Eastern Americana

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Three greeting cards from 1928-1929. HE

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Five European and American chromo cards on Teddy Roosevelt. HCC

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Word war 2 photo of Henry Ford. 20x25cm. RC

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Hostetter Illustrated United States Almanac 1904. Some staining on cover only. LC

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Group of ten 19th century photos of North Carolina residents. Four are identified. HAC

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Collection of 13 cabinet cards featuring natives of Pennsylvania mainly, but also Illinois. ACC

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USA Internal Revenue order form for Opium or Coca Leaves, issued by the Treasury Department, 1944. RC B 

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1939 issue of VU featuring the New York Expo on the cover. TC

EAM 015EAM 015Manuscript Diaries of Frank Tenney, his wife Edith and his daughers Kathryn and Margaret, dated 1882-1928.

Collection of 11 diaries from Frank Tenney, his wife Edith Bouve Tenney and their daughters Katharine and Margaret and 5 Haverford school report books from their son John Bouve Tenney from 1901-1906. The collection includes diaries for following years: for Frank Tenney - 1882, 1920, 1922, 1923 and 1928. For Margaret there are two diaries, covering the period 1910-1924, as well as a ledger for 1914 accounting for how she spent her allowance. For Katharine there is one diary, covering the period 1916-1918. Lastly the diary from Edith covers the period 1912-1916. The diaries for Katharine, Margaret and Edith are five year diaries, which has one page containing each day for each five years. Franks diaries are all one page per day. The diaries are written in ink, in a legible hand. The five year diary measures approximately 3" x 6", the rest of the diaries are small pocket diaries, measuring approximately 2" x 3". Almost every page has been written in. The entries are generally short, between one to three sentences per day. Some of the diaries have memoranda, notes, addresses, or cash accounts entries filled in at rear. The diaries record Tenney's everyday activities, both social and business, such as annual company meetings he attended, or company directors meetings, or where he went in relation to work, who he met with, etc. EAM 015EAM 015There are also over the years records of various vacations, places he toured, etc. The diaries of Edith and the two daughters gives insight into their daily life. The diaries for Margaret are particularly interesting because they span, uninterrupted, 14 years of a girls life where she matures from teenager to adult. TCC

Note:Frank Tenney was an assistant superintendent of the Pennsylvania Steel Company. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1861, the son of Benjamin F. Tenney and Mary (Viles) Tenney. B. F. Tenney was born in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, in 1813, and was for many years a merchant in Boston, but subsequently became a member of the Boston Stock Exchange with which he was connected for many years. B. F. Tenney was married in January, 1861, to Mary Bowman Viles, daughter of John and Sally (Dudley) Viles, of Lexington, Massachusetts. Together they had at least three children: Frank Tenney (our diary writer); Maud Tenney, wife of F. F. Sherburn, and Arthur Tenney, who died in 1866. Frank Tenney was educated in the public schools of Boston, finishing his course in the English high school in 1879. He then took a four years' course in metallurgical and mining engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his B.S. in 1883. Shortly after graduating from M.I.T., Tenney moved to Steelton, Pennsylvania and was appointed assistant superintendent of the blast furnaces and served in this position until the fall of 1885 when he was transferred to Ashland, Baltimore County, Maryland, to take charge of some blast furnaces which the Pennsylvania Steel Company had leased.EAM 015EAM 015 In 1886 he returned to Steelton and was made purchasing agent of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, which position he held until 1890. From this year until 1893 Mr. Tenney was an assistant to the general manager, where he was eventually promoted assistant superintendent, which position he held for a number of years. Mr. Tenney was married at Hull, Massachusetts, June 4, 1889, to Miss Edith C. Bouve, the daughter of George F. and A. F. (Cutler) Bouve, of Boston. Together Tenney and his wife had at least three children: John B. Tenney, born June 26, 1890; Margaret Tenney, born April 1, 1892, and Katharine Tenney, born October 5, 1894. His son John B. Tenney was struck by several steel beams in 1917 while working at a steel plant and died. Mr. Tenney's politics were Republican. He was a member of the school board of Steelton. The Pennsylvania Steel Company of New Jersey had offices at the Girard Building in Philadelphia. It was incorporated in 1901 and owned practically all the stock of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, with works at Steelton, Harrisburg, and Leb. Frank Tenney died October 5, 1929 and is buried in Bryn Mawr.

EAM 015Edit died in February, 1951. Katharine married Howard Edson and had one child. However they divorced and in 1940 Katharine and her daughter were living at her mothers home along with sister Margaret. She died in April, 1972. Margaret never married and died in May, 1976. The entire family is buried at Church of the Redeemer Cemetery in Bryn Mawr.

The really great thing about this collection is that you have lifes perspective from members of the same family over time. The daughters lives are interesting in that although only two years apart, one ended up a spinster and the other a divorced mother. You can place the diaries of the mother and two daughters side by side and get an insight as to how they each viewed the days events.

EAM 0101923 diary belonging to Frank Patterson of Huntigndon, PA. He was the Chief Medical Examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Many references in the diary related to the railroad. He was married to Gertrude (Gertie) and they were very close. They enjoyed going to parties as well as giving them, going to the country club, helping the ladies aid, shopping, etc.EAM 010 He makes references to the railroad, friends, a train wreck, the death of President Harding and the train carrying him through to Marion Ohio, buying his first stock in the railroad, different doctors coming and going, buying life insurance for the first time, he and Gertie going to Bermuda. He mentions using Butyn in his eyes instead of cocaine. Places mentioned are Altoona, Pittsburg and Birmingham. The diary is in fair condition with clipped corners not affecting the text. Written in ink, measuring 3x5 inches, there are 126 pages of entries. ACC

Note:Frank Patterson was born December 20, 1878 at Landisberg, PA, the son of John Patterson and Ada Lighter. He died on July 19, 1956 at Rural Tyrone, Blair, PA.