Texts & Documents (sorted by date) |
Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pensilvania. |
Benjamin Franklin's proposal for an academy in Philadelphia |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
1749 |
30 |
Curtis 417 |
Indenture transferring land on the west side of Fourth Street to the Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia |
Documents the acquisition of Penn's first campus, created by the transfer of the Whitefield building and land to the Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia. |
Wooley [Woolley], Edmund and John Coats |
February 1, 1749/1750 |
Four parchment leaves of different sizes. |
UPA 3: Constitutions and Charter Collection |
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 1, 1749-1768 (College, Academy and Charitable School) |
Minutes of the Trustees |
Coleman, William; Jackson, Paul; Jones, John;
Campbell, Samuel; Smith, William |
1749-1768 |
373 |
UPA 1.1 Vol. I |
Constitutions of the Publick Academy, in the City of Philadelphia, 1749. Oaths of Faculty and Trustees, 1755-1776. |
Constitution (1749) and Charter (1753) of the Academy of Philadelphia |
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (College, Academy and Charitable School) |
1749 - 1776 |
52 |
UPA 3 D1115 |
The Port folio |
Franklin to Samuel Johnson on the education of youth, August 23, 1750 [printed 1809] |
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1750 |
3 |
AP2 .P85 ser.2, no. 2 |
Tuition book. "Book of Accounts Belonging to the Academy In Philadelphia." January 7, 1751 - July 26, 1757. |
Tuition account book |
Coleman, William |
1751 - 1757 |
67 |
UPA 3: Financial - Ledgers |
A sermon on education: Wherein some account is given of the academy, established in the city of Philadelphia : Preach'd at the opening thereof, on the seventh day of January, 1750-1 / By the Reverend Mr.
Richard Peters. |
Dedicatory address at the opening of the Academy of
Philadelphia |
Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 |
1751 |
64 |
Curtis Coll. 472 |
Idea of the English School, Sketch'd out for the Consideration of the Trustees of the Philadelphia Academy |
Idea of the English School. |
Franklin, Benjamin |
1751 |
8 |
Curtis Coll. 472 |
A general idea of the College of Mirania; with a sketch of the method of teaching science and religion, in the several classes: and some account of its rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals, &c. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New-York |
William Smith's proposal for a college in New York |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1753 |
86 |
AC7 Sm683 753g |
A poem on visiting the Academy of Philadelphia, June 1753. |
William Smith's advice for the Academy of Philadelphia |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1753 |
16 |
Folio 511F |
Prayers, for the use of the Philadelphia Academy. |
Prayers, proposed for use in the Academy of Philadelphia, 1753 |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1753 |
20 |
Curtis 508 |
A brief state of the province of Pennsylvania, in which the conduct of their assemblies for several years past is impartially examined, and the true cause of the continual encroachments of the French displayed, more especially the secret design of their late unwarrantable invasion and settlement upon the River Ohio. : To which is annexed, an easy plan for restoring quiet in the public measures of that province, and defeating the ambitious views of the French in time to come. : In a letter from a gentleman who has resided many years in Pennsylvania to his friend in London. |
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Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1755 |
45 |
F152 .S62 1755b |
A View of the Latin, Greek and Philosophy Schools at the College of Philadelphia. |
Article published in the Pennsylvania Gazette. |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
August 12, 1756 |
1 |
AP2.A2 P355 |
A charge : delivered May 17, 1757, at the first anniversary commencement in the college and academy of Philadelphia, to the young gentlemen who took their degrees on that occasion / By W. Smith, M.A. Provost of the said college ... To which is added, in Latin, a Salutatory Oration... |
Commencement address |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1757 |
16 |
LD4542 1757 |
The American magazine, and monthly chronicle for the British colonies by a society of gentleman. |
Account of the College and Academy of Philadelphia |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1757-1758 |
12 |
AP7 Sm683a |
Tuition book. "College Tuition Book from 1758(sic)-1769." July 18, 1757-December 23, 1769. |
Tuition account book |
Coleman, William; Shippen, Jr., Edward; Strettell, Amos; Willing, Thomas; Coxe, William; Allen, John |
1757-1769 |
132 |
UPA 3: Financial - Ledgers |
Discourses on several public occasions during the war in America: preached chiefly with a view to the explaining the importance of the Protestant cause, in the British colonies and the advancement of religion, patriotism and military virtue among which are a discourse on adversity and also a discourse on planting the sciences, and the propagation of Christianity, in the untutored parts of the earth . . . |
Discourses on several public occasions during the war in America |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1759 |
248 |
E199 .S64 1759 |
Petition to the attorney general of George III |
Petition to the attorney general of George III |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1759 |
8 |
Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1759 |
A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America. |
Selection pertaining to British Settlements in America |
Douglass, William |
1760 |
3 |
E188 .D75 v.2 |
A discourse concerning the conversion of the heathen Americans, and the final propagation of Christianity and the sciences to the ends of the earth. In two parts. Part I. Preached before a voluntary convention of the Episcopal clergy of Pennsylvania... |
Evangelical addresses clergy of the Church of England |
Smith, William, 1727-1803; Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768 |
1760 |
64 |
AC7 Sm683 760d |
An exercise consisting of a dialogue and ode sacred to the memory of his late gracious majesty Geogre [sic] II |
Memorial address, on the life of King George II |
Smith, William, 1727-1803; Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 |
1761? |
10 |
AC7 Sm683 761e |
Discourses on several public occasions during the war in America |
Public addresses on the Seven Years War |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1762 |
396 |
E199 .S65 |
Matriculation and lecture tickets series, 1765-1799. |
Class admission tickets |
University of Pennsylvania |
1765-1799 |
29 |
UPA 3: Matric. and Lecture Ticket Series |
An exercise, containing a dialogue and two odes. Performed at the public commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 20th, 1766. |
Commencement address |
[Hopkinson, Thomas], 1747-1784 |
1766 |
8 |
LD4542 1766 A45 |
Tuition account book. July 17, 1767-October 1, 1779; July 1, 1789-April 12, 1791. |
Tuition account book |
Willing, Thomas; Coxe, William; Allen, John; Peters, Richard; Lawrence, John; Jones, Isaac; Mifflin, Thomas; White, William; Powel, Samuel; Hopkinson, Francis; Clymer, George; Hill, Henry |
1767-1779; 1789-1791 |
251 |
UPA 3: Financial - Ledgers |
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 2, 1768-1779; 1789-1791 (College, Academy and Charitable School; University of Pennsylvania) |
Minutes of the Trustees |
Smith, William; Hopkinson, Joseph; Glentworth, Plunket Fleeson |
1768 - 1779; 1789 - 1791 |
256 |
UPA 1.1 Vol. II |
An Exercise; containing a dialogue and two odes performed at the Commencement in the College of Philadelphia, June 5th, 1770. |
Commencement address |
unknown |
1770 |
8 |
AC7 Sm683 770e |
An excercise : containing, a dialogue and two odes set to music, for the public commencement, in the College of Philadelphia, May 17th, 1775. |
Commencement address |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1775 |
24 |
371.292 Sm683 |
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 3, 1779-1788 (University of the State of Pennsylvania) |
Minutes of the Trustees |
Sterrett, Samuel; Sproat, John |
1779 - 1788 |
259 |
UPA 1.1 Vol. III |
Tuition Money book. October 1, 1782-October 8, 1788. |
Tuition fees collected by the University of the State of Pennsylvania and its Lower Schools. |
Sterrett, Samuel and John Sproat |
1782-1788 |
125 |
UPA 3: Financial - Ledgers |
Family expences: manuscript, 1783-1784. |
Franklin's household account book, while in France |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
1783 - 1784 |
118 |
Ms. Codex 641 |
Roll book. May 5, 1787-February 27, 1792. |
Daily attendance record of students in the University of the State of Pennsylvania arranged by department. |
Sproat, John and Edward Fox |
1787-1792 |
259 |
UPA 3: Class Records - Ledgers |
Observations relative to the intentions of the original founders of the Academy in Philadelphia. |
Observations on the intentions of the founders. |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
1789 [printed 1840] |
28 |
E302 .F8 1840 v.2 |
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 4, 1789-1791 (University of the State of Pennsylvania) |
Minutes of the Trustees |
Fox, Edward |
1789 - 1791 |
119 |
UPA 1.1 Vol. IV |
An exercise, performed at the public commencement, in the College of Philadelphia, July 17, 1790. Containing an ode, set to music, sacred to the memory of Dr. Franklin . . . |
Commencement address |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1790 |
12 |
LD4542 1790 A45 |
Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. president of the American philosophical society ... fellow of the Royal society of London, member of the Royal academy of sciences at Paris ... and of many other literary |
Memorial address on the life of Benjamin Franklin |
Smith, William, 1727-1803 |
1792 |
49 |
UPT 2. F831S |