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Collection: Blanche Nevin Papers

Title: Blanche Nevin Papers

Object ID: MG0730

Date Range: 1850s-1920s

: Artists China Contracts Correspondence Essays Finding aids Japan Letters Manuscript groups Pets Poetry Sculptors Travel Related Materials at LancasterHistory: Leather portfolio (2014.020) Blanche Nevin Collection (MG0039) See also the Photograph, Library, and Curatorial Collections Archival History

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Collection: Blanche Nevin Papers

Title: Blanche Nevin Papers

Description: The Blanche Nevin Papers include manuscripts of Blanche Nevin's prose and poetry, the 1878 contract for her statue of Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, letters, essays, biographies, and articles about her travels.

Date Range: 1850s-1920s

Year Range From: 1850

Year Range To: 1920

Date of Accumulation: [1850s-1920s]

Creator: Nevin, Blanche, 1841-1925

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Buchanan, James; Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel; Nevin, Blanche

Other Creators: Nevin family

Subjects: Essays; Letters; Pets; Poetry; Travel

Search Terms: Artists; China; Contracts; Correspondence; Essays; Finding aids; Japan; Letters; Manuscript groups; Pets; Poetry; Sculptors; Travel

Extent: 1 box, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0730

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Leather portfolio (2014.020); Blanche Nevin Collection (MG0039); See also the Photograph, Library, and Curatorial Collections

Notes: The collection has not been fully processed-please see the inventory below.; Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-730

Classification: MG0730

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Inventory prepared by donor, 2014. Added to database 26 December 2023.

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The Chinese bead and the romance of the bead-jewelry trail

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Author: Fenstermaker, G. B.

Date of Publication: c1979.

Call Number: 739.27 F341

Responsibility: by G.B. Fenstermaker, Alice T. Williams.

Author: Fenstermaker, G. B.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: G.B. Fenstermaker,

Date of Publication: c1979.

Physical Description: iv, 51 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "Translation of cover characters: "For wisdom is better than rubies"."--Verso of t.p.; Bibliography: p. 48.

Subjects: Beadwork.; Jewelry - China.; Jewelry making.

Additional Author: Williams, Alice T.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 739.27 F341

Chinese export porcelain : standard patterns and forms, 1780 to 1880

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Author: Schiffer, Herbert F.,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 738 S333

Responsibility: Herbert, Peter, and Nancy Schiffer.

Author: Schiffer, Herbert F.,

Place of Publication: Exton, Pa

Publisher: Schiffer Pub.,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: 255, [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. [256]

Summary: Chinese Export Porcelain, Standard Patterns and Forms contains over1000 items illustrated in black and white and 49 color plates. This book tells the story of the exciting and dangerous "China Trade." The principal purpose of this book is to show and discuss the many forms and variations that have made this field so fascinating. The text is simple and factual and explodes many cherished myths and fantasies about these wares. The pictures and captions tell the story.[from the publisher]

Subjects: China trade porcelain.; Porcelain, Chinese

Additional Author: Schiffer, Peter Berwind,; Schiffer, Nancy,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 738 S333

Grandmother's old blue historical china and its makers

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Author: Daugherty, G. Earl.

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 9

Responsibility: by G. Earl Daugherty.

Author: Daugherty, G. Earl.

Physical Description: p.[270] -287.: ill. , 24 cm.

Series: Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses v. IX, no. 8.

Subjects: China trade porcelain; Porcelain, Chinese

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 9

Letter

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Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Letter from Dr. Jenkins to William B. Fordney

Object ID: MG0240_Ser02_F011_In02

Date Range: 1851/11/05

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Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Letter from Dr. Jenkins to William B. Fordney

Description: Transcription of letter from Dr. Jenkins to William B. Fordney regarding the British (British East India Company, China, the opium trade, enslaved persons from India, trade and business practices, collieries, mines, destitution, morals, education) and slavery in the United States.

Date Range: 1851/11/05

Creation Date: 5 November 1851

Creator: Lancaster Intelligencer (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Fordney, William Bush; Jenkins, John Carmichael

Other Creators: Jenkins, John Carmichael, 1809-1855

Subjects: African Americans--History; East India Company; Letters; Opium trade; Slavery

Search Terms: China; Correspondence; East India Company; Enslaved persons; India; Lancaster Intelligencer; Letters; Opium trade; Slavery

Extent: 1 item, 15 pages to scan

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Object ID: MG0240_Ser02_F011_In02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Letters written by Dr. John Carmichael Jenkins which address the subject of slavery (MG0240_Ser02_F011_In01; MG0240_Ser02_F011_In03); Black History Collection (MG0240) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2b3d42c6-a313-4ebc-966f-516114048136

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Other Numbers: MG-240, Series 2

Other Number: MG-240, Series 2, Folder 11, Insert 2

Classification: MG0240

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Transferred from Document Collection, Case 5, July 2007. Added to database on 28 March 2022.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.