Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930
| title | Moravian Pottery and Tile Works Records, 1898-1972 (MSC 294) | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Correspondence; drawings, blueprints, and cartoons; order books; catalogs; ledgers; kiln records; freight lists; records of tiles sent on commission; sales expense records; and other records. Biographical and Historical Note: Built by Henry Mercer as an outgrowth of his interest in the then dying art of the Pennsylvania German potter; located in Doylestown, Pa. |
| extent | ca. 100 ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Drawings Catalogs Financial Records Business Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the repository. |
| acquisition information | The repository also has microfilm of the collection. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:59 |
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| title | Henry Chapman Mercer Papers, 1863-1930 (MSC 92 and MSC 291) | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Correspondence (1870-1930); travel journal, accounts, and diaries (1881-1929); architectural notebooks 1907-1927) relating to Mercer's home, Fonthill, the Mercer Museum, and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works; school notebooks; archaeological notebooks; sketch books; photographs; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; historical notes; manuscripts of Mercer's publications; genealogy of the Mercer and Chapman family; and poems. Other topics include the Bucks County Historical Society, World War I, and folklore. Biographical and Historical Note: Archaeologist, historian, ceramist, collector, and founder of the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pa. |
| extent | ca. 31 ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Journals Financial Records Diaries Notebooks |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the repository. |
| updated | 05/17/2022 11:46:14 |
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| title | Henry Chapman Mercer Account book, 1913-1917 (MSC 291) | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Account book for construction of the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pa |
| extent | 1 v. |
| formats | Financial Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | B. F. Fackenthal Papers, 1722-1940 (MSC 326) | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Includes records relating to the Durham Iron Works, comprising deeds, trust agreements, journals, ledgers, and daybooks; histories of the Hudson River chain and of Delaware River bridges and islands; correspondence with William Watts Hart Davis, Henry Chapman Mercer, Henry D. Paxson, and others interested in early stoveplates and firebacks, including photographs of stoveplates; genealogical and historical notes on Durham Township, Pa.; and financial and legal papers involving Joseph Galloway, Lawrence Growden, Thomas Penn, and Elizabeth Galloway Roberts. Biographical and Historical Note: Industrialist, philanthropist, college president, and historian. |
| extent | ca. 2 ft. (ca. 600 items) |
| formats | Business Papers Legal Papers Financial Records Correspondence Writings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Card catalog in repository. |
| acquisition information | In part, typewritten transcripts and photocopies. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Joseph E Sandford Papers, 1926-1965 (MSC 182 and MSC 230) | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Correspondence (1926-1930) from Henry Mercer and others to Sandford; historical sketches on Bucks County, iron and metal craft, and implements including stove plates; and biographical sketches on Mercer and others. Biographical and Historical Note: Resident of Bucks County, Pa. |
| extent | 15 in. |
| formats | Correspondence Writings Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1892-1909. | repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Comprises items from Charles C. Abbott (1892-1893) regarding his fieldwork with H. C. Mercer collecting artifacts of the Delaware Indians. Also includes items from H. V. Hilprecht (1894-1906) and treasurer John Sparhawk (1898-1902) regarding excavations of cuneiform tablets in Nippur and Lea’s contributions to the Babylonian Exploration Fund. One item from G. B. Gordon (1809) requests funding for an exhibition of North American Indian artifacts loaned by George G. Heye. Contained in: Henry Charles Lea Papers, ca. 1830-1935. Folder 1260. Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 111 |
| extent | 21 items (24 leaves). |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | None |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu |
| acquisition information | Henry Charles Lea willed his library and manuscripts to the University of Pennsylvania. Some items are a gift of his son, Arthur H. Lea, and daughter, Nina Lea, with additional correspondence and scrapbooks donated by Henry Lea Hudson, H. C. Lea's great-grandson. A few items have been acquired through purchases. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1894-1895. | repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Folder 269, -The items are primarily written by Mercer in his capacity as curator of American and prehistoric archeology at the University of Pennsylvania museum. |
| extent | 7 items (17 leaves) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| acquisition information | Found In, Daniel Garrison Brinton Papers |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Jacob Frank Papers, 1860-1963 (MSC 319) | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Photograph album of products of Decatur Cement Co., Doylestown, Pa., and an album of construction and tiles at Fonthill (1910), Mexico and other places, and events. Photographs of Fonthill including construction, workers, Mercer's dog statue, landscape, and tiles (ca. 1910-1941); photographs of fireplaces with Mercer tiles (ca. 1950-1954); and photographs of Mercer "trades" tiles (1910). Also includes Fonthill notebook of measurements with photographs of clay models and chronologies of Fonthill and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (undated); family papers including poetry and lecture notebooks and scrapbook of Celia Myers (1890-1918) which contains a lecture by Henry Mercer; annual report of the National Farm School, Doylestown, Pa. (1924); Doylestown High School programs (1924-1932) and yearbooks (1924, 1926, 1927, 1934); diploma of Ann Gilmer (1926) and her autograph book (1923); marriage certificate (1907); family photograph album (ca. 1860-1890) with family record; family photographs (ca. 1880-1915); and miscellaneous recipes, postcards, photos, and news clippings (ca. 1899-1963). |
| extent | 2 linear ft. |
| formats | Photographs Photograph Album |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Index, [undated]. | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Index to a collection of bound volumes of anthropological pamphlets. |
| extent | 1 item |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1824-1975. | repository | Bucks County Historical Society |
| description | Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Bucks County, Pa., including account book of a store in Warwick Township (1824); Doylestown autograph books of Ann Bayard (1834-1836); Mary S. Paxson's recipe book (1890); Watson family photographs (180-1911); family records, genealogies, notes, and data; LaRue marriage certificate (1880); listing of Henry Mercer's slide collection; draft for a history of Wrightstown by Hazel Gover (1975); and lists of tombstone inscriptions for Addisville Reformed Church, Richboro, and North and Southampton Reformed Church, Churchville (ca. 1946). |
| extent | 5 in. |
| formats | Financial Records Ephemera Printed Materials Photogravures Notes |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Inventoried. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Artist file: Mercer, Henry Chapman; miscellaneous uncataloged material. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | The folder may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral material. Locattion MoMA Queens Artist Files Call Number Mercer, Henry Chapman |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991011927449707141 |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:50 |
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| title | Edwin Atlee Barber Records, 1901-1916 | repository | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| description | Barber's correspondence is arranged in two alphabets, 1901 to 1911 and 1912 to 1916. Some Barber correspondence with Museum people was kept separately. Extensive correspondence with John T. Morris, Board of Trustees Vice President and a collector; John Story Jenks, also a collector and a Vice President of the Board; Leslie W. Miller, Principal of the School; and James L. Allan, Assistant Treasurer make up a series. |
| extent | 19 linear feet |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | The collection is open for research |
| record link | http://www.philamuseum.org/pma_archives/ead.php?c=BAR&p=cs |
| record source | http://www.philamuseum.org/archives/findingaids.html |
| finding aid | Available online |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:15 |
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