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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Partridge, Bellamy, 1877-1960.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
American author and popular historian. Collection includes books, printed material, correspondence, one audiocassette.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Books.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Historians.
Historians
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors -- United States.
Historians -- United States.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Putnam, Brenda, 1890-1975.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Collection contains six original pen and ink illustrations by American sculptor Brenda Putnam, done for an edition of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress adapted for children by Edgar White Burrill.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Subject:
Artists.
Sculptors.
Art -- Illustrators
Art -- Sculptors
Allegories -- Pictorial works.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Powell, Edward Payson, 1833-1915.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Sixty lectures and one sermon by American journalist and author E. P. Powell, and some advertising material for two of his books.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Lectures.
Sermons.
Subject:
Utica (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Authors.
Religion and philosophy
Lectures and lecturing -- United States -- 19th century.
Philosophy and religion -- 19th century.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Patri, Giacomo, 1898-1978.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Wood engraving by the Italian-American artist and illustrator; subject matter is World War II soldiers on battlefield in North Africa.
Type of Material:
Engravings (prints)
Subject:
Artists.
Illustrators.
Art -- Illustrators
War in art.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
Wood-engravers -- United States.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pandya, A. J.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Papers of the Indian attorney, author, and political reformer
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Memorabilia.
Subject:
Kenya -- Politics and government.
Activism and social reform
Politics, government and public administration
East Indians -- Kenya.
Lawyers -- Africa.
Lawyers -- India.
Nationalism -- Africa.
Political activists -- Africa.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pemán, José María, 1897-1981.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Spanish author.
Type of Material:
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Journalists.
Dance and theatre
Authors, Spanish.
Journalists -- Spain.
Playwrights -- Spain.
Poets, Spanish.

Creator:
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Pulitzer prize-winning American author. Collection consists of a single large photograph of Porter, undated (circa 1955?).
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Journalism
Literature -- American Fiction
Women Authors
Authors, American -- 20th century.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Polymeric Systems
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Collection consists of 36 copy color and black and white photographs of a manufacturing facility; and five 7" plastic sound discs manufactured with polystyrene by Richardson Company Polymeric Systems Division. The use of polystyrene was purported to eliminate surface noise from the discs.
Type of Material:
78 rpm records.
Photographs.
Subject:
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Polystyrene.
Plastics plants.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Phillips, Wilbur C., 1880-
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Book ms. for Adventuring for Democracy, published by the Social Unit Press, New York, 1940.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Adventuring for democracy.
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Activism and social reform
Authors, American.
Community life.
Social service -- United States.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pease, Barzillai, 1773-
Inclusive Dates:
1789-1826
Abstract:
American seaman, pilot, ship's captain. Journals combining ship's logs and personal diaries concerning Pease's career as a merchant seaman and tenure as Commander of United States Transports on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Ships' logs.
Subject:
United States -- History -- War of 1812.
United States -- History -- Naval, To 1900.
Seamen.
Ship captains.
Military history
New York State
Merchant marine -- Officers.
Merchant mariners.
Navigation -- History.
Pilots and pilotage.
Sealing.
Sailors -- United States.
Ship captains -- United States.
Shipwrecks -- Archival resources.
Whaling -- Archival resources.

Creator:
Phelps, Oliver, 1749-1809.
Inclusive Dates:
1789-1807
Abstract:
Account books and papers relating to the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in the Genesee Valley area of New York and Pennsylvania.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Correspondence.
Deeds.
Subject:
Genesee River Region (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History.
Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History.
Business and Industry
New York State
Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
Land tenure -- New York (State)
Land titles -- New York (State)
Phelps and Gorham purchase.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Plummer, Charles Henry.
Inclusive Dates:
1790-1893
Abstract:
Papers and correspondence of the clergyman and temperance reformer.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History.
Clergy.
Activism and social reform
Church and clergy
Religion and philosophy
Temperance and religion -- Societies, etc.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Peck, George,1797-1876.
Inclusive Dates:
1793-1878
Abstract:
Papers of the American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, author, and President of Cazenovia Seminary, a Methodist-supported school in Madison County, New York. Collection includes correspondence (1793-1878); financial records (1823-1876); an autbiographical essay; diaries (1852-1875); notebooks (1856-1868); sermons; and personal memorabilia, including clippings, financial records, and photographs.
Type of Material:
Autobiographies (literary works)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Financial records.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Sermons.
Subject:
Authors.
Clergy.
Educators.
Church and clergy
New York State
Clergy -- United States.
Clergy as authors.
Educators -- United States.
Methodists -- United States.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pike, James, 1777-1842.
Inclusive Dates:
1793-1842
Abstract:
Papers of the American educator, author. James Pike was a New England school teacher and compiler of textbooks. He wrote The Columbian Orthographer (1806) and The Little Reader (1814). Collection includes correspondence (1805-09); diaries (1793-1811); legal papers (1809-1849); school and teaching records (1798-1807); and an undated draft of a constitution for a 'School for Young Ladies.'
Type of Material:
Commonplace books.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Subject:
Authors.
Educators.
Book industries and trade -- New England.
Commonplace-books.
Education -- Women.
Educators -- Diaries.
Educators -- United States.
English language -- Orthography and spelling.
Latin language -- Study and teaching.
Publishers and publishing -- New England.

15.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Porter, David D. (David Dixon), 1813-1891.
Inclusive Dates:
1806-1890
Abstract:
Papers of the American naval officer. Correspondence (1806-1890), 35 outgoing letters, and a number of third party letters which illuninate Porter's promotion of the use of the Fowler Wheel as a propulsion system on torpedo boats. Also, an engraved portrait of Porter, and one of his father, David Porter (1780-1843).
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
United States -- History, Naval -- To 1900.
Admirals.
Military history
Civil War (U.S.)
Admirals -- United States.
Propellers.

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pratt family
Inclusive Dates:
1821-1868
Abstract:
Papers of three members of a New York State family: Jonathan Pratt of Rushville, New York; his son, Dr. Jonathan Pratt, Jr.; Dr. Pratt's son Andrew Smith Pratt. Dr. Pratt resided in Hopewell, New York. Letters comment on issues of the period from 1821 to 1868 and family news about friends and relatives.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Diaries.
Letters (correspondence)
Speeches (documents)
Travel diaries.
Subject:
Rushville (N.Y.) -- History.
Hopewell Junction (N.Y.) -- History.
Physicians.
Farmers.
New York State
New York (State) -- Social life and customs.
Physicians -- New York (State)

17.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860.
Inclusive Dates:
1827-1843
Abstract:
Approximately 45 letters to and from the American author and Secretary of the Navy.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York (State) -- History.
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
American literature -- New York (State)

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pierce, Thomas, fl. 1835.
Inclusive Dates:
1827-1835
Abstract:
Account book for hardware dealer.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Subject:
Merchants.
Business and Industry
Hardware industry -- United States -- history.
Hardware stores.

19.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Phillips, Lucy, fl. 1828.
Inclusive Dates:
1828-1828
Abstract:
Handwritten book of (original?) poems.
Type of Material:
Booklets.
Subject:
Literature -- American Poetry
Women Authors
American poetry -- 19th century.

Creator:
Producers' Exchange of Labour for Labour Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Inclusive Dates:
1828-1828
Abstract:
Broadside advertising several items offered at the Philadelphia Labour for Labour Store
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Broadsides.
Subject:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Activism and social reform
Religion and philosophy
Anarchism -- United States.
Anti-globalization movement.
Cooperative societies -- United States.