Joseph Sill diaries [Transcript]
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Title
Joseph Sill diaries [Transcript]
Subject
Diarists
19th century
Theatre
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Social Life and Customs
Social Commentary
Art and Artists
Religion and Spirituality
Description
Joseph Sill was born in England and immigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen. He was an artist by avocation, but worked as a businessman and merchant in Philadelphia. Diaries, 1831-1854, contain personal notes, detailed comments on books, plays, art, lectures, travel, religion, political leaders and issues of the period, United States Bank affairs, railroad and canal expansion.
[p. 134-135, p. 153, and p. 380-414 are missing in the original typescript]
Creator
Sill, Joseph 1801-1854
Relation
Transcript is by Elizabeth M. Geffen - see her article on Sill in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20090445
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