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This Philadelphia-based shipping merchant firm specialized in trade with Africa, especially the east coast, but also conducted trade with the West Indies, California, and China. These ledgers list hundreds of local and overseas merchants, types of…

This collection is comprised of business records and correspondence of the Ridgway and Bishop families of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Primary individuals within the collection include Jacob Elwood Ridgway and his son-in-law John Israel Bishop, both…

These papers relate particularly to state and national political history during the Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe presidential administrations. Among the subjects dealt with in the papers from 1780-1848 are: Pennsylvania legislation, political…

These papers relate particularly to state and national political history during the Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe presidential administrations. Among the subjects dealt with in the papers from 1780-1848 are: Pennsylvania legislation, political…

The collection includes three manuscripts containing the histories of California, 1534-1850; Kansas, 1857; and of Mexico and Texas, 1845.

This is a collection of 122 original, mostly nineteenth century maps, all in "booklet" form. They represent imprints made by a number of different American agencies, most prominently, those in Philadelphia and New York City. And they are comprised of…

Papers of the Buchanan Family, including two boxes of books, 1 box of photographs, and 2 boxes of correspondence. The collection includes President James Buchanan's 1833 travel diary, letters regarding California business dealings, his admission to…

This diary of James Bull of a journey through Mexico and lower and upper California contains data on economic and social conditions, the influence of the Catholic church and Jesuits among the Indians, missions, pearl fisheries, travel, topography of…

This collection is comprised of business records and correspondence of the Ridgway and Bishop families of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Primary individuals within the collection include Jacob Elwood Ridgway and his son-in-law John Israel Bishop, both…

This collection is comprised of business records and correspondence of the Ridgway and Bishop families of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Primary individuals within the collection include Jacob Elwood Ridgway and his son-in-law John Israel Bishop, both…