Description: Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer collection

Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer collection

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Main Author:	Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson 1868-1936 (Creator)
Collection:	Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer Collection
Collection Number:	0460
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects and Genres:	Censorship > Motion Pictures > Early 20th Century Commemorative Celebrations > Philadelphia. Historians > Early 20th Century Historical Pageants > Independence Hall
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Physical Description:	21.0 Linear feet 43 boxes
Summary:	Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Philadelphia historian, include material on: the thrift movement, establishment of school savings banks and thrift savings banks in the United States, 1886-1928; Historical Pageants of Philadelphia, 1908 and 1912, data on their organization, administration, finance, and executive committee meetings, with water color drawings of costumes and pageantry, posters, names of subscribers and of members, souvenirs; Indian Welfare in Oklahoma; Civil War; abolition of slavery; Temperance Union; Valley Forge Commission; education; motion picture censorship; League for Better Moving Pictures; Sesqui-Centennial Exposition. A portion of correspondence relates to publications, essays, lectures, and biographies of Robert Morris, Jay Cooke, Salmon P. Chase, Charles B. Brown, and others; included in this group of papers are Sarah Louisa Oberholtzer's letters, poems and essays. Papers of an earlier period include: deeds of grants of land in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, 1735-1809; inventory of the estate of Thomas Potts, 1762; Uwchlan Society of Friends, notes and minutes of meetings, 1806; John and Paxson Vicker correspondence, 1823-1844; papers relating to the Pickering Valley Railroad, 1869-1870; and other items of social and political character.

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21.0 Linear feet 43 boxes

Summary:

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Philadelphia historian, include material on: the thrift movement, establishment of school savings banks and thrift savings banks in the United States, 1886-1928; Historical Pageants of Philadelphia, 1908 and 1912, data on their organization, administration, finance, and executive committee meetings, with water color drawings of costumes and pageantry, posters, names of subscribers and of members, souvenirs; Indian Welfare in Oklahoma; Civil War; abolition of slavery; Temperance Union; Valley Forge Commission; education; motion picture censorship; League for Better Moving Pictures; Sesqui-Centennial Exposition. A portion of correspondence relates to publications, essays, lectures, and biographies of Robert Morris, Jay Cooke, Salmon P. Chase, Charles B. Brown, and others; included in this group of papers are Sarah Louisa Oberholtzer's letters, poems and essays. Papers of an earlier period include: deeds of grants of land in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, 1735-1809; inventory of the estate of Thomas Potts, 1762; Uwchlan Society of Friends, notes and minutes of meetings, 1806; John and Paxson Vicker correspondence, 1823-1844; papers relating to the Pickering Valley Railroad, 1869-1870; and other items of social and political character.

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