Examples of Collection
Found on HSP's Online Collections and Exhibits website
Found using the HSP Manuscripts Card Catalog
Asia
Thomas P. Cope Shipping Papers
Ship: Asia. Williamson: Cmdr. 1809
A printed FINDING AIDis available behind the reference desk for the "Cope Family" (as in, Haverford's Cope Field) but it didn’t contain any reference to the ship Asia as mentioned in the Card File.
Canton, China
Letter from captains? October 15, 1805
Selma Clarke Smith Collection
William Jones Papers
“Letter of Ed. Carrington & Ultimatum of American ship captains at Canton, China to British and American agents announcing intention of resisting by force any further violation of the rights of American seamen at Canton.”
A handwritten FINDING AID is available behind reference desk, but is of limited use.
China
Sword Family.
Papers, 1750-1863. ca. 1000 items.
In Historical Society of Penn. Collections
“The Sword family was a merchant family of Philadelphia and New Castle, Deleware, who was prominent in the China trade. This collection contains mostly family letters, but there are a few personal journals and business papers…John Dorsey Sword was a supercargo to the West Indies, South America, and China. His wife, Mary Parry Sword accompanied hi to South America from 1837-1838, and to China from 1841 to 1845."
China Trade
Phila. 1838-1839
Journal of Sadwith Drinker
Drinker Papers. 2nd fl. Case 58
Journal found in collection 1934B: Drinker Family. Papers, 1777-1965 | Excerpts
Japan
Thomas Burnside Papers
Ambassador to Japan under Woodrow Wilson
No FINDING AID available – Just write down as much info as possible from the Card Catalogue
Japan
Edward Carey Gardiner Collection
Henry C. Carey Papers
Carey Section
FINDING AID currently under development. Planned Completion Date: 2009
Found using the Broadsides and Graphics Card Catalog
China
Gays’ China Palace – 1876
Campbell Collection v. 10 pg. 19
China
Chinese Museum, Interior of
Kennedy, David Johnson (1817-1898)
Watercolor – Interior of Chinese Museum
K:3 – 95.1
Japan
Brown, Eliphalet M. 1816-1886. Amer. Artist
Japanese Boat. [drawing was made during Com. Matthew Perry’s expedition to Japan]
From Rodgers Collection. Ba. 61. R 616
Japan
Japanese Bazaar, Centennial Exhibition of 1876
Kennedy, David Johnson (1817-1898)
Japanese Bazaar
Centennial Exhibition of 1876.
K: III – 125b
Found using the Guide to the Balch Collection at Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Rose Qiong Papers
1924-1973
MSS 127 [The Database says 132, although the finding aid says 127]
“Rose Quong was born ca. 1879 in Melbourne, Australia…She grew up in Australia…The backbone of Quong’s career in the United States was a series of one-woman shows, consisting of recitations, dramatic readings, and scenes from plays…
Rose Quong’s papers are of value to researchers examining the history of the theatre in the early twentieth century. Because she was an actress, the collection presents a carefully-constructed public self; this image is of interest to anyone looking at how Asians have presented themselves to mainstream American culture, and at how they have been portrayed in various forms of entertainment and the press”
FINDING AID is available behind the reference desk | Register of her Papers
Shigezo and Sonoko Iwata Papers
1942-1945
MSS 53
"Although Shigezo was married to an American citizen, when World War II began he came under suspicion as an “enemy alien.” In March 1942 he was taken by the FBI to Santa Fe, new Mexico where he was given a hearing and eventually moved to the Lordsburg (NM) Internment Camp…In over 100 letters which the Iwatas exchanged during their forced separation, the family’s day-to-day trials and accomplishments are well documented."
FINDING AID is available behind the reference desk | Register of their Papers | Excerpt
Edward F O’Day Papers
1919-1921
SC 26 [The box (and entry online) is titled Chambers, but the finding aid directs you to O’Day]
FINDING AID is available behind the reference desk | Register of the Papers | Excerpts
Found using PhillyResearch.net and OPAC
Yam Tong Hoh papers, 1917-1987.
MSS 126 / MSS 146
"Born in Fushan, China, Reverend Dr. Yam Tong Hoh received his education at Stanford University, San Anselmo Theological Seminary and Columbia University Teachers College. He returned to China to head the True Light Middle School. After World War II, he came to the United States to head the Chinese Community Center in Oakland, California, and to serve the Chinese Congregational Church in Berkeley. He was called to lead the Chinese Christian Church and Center of Philadelphia in 1954. Hoh was also active in the Chinese Benevolent Association of Philadelphia and Asian American Council of Greater Philadelphia. After his retirement from the ministry in 1967, he became first director of On Lok House, which provided subsidized housing for Asian elderly.
Unpublished FINDING AID available behind reference desk
Kobayashi (Sumiko and Susumu) Papers
MSS 71 / MSS 73
"Susumu Kobayashi was born in Hirata, Shamane-ken, Japan, and came to the United States in 1914 to join Yamato, a Japanese agricultural community near Palm Beach, Florida. He later worked as a florist and estate gardener in Chicago, and as a florist in San Leandro, California. He and his family were evacuated under Executive Order 9066 to Tanforan Assembly Center, and later to the Topaz, Utah, Relocation Center. When released from the camp, the family relocated first to Connecticut and then to the Philadelphia area, where Susumu operated a contract gardening business."
"Sumiko Kobayashi was born in Yamato, a Japanese agricultural community near Palm Beach, Florida, the daughter of Japanese immigrants. Her family was relocated from San Leandro, California under Executive Order 9066 and interned in the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Sumiko was allowed to leave the camp in order to attend college through the help of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, and graduated from Brothers College, Drew University in Madison, New Jersey in 1946. She has been active in many Japanese-American and Asian-American organizations and served as Redress Chair for Pennsylvania of the Japanese American Citizens’ League’s National Committee on Redress."
Unpublished FINDING AID available behind reference desk
Published Books
Though not the focus of this guide, HSP, like many other repositories, also contains a wide array of books. Examples include:
- Biography of Ambassador Anson Burlingame
- Memoirs of the late General Ward. “Re-printed from “Friend of China””
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794. (Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the first American consul at Canton.)
- Impressions of a Hasty Trip. [1884]. Wxp* 22.
- The China Trade;… Crossman, Carol L J 138367 C884