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Archives related to: Hosack, David, 1769-1835
| title | David Hosack collection, 1793-1916 (bulk 1818-1850) | repository | Princeton University |
| description | David Hosack was a physician, botanist, educator, and member of Princeton University class of 1789. The collection contains some of the Hosack family correspondence, deeds, indentures, wills, and other assorted family papers. In particular, some of the papers concern the land in Luzerne County. Location: Rare Books: Manuscripts Collection (MSS) Call number: C0687 Storage note: This collection is stored onsite at Firestone Library. |
| extent | 0.45 cu. ft. (1 box) |
| formats | Correspondence Legal Papers Financial Records Ephemera |
| access | Collection is open for research use. |
| record link | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dv13zt222 |
| record source | http://catalog.princeton.edu |
| finding aid | Online and in repository |
| acquisition information | This collection was processed in 1995. Finding aid written in 1995. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:03 |
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| title | David Hosack Papers, 1801-1827, New York, New York. | repository | Duke University Library |
| description | Document, signed, attests that he has declared all goods on entering the Port of New York; ANS names someone to enter with the duty collector any parcels addressed to him from Europe. Biographical and Historical Note Physician, botanist and mineralogist of New York. Call Number (Location): c.1 (Hist Locked Stks Mss) |
| extent | 2 items. |
| formats | Holographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/recordid/DUKE002138429 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:07 |
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| title | Bard Collection, 1760-1820. | repository | The New York Academy of Medicine Library |
| description | Collection includes autograph letters, miscellaneous documents and printed materials by or about Samuel and John Bard, with genealogical charts of families related by marriage to their descendants. Bio/History: The Bards were an outstanding medical family of New York in their time and many items of local and national interest are evident in their letters. They were acquainted and corresponded with many of the professional and political figures of their day. Local Call No.: Mss.arc |
| extent | 1.0 linear foot. |
| formats | Correspondence Printed Materials Ephemera |
| access | Available for limited consultation with permission of the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts |
| record source | http://catalog.nyam.org |
| finding aid | Card catalog. |
| acquisition information | The letters between Samuel Bard and his son John Bard were a Gift of the Friends of the Rare Book Room. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:07 |
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| title | Selected art related letters from Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Society Collection, 1760-1935. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, mainly from artists, and documents selected from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's miscellaneous manuscript collection (Society Collection). Letters are to various people; 46 of them are to Townsend Ward and a few are to John A. McAllister, photographer. Many of the letters refer to paintings, portraits, commissions, and awards. Writers of letters include: Edwin Austin Abbey, Mary Gertrude Abbey, F.W. Bayley, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Joseph Ceracchi, John Gadsby Chapman, John Cheney, James Claypool, James Cox, F.O.C. Darley, Joseph Delaplaine, Humphrey Donnehue, William Dunlap, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, S. Eliot, Charles Fevret De Saint-Memin, Charles Dana Gibson, Harold Edgar Gillingham, Horatio Greenough, George Harding, Levi Hollingsworth, William Morris Hunt, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Horatio Gates Jones, James Reid Lambdin, Will Hicok Low, Edward Dalton Marchant, William Henry Moody, John Neagle, Albert Newsam, Bass Otis, Thomas Paine, Charles Willson Peale, Franklin Peale, James Peale, Jr., Mary Jane Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale, Joseph Pennell, Clement Penrose, Robert Piggot, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Trost Richards, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Peter Frederick Rothermel, William Rush, John Sartain, Stephen Alonzo Schooff (to Townsend Ward), Russell Smith, Charles H. Stephens, Thomas Sully, Philip Syng, John Vanderlyn, N.P. Willis, Alexander Wilson and Patience Wright. Among the recipients of letters are Archibald Alexander, David S. Brown, William Belcher, Col. Brodhead, B. Burrell, Carey & Hart, Edward L. Carey, Henry C. Carey, Miss Clarke, Mr. Curren, Joseph Delaplaine, John Dickinson, Dr. Dickson, William Dillwyn, William Duane, James B. Elliott, Mrs. Langdon Elwyn, Mantle(?) Fielding, John W. Francis, Charles P. Hayes, David Hosack, Mr. Howell, Major William Jackson, Horatio Gates Jones, John W. Jordan, H.H. Kjmball, C.G. Leland, Joseph Leidy, J.B. Lippincott, George Livermore, James Madison, J. Hill Martin, John McAllister, James McMurtrie, James Monaghan, J. Murray, Albert Cook Myers, Rebecca and Isabella Nathans, John Neagle, C.S. Ogden, John Paca, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, David Rittenhouse, Albert Rosenthal, John Sartain, Jacob Schreiner, James Shrigley, James Ross Snowden, W.D. Snyder, Dr. Sommerville, J.C. Stanbridge, F.D. Stone, Henry Troth, Mr. Vaux, Townsend Ward, William Hill Wells, G.M. Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Henry J. Williams, and Samuel B. Wylie. Other items include a sonnet of S.T. Coleridge by Washington Allston; business card of Pennel Beale; catalog of medals and coins of silver in the possession of Hon. John Smith compiled by Du Simitière, 1772; printed address by Mrs. John C. Montgomery soliciting donations for the repair of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, destroyed by fire, 1845; William Morris Hunt's admission ticket to Peale's Museum, 1836, stating his height and weight; description of objects on display at the Peale Museum, 1820; a photograph and business card of Benjamin Randolph; invitations and notes to Gilbert Stuart; typescript by Frank H. Taylor on lithography, 1923; subscription book for engravings of paintings by John Trumbull; and a page from John Archibald Woodside's daybook, 1802-1803. |
| extent | ca. 150 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels) reels P23 (fr. 513-705) & P24 (fr. 1-3) |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/selected-art-related-letters-historical-society-pennsylvanias-society-collection-10935 |
| finding aid | Microfilm inventory available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955. Location of Original: Originals in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Society Collection. |
| updated | 06/09/2023 15:39:53 |
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| title | Robert B. Haines III collection, 1793-1834. | repository | Haverford College |
| description | Collection consists almost entirely of autograph letters, signed, mostly addressed to Reuben Haines, 1793-1834, about one-third addressed to him personally, the other two-thirds addressed to him as Corresponding Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The writers of the latter were prominent scientists, scholars, and statesmen from all over the world, notably, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1803-1857, Joseph Bonaparte, 1768-1844, John James Audubon, 1785-1851, Thomas Say, 1787-1834, DeWitt Clinton, 1769-1828, Robert Smith, 1757-1842, Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Sir William Hooker, 1785-1865, Jacques Gerard Milbert, 1766-1840, Jules Germain Cloquet,1790-1883, Gaspar, Count Sternberg, of Bohemia, and many others. Collection also contains a few letters addressed to Caspar Wistar Haines, one from Rebecca Jones, 1739-1818, discussing yellow fever in Philadelphia, one from Morris Birkbeck, 1764-1825, and others. Ms. Coll.1011 |
| extent | 359 items. 2 boxes |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/aids/rbhaines/#summary |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:07 |
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| title | David Hosack correspondence, 1804-1891 | repository | American Philosophical Society |
| description | This is a collection of autograph letters, principally to Hosack, but also between other correspondents. Reproduction: Microfilm. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American Philosophical Society,1957, 1 microfilm reel./ Bio/History: David Hosack was a New York physician and horticulturist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1810. General Info: Original or duplicate materials: Originals in:/ Possession of John Hampton Barnes, Jr. Mss.Film.842 |
| extent | 1 microfilm reel. |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.amphilsoc.org/library |
| finding aid | Table of contents (1 p.) available in the repository and on the repository's Web site. |
| acquisition information | Acquired from John Hampton Barnes, Jr., 1957. Location of originals: Originals in possession of John Hampton Barnes, Jr. |
| updated | 08/25/2017 14:24:39 |
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| title | Letters and papers, 1795-1835. | repository | American Philosophical Society |
| description | These letters and papers include a memorandum book (1795-1827), lectures on botany and medicine, genealogical materials, committee reports from Columbia College, speeches, minutes of the New York Horticultural Society (1822-1828), letters to Sir James Edward Smith (1817-1826), a receipt book of Alexander Hosack (1781-1801), and diaries of Thomas K. Wharton (1830-1862). Bio/History: David Hosack was a New York physician and horticulturist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1810. Call #: Mss.Film.881-.7 & |
| extent | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) |
| formats | Microfilm |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.amphilsoc.org/library |
| finding aid | Table of contents (7 p.) available in the repository. |
| acquisition information | Originals in: Columbia University Library, Linnean Society of London, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Botanical Garden, New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Rutgers University Library, University of Pennsylvania Library, and Yale University Library. |
| updated | 08/25/2017 14:24:39 |
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