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100 1 _aCarson, Marian S.,
_ecollector.
245 0 0 _aMarian S. Carson collection of manuscripts
_b(primary record),
_f1656-1995
_g(bulk 1700-1876)
300 _a14,250
_fitems.
300 _a57
_fcontainers plus 27
_foversize.
300 _a26.4
_flinear feet.
351 _aThe collection retains much of Carson's original organization and is arranged in 12 series. Series 1: Fine Arts and Literature, 1697-1992; Series 2: Practical Arts, 1700-1994; Series 3: Entertainment, 1802-1991; Series 4: Printed Matter, 1725-1995; Series 5: Social History, 1656-1992; Series 6: Biography, 1681-1979; Series 7: State and Local History, 1682-1990; Series 8: Political History, 1755-1988; Series 9: Historical Letters and Manuscripts, 1747-1934; Series 10: General Correspondence, 1794-1933; Series 11: Carson Family Papers, 1882-1994; and Series 12: Oversize, 1682-1902.
500 _aPrimary record for Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts.
500 _aContinuation record mm2009085506 consists of the geographic subject headings represented in the collection.
500 _aContinuation record mm2009084367 consists of the individuals, families, institutions, and organizations represented in the collection.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, family papers, journals, political documents, legal and financial records, military records, broadsides, ephemera, and other papers relating to American military, political, and social history. Documents the founding of the nation, shaping of the national government and judicial system, American endeavors in the arts, commerce, education, finance, industry, law, literature, medicine, religion, science, and technology, and daily life in early America. The focus of the collection is Philadelphia, Pa.
520 8 _aSubjects include African-American history, Native American history, women's history, British colonial history, geographic expansion, role of the Continental Congress, political partisanship, development and expansion of the U.S. Navy, French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, founding and early development of Pennsylvania, other state and local history, urban life in America, slavery, labor, communes, transportation, travel, telegraph, banking, currency, postal service, pony express, ships and shipping, booksellers, printers and printing, publishers and publishing, advertising, photography, textile industry, papermaking industry, decorative arts, fine arts, performing arts, domestic arts, food and cooking, wine making, liquor industry, tobacco, sports, holidays, circuses, fairs, expositions, the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, libel trial of Thomas Cooper, Fairmount Park, public institutions such as hospitals and schools, Quaker schools including a school for African-Americans, and the Free Quaker Meetinghouse in Philadelphia.
520 8 _aIndividuals represented include Joel Abbot, Alexander Addison, Robert Aitken, Chester Alan Arthur, John Ashmead, Benjamin Franklin Bache, Josiah Bartlett, Big-Tree, William Bingham, Joseph Bloomfield, William Bradford, James Bringhurst, Joseph Bringhurst, James Buchanan, Edward Burd, Charles Cadwalader, John Cadwalader, Archibald Carey, Mathew Carey, Charles Carroll, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Hornor Coates, Samuel Coates, William Cobbett, Cornplanter, Caleb Cresson, John Dickinson, James Duane, John Dunlap, Peter Evans, Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, Andrew H. Foote, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Gallatin, Stephen Girard, Half-Town, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Robert Hare, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Joseph Henry, J. William Hoffman, Francis Hopkinson, Eliza Hornor, Sarah Hornor, Isaac Howell, Charles Evans Hughes, Joshua Humphreys, Samuel Huntington, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Jenner, Rufus King, Henry Lee, Peter Legaux, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Marshall, Luther Martin, Timothy Matlack, John A. McAllister, James McHenry, Thomas Mifflin, James Monroe, Robert Morris, John Nicholson, George Ord, William Paterson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Charles Willson Peale, William Penn, Philip Syng Physick, Timothy Pickering, James K. Polk, Eli K. Price, William Rawle, George Read, Joseph Reed, Robert Riggs, David Rittenhouse, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Nellie Lincoln Rossiter, Benjamin Rush, William Rush, Thomas Say, Edward Shippen, William Shippen, Boyd M. Smith, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, Robert Stewart, William H. Taft, John Chew Thomas, Charles Thomson, Edward Tilghman, John Todd, Robert Troup, Martin Van Buren, Garret D. Wall, Richard Waln, Bushrod Washington, George Washington, Samuel Wetherill (1736-1816), Samuel Wetherill (1764-1829), William White, James Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Caspar Wistar, William Wallis Woodward, and Jasper Yeates.
520 8 _aFamilies represented include the Bennett, Biddle (Bedell), Bloomfield, Booth, Bradford, Carson, Clayton, Coates, Cresson (Creason), Doan, Hornor (Horner), McAllister, Peale, Penn, Rittenhouse, Stacey (Stacy), Waln, Wetherill, and Yarnell families.
520 8 _aInstitutions and organizations represented include the American Philosophical Society, Asylum Company, Library Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania Hospital, Overseers of the Poor, Society of Free Quakers, State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, United Company of Philadelphia for Promoting American Manufactures, and United States Sanitary Commission.
544 _3Some books, broadsides, pamphlets, and printed ephemera
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
544 _3Maps
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Geography and Map Division.
544 _3Music manuscripts and printed musical scores
_atransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Music Division.
544 _3Some prints and photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aCollector. Full name: Marian Sadtler Carson.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003008
580 _aForms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).
650 0 _aAdvertising
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xEducation.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAmerican literature.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aArt
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aArts
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aArts
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBanks and banking
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBooksellers and bookselling
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCircus
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCity and town life
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCommunal living
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCooking
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCourts
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aDecorative arts
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEducation
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aEducation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aExhibitions
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aFairs
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aFinance
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aFinance
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHolidays
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHospitals
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aIndians of North America
_xHistory.
650 0 _aIndustries
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aIndustries
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aJudicial power
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLabor
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLaw
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aLaw
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLiquor industry
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLocal history
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMedicine
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aMedicine
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMoney
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPaper industry
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aParks
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aPerforming arts
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPhotography
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPolitical parties
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPony express.
650 0 _aPostal service
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPrinters
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPrinting
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPublishers and publishing
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aQuaker church buildings
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aQuakers
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aSchools
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aSchools
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aScience
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aScience
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aShipping
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aShips
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSocial history.
650 0 _aSports
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTechnology
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aTechnology
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTelegraph
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTextile industry
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTobacco
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTransportation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTrials (Seditious libel)
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aU.S. states
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWine and wine making
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWomen
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
656 7 _aCollectors.
_2itoamc
710 2 _aMarian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003008
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003008.3
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