud received as Chair of the Friends of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1986-1992; research files for the 2012 monograph, A Glorious Enterprise on the history of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, co-authored with Academy Curator of Art and Artifacts, Robert McCraken Peck, 2009-2011; and correspondence and related records regarding research...
Dates:
1983-2011
Percy Tindall papers
Collection
Identifier: 2016-018
Overview
This is the second donation from the donor, Robert Tindall, a descendant of several Hahnemann alumni. (The earlier donation is the 1899 Hahnemann yearbook, which, although accessioned separately as 2014.010, is housed together with this accession, 2016.018.) Percy A. Tindall MD., graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1899. This collection contains 13 photographs, a letter and two textbooks belonging to Dr. Tindall.
Dates:
1890 - 1921
Philip Powell Calvert, 1871-1961. Early observations and field notes, 1885-88.
Collection — Box Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0933
Overview
Even at the age of 14, this author was keeping notebooks of his field observations and with other enthusiasts, i.e. friends at the Central High School, and in the local Agassiz Club, preparing information for catalogs of various groups of animals. Notebooks and illustrated records, as well as correspondence with his colleagues are found in this collection.
Dates:
1885-88
Photographs by Wharton Huber
Collection — Box small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2012-085
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three photographs taken by Wharton Huber in 1933, 1934, and 1937. It also contains a greeting card from Margaretta Huber, dated Christmas 1942.
Dates:
1937-1942
Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0200
Scope and Contents
The Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers houses the papers of Henry Augustus Pilsbry. This collection, which dates from 1878 to 1986, with bulk dates from 1878 to 1957, consists of correspondence, notes, index cards, manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, illustrated and photographic publication plates, photographs, negatives, glass plate negatives, ephemera, and wooden printing blocks.This collection is arranged into six series: “I. Correspondence, 1882-1977,“ “II. Writings,...
Dates:
1878 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1878 - 1957
President's Office and Administrative Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0990
Overview
The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP) was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents. From 1937 to 1995, there were four presidents and one acting president who left their administrations well...
Dates:
1907-2003; Majority of material found within 1939-1993
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0418
Abstract
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) was a naturalist who is best known for his contributions to scientific classification and nomenclature and giving Latin names to approximately 6,700 plants. While in the United States, he toured west of the Alleghenies and made important botanical discoveries in Kentucky and Illinois. This collection dates from 1818 to 1977 and consists of copies of Rafinesque's professional letters, family material, and research by F. W. Pennell regarding...
Dates:
1818 - 1977
Records of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Managing Directors
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1010
Scope and Contents
Natural Science, history, geology, religion, anthropology, government reports, maps, advertising ephemera, letterhead art,
This is a collection of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Charles M.B. Cadwalader, dating from 1933 to 1939. Much of the correspondence relates to the acquisition of specimens, donations, estates and annuities, publications, and other Academy business. There is also a significant amount of correspondence with scientists on Academy expeditions,...
Dates:
1929-1959
Robert Thomas Allen Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1003
Scope and Contents
Series 1, Correspondence, relates directly to Robert Thomas Allen's work as an entomologist from the years 1963-1974. The correspondence relates to Allen's work with the United States Department of Agriculture, CIBA Agrochemical Company, the British Museum in London, Bowling Green State University, University of Arkansas, University of Illinois, University of Louisiana, Illinois State Natural History Survey, the Biosystematics Research Institute, The American Museum Natural History, Ohio...
Dates:
1963 - 1974
Ruth Patrick Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0974
Overview
Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1907, Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick spent most of her childhood in Kansas City, Missouri. Her interest in the natural sciences was shaped by her father's passion for the natural world. Her long association with the Academy of Natural Sciences began in 1933 as a volunteer. By 1937 she was curator of the Academy's Leidy Microscopical Collection and involved in the consolidation and expansion of the Academy’s diatom herbarium, but not on the Academy payroll until the early...
Dates:
1908 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990