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Grace Hoopes ciphering book, 1710
Mathematics ciphering book by student Grace Hoopes, born 1697. Covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, interest calculation, ect. The penmanship is remarkable throughout the book, and includes several script exercises. The book is…
Pemberton family papers [Vol. 41, p. 107: Quakers schools, methods… July 3, 1784]
This collection consists of letters, memoranda, and notes of members of the Society of Friends, chiefly from the Pemberton and Parrish families of Philadelphia. Letters are of personal and religious matters. Among correspondents are John and Ann…
Pemberton family papers [Vol. 39, p. 151: George Churchman’s view on founding a Quaker school, November 9, 1783]
This collection consists of letters, memoranda, and notes of members of the Society of Friends, chiefly from the Pemberton and Parrish families of Philadelphia. Letters are of personal and religious matters. Among correspondents are John and Ann…
The book of wonders : in fourteen chapters : containing, in the compass of eighty closely printed columns, a mass of information, more suited to the present moment, and better calculated to open the eyes of the people of England, than any work of a similar nature, that has hitherto appeared : embellished with illustrative engravings : and dedicated to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Caroline [2nd ed.]
Contains extracts from Cobbett's writings showing contradictions in his opinions.
Cover title.
Title vignette (port. of Queen Caroline) signed: J. Lee sc.
Thirteen illustrations in the text are "from Designs by that promising Artist, I. R.…
Cover title.
Title vignette (port. of Queen Caroline) signed: J. Lee sc.
Thirteen illustrations in the text are "from Designs by that promising Artist, I. R.…
See Porcupine in Colours Just Portray'd political cartoon, 1799
This scathing cartoon was widely popularized in 18th century America, of William Cobbett, who is in fact being protrayed as a porcupine with some rather crude opinions. He is shown receiving support by those that include the Devil and the British…
[E. P. Noll & Co., map publishers and manufacturers, 17 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. letterhead, illustrated envelope, and insert] [graphic] / Smith Bros. sc. Phila.
Includes a pictorial envelope and letterhead containing an illustration depicting a collage of imagery, including a map of America bordered by scrolls of "Tracing Cloth," "Drawing Papers. Mounted and Unmounted," and "Tracing Papers"; a globe;…
R. R. record [graphic].
Blank membership certificate for employees of the railroad containing a cabinet card portrait of a young man surrounded by thirteen titled views documenting the activities, benefits, and hazards of life with the railroad. Views include clerks working…
Fred C. Davis, land surveyor and insurance agent, Felchville, VT., will insure against all kinds of accidents [graphic].
Trade card promoting surveyor and insurance agent Fred C. Davis and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man on a horse-drawn plow. Shows the man barely seated, leaning back, and with his legs in the air on the plow. He holds broken…
Portraits of employees from the Department of Surveys, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic] / J. Cremer & Co., 18 South Eighth Street, Philada.
Collection of carte-de-visite portraits of the city employees, attired in suits, seated, and one arm resting on a side table. Identified sitters include John H. Dye, surveyor and draughtsman; Jesse Lightfoot, surveyor; Strickland Kneass, chief…
Union Pacific Railway. Eastern Division and connections. Wyandotte, Kans. [cartographic material] / Juls. Huwata Lith., 313 Chestnut St, St. Louis, Mo.
Railroad map of the central and western U.S. showing rail lines, states, towns, forts, and mountains. Also shows part of Mexico and the Gulf of California. The Union Pacific Railway, later the Kansas Pacific Railway, was chartered in July 1863 as…