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Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection [Box 189, American Prose Writers, Folder 1, Cobbett to ed of Balitmore Federal Gazette, April 13, 1819]
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Ferdinand Julian Dreer’s chief hobby was collecting autographs. He started with two documents and over time he was able to amass more than 15,000 items from some of the world’s most prominent and intriguing public figures. Owing to this interest,…
Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection [Box 189, American Prose Writers, Folder 1, Cobbett to John Morgan, July 17, 1815]
Ferdinand Julian Dreer’s chief hobby was collecting autographs. He started with two documents and over time he was able to amass more than 15,000 items from some of the world’s most prominent and intriguing public figures. Owing to this interest,…
Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection [Box 216, letter to Robert Dale Owen from Mary Shelley, Dec 30, 1830 & Nov 9 1828]
Ferdinand Julian Dreer’s chief hobby was collecting autographs. He started with two documents and over time he was able to amass more than 15,000 items from some of the world’s most prominent and intriguing public figures. Owing to this interest,…
Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection [Box 217, letter to Robert Dale Owen from Frances Wright, Oct 2, 1827]
Ferdinand Julian Dreer’s chief hobby was collecting autographs. He started with two documents and over time he was able to amass more than 15,000 items from some of the world’s most prominent and intriguing public figures. Owing to this interest,…
Finnerty’s, the champion of all root beer extracts, 15c. per bottle. 106 Market Street [graphic].
Racist trade card promoting E.J. Finnerty Jr. & Co.’s patent medicines and depicting a crying African American baby that is suspended from a tree branch. In the center of the image is a baby, attired in a white onesie, that has a white cloth wrapped…
Foh yo’ birfday! De sweetest little flowers, dat eber ah saw grew, am climbing up de birfday fence, a-blossomin’ foh you! [graphic].
Birthday card depicting a racist caricature an African American girl standing as flowers grow over a fence and towards a house. Shows the African American girl portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in an orange dress with purple polka dots,…
Foreign pauperism in Philadelphia : a memorial to the legislature of Pennsylvania exhibiting reasons for the amendment of certain laws in relation to the poor and to foreign emigrants, with the bill annexed
"Resolved, that H.A. Stephens, Esq. be requested to prepare a memorial and bill to be presented to the legislature of Pennsylvania, praying that some provision may be made for defraying the travelling expenses of destitute emigrants into the…
Francis Daniel Pastorius papers [Volume 3, Artzney und Kunst: ist all umsunst ohne Gottes Gunst 1695]
This collection contains the personal papers of Francis Daniel Pastorius, a German immigrant who founded the settlement of Germantown, which would later be incorporated into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pastorius was trained as a lawyer, and in 1683…
Francis Daniel Pastorius papers [Volume 7, "A monthly monitor briefly showing when our works ought to be done in gardens, orchards, vineyards, fields, meadows, and woods" 1701 ]
This collection contains the personal papers of Francis Daniel Pastorius, a German immigrant who founded the settlement of Germantown, which would later be incorporated into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pastorius was trained as a lawyer, and in 1683…