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Bartram Family Papers [Box 8 ( Bartram’s drawings – Photostats from the British Museum)]
This is a collection of the papers of the John Bartram and his sons William, Isaac, and Moses. The majority of materials relate to John and William Bartram. Items of note in the collection include the incoming correspondence of John, incoming and…
Bartram Family Papers [Box 7 ( William Bartram “Specimens Plant Book A. Georgia” (Photostat) and “View of Alatchua Savanah” (Photostat)]
This is a collection of the papers of the John Bartram and his sons William, Isaac, and Moses. The majority of materials relate to John and William Bartram. Items of note in the collection include the incoming correspondence of John, incoming and…
Bartram Family Papers [Volume 7 (Isaac Bartram Letterbook)]
This is a collection of the papers of the John Bartram and his sons William, Isaac, and Moses. The majority of materials relate to John and William Bartram. Items of note in the collection include the incoming correspondence of John, incoming and…
Bartram Family Papers [Volume 6 ( William Bartram Pharmacopeia)]
This is a collection of the papers of the John Bartram and his sons William, Isaac, and Moses. The majority of materials relate to John and William Bartram. Items of note in the collection include the incoming correspondence of John, incoming and…
Bartram Family Papers [Volume 5 ( William Bartram Commonplace Book)]
This is a collection of the papers of the John Bartram and his sons William, Isaac, and Moses. The majority of materials relate to John and William Bartram. Items of note in the collection include the incoming correspondence of John, incoming and…
Richard Wood diaries [Box: 1801-1802,1809-15 Typescript, Folder 1811]
Richard Wood, a Quaker merchant and farmer of Greenwich, Cumberland County, N.J., owned and successfully farmed large tracts of land in the Stow Creek/Greenwich area. He also successfully operated a large general store, known after 1785 as Wood and…
Richard Wood diaries [Box: 1801-1802,1809-15 Typescript, Folder 1810]
Richard Wood, a Quaker merchant and farmer of Greenwich, Cumberland County, N.J., owned and successfully farmed large tracts of land in the Stow Creek/Greenwich area. He also successfully operated a large general store, known after 1785 as Wood and…
Directions for raising nurseries, planting orchards
This volume includes instructions and advice regarding cultivating plants and planting orchards, derived from written sources, word of mouth, and personal experience. Topics include grafting, choosing fruit for cider, gathering and sweating the…
Logan family papers [Box 1 Folder 9: 8 September 1833 - Deborah Logan [at Stenton] to Sarah Miller Walker (on Sarah’s new interest in botany and other updates)]
The Logan family of Philadelphia, beginning with James Logan (1674-1751), secretary to William Penn, became one of the most prosperous and influential families in the region. This small collection contains in three volumes and one box a miscellaneous…
Thomas C. Mease diary
Thomas C. Mease was a farmer. The diary, 1788, includes sporadic entries on garden planting and weather. These notations are written in a printed calendar entitled "Aitken's General American Register. . . "