Penn Special Collections-PSPA Register 7

Detailed Description of the Collection

I. Records, 18th and 19th Century

A. Correspondence.

10 boxes.

Letters to and from P.S.P.A.

Container	Container	Contents
		1. General correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and then chronologically.
1	1-71		Agricultural-Hersey
2	72-124		Hiltzheimer-Moore
3	125-166		Morgan - Preston
4	167-225		Price - Wharton
5	226-241		Wilder - Young
6	242		unidentified
		2. Anonymous Correspondence arranged alphabetically by title or subject, and then chronologically.
6	243		Beehive, n.d.
6	244		Bibliotheque Britannique Agriculture, 1802
6	245-246		Crop Rotation, 1792-1796, n.d.
6	247		Flax Sample List, 1821
6	248		Flax Spinning, 1829
6	249		French Ray Grass, n.d.
6	250		Garten Stricklen, n.d.
6	251		Peas, 1787
6	252		Seeds from Holland, 1792
6	253		Soil preparation for Wheat, 1785
6	254		Veterinary Medicine, dissection of a colt, 1822
6	255		Wheat from Tuscany, Italy, 1820
6	256		Wheat Fly, n.d.
6	257		Wine making, 1792
		3. Oversize letters filed alphabetically by correspondent.
7	258-301		Abbot - Dey
8	302-339		Earl - Livingston
9	340-355		Michigan - Webb
		4. Communications represents a bound volume of manuscript transcriptions of letters to and from P.S.P.A., compiled by John Beale Bordley.
10			"John Beale Bordley's Folio, " Transcripts of correspondence with the Society, 1785-1789 with index (1 bound volume)

B. Administrative Records

Container	Container	Contents
		1. Minutes. 8 boxes. Meeting Minutes, with bound volumes arranged chronologically, followed by loose papers, also chronological; Committee Minutes, alphabetical by committee, and then chronologically.
			Meeting Minutes, bound volumes
11				1785-1810
12				1805-1838
13				1810-1823
14				1810-1823 (index)
15				1824-1846
16	356-365			Meeting minutes, loose papers, 1785-1864, n.d.
			Committee Minutes (arranged alphabetically by committee)
17	366-371			Committee of Arrangements for Agricultural Exhibition, 1822-1852
17	372			Committee on Agricultural Implements, 1845-1849 (also bound volume in box 18)
17	373			Committee on Peter A. Brown's Inventions, 1849
17	374			Committee on Butter and Poultry, 1845
17	375-377			Committee on Cattle, 1845-1849
17	378-382			Committee on Crops, 1844-1849
				Committee on Early History of the Society, 1829 See Oversize, Box 26
17	383			Committee on Flax Machine, 1822
17	384			Committee on Horses, 1845-1849
17	385			Committee on Hunting and Destroying Birds, 1844
17	386			Committee on John Scott Legacy, 1829-1830
17	387			Committee on Leasing a Farm, 1786
17	388			Committee on Moving, 1812
17	389			Committee on Pennsylvania Act for Promoting Agriculture, 1820-1821
17	390			Committee on Plows and Plowing, 1845-1849
17	391-393			Committee on Premiums, 1790-1850
17	394			Committee on Reaping and Mowing, n.d.
17	395			Committee on Salary, 1848
17	396			Committee on Seeds, n.d.
17	397			Committee on Sheep and Swine, 1845-1847
17	398			Committee on Trespass by Gunners, 1841
17	399			Committee on Working Oxen, 1849
18				Committee on Agricultural Implements (1 bound volume)
				Committees, miscellaneous, 1829, 1844 See Oversize, Box 26
		2. Acts and Resolutions. 8 folders.
19	400-402		Resolutions, 1805-1823
19	403		Act of Incorporation, n.d.
19	404		Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, ca. 1860
19	405		Memorial to U.S. Congress, 1852
19	406		Elections, 1822-1844
19	407		Communications and Publications, 1802, 1825
		3. Library Records. 1 box and 6 folders. See also Oversize, Box 26
19	408-411		Library Acquisitions, 1806-1855
19	412		Library Resolutions and Report, 1845
19	413		Manuscript Collection, 1899
20			Bound volume
		4. Financial Records. 3 boxes.
21	414-423		Bills and Receipts, 1805-1892
21	424-431		Bills for Printing, copying, engraving, 1805-1852
21	432		Receipts for Memoirs, 1808, 1823
21	433-437		Treasurer's reports, 1809-1853
22-23			Cashbooks (2 bound volumes)
24		5. Pattern Farm 1818 (1 bound volume) See also Oversize, Box 26 notes regarding Pattern Farm project.

C. Ephemera.

2 boxes.

Medals, issues of the United States Gazette, misc. printed matter.

Container

Contents

1. Medals

2. Printed Material

D. Oversize.

16 folders.

Records filed alphabetically by title or subject, followed by miscellaneous oversize material, also alphabetical.

Container	Container	Contents
		1. Records
26	438-439		Committee on Early History of the Society, 1829
26	440		Committees, miscellaneous, 1829, 1844
26	441-442		Curator's reports, 1819, 1823
26	443		Election Report, 1821
26	444		Laws, n.d.
26	445-447		Library, 1816, 1818, 1829, 1843, n.d.
26	448		Pattern Farm Proposal, 1818
26	449		Property
		2. Miscellaneous
26	450		B--- A---
26	451		Cooking Stove (coal-burning), n.d.
26	452		Farmyard, Plan of, 1790
26	453		Horses, illness of, 1820
26	454		Thorn Hedges in England, 1789

View II. Records, 20th Century

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