Philadelphia (Pa.) – Social life and customs.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Clark Taylor Journal and Extracts
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0296
Abstract
A journal kept by Alexander Clark Taylor, a primary school teacher from Vineland, New Jersey, contains his recollections of antebellum life on a Virginia plantation.
Dates:
1843-1846
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Frank E. Ellwanger Commonplace Book 1906-1914
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0169
Abstract
An early 20th Century scrapbook containing miscellaneous household tidbits of knowledge, medical remedies, scientific
inventions and mechanical observations compiled by Frank Ellwanger, a citizen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Personal observations and notations as well
as articles clipped from newspapers, magazines and brochures are included. With its various recipes for making home remedies and references to do-it-yourself solutions, the volume compares to a receipt book or commonplace...
Dates:
1906-1914
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections