Belfield papers


Collection 3159

1697-1977
(106.0 Linear feet 235 boxes and 99 volumes)

Summary Information

Repository
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator
Blain, Daniel.
Creator
Logan family.
Creator
Starr family.
Creator
Wister family.
Title
Belfield papers
ID
3159
Date [inclusive]
1697-1977
Extent
106.0 Linear feet 235 boxes and 99 volumes
Author
Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza
Sponsor
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.
Language
English
Abstract
The Belfield papers include materials from families who lived in the Belfield mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania from 1826 until 1984; however, the papers span the years 1679 to 1977. Featured individuals include William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister, their son John Wister and his wife, Sarah Tyler Boas Wister, their granddaughter Sarah Logan Wister Starr and her husband, James Starr, and their great-granddaughter S. Logan Starr Blain and her husband, Dr. Daniel Blain. The collection also houses papers from related individuals in the Emlen, Fisher, Hall, Lindley, Logan, Meigs, Wister, and other families. This collection includes correspondence, financial records, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, pamphlets, periodicals, and other items. Topics that are particularly well documented in the Belfield papers include: Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania; Colonial Dames of America; the Sesquicentennial Exposition; stamp collecting; world travel during the Great Depression; twentieth-century psychiatry; nineteenth-century industry and legal practice; and the genealogy of the Logan, Fisher and Wister families.

Preferred Citation note

[Indicate cited item or series here], Belfield papers (Collection 3159), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Biographical/Historical note

William Logan Fisher (1781-1862) purchased "Belfield," a large house in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from painter Charles Wilson Peale in 1826. He gave the house to his oldest daughter, Sarah Logan Fisher (1806-1891) and her husband, William Wister (1803-1891). Belfield remained home to their descendants until 1984 when it was sold to La Salle University.

William Logan Fisher, son of Thomas (1741-1810) and Sarah Logan Fisher (1751-1796), was born in 1781. His great-grandparents were James Logan and Sarah Read Logan. He was raised at "Wakefield" in Germantown, Pennsylvania, not far from Belfield. When he was fourteen he travelled to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he was placed in the counting house of William Rotch, Jr. It was in New Bedford and through the Rotch family that William met his first wife, Mary Rodman (1781-1813). William and Mary married in 1802 and had two children, Thomas (1803-1861) and Sarah Logan (1806-1891), before returning to Wakefield in 1807. In 1810, they had their third child, Elizabeth (1810-1891), and in 1813, Mary died. Years later, William Logan Fisher married Sarah Lindley (1785-1865). They had three children together: Lindley (1818-1852), Charles William (1820-1857), and Mary Rodman (1822-1903).

William Logan Fisher was an industrialist and entrepreneur. In New Bedford, he owned several whaling vessels and, upon his return to Germantown, he established Wakefield Mills Manufacturing Company. At its peak, Wakefield Mills produced nearly all the hosiery and fine knit goods in the United States. It was just the first in a series of mills owned and operated by Fisher and his descendants. Together with William Wister, his daughter Sarah's husband, he also operated a calico print mill. In 1834, he established the Duncannon Iron Mill in Clark's Ferry, Pennsylvania with Charles Morgan.

Sarah Logan Fisher (1806-1891), William Logan Fisher's oldest daughter, and William Wister (1803-1881) were married in 1826. William Logan Fisher gave them the Belfield house as a wedding gift. Sarah and William Wister had six sons who lived to adulthood: William Rotch (1827-1911), John (1829-1900), Langhorne (1834-1891), Jones (1839-1917), Francis (1841-1905) and Rodman (1844-1913). The six brothers were raised at Belfield, receiving their earliest education at Germantown Academy. Though they all pursued different professional paths, all of the brothers were in some way affiliated with the various businesses established by their grandfather at Wakefield, Duncannon and other locations.

John Wister, Sarah and William Wister's second eldest son, was apprenticed at the Iron Works of Fisher & Morgan at Duncannon and worked for the company his entire adult life. Jones and Rodman Wister were both iron merchants in Philadelphia. Additionally, William Rotch, who was a lawyer by trade, John, Langhorne and Jones Wister established an iron furnace in Harrisburg, calling their joint business venture J & J Wister Company. Jones, Langhorne and Francis Wister also fought in the Civil War. Though business and war took some of the brothers away from Philadelphia and Germantown, all of them retained close ties to their childhood home. They were all members of the Germantown Cricket Club (Jones Wister was a charter member, in fact) and the Belfield Country Club, among others.

In 1890, John Wister and his family returned to Belfield from Harrisburg, where they were living, to take care of his mother, who died in 1891. Upon her death, John inherited the estate, and he and his family lived at Belfield until his death in 1900. In 1922 John's wife, Sarah Tyler Boas (born about 1833), a member of the prominent Harrisburg Boas family, died. She left the Belfield house to Sarah Logan Wister Starr (1873-1956), John and Sarah's second oldest daughter.

Sarah Logan Wister Starr was raised in Harrisburg and, later, at Belfield. Throughout her life, she was involved in a wide variety of organizations in Philadelphia and Germantown. Most notably, she served as president of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1921 to 1941. One of her many contributions to Women's Medical College was the establishment of the Wister Fund in 1953, which provided money to erect new buildings on the school's East Falls campus. Starr was the state vice chairman of the World War I era National League for Woman's Services, as well as the Germantown branch. In that capacity, she raised two million dollars for children in Belgium. She was also chairman of the Women's Committee of the Liberty Loan program for the Federal Reserve District, and in 1917 she led the first parade for the Liberty Loan campaign in which several hundred women marched from the Women's Club of Germantown to Germantown Academy. Starr also served as president of the Colonial Dames and of the Women's Permanent Emergency Association of Germantown. She was associate trustee of the Board of Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania and served as Chairman of the Germantown Branch of the Civic Club. Starr was a member of the Acorn Club, Print Club, Sedgley Club, Germantown Historical Society, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Society for the Preservation of Landmarks. She was heavily involved in preparations for the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926. She founded the Zoe Valley Library in Nova Scotia, where she summered as a child. Starr also wrote histories on her ancestral homes of Belfield and neighboring Stenton. With her cousins Frances and Anne, she published the magazine "The Sparrow." She was awarded honorary degrees from Ursinus College in 1933 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1941. She died in 1956.

In 1901, Sarah Logan Wister Starr married James Starr (1870-1937), a mining official. James graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891 and Towne Scientific School in 1892. He served in the Spanish American War. James was a collector of Chinese stamps and a specialist in Chinese Treaty Ports. Organizations which James was affiliated include: China Stamp Society, Chinese Philatelic Society in Shanghai, Board of Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania, Council of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Germantown Cricket Club, Zoological Society, and United Spanish American War Veterans.

While they lived at Belfield, the Starrs made significant changes and improvements to the house and grounds. They added electricity and telephone service via underground wires, water and rock gardens, and a rose garden. Aspects of the new garden decor were inspired by a trip to China the Starrs enjoyed in 1933. The Starrs were frequent travelers, embarking on several "Round the World Cruises" during the 1930s. In 1937, they accompanied Pennsylvania Governor George H. Earle to Sweden on the 300th anniversary of Swedish colonists coming to America.

Sarah and James' daughter, S. Logan Wister Starr (1903-1979), married Dr. Daniel Blain (1898-1981) in 1936. Blain, the son of Presbyterian foreign missionaries, was born in Kashing, China. He was a psychiatrist who received his M.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1929. During World War II he served in the U.S. Public Health Service, War Shipping Administration, and Veteran's Administration. He held high-ranking positions at many hospitals and mental health institutions, including the now-defunct Tratelja Farms, from the 1930s until his retirement in the 1963. Logan and Daniel Blain's son, Daniel Blain Jr., sold the Belfield property to La Salle University in 1984.

Bibliography:

Butler, James A. "Three Centuries on the South Campus." La Salle Local History web page (accessed online December 8, 2010: http://www.lasalle.edu/commun/history/articles/southcampus.htm).

Butler, James A. "Home Where 'The Mansion' Was." La Salle Local History web page (accessed online December 8, 2010: http://www.lasalle.edu/commun/history/articles/themansionweb.htm).

Butler, James A. "The Remarkable Wisters at Belfield." La Salle Local History web page (accessed online December 8, 2010: http://www.lasalle.edu/commun/history/articles/remarkablewisters.htm).

Dillan, Michelle. "William Logan Fisher." La Salle Local History web page (accessed online on December 8, 2010: http://www.lasalle.edu/commun/history/articles/wlf.htm).

DiLissio, Raymond. "John Wister: Active Iron Industrialist." La Salle Local History web page (accessed online on December 10, 2010: http://www.lasalle.edu/commun/history/articles/johnwister.htm).

Fisher, William Logan, and Nicholas B. Wainwright. "Memoir of William Logan Fisher (1781-1962) for His Grandchildren." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 9, no. 1 (Jan. 1975), 92-103 (accessed online on September 8, 2010: http://jstor.org/stable/20090923).

Jordan, John W., ed. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Philadelphia: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc., 1994, 2004 (accessed online via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=arAfWBsvO1gC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false).

Stanoch, Dave. "The Life of William Rotch Wister (1827-1911)." La Salle Local History web page (accessed online on December 10, 2010: http://www.lasalle.edu/commun/history/articles/wrwister.htm).

Thompson, Jeff. “Sarah Logan Wister Starr.” La Salle Local History web page (accessed online on December 10, 2010: http://www.lasalle.edu/commun/history/articles/starr.htm).

Wister, Jones. Jones Wister's Reminiscences. Philadelphia: Printed for private circulation by L.B. Lippincott Company, 1920 (accessed online via Google Books on December 20, 2010: http://books.google.com/books?id=LTtHAAAAIAAJ&dq=Jones%20Wister&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false).

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Scope and Contents note

The Belfield papers include materials from families who lived in the Belfield mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania from 1826 until 1984; however, the papers span the years 1679 to 1977. Featured individuals include William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister, their son, John Wister and his wife, Sarah Tyler Boas Wister, their granddaughter, Sarah Logan Wister Starr and her husband, James Starr, and their great-granddaughter, S. Logan Starr Blain and her husband, Dr. Daniel Blain. The collection also houses papers from related individuals in the Emlen, Fisher, Hall, Lindley, Logan, Meigs, Wister, and other families.

Collectively, the Belfield papers tell the story of several generations of a prominent family, offering glimpses into life in and around Philadelphia from the 1820s to the 1970s. As a result of the various family members' diverse professional and personal engagements, the collection contains materials on a wide range topics including Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Colonial Dames of America, the Sesquicentennial Exposition, stamp collecting, world travel during the 1930s, twentieth-century psychiatry, nineteenth-century industry and legal practice, and genealogy of the Logan, Fisher and Wister families.

Particularly well documented are the lives of Sarah Logan Wister Starr (1873-1956) and Dr. Daniel Blain (1898-1981). Starr's papers reflect her involvement in several organizations, especially as the president of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and the Colonial Dames of America. Blain was a practicing psychiatrist from the 1930s to the 1970s. Records available for research here offer general information about the practice of psychiatry during the mid-twentieth century.

This collection includes correspondence, financial records, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, pamphlets, periodicals, and other items. It is arranged into seven series, the first four representing the four couples who were the primary residents of Belfield from 1826 to the 1970s: "Series I. William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister, 1790-1895"; "Series II. John and Sarah Tyler Boas Wister, 1807-1934"; "Series III. James and Sarah Logan Wister Starr, 1767-1980"; and "Series IV. Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain, 1903-1975." The remaining series are: "Series V. Other family members and associates, 1862-1977"; "Series VI. Photographs, 1884-1977"; and "Series VII. Publications and ephemera, 1697-1972."

"Series I. William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister, 1790-1895" contains correspondence, diaries, and financial records. It is divided into three subseries: "William Wister, 1803-1891"; "Sarah Logan Fisher Wister, 1790-1893"; and "William and Sarah L. F. Wister, 1860-1895." The majority of the material is personal, but there is some documentation of William Wister's business ventures.

"Series II. John and Sarah Tyler Boas Wister, 1807-1934" contains business records, correspondence, financial records, and subject files. It is divided into three subseries: "John Wister, 1837-1927"; "Sarah Tyler Boas Wister, 1852-1934"; and "John and Sarah T. B. Wister, 1807-1927." The Wister family's company, Duncannon Iron, is represented somewhat in this series, but additional materials relating to family businesses may be found associated with the other Wister brothers in the "Other family members and associates" series.

"Series III. James and Sarah Logan Wister Starr, 1767-1980" contains correspondence, diaries, financial records, and subject files. It is divided into three subseries: "James Starr, 1767-1956"; "Sarah Logan Wister Starr, 1846-1980"; and "James and Sarah L. W. Starr, 1871-1940." In James Starr's papers, materials of special interest include correspondence about his stamp collecting, and documentation of his administration of family interests in multiple properties including the Fort Hunter mansion in Harrisburg (a family home of his mother-in-law, Sarah Tyler Boas Wister). Sarah Logan Wister Starr's subseries is the largest in this collection. Well-documented topics include Colonial Dames of America, World War I Liberty Loan drives, the Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926, and the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. There is a plethora of other subjects not as extensively covered, such as the 300th anniversary of Swedish colonies in America, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Germantown Hospital, Belfield mansion, Stenton mansion, and the Magna Charta Dames. James and Sarah Starr's joint papers include comprehensive documentation and ephemera from world cruises the couple enjoyed with their daughter Logan (S. Logan Starr Blain) in the 1930s.

"Series IV. Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain, 1903-1975" contains business records, correspondence, both personal and business-related, financial records both business and personal, and psychiatry-related subject files. It is divided into two subseries: "Subseries a. Dr. Daniel Blain, 1929-1972" and "Subseries b. S. Logan Starr Blain, 1903-1975." Most of Blain's records relate to his professional interests and membership in professional organizations; he also researched and published articles on Dr. Benjamin Rush. There is also a large collection of reprints of academic psychiatry articles. Patient files from Dr. Blain's practice and from Tratelja Farms Sanitarium, a mental health institution where Dr. Blain worked, are restricted. Much of the material in S. Logan Starr Blain's papers relate to her 1936 wedding and to her travels.

"Series V. Other family members and associates, 1862-1977" contains correspondence, business records, and financial records of the various extended family members. For a family tree showing relationships between some of the individuals in this collection, see [http://173.203.96.155/sites/173.203.96.155/files/docs/manuscripts/belfield_family_tree.pdf].The most heavily represented individuals are: George Emlen Jr. (b. 1843), brother-in-law and partner in the legal practice of James Starr Sr. (b. circa 1842); William Logan Fisher (1781-1862), father of Sarah Logan Fisher Wister; William Coleman Hall, whose relation to the family is unknown; Maria Dickinson Logan (1857-1939), great-great-granddaughter of William Logan; and Francis Wister (son of William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister; brother of John Wister). Maria Dickinson Logan (1857-1939) was a dedicated genealogist and family historian who collected papers of her ancestors; much of the Logan family material bears a stamp with her name. Due to her efforts, the Belfield papers includes a small amount of material from two of her great-grandfathers, Dr. George Logan (1753-1821) and John Dickinson (1732-1808), both of whom were significant early American statesman. There are also lightly annotated almanacs from Dr. George Logan's wife, the Quaker diarist Deborah Norris Logan; and a small amount of papers from Quaker minister Ruth Anna (Rutter) Lindley, mother-in-law of William Logan Fisher. Sarah Logan Wister Starr's sisters, Elizabeth Wister Wurtz (born about 1855) and Margaret Wister Meigs (born 1882), are represented in this series; additional correspondence between them and their sister may be found in her correspondence section.

The bulk of "Series VI. Photographs, 1884-1977" comes from Dr. Daniel Blain's papers, and includes portraits of psychiatric colleagues and photographs from conferences he attended. There are some identified photographs depicting family members and events; however, most of the remaining photographs are of unidentified individuals, groups, and scenery.

"Series VII. Publications and ephemera, 1697-1972" contains published and printed materials ranging from advertisements and pamphlets to magazines and paper dolls, international travel ephemera, and newspapers from Sweden, China, and other countries.

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Arrangement note

Series I. William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister

Subseries a. William Wister

Subseries b. Sarah Logan Fisher Wister

Subseries c. William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister

Series II. John and Sarah Tyler Boas Wister

Subseries a. John Wister

Subseries b. Sarah Tyler Boas Wister

Subseries c. John and Sarah T. B. Wister

Series III. James and Sarah Logan Wister Starr

Subseries a. James Starr

Subseries b. Sarah Logan Wister Starr

Subseries c. James and Sarah L.W. Starr

Series IV. Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain

Subseries a. Dr. Daniel Blain

Subseries b. S. Logan Starr Blain

Series V. Other family members and associates

Series VI. Photographs

Series VII. Publications and ephemera

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2011 May 10

1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Conditions Governing Access note

This collection is open for research use. Patient files in "Series IV. Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain" which are closed to researchers until 2030.

Conditions Governing Use note

Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Historical Society of Pennsylvania with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Gift of Daniel Blain Jr., 1984.

Processing Information note

The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.

This collection was minimally processed in 2009-2011, as part of an experimental project conducted under the auspices of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries to help eliminate processing backlog in Philadelphia repositories. A minimally processed collection is one processed at a less intensive rate than traditionally thought necessary to make a collection ready for use by researchers. When citing sources from this collection, researchers are advised to defer to folder titles provided in the finding aid rather than those provided on the physical folder.

Employing processing strategies outlined in Mark Greene's and Dennis Meissner's 2005 article, More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Processing Approaches to Deal With Late 20th-Century Collections, the project team tested the limits of minimal processing on collections of all types and ages, in 23 Philadelphia area repositories. A primary goal of the project, the team processed at an average rate of 2-3 hours per linear foot of records, a fraction of the time ordinarily reserved for the arrangement and description of collections. Among other time saving strategies, the project team did not extensively review the content of the collections, replace acidic folders or complete any preservation work.

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

La Salle University, Connelly Library: Starr family papers, 1889-1992, Call number F159.G3 S8.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Logan-Fisher-Fox family papers, collection 1960.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Colonial Dames of America.
  • Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Genre(s)

  • Business records.
  • Correspondence.
  • Diaries.
  • Ephemera.
  • Financial records.
  • Legal records.
  • Medical records.
  • Paper dolls.
  • Photographs.
  • Scrapbooks.

Personal Name(s)

  • Blain, Daniel.
  • Blain, S. Logan Starr, 1903-1979
  • Fisher, W.L., (William Logan), 1781-1862
  • Starr, James, 1870-1937
  • Starr, Sarah Logan Wister, 1873-1956
  • Wister, Sarah Logan Fisher, 1806-1891.
  • Wister, Sarah Tyler Boas, b. circa 1833
  • Wister, William, 1803-1881.

Subject(s)

  • Psychiatry.
  • Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • Stamp collecting.
  • Travel.

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Collection Inventory

Series I. William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister 1790-1895 

Subseries a. William Wister 1803-1891 

Box Folder

Correspondence 1830-1871 

1 1
Volume

Correspondence, letterbook 1824-1862 

1

Financial Records, Belfield accounts 1833-1839 

2
Box

Financial records, receipts 1803-1880 

1-3
Volume

Financial Records, check stubs 1833-1844 

3

Financial Records, check stubs 1846-1847 

4

Financial Records, invoices circa 1830-1835 

5

Financial Records, invoices 1835-1839 

6

Financial Records, invoices 1839-1843 

7

Financial Records, invoices 1843-1848 

8

Financial Records, receipt book 1824 

9

Financial Records, receipt book 1833-1877 

10

Financial Records, receipt book 1880-1891 

11

Wister and Fisher, account ledger 1820-1830 

12

Wister and Fisher, account ledger 1826-1837 

13

Wister and Fisher, account ledger 1830-1832 

14

Wister and Fisher, account ledger 1833-1849 

15

Wister and Fisher, cashbook 1826-1829 

16

Wister and Fisher, cashbook 1829-1834 

17

Wister and Fisher, daybook 1829-1831 

18

Wister and Fisher, receipt book 1843-1850 

19
Box Folder

Miscellaneous 

3 5

Subseries b. Sarah Logan Fisher Wister 1790-1893 

Volume

Address book circa 1883 

20
Box Folder

Childhood account 1891 

4 3

Correspondence 1820-1891 

3 6

Correspondence 1820-1891 

4 1-2
Volume

Correspondence, letterbook 1790-1841 

Scope and Contents note

This letterbook contains a list of Fisher family births, marriages and deaths, 1741-1875.

21

Correspondence, letterbook 1813-1882 

22

Correspondence, letterbook 1817-1856 

23

Correspondence, letterbook 1861-1872 

24

Correspondence, letterbook 1870-1893 

25

Diary 1850-1863 

26

Diary 1864-1865 

27

Diary 1875 

28

Diary 1876 

29

Financial records, household accounts 1861-1871 

30

Financial records, receipt book 1890-1891 

31

Recipes 1878 

32

Recipes undated 

33

Subseries c. William and Sarah L. F. Wister 1860-1895 

Box Folder

Correspondence 

4 4
Volume

Correspondence, letterbook and clippings 1860-1895 

34

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Series II. John and Sarah Tyler Boas Wister 1807-1934 

Subseries a. John Wister 1837-1927 

Box Folder

Correspondence 1837-1900 

4 5-8
Box

Correspondence 1837-1900 

5-6
Volume

Duncannon Rolling Mill, employee records 1868-1871 

Scope and Contents note

This ledger has been repurposed as a child's scrapbook.

35
Box Folder

Financial records 1855-1900 

7 1-4
Volume

Financial records, account ledger 1866-1867 

Scope and Contents note

This ledger has been repurposed as a child's scrapbook.

36

Financial records, check stubs 1869 

37

Financial records, investment book 1878-1899 

38
Box Folder

Financial records, receipts 1865-1927 

7 5-7

Financial records, receipts 1865-1927 

8 1-3

Financial records, stock and bond information 1890-1900 

8 4-5

Financial records, stock and bond information 1890-1900 

9 1
Volume

Germantown Cricket Club scorebook 1860 

39
Box Folder

Subject file: Barracksville Coal Company papers 1890-1893 

9 2

Subject file: Duncannon Iron Company papers 1877-1897 

9 3-4

Subject file: Wister estate 1891-1900 

9 5-6

Subseries b. Sarah Tyler Boas Wister 1852-1934 

Box Folder

Correspondence 1852-1925 

9 7
Box

Correspondence 1852-1925 

10-12
Box Folder

Financial records, account books 1853-1897 

13 1-2

Financial records, banking records 1898-1922 

13 3-6

Financial records, Barracksville Coal Company circa 1910 

14 3

Financial records, check stubs 1870-1914 

14 1-2

Financial records, estate material 1896-1934 

14 4-5
Box

Financial records, estate material 1896-1934 

15-16

Financial records, receipts 1865-1922 

17-18
Box Folder

Financial records, receipts 1865-1922 

19 1-6
Box

Financial records, stock correspondence 1900-1922 

19-22
Volume

History and education notes circa 1861 

40

Notebook circa 1889 

41

Subseries c. John and Sarah T.B. Wister 1807-1927 

Box Folder

Belfield farm finances 1878-1881 

22 3

Church and religion material undated 

22 4

Clippings 1807-1884 

22 5-6

Correspondence 1864-1900 

22 7-8
Box

Correspondence 1864-1900 

23
Box Folder

Correspondence 1864-1900 

24 1-3

Duncannon Iron Company 1886-1906 

24 4

Ephemera undated 

24 5

Estate materials 1841-1922 

24 6-8

Financial records, Fisher and Brother 1902-1903 

25 1

Financial records receipts 1876-1898 

25 2

Notes undated 

25 3

Poems, writings and tracts 1866-1910 

25 4

Portfolio (empty) undated 

25 5

Miscellaneous receipts and financial papers circa 1864-1900 

25 6

Stocks and bonds 1864-1922 

25 7

Travel 1859-1927 

26 1-3

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Series III. James and Sarah Logan Wister Starr 1767-1980 

Subseries a. James Starr 1767-1956 

Box

Correspondence 1845-1943 

26-29
Box Folder

Correspondence, Cavalry Church in Germantown 1926-1927 

28 1
Volume

Correspondence, letterbook 1856-1861 

42
Box Folder

Correspondence, Fort Hunter and Harrisburg properties 1932-1937 

28 2-5

Correspondence, Fort Hunter and Harrisburg properties 1932-1937 

29 1

Correspondence 1931 

29 4-6

Correspondence 1932 

29 7

Correspondence 1932 

30 1-2

Correspondence 1933 

30 3-5

Correspondence 1934-1935 

31 1-3

Correspondence 1938 

31 4-5

Correspondence 1938 

32 1-3

Correspondence 1939-1940 

32 4-7

Correspondence, agent at Belfield 1932 

33 1-2

Correspondence, business letterbook 1879-1881 

33 3

Correspondence, business 1925 

33 4-5

Correspondence, business 1929 

33 6

Correspondence, business 1930 

34 1

Correspondence, stamp collecting circa 1920-1939 

32 3

Correspondence, stamp collecting circa 1920-1939 

34 2-4
Box

Correspondence, stamp collecting circa 1920-1939 

35-39
Volume

Financial records, account ledger 1892-1898 

43

Financial records, account ledger 1896-1908 

44

Financial records, account ledger 1914-1921 

45

Financial records, account ledger 1929-1933 

46
Box Folder

Financial records, general 1891-1896 

40 1-3

Financial records, banking 1920-1940 

40 5-8
Box

Financial records, banking 1920-1940 

41-42
Box Folder

Financial records, banking 1920-1940 

43 1-2

Financial records, bills and receipts 1880-1940 

43 3-10
Box

Financial records, bills and receipts 1880-1940 

44-46
Box Folder

Financial records, bills and receipts 1880-1940 

47 1-4

Financial records, cancelled checks and check stubs 1891-1940 

47 5-6
Box

Financial records, cancelled checks and check stubs 1891-1940 

48
Box Folder

Financial records, cancelled checks and check stubs 1891-1940 

49 1-3
Volume

Financial records, cashbook 1896-1907 

47
Box Folder

Financial records, Fort Hunter and Harrisburg 1942 

49 4-5

Financial records, income tax 1929-1935 

49 6-7

Financial records, income tax 1929-1935 

50 1-3

Financial records, insurance policies 1872-1874 

50 4

Financial records, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company 1937 

50 5

Financial records, real estate 1922-1923 

50 6

Financial records, receipts and bank correspondence circa 1919-1935 

50 7

Financial records, report of James Starr, agent 1921 

50 8

Financial records, stock dividend correspondence 1934-1935 

50 9
Volume

Mask and Wig Club scrapbook 1890-1892 

48
Box Folder

Subject file: Belfield history and furniture information 1767-1923 

51 1

Subject file: Caesar manuscript 1883-1889 

51 2

Subject file: China Clipper magazine (stamp collecting) 1954-1956 

51 3

Subject file: diaries (10 volumes) 1885-1894 

51 4

Subject file: ephemera 1915, undated 

51 5

Subject file: estate of M. R. Fox and Sarah Logan Wister 1923-1924 

51 6-7

Subject file: ID cards and calling cards undated 

51 8

Subject file: international law notebook from the University of Pennsylvania 1891 

51 9

Subject file: international stamp exhibitions 1930-1938 

51 10

Subject file: membership and business cards circa 1947 

52 1

Subject file: miscellaneous circa 1935, undated 

52 2-4

Subject file: Paris stamp convention (P.E.X.I.P.) 1937 

52 5

Subject file: Pennsylvania Reserve Militia 1923 

52 6

Subject file: real estate records 1925-1931 

52 7-8

Subject file: real estate records 1925-1931 

53 1-3

Subject file: real estate records, Belfield farm 1928 

53 4

Subject file: real estate records, Olney Avenue improvements 1931-1934 

53 5

Subject file: small books undated 

53 6

Subject file: Stamp exposition: Havre 1929 

53 7

Subject file: travel 1930-1931 

54 2

Subseries b. Sarah Logan Wister Starr 1846-1980 

Box Folder

Colonial Dames of America, general 1905-1936 

54 3-8
Box

Colonial Dames of America, general 1905-1936 

55
Box Folder

Colonial Dames of America, general 1905-1936 

56 1-5

Colonial Dames of America, Acts in Council 1906-1914 

56 6
Box

Colonial Dames of America, American War Songs book 1923-1935 

57
Box Folder

Colonial Dames of America, American War Songs book 1923-1935 

58 1-6

Colonial Dames of America, Annual Reports for Pennsylvania 1905-1913 

58 7

Colonial Dames of America, chapters' contributions to Sesquicentennial circa 1926 

58 8

Colonial Dames of America, Committee on the Preservation of Existing Records 1923-1929 

59 1-4

Colonial Dames of America, correspondence 1906-1935 

59 5-8
Box

Colonial Dames of America, correspondence 1906-1935 

60
Box Folder

Colonial Dames of America, correspondence 1906-1935 

61 1

Colonial Dames of America, events and ephemera 1922-1923 

61 2

Colonial Dames of America, financial material circa 1918-1923 

61 3

Colonial Dames of America, membership certificate for Sarah L. W. Starr and S. Logan Starr Blain 

233 1

Colonial Dames of America, minutes 1906-1923 

61 4-6

Colonial Dames of America, New Jersey society meeting 1926 

61 7

Colonial Dames of America, publications and ephemera 1901-1914 

62 1-4

Colonial Dames of America, reports and minutes 1904-1916 

62 5

Correspondence 1879 

62 6

Correspondence 1880 

62 7

Correspondence 1883 

62 8

Correspondence 1884 

62 9

Correspondence 1886 

62 10

Correspondence 1887 

62 11

Correspondence 1889 

62 12

Correspondence 1890 

62 13

Correspondence 1891 

62 14

Correspondence 1892 

62 15

Correspondence 1893 

63 1

Correspondence 1894 

63 2

Correspondence 1895 

63 3

Correspondence 1896 

63 4

Correspondence 1897 

63 5

Correspondence 1898 

63 6

Correspondence 1899 

63 7

Correspondence regarding Germantown Hospital 1899 

63 8

Correspondence 1900 

63 9

Correspondence 1901 

63 10

Correspondence, RSVPs to party 1901 October 

63 11

Correspondence 1902 

64 1

Correspondence 1903 

64 2

Correspondence 1904 

64 3

Correspondence 1905 

64 4-5

Correspondence 1906 

64 6-7

Correspondence 1907 

64 8

Correspondence 1907 March 

64 9

Correspondence 1908 

65 1-2

Correspondence 1909 

65 3

Correspondence 1910 

65 4

Correspondence 1911 

65 5-6

Correspondence 1912 

65 7

Correspondence 1913 

66 1

Correspondence 1914 

66 2-3

Correspondence 1915 

66 4

Correspondence 1916 

66 5-6

Correspondence regarding Sarah L.W. Starr's illness 1916 

67 1

Correspondence 1917 

67 2-3

Correspondence 1918 

67 4-5

Correspondence 1919 

67 6

Correspondence 1920 

67 7

Correspondence 1921 

67 8

Correspondence 1922 

68 1-3

Correspondence, Christmas cards 1922 

68 4

Correspondence, condolences on death of Sarah T.B. Wister 1922 

68 5-6

Correspondence, condolences on death of Sarah T.B. Wister 1922 

69 1

Correspondence, invitations 1922 

69 2

Correspondence, invitations to organizations' events 1922 

69 3

Correspondence 1923 

69 4

Correspondence, business 1923-1937 

69 5

Correspondence 1924 

70 1-2

Correspondence, RSVPs to luncheon 1924 

70 3

Correspondence received on trip to Europe 1924 

70 4

Correspondence 1925 

70 5-7

Correspondence 1926 

71 1-2

Correspondence 1927 

71 3-4

Correspondence including Colonial Dames and Sesquicentennial 1927-1928 

71 5

Correspondence 1928 

71 6

Correspondence (A-B) 1928-1932 

71 7

Correspondence (B-H) 1928-1932 

72 1

Correspondence (H-N) 1928-1932 

72 2

Correspondence (N-S) 1928-1932 

72 3

Correspondence (S-Z) 1928-1932 

72 4

Correspondence 1929 

72 5

Correspondence (A-E) 1929-1930 

72 6

Correspondence (F-J) 1929-1930 

73 1

Correspondence (K-P) 1929-1930 

73 2

Correspondence (R-S) 1929-1930 

73 3

Correspondence (Sheppard, Walter Lee) 1929-1931 

73 4

Correspondence (S-V) 1929-1931 

73 5

Correspondence (W) 1929-1931 

73 6

Correspondence 1930 

74 1

Correspondence received on board cruiseship "Empress of Australia" 1930 

74 2

Correspondence 1931 

74 3-4

Correspondence 1931 March 

74 5

Correspondence 1932 

74 6

Correspondence regarding Harrisburg property 1932 

74 7

Correspondence received on board cruiseship "Empress of Britain" 1932-1933 

74 8

Correspondence received on board cruiseship "Empress of Britain" 1932-1933 

75 1

Correspondence 1933 

75 2

Correspondence received on board cruiseship "Empress of Britain" 1933 

75 3-4

Correspondence received in Nova Scotia 1933 July 

75 5

Correspondence (A-F) 1933-1936 

75 6

Correspondence (F-M) 1933-1936 

75 7

Correspondence (M-Z) 1933-1936 

76 1

Correspondence 1934 

76 2

Correspondence 1935 

76 3

Correspondence received on board cruiseship "Empress of Australia" 1935 

76 4-5

Correspondence regarding Margaret Wister Meigs' tea 1935-1936 

76 6

Correspondence 1936 

76 7

Correspondence with Mrs. Lamar circa 1936 

76 8

Correspondence (A-M) 1936-1937 

76 9

Correspondence (M-S) 1936-1937 

77 1

Correspondence (S-Z) 1936-1937 

77 2

Correspondence regarding S. Logan Starr Blain's marriage 1936-1938 

77 3

Correspondence 1937 

77 4

Correspondence (A-D) 1937-1939 

77 5

Correspondence (E-N) 1937-1939 

77 6

Correspondence (N-Z) 1937-1939 

78 1

Correspondence 1938 

78 2

Correspondence mostly regarding American Swedish Historical Museum 1938 

78 3

Correspondence 1939 

78 4

Correspondence 1940-1941 

78 5

Correspondence 1942-1946 

78 6

Correspondence, RSVPs to unknown event 1946 

79 1

Correspondence 1947-1949 

79 2

Correspondence 1950-1958 

79 3

Correspondence 1960 

79 4

Correspondence undated 

79 5-6

Correspondence undated 

79.5 1-3

Correspondence undated 

80 1-3

Correspondence, empty envelopes and calling cards undated 

80 4

Correspondence, RSVPs to dinner honoring Sarah Tyler and Mary Roberts Meigs undated 

80 5

Diaries 1922-1953 

80 6
Box

Diaries 1922-1953 

81-82
Box Folder

Diaries 1922-1953 

83 1

Diaries, notebooks regarding addresses and services undated 

83 2

Diaries, unidentified notebooks in shorthand 1934-1940 

83 3-4

Financial records, account ledgers 1904-1951 

83 5-7

Financial records, account ledgers 1904-1951 

84 1-3

Financial records, banking 1901-1939 

84 4-6

Financial records, banking 1901-1939 

85 1-2

Financial records, cancelled checks and check stubs 1895-1940 

85 3-5
Box

Financial records, cancelled checks and check stubs 1895-1940 

86
Box Folder

Financial records, cancelled checks and check stubs 1895-1940 

87 1-2

Financial records, income tax 1929-1952 

87 3-6

Financial records, income tax 1929-1952 

88 1-5

Financial records, Fisher and Brother 1908-1909 

88 6

Financial records, general circa 1920-1945 

89 1-2

Financial records, receipts and bills 1846-1940 

89 3-9
Box

Financial records, receipts and bills 1846-1940 

90-92
Box Folder

Financial records, receipts and bills 1846-1940 

93 1-2

Liberty loans circa 1918 

93 3-6
Box

Liberty loans circa 1918 

94
Box Folder

Liberty loans circa 1918 

95 1-2

Liberty loans, correspondence circa 1918 

95 3-7

Liberty loans, investment stubs 1917 

96 1
Volume

Liberty loans, scrapbook circa 1919 

49
Box Folder

Sesquicentennial Exposition, correspondence circa 1926 

96 2-4

Sesquicentennial Exposition, ephemera circa 1926 

96 5

Sesquicentennial Exposition, ephemera circa 1926 

97 1

Sesquicentennial Exposition, ephemera circa 1926 

233 2

Sesquicentennial Exposition, invitations circa 1926 

97 2-3

Sesquicentennial Exposition, clippings circa 1926 

97 4

Sesquicentennial Exposition, Sulgrave Manor circa 1926 

97 5
Box

Sesquicentennial Exposition, Sulgrave Manor circa 1926 

98
Box Folder

Sesquicentennial Exposition, Sulgrave Manor circa 1926 

99 1-3

Sesquicentennial Exposition, American Swedish Historical Museum circa 1926 

99 4

Sesquicentennial Exposition, Tour of Historic Germantown circa 1926 

99 5

Sesquicentennial Exposition, Women's Committee certificates and correspondence circa 1926 

99 6

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, administrative files 1926 

99 7

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, brochures and programs circa 1930 

99 8

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, clippings undated 

99 9

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, correspondence 1922-1934 

99 10-11

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, correspondence 1922-1934 

100 1-3

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, digest of endowments and funds after 1941 

100 4

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, financial records 1921-1941 

100 5-6

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hadassah subject file 1930-1931 

100 7

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hannah E. Longshore department of therapeutics 1930 

101 1

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, luncheons 1937-1940 

101 2

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, membership certificate 1933 

233 3

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, nursing 1922 

101 4

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, nurse report 1926 

101 5

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, postcards and images undated 

101 6

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, radium fund circa 1920-1941 

101 7-8

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, reports and finances 1924-1932 

101 9

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, staffing issues 1922 

101 10

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, "What Women's Medical College Stands For" 1922 

101 11

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Women's Medical Journal 1924 November 

101 3

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, general 1921-1932 

101 12-13

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, general 1921-1932 

102 1-7

Subject file: address cards undated 

102 8

Subject file: addresses given by Sarah L. W. Starr 1925-1932 

102 9

Subject file: addresses given by Sarah L. W. Starr 1925-1932 

103 1

Subject file: Agnes Irwin School reunion 1932 

103 2

Subject file: American Ramabai Association 1905-1915 

103 3

Subject file: astrological information 1940 

103 5

Subject file: Belfield circa 1938 

103 6-7

Subject file: baptismal certificates, childhood drawings, report cards for S. Logan Starr Blain 1903-1913 

103 8

Subject file: chocolate and Jell-O brochures undated 

103 9

Subject file: clippings undated 

103 10-14
Volume

Clippings scrapbook circa 1926 

50
Box Folder

Subject file: College Settlement of Philadelphia 1910-1911 

103 15

Subject file: Committee of 42nd Ward 1907 

104 1

Subject file: Congress of Constructive Patriotism undated 

104 2

Subject file: crocheting and sewing patterns undated 

104 3

Subject file: Department of Agriculture undated 

104 4

Subject file: ephemera circa 1890-1918 

104 5-8
Box

Subject file: ephemera 

105-106
Box Folder

Subject file: Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania 1915-1920 

107 1

Subject file: essays or talks 1923-1928 

107 2

Subject file: estate material 1911-1941 

107 3-5

Subject file: gardening 

107 6

Subject file: genealogical diagrams 1852-1933 

233 4

Subject file: Germantown Hospital 1896-1909 

107 7-8

Subject file: Germantown Hospital 1896-1909 

108 1-4

Subject file: horticultural notes undated 

108 5

Subject file: Jackson Flemming lectures 1926 

108 6

Subject file: Kenmore Association circa 1927 

108 7-8

Subject file: Kenmore Association circa 1927 

109 1-2

Subject file: Lenox Inc. correspondence circa 1926 

109 3

Subject file: Licenses and documents for dog, cows, and car 1960-1980 

109 4

Subject file: Magna Charta Dames 1925-1938 

109 5-7

Subject file: Magna Charta Dames 1925-1938 

233 5

Subject file: Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense undated 

109 8

Subject file: membership in various organizations circa 1921-1951 

109 9

Subject file: National League for Women's Service 1917-1925 

109 10-11

Subject file: National League for Women's Service 1917-1925 

110 1-2

Subject file: National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild 1908-1910 

110 3

Subject file: Nova Scotia 1924-1933 

110 4

Subject file: occupational therapy 1928 

110 5

Subject file: Philadelphia Fountain Society 1935 

110 6

Subject file: Philadelphia historical sites undated 

110 7

Subject file: Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy 1923-1924 

110 8-9

Subject file: promotional etching by Louis K. Harlow undated 

110 10

Subject file: Saving Fund Society, correspondence 1932 

110 11

Subject file: Slotter, Groome and Company 1927 

111 1

Subject file: Society of Lovers of Children undated 

111 2

Subject file: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals circa 1926 

111 3

Subject file: Stenton mansion 1913-1937 

111 4-5

Subject file: Travel 1906-1936 

111 6-11
Box

Subject file: Travel 1906-1936 

112
Box Folder

Subject file: Travel 1906-1936 

113 1-9

Subject file: Travel 1906-1936 

233 6

Subject file: Ursinus College honorary degree 1931 

113 10

Subject file: Welfare Federation of Philadelphia 1923 

113 11-13

Subject file: Wildflower Preservation Society undated 

114 1

Subject file: women in medicine 1927-1935 

114 2-3

Subject file: Women's Club of Germantown and Germantown Historical Society 1925 and 1931 

114 4

Subject file: Women's Committee of the West Chester County Commission of General Safety (New York) circa 1917 

114 5

Subject file: the Women's Permanent Emergency Association 1900-1941 

114 6-9

Subject file: Wynnewood Pony and Dog Show 1922-1923 

114 10

Miscellaneous undated 

115 1-5

Subseries c. James and Sarah L. W. Starr 1871-1940 

Box Folder

Address books and contact lists undated 

115 6

Automobile information circa 1915 

115 7
Box

Correspondence 1871-1939 

116
Box Folder

Correspondence 1871-1939 

117 1-3
Volume

Financial records, account book 1923 

51
Box Folder

Financial records, account book 1924-1925 

117 4

Financial records, banking 1931-1940 

117 5-7

Financial records, banking 1931-1940 

118 1-3

Financial records, check stubs 1923-1927 

118 4

Financial records, income taxes 1931-1932 

118 5

Financial records, income taxes 1931-1932 

119 1

Financial records, receipts 1925-1932 

119 2

Miscellaneous notes and greeting cards undated 

119 3

Publications and ephemera circa 1916-1921, undated 

119 4-6

Publications and ephemera circa 1916-1921, undated 

120 1

Travel 1930-1935 

120 2-6
Box

Travel 1930-1935 

121-122
Box Folder

Travel 1930-1935 

123 1-4
Volume

Travel, photo album 1911-1915 

52

Travel, photo album, Empress of Australia Cruise 1930-1931 

54

Travel, photo album, Empress of Australia Cruise 1935 

55

Travel, photo album, Tuscania Cruise 1924 

53

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Series IV. Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain 1903-1975 

Subseries a. Dr. Daniel Blain 1929-1972 

Scope and Contents note

This subseries contains subject files arranged in alphabetical order.

Box Folder

A circa 1930-1970 

123 5-13
Box

A circa 1930-1970 

124-125
Box Folder

Awards, certificates, diplomas, and medical licenses 1929-1972 

233 7
Box

B circa 1930-1970 

126-128
Box Folder

B circa 1930-1970 

129 1-3

Ca-Co circa 1930-1970 

129 4-18
Box

Ca-Co circa 1930-1970 

130
Box Folder

Ca-Co circa 1930-1970 

131 1-13

Correspondence circa 1930-1970 

131 14
Box

Correspondence circa 1930-1970 

132-133
Box Folder

Correspondence circa 1930-1970 

134 1-7

Co-Cu circa 1930-1970 

134 8

Co-Cu circa 1930-1970 

135 1-4

D circa 1930-1970 

135 5-16

D circa 1930-1970 

136 1-2

E circa 1930-1970 

136 3-15

F circa 1930-1970 

136 16-21

F circa 1930-1970 

137 1-10

G circa 1930-1970 

137 11-12

G circa 1930-1970 

138 1-9

H circa 1930-1970 

138 10-21
Box Box

H circa 1930-1970 

139 1-5
Box Folder

I circa 1930-1970 

139 6-18

I circa 1930-1970 

140 1-17

J circa 1930-1970 

140 18-20

J circa 1930-1970 

141 1-8

K circa 1930-1970 

141 9-13

L circa 1930-1970 

141 14-23

L circa 1930-1970 

142 1-11

M circa 1930-1970 

142 12-32

M circa 1930-1970 

143 1-22

N circa 1930-1970 

143 23-29
Box

N circa 1930-1970 

144-145
Box Folder

N circa 1930-1970 

146 1-12

O circa 1930-1970 

146 13

O circa 1930-1970 

147 1-2

P circa 1930-1970 

147 3-25

P circa 1930-1970 

148 1-23

Q circa 1930-1970 

148 24

Ra-Re circa 1930-1970 

148 25-28

Ra-Re circa 1930-1970 

149 1

Reprints of articles from psychiatric and other medical journals circa 1930-1970 

149 2-9
Box

Reprints of articles from psychiatric and other medical journals circa 1930-1970 

150-152
Box Folder

Reprints of articles from psychiatric and other medical journals circa 1930-1970 

153 1-8
Volume

Retirement scrapbook 1963 

56
Box Folder

Re-Ru circa 1930-1970 

153 9-10
Box

Re-Ru circa 1930-1970 

154
Box Folder

Re-Ru circa 1930-1970 

155 1-4

S circa 1930-1970 

155 5-10
Box

S circa 1930-1970 

156
Box Folder

S circa 1930-1970 

157 1-13

"Seven Ages of a Physician" (publication) 1944 

233 8

Ta-Tr circa 1930-1970 

157 14-18
Box

Ta-Tr circa 1930-1970 

158-160
Box Folder

Ta-Tr circa 1930-1970 

161 1-14

Tratelja Farms *Restricted* circa 1940 

Scope and Contents note

These files may contain confidential patient records and are restricted.

161 15-20
Box

Tratelja Farms *Restricted* circa 1940 

162-163
Box Folder

Tratelja Farms *Restricted* circa 1940 

164 1-5

Tr-Tw circa 1930-1970 

164 6-9

U circa 1930-1970 

164 10-17

U circa 1930-1970 

165 1-3

V circa 1930-1970 

165 4-7

W circa 1930-1970 

Scope and Contents note

Restricted files from the War Shipping Administration materials have been relocated to Patient records.

165 8-12
Box

W circa 1930-1970 

166
Box Folder

W circa 1930-1970 

167 1-14

X circa 1930-1970 

167 15-16

Y circa 1930-1970 

168 1-2

Z circa 1930-1970 

168 3

Patient records *Restricted* circa 1930-1970 

168 4-23
Box

Patient records *Restricted* circa 1930-1970 

169-174
Box Folder

Patient records *Restricted* circa 1930-1970 

175 1-2

Subseries b. S. Logan Starr Blain 1903-1975 

Box Folder

Clippings 1964-1965 

175 3

Colonial Dames of America 1966-1967 

175 4

Correspondence 1907-1965 

175 5-8
Box

Correspondence 1907-1965 

176-177
Box Folder

Correspondence 1907-1965 

178 1-4

Engagement calendars 1922 

178 5

Ephemera circa 1923 

178 6

Estate materials circa 1950 

178 7-8
Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume

Estate materials, Sarah L. W. Starr (6 volumes) 1958-1969 

57-62 60 58 57 61 62
Box Folder

Financial records 

178 9-12

Friday evening dances 1958-1960 

178 13

"Inspiration" magazine for Women's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences circa 1923 

179 1

Insurance and estate material 1956-1975 

179 2

Journal 1938 

179 3

Logan genealogy 1964-1965 

179 4

Nova Scotia material undated 

179 5

Party RSVPs 1960 

179 6

Passport 1930 

179 7

Receipts 1921-1931 

179 8

Report cards 1916-1920 

179 9

Residuary trust circa 1968 

179 10-11

Residuary trust circa 1968 

80 1-2

Schoolwork circa 1903 

180 5

Scrapbook of invitations and commonplace book and other 1910, 1920-1921 

180 3
Volume

Scrapbook, travel circa 1924 

63
Box Folder

Scrapbook, travel for American Psychiatric Association 1950 

180 4

Sesquicentennial Exposition pass 1926 

180 6

Vital records 1943 

181 1

Wedding materials circa 1936 

181 2-5

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Series V. Other family members and associates 1697-1972 

Link to family tree showing relationships between some individuals in this collection  

Box Folder

Andrews, Elizabeth C. Correspondence circa 1825-1835 

181 6

Blain, Claudia Lacy Grier. Correspondence 1953 

181 7

Blain, Danny, Jr. Correspondence 1947-1960 

181 8-9

Blain, Danny, Jr. Correspondence 1947-1960 

182 1

Boas, Daniel D. Correspondence 1869 

182 2

Craig, William. Account book circa 1861 

182 3

Dickinson, John. Correspondence 1792, 1798 

182 4

Emlen, Ellen. Colonial Dames papers and genealogical information circa 1890-1900 

182 5

Emlen, Ellen. Estate records 1922-1924 

182 6-7
Box

Emlen, Ellen. Estate records 1922-1924 

183
Box Folder

Emlen, George Jr. Business correspondence 1869-1890 

184 1-5

Emlen, George Jr. Diaries 1875-1879, undated 

184 6

Emlen, George Jr. Dog ephemera, American Kennel Club and Game Protective Society pamphlets 1873-1887 

184 7

Emlen, George Jr. Ephemera undated 

185 1-3

Emlen, George Jr. Financial ledger circa 1870 

184 8
Box

Emlen, George Jr. Legal records 1861-1900 

185-187
Box Folder

Emlen, George Jr. Miscellaneous fragments and notes undated 

188 1

Emlen, George Jr. Publication, "Acts of Assembly relative to the Board of Wardens" 1829 

188 2

Emlen, George Jr. Publications and ephemera 1873-1887 

188 3

Emlen, George Jr. Receipts and bills 1860-1900 

188 4-7
Box

Emlen, George Jr. Receipts and bills 1860-1900 

189
Box Box

Emlen, George Jr. Receipts and bills 1860-1900 

190 1-3
Box Folder

Emlen, George Jr. University of Pennsylvania 1860-1885 

190 4

Emlen, George Sr. Publication, "Laws of the Emlen Institution, 1843" 1843 

190 5

Emlen, Mary. Correspondence from James Starr Jr. circa 1906 

190 6

Emlen Family. Correspondence and legal documents 1797-1818 

190 7
Volume

Evans, Wharton, and Company. Financial records, book-keeping 1841-1871 

64

Fisher and Brother Company. Financial records, account ledger 1900-1903 

65
Box Folder

Fisher, Mary and Elizabeth. Correspondence circa 1850-1855 

190 8
Volume

Fisher, Thomas. Journal, voyage to England 1775 

66

Fisher, Thomas. Journal, voyage to England undated 

67

Fisher, Thomas. Journal, voyage to Ireland, etc. undated 

68
Box Folder

Fisher, William Logan. Manuscript 1803-1827 

190 9
Volume

Fisher, William Logan. Commonplace book circa 1800-1852 

70
Box Folder

Fisher, William Logan. Correspondence from James Barker 1798-1806 

190 10

Fisher, William Logan. Correspondence from Eliza Rodman 1813-1815, 1838 

190 11
Volume

Fisher, William Logan. Correspondence, letterbook circa 1820-1850 

69
Box Folder

Fisher, William Logan. Financial records 1846 

190 12
Volume

Fox, Mary Rodman Fisher. Correspondence, letterbook 1841-1883 

71
Item

Hall family tree after 1893 

1
Box Folder

Hall, Annie. Correspondence 1926 

190 13

Hall, James. Diary 1877-1880 

190 14

Hall, Mary J. Receipt book circa 1884 

190 15

Hall, William Coleman. Chapel of Saint John the Evangelist hymnal undated 

196 2
Box

Hall, William Coleman. Correspondence 1891-1927 

191-192
Box Folder

Hall, William Coleman. Correspondence 1891-1927 

193 1

Hall, William Coleman. Diaries 1878-1928 

193 2-6

Hall, William Coleman. Diaries 1878-1928 

194 1-3

Hall, William Coleman. Estate materials, various clients circa 1895-1925 

194 4

Hall, William Coleman. Financial records 1882-1927 

194 5-6

Hall, William Coleman. Financial records, account book 1894 

194 7

Hall, William Coleman. Financial records, Timber End Farm 1889-1895 

195 1

Hall, William Coleman. Miscellaneous clippings and ephemera 1870-1920 

195 2

Hall, William Coleman. Miscellaneous pocket-size books 1878-1890 

195 3

Hall, William Coleman. Travel materials 1873-1886 

195 4

Hall, William Coleman. William Craig's receipt books 1821-1825 

196 1

Hall, William Coleman, and Charles Hall. Correspondence and receipt books 1796-1816 

195 6

Hall, William Coleman, and James Hall. Correspondence 1840-1863 

195 7

Hall, William Coleman, and Sarah Rodman Morgan. Correspondence and estate material 1835-1881 

195 8

Hall, William Coleman, and multiple recipients. Correspondence 1821-1884 

195 9

Hall, William Coleman. Unattributed account book 1859-1867 

196 3

Hall, William Coleman. Unattributed cook book circa 1940-1960 

196 4

Hall, William Coleman. Unattributed wheat shipment book 1834-1861 

196 5

Keith, Elise Wister. Last will and testament (facsimile) 1939 

196 6

Lindley/Rutter family papers circa 1799-1810 

196 7-8

Lindley/Rutter family papers circa 1799-1810 

197 1

Lindley, Ruth Anna Rutter. Correspondence 1795-1806 

197 2-4

Lindley, Ruth Anna Rutter. Miscellaneous documents including her memoirs 1810, undated 

197 5

Lindley, William. Correspondence 1848-1869 

197 6-7

Lindley, William. Materials circa 1870-1880 

197 8

Logan, Albanus Charles (1783-1854). Correspondence and estate settlement 1799-1855 

197 9

Logan, Albanus C. (1850-1930). Correspondence and financial records circa 1875-1930 

197 10
Volume

Logan, Albanus C. (1850-1930). Financial records, account book 1873-1886 

72
Box Folder

Logan, Anna Armott. Correspondence 1871-1884 

198 1

Logan, Deborah Norris. Annotated almanacs circa 1777-1813 

198 2

Logan, Deborah Norris. Correspondence circa 1789-1801 

198 3

Logan, Frances A. Financial records, account book 1895-1897 

198 4

Logan, George. Correspondence 1790-1820 

198 5

Logan, James. Letter (facsimile) 1733 

233 9

Logan, Jonathon D. Hunting journal undated 

198 6

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Automobile records and insurance 1931-1938 

198 7

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Charity work 1933-1938 

198 8

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Church and club information 1908-1938 

199 1

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Clippings on fashion and beauty 1926-1937 

199 2

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Clippings on history of Philadelphia and the world 1918-1937 

199 3

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Correspondence 1906-1938 

199 4-6

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Engagement calendars 1921-1931 

200 1

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Financial records and estate 1889-1906 

200 2

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Financial records 1916-1918 

200 3

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Financial records 1923-1938 

200 4

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Financial records, check stubs 1935-1937 

201 1

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Financial records, correspondence 1888-1906 

201 2

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Financial records, receipts 1938 

201 3

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Fireproof storage receipts 1932-1938 

201 4

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Genealogy, family history, and antiques research and correspondence circa 1905-1935 

201 5-6

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Journal, clippings and gardening circa 1936-1938 

202 1

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Medical record 1938 

202 2

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Notes, lists, receipts and miscellaneous circa 1925-1939 

202 3-4

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Poetry 1886 

202 5

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Recipes undated 

202 6

Logan, Maria Dickinson. Will 1854 

202 7

Logan, Sarah E. Poems circa 1827 

202 8

Logan family members. Correspondence 1697-1875 

203 1

Meigs, Arthur. Correspondence 1935-1937 

203 2

Meigs, Edward. Correspondence circa 1920 

203 3

Meigs, Margaret Wister. Correspondence 1887-1940 

203 4-9

Meigs, Margaret Wister. Family papers regarding Jacob Dick undated 

203 10

Meigs, Margaret Wister. Fort Hunter mansion 1935-1937 

203 11

Meigs, Margaret Wister. Fort Hunter museum 1936-1941 

203 12

Meigs, the Misses. 

203 13

Morgan, Sarah Rodman. Correspondence from Charles Morgan 1858-1864 

203 14

Morgan, Sarah Rodman. Receipts circa 1891 

203 15
Volume

Rotch, Joseph. Financial records, receipt book 1749-1753 

73
Box Folder

Sallader, Pearson E. Receipt book 1848 

204 1

Starr, James Sr. Skaters' Club certificate 1869 

204 2

Wister, William Rotch, James Wister, and Francis Wister. Material 1848-1889 

204 3

Wister, Anne. Last will and testament circa 1888 

204 4

Wister, Francis. Financial records 1868-1872 

204 5-8
Volume

Wister, Francis. Financial records, account ledger 1869 

74

Wister, Francis. Financial records, account ledger 1869-1870 

75

Wister, Francis. Financial records, account ledger 1871 

76

Wister, Francis. Financial records, cashbook 1869-1871 

77

Wister, Francis. Financial records, cashbook 1870-1871 

78

Wister, Francis. Financial records, check stubs 1871 

79

Wister, Francis. Financial records, daybook 1869 

80

Wister, Francis. Financial records, daybook 1870 

81

Wister, Francis. Financial records, loan book 1870 

82

Wister, Francis. Financial records, purchases and sales ledger 1868-1869 

83

Wister, Francis. Financial records, purchases and sales ledger 1869-1870 

84

Wister, Francis. Financial records, purchases and sales ledger 1870-1871 

85

Wister, Francis. Financial records, stock ledger circa 1871 

86
Box Folder

Wister, John. Financial records 1818-1838 

204 9
Volume

Wister, Jones. Correspondence, business letterbook 1901-1904 

87
Box Folder

Wister, Jones. Cover of prayer book undated 

204 10

Wister, Langhorne 1864-1873 

204 11
Volume

Wister, Langhorne. Correspondence, letterbook 1861 

88
Box Folder

Wister, Mary. Correspondence undated 

204 12

Wister, the Misses. Correspondence 1881-1900 

205 1

Wister, Rodman and Jones. Correspondence 1914 December 17 

205 2
Volume

Wister, Sarah Edythe. Scrapbook, regarding Centennial 1876 

89
Box Folder

Wurtz, Elizabeth Wister. Correspondence 1885-1924, undated 

205 3-8

Wurtz, John Wister 

205 9

Miscellaneous extended family. Correspondence circa 1765-1920 

205 10-12
Volume

Miscellaneous extended family. Correspondence, letterbook 1801-1850 

90

Miscellaneous extended family. Correspondence, letterbook 1858-1866 

91
Box Folder

Miscellaneous members of Logan, Norris, and Fisher families. Legal and financial records 1815-1855 

206 1

Unidentified. Account ledger 1774, 1855-1880 

206 4-5
Volume

Unidentified. Account ledger 1840-1841 

92

Unidentified. Account ledger 1857 

93

Unidentified. Account ledger 1881-1885 

94

Unidentified. Account ledger circa 1895 

95
Box Folder

Unidentified. Correspondence circa 1896-1948 

206 6-7

Unidentified. Diaries 1876, 1951-1972, undated 

206 8-9

Unidentified. Financial records circa 1866 

207 1
Volume

Unidentified. Financial records, trial balance book 1857 

97

Unidentified. Financial records, farm yields 1906-1910 

96
Box Folder

Unidentified. Genealogical notes undated 

207 2

Unidentified. Lists and notes undated 

206 2-3

Unidentified. Lists and notes undated 

207 3-4

Unidentified. Notepads with shorthand notes circa 1935 

207 5

Unidentified. Recipes undated 

207 6

Unidentified. Scrapbook undated 

207 7

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Series VI. Photographs 1862-1977 

Box Folder

James and Sarah Logan Wister Starr undated 

207 8-12

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 6th World Psychiatry Congress (Madrid, Spain) 1966 

207 13

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 112th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Chicago) 1956 

207 14

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 117th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Chicago) 1961 

207 15

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 118th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Toronto) 1962 

207 16

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 120th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Los Angeles) 1964 

207 17

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 120th American Psychiatric Association Conference (New York) 1965 

207 18

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 124th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Washington D.C.) 1971 

208 1

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 126th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Honolulu) 1973 

208 2

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 127th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Detroit) 1974 

208 3

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. 130th American Psychiatric Association Conference (Toronto) 1977 

208 4

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. American College of Psychiatrists, Ninth Anniversary Meeting (Dallas) 1972 

208 6

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Atlantic City, New Jersey 1966 

208 7

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Autographed photographs circa 1940-1970 

208 8

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Benjamin Rush house undated 

208 9

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Boats and boating undated 

208 10

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. China 1937-1939 

208 11

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Conference in Brooklyn, New York undated 

208 12

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Conferences in Washington, D.C. circa 1947-1971 

208 13

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Meetings at identified hospitals circa 1955-1964 

208 14

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Miscellaneous group portraits (identified individuals) undated 

208 15

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Miscellaneous personal undated 

208 16

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Miscellaneous professional and conferences undated 

208 17

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Ohio Mental Health Association 1955 

209 1

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Portraits of colleagues undated 

209 2

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Psychiatry conference in Bangkok 1956 

208 5

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Psychiatry conference in Bogota, Colombia 1968 

209 3

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Scenery, Canada and Rome undated 

209 4

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Service in World War II circa 1940-1950 

209 5

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Unidentified events circa 1960-1980 

209 7

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Unidentified negatives undated 

209 8

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Unidentified snapshots circa 1930-1980 

209 6

Dr. Daniel and S. Logan Starr Blain. Unidentified snapshots circa 1930-1980 

209 9

Hall, William Coleman. Tintype and prayer card 1866 April 

209 10

Logan, Maria Dickinson circa 1857 

209 11

Miscellaneous identified individuals undated 

209 15

Parrish, Susan 1862 July 

209 12

Stenton mansion undated 

210 2

Wister, Langhorne 1861 

209 13

Unidentified men undated 

210 4

Unidentified girl undated 

233 13
Box

Unidentified rolled photographs 

233
Box Folder

Unidentified women undated 

210 7

Unidentified groups undated 

210 3

Unidentified scenery undated 

210 5

Unidentified negatives undated 

210 1
Box

Unidentified rolls of 16mm film (9 rolls) circa 1940-1941 

234
Box Folder

Unidentified tintypes undated 

210 6

Unidentified white-glass photographs undated 

209 14

Scrapbooks. Postcards undated 

211 1-3

Scrapbooks. Travel undated 

211 4

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Series VII. Publications and ephemera 1884-1977 

Box Folder

Advertising and catalogs circa 1895-1920 

215 2-5

Advertising and catalogs circa 1895-1920 

216 1-3

Almanac 1884 

216 4

Antiques 1923-1961 

216 6
Box

Artifacts 

Scope and Contents note

This box contains artifacts found within the collection. Objects include, commemorative coins, stamps, linens, a bloodletting device associated with a Dr. Logan, a handmade scale, epaulets associated with Dr. Daniel Blain, medals/pins associated with Sarah Logan Wister Starr, and a decorative photograph frame containing an image of Madonna with Child.

235
Box Folder

Business histories undated 

216 7

Calendars 1898-1931 

216 8

Calendars 1898-1931 

217 1

"The Chestnut Burr" 1915-1920 

217 2

Children's book undated 

217 3

Clippings undated 

217 4-7
Box

Clippings undated 

218
Box Folder

Clippings undated 

219 1
Volume

Clippings, scrapbook circa 1910-1920 

98
Box Folder

Colonial American history 1876-1946 

219 2-4

DMC Library embroidery and cross-stitch pattern books circa 1920 

219 5

Education undated 

220 1

Events 1900-1949 

220 2-5

Events 1900-1949 

221 1

Fortnightly Club 1977 

221 2

Genealogy. "A Derivation of the American Family of Wistars and Wisters" undated 

221 3

Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Annual report 1892 

221 4

Germantown, Pennsylvania 1915-1949 

221 5

Germantown, Pennsylvania. "The Beehive" 1928-1929 

221 6

Greeting cards undated 

221 7

History and politics undated 

221 8-9

Magazines circa 1920 

222 1-3

Miscellaneous organizations undated 

222 4

National Society of Magna Charta Dames 1935-1939 

222 5

Newspapers. "Braintree and Witham Times" 1930 

232 1

Newspapers. "Germantown Independent Gazette" 1900 June 8 

232 2

Newspapers. "Halifax Chronicle Herald" 1949 September 5 

232 3

Newspapers. "Hindustan Times" 1951 January 5 

232 4

Newspapers. "Hong Kong Daily Press" 1931 February 17 

232 5

Newspapers. "Hong Kong Sunday Herald" 1931 February 15 

232 6

Newspapers. "Morning Post" (London) 1901 January 24 and January 29 

232 7

Newspapers. "New York Tribune" 1900 June 7 

232 8

Newspapers. "North China Star" (Tientsin, China) 1931 February 9 

232 9

Newspapers. "People's Advocate and Press" (New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania) 1900 June 20 

232 10

Newspapers. "Shanghai Evening Post" 1931 February 21 

232 11

Newspapers. "Society Manila Bulletin" 1931 February 12 

232 12

Newspapers. "The Standard" (London) 1901 February 4 

232 13

Newspapers. Philadelphia newspapers 1901 

231 1-4

Newspapers. Stockholm newspapers 1937 

232 14

Paper dolls undated 

222 6

Patriotic circa 1895-1940 

222 7-9

Philadelphia 1903-1946 

223 1-6
Volume

Postage stamp scrapbook circa 1830-1899 

99
Box Folder

Postcards, greeting cards and invitations 

223 7
Box

Postcards, greeting cards and invitations 

224
Box Folder

Playbills 1878-1937 

225 1-2

Religion 1908-1910 

225 3

Sesquicentennial Exposition circa 1926 

225 4

Stamp collecting 1937-1943 

225 5

Stamps, advertising stamp albums undated 

225 6

Sulgrave Manor circa 1967 

225 7

Travel 

225 8
Box

Travel 

226-229
Box Folder

Travel 

233 10-13

Women in medicine circa 1906-1931 

230 1

Women's rights 1938-1939 

230 2

World fairs circa 1904 

230 3
Box

Miscellaneous publications and ephemera circa 1898-1947 

212-214
Box Folder

Miscellaneous publications and ephemera circa 1898-1947 

215 1

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