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Jas. Buchanan California business [Buchanan family papers, Box 1, Folder 5]
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…
The Barbados Mercury. [Apr. 19, 1766]
Library has: Apr. 19, 1766 bound in "Miscellaneous Newspapers, 1754-1781".
The Jamaica gazette. [May 4, 1771.]
Library has: May 4, 1771. Bound in "Miscellaneous Newspapers, 1754-1781."
Shipped in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] : in and upon the good [blank] called the [blank] whereof is master for this present voyage [blank] and now riding at anchor in the [blank] and bound for [blank] To say [blank] Being marked and numbered as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to [blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of said [blank] hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which [blank] bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. Dated in [blank]
Library Company copy 77721.O.1 completed in MS. for Hobart & Pratt, sending goods on the Brig Price of Wales, Thomas Eastwick captain, to Charleston, S.C., consigned to Isaac Peace on board; dated Philadelphia, March 5, 1765.
California Mining District [Miscellaneous map collection, Box 1 Folder 3]
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…
John H. Gihon unpublished histories of California, Kansas, Mexico, and Texas [volume 1]
The collection includes three manuscripts containing the histories of California, 1534-1850; Kansas, 1857; and of Mexico and Texas, 1845.
Jonathan Roberts papers [Box 5, folder 1]
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…
Jonathan Roberts papers [Box 5, folders 13-14]
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…
Loose stock certificates from California King Gold Mines Company [Ridgway & Bishop Family Papers, Box 13]
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…