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The reply of the Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Penn, : to certain remarks made in their presentments by the grand inquests inquiring for the county of Philadelphia, for February and April sessions 1849.
Library Company copy 112411.O bound in yellow printed paper wrappers; ink stamp on front wrapper: Duplicate Sold.
The way to wealth or Poor Richard improved / by Benj. Franklin. [detail images of binding]
Library Company copy printed on vellum; bound in gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco, with gold-tooled dentelle; gold-tooled blue moiré silk doublures; gilt edges; binder’s ticket: Courteval, relieur, rue des Carmes, no. 1.
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. . . "
Thomas Gibson Lea diary
Cincinnati naturalist, Thomas Gibson Lea lived in the Pittsburgh area until his marriage in 1822, when he moved with his family to Cincinnati. In this diary, Lea writes of this journey along the Ohio aboard the Antoinette.
Thoughts on emigration
Author's name supplied from MS note on cover ; date from p. 2, paragraph 1.