The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Margaret Berwind Schiffer

Title: Research notes and photographs

Dates: ca. 1955-ca.1980

Call No.: Col. 644

Acc. No.: 01x86; 05x38

Quantity: 90 boxes (25 cu. ft.)

Location: 26 A-D 1-5 and E 1

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Margaret Berwind Schiffer was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She attended Shipley School and Harcum Junior College. Mrs. Schiffer has been a member of the Chester County Historical Society, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the Women’s Committee of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Society of Architectural Historians.

She has written at least seven books: Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania; Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania; Survey of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Architecture, 17^th, 18^th, and 19^th Centuries; Chester County, Pennsylvania, Inventories, 1684-1850; Arts and Crafts of Chester County, Pennsylvania; Christmas Ornaments: A Festive Study; and Holidays: Toys and Decorations.

Margaret Schiffer is married to Herbert F. Schiffer, an author of books about decorative arts and an antiques dealer in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection includes notes and photographs gathered for the books written by Mrs. Schiffer, many notes relating to the history of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and notes about Christmas celebrations and decorations. The collection also includes a few pieces of correspondence relating to the publishing of her books and drafts of some of them. In addition, there are notes for an article about silver written by Mr. Schiffer, some photographs that relate to his antique business, and a few personal papers and photos. Most of the materials pertain specifically to Mrs. Schiffer’s books, and there are also pictures of European needlework and furniture.

Included with the collection are a number of boxes of note cards, most of which were used to index various lists, such as tax lists from Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the original boxes containing these cards were usually not labeled, and it was not always clear what the cards referred to. Furthermore, a number of the cards were not in their original boxes, but were located elsewhere, and it was not always possible to discern where they should be filed. The materials about people and inventories have been placed in the same series because at least some of the information about people came from inventories; however, it is not known for certain that the materials were gathered at the same time or that they were intended to be used together.

ORGANIZATION

The papers came as two different gifts and are arranged in six series, the first four of which

correspond to books written by Mrs. Schiffer. The sixth series contains the papers which were part of the second gift.

I. Needlework;

II. Furniture;

III. Architecture and Buildings;

IV. Inventories and People;

V. Other notes, and books; and

VI. Notes on Chester County history, Christmas, and other notes and photos.

PROVENANCE

Gift of Margaret Berwind and Herbert Schiffer.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Schiffer, Herbert.

Topics:

Furniture – Pennsylvania – Chester County.

Needlework – Pennsylvania.

Needlework – Patterns.

Architecture – Pennsylvania – Chester County.

Art objects – Pennsylvania – Chester County.

Handicraft – Pennsylvania – Chester County.

Inventories – Pennsylvania – Chester County.

Occupations – Pennsylvania – Chester County.

Christmas.

Christmas decorations.

Christmas trees.

Santa Claus.

Chester County (Pa.) – Buildings, structures, etc. – Photographs.

Chester County (Pa.) – History - Sources.

Chester County (Pa.) – Industries.

Chester County (Pa.) – Photographs.

Inventories.

Recipes.

Photographs.

Drafts (documents).

Notes.

Added titles:

Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania.

Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Survey of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Architecture.

Chester County, Pennsylvania, Inventories, 1684-1850.

Arts and Crafts of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 26 A-D 1-5 and E 1

Series I: Needlework

Box 1:

Folder 1: “The Art of Stump Work,” article by Margaret Schiffer

Folder 2: Needlework: American: notes

Folder 3: Needlework: American: photos

Folder 4: Needlework: book covers: photos

Folder 5: Needlework: chairs: photos

Folder 6: Needlework: Chester County: notes

Folder 7: Needlework: Chester County: photos

Folder 8: Needlework: Chester County: canvas: photos

Folder 9: Needlework: Chester County: crewel: photos

Folder 10: Needlework: Chester County: flame stitch: photos

Folder 11: Needlework: Chester County: samplers: photos and notes

Folder 12: Needlework: Chester County: sewing accessories and tools: photos and notes

Folder 13: Needlework: Chester County: silk: photos

Folder 14: Needlework: Chester County: stump work: photos

Folder 15: Needlework: correspondence

Folder 16: Needlework: coverlets and quilts: photos and notes

Folder 17: Needlework: English: notes

Folder 18: Needlework: English: photos

Series I: Box 2:

Folder 1: Needlework: French, other European, East Indian

Folder 2: Needlework: globes and maps: photos

Folder 3: Needlework: miscellaneous photos

Folder 4: Needlework: negatives [see also boxes 5-6]

Folder 5: Needlework: notes, with a few photos

Folder 6: Needlework: pattern for hearth rug, 1863

Folder 7: Needlework: Pennsylvania: notes

Folder 8: Needlework: Pennsylvania: notes and photos (part 1)

Folder 9: Needlework: Pennsylvania: notes and photos (part 2)

Folder 10: Needlework: Pennsylvania: photos

Folder 11: Needlework: Pennsylvania: Berlin work: photos

Folder 12: Needlework: Pennsylvania: canvas: photos and notes

Folder 13: Needlework: Pennsylvania: canvas work: photos and notes

Series I: Box 3:

Folder 1: Needlework: Pennsylvania: crewel: photos and notes

Folder 2: Needlework: Pennsylvania: miscellaneous items: photos

Folder 3: Needlework: Pennsylvania: patterns: photos

Folder 4: Needlework: Pennsylvania: quilts: photos and notes

Folder 5: Needlework: Pennsylvania: quilted goods: photos

Folder 6: Needlework: Pennsylvania: samplers: photos and notes

Folder 7: Needlework: Pennsylvania: show towels: photos and notes

Folder 8: Needlework: Pennsylvania: silk: photos and notes

Folder 9: Needlework: Pennsylvania: silk embroidery: photos and notes

Folder 10: Needlework: photos (part 1)

Folder 11: Needlework: photos (part 2)

Folder 12: Needlework: pictures [various media]: photos

Folder 13: Needlework: quilts, coverlets (woven): photos

Folder 14: Needlework: research materials for Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania (folder 1 of 2)

Series I: Box 4:

Folders 1: Needlework: research materials for Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania (folder 2 of 2)

Folders 2-3: Needlework: samplers: notes

Folder 4: Needlework: samplers: photos

Folder 5: Needlework: samplers (including darning samplers): photos

Folder 6: Needlework: samplers and school girl work: photos and notes

Folder 7: Needlework: tablecloths: photos

Folder 8: Needlework: wearing apparel, pockets, wallets: photos

Folder 9: Needlework: Westtown School

Folder 10: Needlework: Westtown School: photos (mostly of needlework)

Series I: Boxes 5-6: Negatives for Schiffer’s book on Pennsylvania needlework

Series II: Furniture

Box 1:

Folder 1: Beds: notes and photos

Folder 2: Benches and settees: notes and photos

Folder 3: Blanket chests: notes and photos

Folder 4: Blanket chests: photos

Folder 5: Blanket chests: photos with a letter

Folder 6: Boxes: notes and photos

Folder 7: Boxes: photos

Folder 8: Chairs: notes

Folder 9: Chairs: notes and photos

Folder 10: Chairs: photos

Folder 11: Chairs: photos of J. Custer brand and chair

Folders 12-14: Chairs: notes and notes

Folder 15: Chairs: photos

Folders 16-17: Chairs: photos

[these photos seem to be related to Mr. Schiffer’s antique shop, not to Mrs. Shiffer’s research]

Series II: Box 2:

Folder 1: Chests: notes

Folder 2: Chests: notes and photos

Folder 3: Chests: photos

Folders 4-5: Chests: photos and notes

Folder 6: Chests of drawers: notes and photos

Folder 7: Chests of drawers: photos

Folder 8: Chests of drawers, bureaus, dressing tables: photos

Folder 9: Chest of drawers that belonged to David Ogden

Folder 10: Chest-on-frame: photos

Folder 11: Clocks: notes

Folder 12: Clocks: notes and photos

Series II: Box 3:

Folders 1-3: Clocks: photos

Folder 4: Clocks and other instruments: notes

Folder 5: Clothes presses: notes and photos

Folder 6: Corner cupboards: notes and photos

Folder 7: Corner shelves: photos and notes

Folder 8: Cradles: photos

Folder 9: Daybed: notes and photos

Folder 10: Desks: notes and photos

Folder 11: Desks: photos and notes

Folder 12-13: Desks and secretaries: photos

Folder 14: Dressers: photos and notes

Folder 15: Frames: notes and photos

Folder 16: Hanging cupboard: photos and notes

Folder 17: Inlay: photos

Folder 18: Inlay details: photos

Series II: Box 4:

Folder 1: Inlay: vol. 2: notes

[note: there is no vol. 1]

Folder 2: Inlay: vol. 2: photos

Folder 3: Miscellaneous furniture pieces: negatives

Folder 4: Miscellaneous furniture pieces: notes

Folder 5: Miscellaneous furniture pieces: photos and notes

Folder 6: Miscellaneous furniture pieces: photos

Folders 7-9: Notes

Folder 10: Notes about furniture from Antiques

Folder 11: Orrery, telescope, compasses, barometers: photos

Folder 12: Photos of furniture [continues in next box]

Series II: Box 5:

Folders 1-2: Photos of furniture

Folder 3: Secretaries: notes and photos

Folder 4: Settles: notes and photos

Folder 5: Sideboards: notes and photos

Folder 6: Spice boxes: notes

Folders 7-8: Spice boxes: notes and photos

Folders 9-12: Spice boxes: photos

Folder 13: Spice boxes: photos and notes

Series II: Box 6:

Folder 1: Spice boxes: Chippendale style: notes

Folder 2: Spice boxes: Early, notes and photos

Folder 3: Stands: notes and photos

Folder 4: Tables: notes and photos

Folder 5: Tables: photos

Folder 6: Tables: photos

Folder 7: Tables: photos and notes

Folder 8: Tables and stands: photos

Folders 9-10: Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with additional notes

Folder 11: Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania: photos

Folder 12: Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania: book jacket

Folder 13: bill for taking photos of furniture

Series III: Architecture

Box 1:

Folders 1-2: Architecture: notes

Folder 3: Architecture, to be filed

Folder 4: Architecture, to be filed: photos

Folder 5: Barns (and other outbuildings): notes

Folder 6: Barns (and other outbuildings): photos

Series III: Box 2:

Folder 1: Bridges: notes

Folder 2: Bridges: photos

Folder 3: Buildings: notes

Folder 4: Buildings: notes, arranged by location

Folder 5: Buildings: photos

Folder 6: Buildings: fountains: photos

Folder 7: Buildings: interiors: photos

Folder 8: Buildings: interiors and exteriors: photos

Folder 9: Buildings and room interiors: negatives [some are for photos in folder 10]

Folder 10: Buildings and room interiors: photos [negatives for some are in folder 9]

Folder 11: Businesses: notes

Series III: Box 3:

Folder 1: Businesses: photos

Folder 2: Chapter writeups: miscellaneous notes

Folder 3: Chapter writeups: Chester County

Folder 4: Chapter writeups: [illegible] colonial

Folder 5: Chapter writeups: barns

Folder 6: Chapter writeups: Georgian

Folder 7: Chapter writeups: classical

Folder 8: Chapter writeups: Victorian

Folder 9: Chester County architecture: introduction

Folder 10: Chester County architecture: part II: buildings of log

Folder 11: Chester County architecture: 18^th century buildings

Folder 12: Chester County architecture: part IV: 19^th century: captions for pictures

Folder 13: Chester County architecture: picture captions

Folder 14: Chester County architecture: essay

Folder 15: Chester County architecture: miscellaneous notes (folder 1 of 2)

Series III: Box 4:

Folder 1: Chester County architecture: miscellaneous notes (folder 2 of 2)

Folder 2: Churches: Maryland

Folder 3: Churches: notes

Folders 4-5: Churches of Chester County: notes

Folders 6-7: Churches of Chester County: photos

Folder 8: Correspondence re: publication of Architecture in Chester County

Folder 9: Exhibition catalog: “Early Architecture of Chester County, Pennsylvania,” Swarthmore College, 1960 (2 copies)

Folder 10: Government buildings: notes

Folder 11: Governments buildings: photos

Folder 12: Hotels: notes

Folder 13: Hotels: photos

Folder 14: Houses: miscellaneous notes (folder 1 of 2)

Series III: Box 5:

Folders 1-2: Houses: miscellaneous notes

Folder 3: Houses: Book I: notes (part 1)

Folder 4: Houses: Book I: notes (part 2)

Folders 5-6: Houses: Book I: photos

Folders 7-8: Houses: Book II: notes

Series III: Box 6:

Folders 1-3: Houses: Book II: photos

Folders 4-6: Houses: Book III: notes

Folders 7-9: Houses: Book III: photos

Series III: Box 7:

Folders 1-3: Houses: Book IV: notes

Folders 4-6: Houses: Book IV: photos

Folder 7: Mills: notes

Folder 8: Mills: photos

Folder 9: Miscellaneous notes, chiefly about buildings

Folder 10: Miscellaneous notes, labeled “published copy”

Folder 11: Railroad stations: notes and photos

Folder 12: Room with murals: photos and negatives

Folder 13: Schools: notes

Folder 14: Schools: photos

Series III: Box 8: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Architecture: notes: additions, apple kiln, awning, bake, balcony, bank, banked, bark mill

Folder 2: Architecture: notes: barns

Folder 3: Architecture: notes: barrack, Bate, bath, beam, bee, blade mill, board, brew, brick, bridges, Brag, buttery, cabin, calf, captain’s walk, carriage, cart, cave, ceiling, cellar, chair, cheese, chicken, chimney, cider, clapboard, closets/cupboards, clover mill

Folder 4: Architecture: notes: coach, coal, cupboards, color, corn crib, cornice, cottage, cotton, cow, church [no notes, so placed at end of C’s], date stone, distillery, dog, doors, drying, dugouts, dumbwaiter, farm, fireplaces, fire proof, floor, forge, fowl, frame, framed

Folder 5: Architecture: notes: fulling, gable, gallery, garden, garret, gas, Geer, glass, granary, gravel, greenhouse, grist, hardware, hay, heating, hen, hog, house carpenter, house dimensions

Series III: Box 9:

Folder 1: Architecture: notes: hovel, ice, imitation, incubator, interior decoration, iron, leather, landscaping, lathed, lean-to, lime, log

Folder 2: Architecture: notes: malt, marble, merchant mill, metal, milk, mill, mortar, moulding [sic], mud, oat, octagonal, office, offset, oil mill, outhouse, oven

Folder 3: Architecture: notes: paint, paper mill, partition, pebble dash, pent eave, piazza, pictures, pilaster, pillars and post, pidgeon [sic] house, plank, plaster, plumbing

Folder 4: Architecture: notes: portico, pot house, poultry, powder mill, press house, prices, privy, public building, pump house, remodel, roofing

Series III: Box 10:

Folder 1: Architecture: notes: rooms, rough cast, row houses, saddle house, saw mill, school, shed, sheep

Folder 2: Architecture: notes: shop, silo, sky light, slab, slaughter house, slitting mill, slate, smoke, snuff mill, spring, squirrel, stable

Folder 3: Architecture: notes: still, stone, stone and brick, stone and brick and frame, stone and frame, stone and log, stone and timber, stone and wood, store, stoop, straw, [style?], summer, tannery, ten pin alley, tiles, tilt mill, timber, tin, tobacco, tombstones, tower, turning mill, vat house, vault

Folder 4: Architecture: notes: wagon, wainscoting, wallpaper, walls, warehouse, wash, waste, water closet, weather board, well house, wharf, windmill, windows

Folder 5: Architecture: notes: wings, wood, wood house, wooden

Folder 6: Architecture: notes: miscellaneous

Series III: Box 11:

Folder 1: Architecture: notes from estate records

Folder 2: Architecture: notes from 1883 atlas

Folder 3: Architecture: notes from censuses

Folder 4: Architecture: notes from travels

Folder 5: Architecture: notes from Brinton diary

Folder 6: Architecture: notes from wills

Folder 7: Architecture: notes from account books

Folder 8: Architecture: notes from miscellaneous sources

Series III: Box 12:

Folder 1: Architecture: notes on townships: Atglen through Coatesville

Folder 2: Architecture: notes on townships: Coventry through East Brandywine

Folder 3: Architecture: notes on townships: East Caln through East Fallowfield

Folder 4: Architecture: notes on townships: East Goshen through East Nottingham

Series III: Box 13:

Folder 1: Architecture: notes on townships: East Pikeland through Highland

Folder 2: Architecture: notes on townships: Honeybrook through Kennett Square

Folder 3: Architecture: notes on townships: London Britain through Lower Oxford

Folder 4: Architecture: notes on townships: Malvern through Parkersburg

Folder 5: Architecture: notes on townships: Penn through Sadsbury

Folder 6: Architecture: notes on townships: Schuylkill through Tredyffrin

Series III: Box 14:

Folder 1: Architecture: notes on townships: Upper Oxford through Wallace

Folder 2: Architecture: notes on townships: Warwick through West Caln

Folder 3: Architecture: notes on townships: West Chester

Folder 4: Architecture: notes on townships: West Fallowfield through West Nottingham

Folder 5: Architecture: notes on townships: West Pikeland through Willistown

Series III: Box 15: Photos and negatives: Buildings and interiors: Areas 1 and 2

Series III: Box 16: Photos and negatives: Buildings and interiors: Area 3

Series III: Box 17: Photos and negatives: Buildings and interiors: [no area given]

Series III: Box 18: Photos and negatives: Buildings and interiors: [no area given]

Series III: Box 19: Photos (color transparencies, slides) and negatives: Buildings and interiors

Series III, Oversize folder (on shelf):

Photo of exterior of a house, Elaes(?) Mill

Photo and negative of planting plan for Woodstock [farm off Conestoga Road], ca. 1805 (also a photostatic copy)

Photo of first floor plan for Woodstock, 1776 – plan drawn by Humphrey Wayne for James Hunter (also a photostatic copy)

Series IV: Inventories and notes on people

Box 1:

Folder 1: Inventories indexes: first mentions

Folder 2: Inventories: summaries

Folder 3: Inventories: index, 1684-1700

Folders 4-5: Inventories: index, 1684-1720

Folders 6-7: Inventories: index, 1700-1710

Folder 8: Inventories: index, ca.1715-ca.1760

Folder 9: Inventories: index, 1715-1800

Series IV: Box 2:

Folder 1: Inventories: index, 1710-1720

Folder 2: Inventories: index, 1720-1730

Folder 3: Inventories: index, 1720-1740

Folder 4: Inventories: index, 1720-1740 [not an exact duplicate of folder 3]

Folder 5: Inventories: index, 1730-1740

Folders 6-7: Inventories: index, 1740-1760

Folder 8: Inventories: index, 1760-1770

Series IV: Box 3:

Folder 1: Inventories: index, 1760-1770

Folders 2-3: Inventories: index, 1770-1780

Folders 4-5: Inventories: index, 1777

Folders 6-7: Inventories: index, 1780-1790 (copy 1)

Series IV: Box 4:

Folders 1-2: Inventories: index, 1780-1790 (copy 2)

Folder 3: Inventories: 1780-1790: notes from specific inventories

Folders 4-5: Inventories: index, 1790-1800

Folder 6: Inventories: 1790-1800: notes from specific inventories

Folder 7: Inventories: index, 1800-1810 (copy 1)

Series IV: Box 5:

Folder 1: Inventories: index, 1800-1810 (copy 2)

Folder 2: Inventories: 1800-1810: notes from specific inventories

Folders 3-6: Inventories: index, 1810-1820

Series IV: Box 6:

Folder 1: Inventories: 1810-1820: notes from specific inventories

Folders 2-4: Inventories: index, 1820-1830

Folder 5: Inventories: 1820-1830: notes from specific inventories

Folder 6: Inventories: index, 1820-1823

Series IV: Box 7:

Folder 1: Inventories: index, 1824-1827

Folders 2-3: Inventories: index, 1830-1840

Folders 4-5: Inventories: index, 1840-1850

Series IV: Box 8:

Folder 1: Inventories index: totals

Folder 2: Inventories index: mentions on microfilm(?)

Folder 3: Inventories and wills: indexes: architecture

Folder 4: Inventories and wills: indexes: books, pictures, and maps

Folder 5: Inventories and wills: indexes: carpets

Folder 6: Inventories and wills: indexes: china, delftware, hollandware, stoneware

Folder 7: Inventories and wills: indexes: color

Folder 8: Inventories and wills: indexes: coverlets/coverlids and blankets

Folder 9: Inventories and wills: indexes: curtains

Series IV: Box 9:

Folder 1: Inventories and wills: indexes: furniture and furniture forms

Folder 2: Inventories and wills: indexes: furniture coverings

Folder 3: Inventories and wills: indexes: glass

Folder 4: Inventories and wills: indexes: gold and jewelry

Folder 5: Inventories and wills: indexes: hardware

Folder 6: Inventories and wills: indexes: industries and tools

Folder 7: Inventories and wills: indexes: interior decoration and mantle pieces

Folder 8: Inventories and wills: indexes: investments

Folder 9: Inventories and wills: indexes: japanware, gilt, sconces, plaster

Folder 10: Inventories and wills: indexes: miscellaneous items

Folder 11: Inventories and wills: indexes: musical instruments

Folder 12: Inventories and wills: indexes: silver, plate

Folder 13: Inventories and wills: indexes: stoves, bell metal

Folder 14: Inventories and wills: indexes: textiles

Folder 15: Inventories and wills: indexes: toys

Series IV: Box 10:

Folder 1: Inventories and wills: indexes: woods

Folder 2: Inventories: rooms mentioning spice boxes before 1800

Folders 3-4: Philadelphia inventories

Folder 5: Inventories: copies

Series IV: Box 11:

Folder 1: Textiles: notes, related to inventories

Folder 2: Account books: notes and inventories

Series IV: Box 12: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Inventories mentioning clothing; lists of books

Folder 2: Inventories: notes on architecture

Folder 3: Inventories: notes on boats, ceramics, churns, coverlets, curtains

Folder 4: Inventories: notes on furniture

Folder 5: Inventories: notes on gold, interior decoration, mantle pieces, needlework, saddles, silver, stoves

Folder 6: Inventories from Cecil County, Maryland

Folder 7: Silver: occurrences of mentions in inventories, 1684-1850

Folder 8: Inventories: notes [envelope labeled “2d time over inventory work”]

Series IV: Box 13:

Folder 1: People: goldsmiths

Folder 2: People: list of occupations: general list of 1796; gunsmiths; whitesmiths; tin plate workers; coppersmiths; cutlers; goldsmiths; ironworkers; pewterers; silversmiths

Folder 3: People: mostly craftsmen’s ads from newspapers

Folder 4: People: silversmiths: correspondence about Benjamin Campbell

Folder 5: People: woodworkers: notes

Folder 6: People: notes

Series IV: Box 14:

Folder 1: People: notes and information from account books

Folder 2: People: notes: 1684-1730

Folder 3: People: notes: 1720-1730

Folder 4: People: notes: 1730-1740

Folder 5: People: notes: 1740-1750

Folder 6: People: notes: 1753-1760

Folder 7: People: notes: 1760-1770

Folder 8: People: notes: 1770-1780

Folder 9: People: notes: 1780-1790

Folder 10: People: notes: 1790-1800

Series IV: Box 15:

Folder 1: People: notes: 1800-1810

Folder 2: People: notes: 1810-1820

Folder 3: People: notes: 1820-1830

Folder 4: People: notes: 1830-1840

Folder 5: People: notes: 1840 and later

Folder 6: People: notes: miscellaneous time periods

Series IV: Boxes16-17: note cards: Inventory

Series IV: Box 18: note cards: Chester County inventories and miscellaneous notes

Series IV: Box 19: note cards: Occupations listed in deed, mortgages, and letters of attorney

Series IV: Box 20: note cards: Names of grist mill operators and other names

Series IV: Box 21: note cards: “Weaver” [this was title on box, names of weavers?]

Series IV: Boxes 22-24: note cards: Name index

Series IV: Box 25: note cards: Miscellaneous names index

Series IV: Box 26: note cards: Industries, 1785-1821, 1826-1827

Series IV: Box 27: note cards: Industries, 1828; Occupations

Series IV: Box 28: note cards: Industries

Series IV: Box 29: note cards: Industries and index to industries mentioned in deed book

Series IV: Box 30: note cards: Index to occupations mentioned in deed book

Series IV: Box 31: note cards: Index to occupations mentioned in deed book (continued);

First mention of occupations

Series IV: Box 32: note cards: 1842 census and list of occupations

Series IV: Box 33: note cards: index to occupations

Series IV: Box 34: note cards: index to unknown entity and miscellaneous notes

Series IV: Box 35: note cards: Tax lists, 1778-1799

Series IV: Box 36: note cards: Tax lists, 1799-1803

Series IV: Box 37: note cards: Tax lists, 1804-1807

Series IV: Box 38: note cards: Tax lists, 1807 (continued)-1811

Series IV: Box 39: note cards: Tax lists, 1811 (continued)-1815

Series IV: Box 40: note cards: Tax lists, 1815 (continued)-1818

Series IV: Box 41: note cards: Tax lists, 1819-1823

Series IV: Box 42: note cards: Tax lists, 1823 (continued)-1825, 1829-1830

Series IV: Box 43: note cards: Tax lists, 1830 (continued)-1832, miscellaneous years 1800-1828

Series IV: Box 44: note cards: Tax lists? Miscellaneous years 1726-1829

Series V: Other Notes

Box 1:

Folder 1: Art: notes

Folder 2: Art: photos

Folder 3: Art: murals: photos

Folder 4: Art: painting: notes

Folder 5: Art: painting: notes and photos

Folders 6-7: Art: painting: photos

Folder 8: Art: pictures: photos and ntoes

Folder 9: Art: portraits: photos

Folder 10: Art: watercolors: photos and notes

Folder 11: Arts and Crafts of Chester County: photos

Series V: Box 2:

Folder 1: Artists: notes

Folder 2: Bettle family death records: photos

Folder 3: Canes: photo

Folder 4: Ceramics: invoice from Mrs. Paxson Vickers: photo

Folder 5: Ceramics: notes

Folder 6: Ceramics: photos

Folder 7: Ceramics: Chester County pottery: notes

Folder 8: Ceramics: Chester County pottery: photos

Folder 9: Ceramics: delftware: notes

Folder 10: Ceramics: delftware: photos

Folder 11: Ceramics: earthenware: photos

Folder 12: Ceramics: earthenware and majolica: notes

Folder 13: Ceramics: porcelain, stoneware, etc.: photos

Folder 14: Ceramics: Staffordshire, porcelain, majolica, etc.: photos

Folder 15: Decorative items: photos

Folder 16: Delaware County: research notes (folder 1 of 3)

Series V: Box 3:

Folders 1-2: Delaware County: research notes (folders 2-3 of 3)

Folder 3: Denmark: photos

Folder 4: Dolls, doll houses, paper dolls: photos

Folder 5: Folk art: photos

Folder 6: Guns: photos

Folder 7: Hearse (horse-drawn): photo

Folder 8: Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1780: photo

Folder 9: Maps and plats: photos and negatives

Folder 10: Metal: photos

Folder 11: Metal: photos and notes

Folder 12: Metal and silver: photos

Folders 13-14: Miscellaneous notes

Folder 15: Miscellaneous photo

Series V: Box 4:

Folder 1: Paintings, portraits, silhouettes: photos and negatives

Folder 2: Printed materials and maps

Folder 3: Recipes

Folder 4: Rugs: notes

Folder 5: Shell crafts, feather work, etc.: photos and notes

Folder 6: Silver: photos and negatives

Folders 7-8: Silver and silversmiths: notes and draft of a book by Mr. Schiffer

Folder 9: Spinning wheel: photo

Folder 10: Stone: notes

Folder 11: Stone: photos

Folder 12: Toys: notes and negatives

Folder 13: West Chester: photos

Folder 14: Wood: photos

Series V: Box 5: (legal size folders)

Folder 1: Amusements

Folder 2: Baptists

Folder 3: Churchman, John: account of life

Folder 4: Clothing: notes

Folder 5: Diaries, excerpts from

Folder 6: Education

Folder 7: Jackson, Holliday: diary, 1793, not C[hester] C[ounty]

Folders 8-9: Laws

Series V: Box 6: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Laws

Folder 2: Miscellaneous materials

Folder 3-5: Miscellaneous notes

Folder 6: Nutt, Samuel, book, 1722

Folder 7: Orphans Court

Series V: Box 7: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Quakers

Folder 2: Records of Upland Court

Folder 3: Sharpless, Isaac: parts of diary

Folder 4: Stautberg, Susan Schiffer: speech

Folder 5: Taylor, Samuel: diary, 1798 [photocopy]

Folder 6: Travel information and tours

Folder 7: Wills, provisions of

Folder 8: Woodard/Woodward documents: invitation to dine, 1823; order to open a private road for Mr. Woodward, 1814

Series V: Boxes 8-9: Books and other printed items

Barnard, Boyd T. Music in Spite of Quakers. Philadelphia: The Penn Club, 1976.

Chester County Collections, numbers 1-2, 4-5, 7-8, 12.

Chester County Day Homes and Landmarks. West Chester, Penn.: Horace Temple, 1965.

Chester County History, vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 1975).

Chester County Historical Society Bulletin, March 1951 (v. 1, no. 3); and October 1961.

Cook, Anne, and Breinholt, Jane. History for Strafford School Centennial, 1872-1972.

n.p.: Strafford School P.T.A., 1972.

Cox, Ruth Y. Copperplate Textiles in the Williamsburg Collection: Some Sources of Design.

Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg, 1964.

“Early Architecture of Chester County, Pennsylvania: An Exhibition of Photographs ….”

Held at Swarthmore College, 1960.

“Enterys of the Orphans Court,” Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1716-1730, 1732-1734.

Transcribed by Dorthy B. Lapp. Danboro, Pa.: R.T. & M.C. Williams, 1973.

The Font. “Books About the Arts of America.” Ca. 1966. (2 copies) [book seller’s catalog]

Halsey, R. T. H. A Pre-Revolutionary Annapolis House: part II: Designed by Matthew Buckland

For Matthias Hammond, Esq. New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1929. The Monograph Series, no. 5, vol. 15.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1959 (v. 18, no. 3); May, Oct., and

Dec. 1964 (v. 23, no. 2-4); and May 1965 (v.24, no. 2).

Map of Chester County, August 1961.

“Nail Chronology as an Aid to Dating Old Buildings; Paint Color Research and Restoration.”

Technical Leaflet 15. American Association for State and Local History, 1963.

National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

80^th Annual Report. 1970-1971.

“The Needlepoint of Washington Cathedral.” Washington: Washington Cathedral, n.d.

Orphans Court Minutes, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1734-1746/7.

Transcribed by Dorthy B. Lapp and Frances B. Dunlap. Danboro, Pa.: R.T. & M.C. Williams, 1974.

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. July 1979 (vol. 103, no. 3).

Records of the Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1697-1710. volume 2.

Transcribed by Dorthy B. Lapp. Danboro, Pa.: R.T. & M.C. Williams, 1972.

Rempel, John I. “Tools of the Woodworker: Hand Planes.” Technical Leaflet 24.

Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1964.

A Report on Principles and Guidelines for Historic Preservation in the United States.

Washington: National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Roark, Carol Shiels. “Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an American Spa.”

(from unknown magazine)

Roth, Rodris. Tea Drinking in 18^th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1961. (originally published as United States National Museum Bulletin 225; paper 14 from Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology)

Springer, Ruth L. John Morton in Contemporary Records. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical

And Museum Commission, 1967.

West Chester Past and Present: Centennial Souvenir: Celebration Proceedings. 1899.

West Chester Sesqui-Centennial, Commemorating 150 Years of Progress, 1799-1949.

Wise, Herbert C. The George Read, II, House at New Castle, Delaware. New York:

Russell F. Whitehead, 1925. The White Pine Series, vol. 11, no. 6; 64^th monograph.

Wood, Charles B., III. “Architecture, Science and Technology, Catalogue IX,” 1969.

[book seller’s catalog]

Series VI: notes on Chester County, and other notes

Box 1:

Folder 1: Alcohol I [i.e. first notebook]

Folder 2: Alcohol II [i.e. second notebook]

Folders 3-4: Alcohol III

Folders 5-6: Alcohol IV – to 1789

Series VI: Box 2:

Folder 1: Alcohol IV – 1790-1849

Folders 2-3: Alcohol and food – 1826-1875

Folder 4: Amusements I

Folders 5-7: Amusements II – to 1849

Series VI: Box 3:

Folders 1-4: Amusements III – to 1875

Series VI: Box 4:

Folder 1: Amusements: cards, carols, charity, gifts, fairs

Folder 2: Animals I

Folder 3-5: Animals II – to 1849

Folder 6: Animals III – to 1769

Series VI: Box 5:

Folder 1: Animals III – 1770-1875

Folder 2: Blacks I [i.e. African Americans]

Folders 3-4: Blacks II – to 1875

Folder 5-6: Blacks III – to ca. 1849

Folder 7: Boats

Folder 8: Books I

Series VI: Box 6

Folder 1: Books II

Folder 2: Books III

Folder 3: Chester County history

Folder 4: Chester County history – miscellaneous notes

Folder 5-6: Chester County Monthly Meeting records, 1681-1855 – divided by topic

Folder 7: Children I

Series VI: Box 7:

Folders 1-2: Children II

Folders 3-5: Children III – to 1829 (includes schools)

Series VI: Box 8:

Folder 1: Children III – 1830-1849 (includes schools) and “Early Libraries in Chester County”

Folders 2-3: Christmas I

Folders 4-5: Christmas II

Series VI: Box 9:

Folder 1: Christmas: amuse[ments], decorate [i.e. decorations], putz, Santa

Folder 2: Christmas: cards, carols, charity, food

Folder 3: Christmas - evergreens

Folder 4: Christmas - food

Folder 5: Christmas: Moravians, putz, crib, teacher

Folder 6: Christmas: superstitions, Second Xmas, New Year, 12^th Night

Series VI: Box 10:

Folder 1: Christmas – ornaments and decorations

Folder 2: Christmas - Santa

Folders 3-4: Christmas – Santa Claus

Folder 5: Christmas trees

Folder 6: Christmas trees – to 1849

Series VI: Box 11:

Folder 1: Christmas trees - 1850-1899

Folder 2: Christmas trees and lights and ornaments

Folder 3: Church

Folders 4-5: Civil law

Folder 6: Clothes I

Series VI: Box 12:

Folders 1-2: Clothes II

Folder 3: Clothing I

Folder 4-5: Clothing II: to 1875

Folders 6-7: Craftsmen in Chester County

Series VI: Box 13:

Folders 1-4: Crime I - to 1849

Folders 5-6: Crime II – 1725-1839

Series VI: Box 14:

Folder 1: Crime II – 1840-1875

Folder 2: Crime III – 1770-1849

Folder 3: Crime: laws

Folder 4: Crime: punishment

Folder 5: Crime and punishment: arson, swearing, libel & gossip, branding, counterfeiting, punishment, forgery, hanging, hard labor, kidnapping, lynching [section is empty], murder, poisoning

Folder 6: Crime and punishment: riot, solitary, treason, whipping

Folders 7-8: Crimes

Series VI: Box 15:

Folder 1: Crimes and punishment – to 1689

Folder 2: Crimes and punishment – 1890-1725

Folder 3: Customs - miscellaneous

Folder 4: Death and funerals

Folder 5: Diaries I

Folder 6: Diaries II

Folder 7: Education I

Folder 8: Education II – 1800-1829

Series VI: Box 16:

Folder 1: Education II – 1830-1875

Folder 2: Fences and gates

Folder 3: Food

Folder 4: Funerals I

Folders 5-6: Funerals II - to 1799

Series VI: Box 17:

Folder 1: Funerals II – 1800-1839

Folder 2: Furnishings

Folder 3: Germans

Folder 4: Grain and farm implements

Folder 5: Gypsies

Folder 6: “History of Chester County, Pennsylvania: General History” [photocopy]

Folder 7: Holidays

Folder 8: Holidays: Christmas and New Years

Folder 9: Holidays: April, harvest

Folder 10: Holidays: Thanksgiving, Easter, Ember Day (Sept. 21), Halloween, July 4, Decoration Day, etc., Sunday

Folder 11: Household

Series VI: Box 18:

Folder 1: Illness

Folders 2-3: Illness and funerals – to 1849

Folder 4: Index

Folder 5: Indians I

Folder 6: Indians II

Folder 7: Indians III

Folder 8: Inns

Folder 9: Inventories I (folder 1 of 3, continued in next box)

Series VI: Box 19:

Folders 1-2: Inventories I

Folder 3: Inventories: clothes

Folder 4: Inventories – miscellaneous notes

Folders 5-6: Inventories: rooms

Folder 7: Land I – 1750-1799

Series VI: Box 20:

Folders 1-2: Land I – 1800-1899

Folders 3-4: Land II – to 1875

Folders 5-6: Land III – to 1749

Folder 7: Laws of Pennsylvania (folder 1 of 2 – continued in next box)

Series VI: Box 21:

Folder 1: Laws of Pennsylvania (folder 2 of 2)

Folder 2: Lectures - notes

Folder 3: Lottery

Folder 4: Market

Folder 5: Marriage I – 1676-1840

Folders 6-7: Marriage II – to 1849

Folder 8: Marriage III – to 1759

Series VI: Box 22:

Folder 1: Marriage III – 1760-1875

Folders 2-4: “Materials for Annals of Chester County,” by William Darlington [photocopy]

Folder 5: Medical I

Folder 6: Medical II

Folder 7: Miscellaneous correspondence and photos

Folder 8: Miscellaneous notes

Folder 9: Miscellaneous notes and information

Folder 10: Money

Series VI: Box 23:

Folder 1: Notebook: notes on architecture, delftware, silver, needlework, Pennsylvania German symbolism, toys

Folder 2: Notebook: notes on painting, furniture, folk art, bed coverings, textiles, pottery, Chester County, slides, unidentified

Folders 3-4: Notes - miscellaneous

Folders 5-6: Notes on wills and genealogy

Series VI: Box 24:

Folder 1: Politics

Folder 2: Poodles raised by Schiffers – papers and photos

Folders 3-4: Poor – to 1879

Folder 5: Religion: church, Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal

Folder 6: Religion: Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker

Series VI: Box 25:

Folders 1-3: Room inventories, 1682-1779

Folders 4-5: Runaways

Folder 6: Scotch-Irish

Series VI: Box 26:

Folder 1: Servants I

Folder 2: Servants II

Folders 3-4: Servants III – to 1849

Folder 5: Sex I

Folders 6-7: Sex II

Folder 8: Sex III – to 1760

Series VI: Box 27:

Folders 1-2: Sex IV – to 1849

Folder 3: Sex: bastards, adultery, abortion, bigamy, buggery, fornication, incest, lewdness, prostitution, rape, sodomy

Series VI: Box 28:

Folder 1: Silver, gold, pewter

Folder 2: Stores

Folder 3: Stores and peddlers I

Folders 4-5: Stores and peddlers II

Folder 6: Subject headings

Folder 7: Swedes

Folder 8: Talks, November 1962

Folder 9: Taverns

Folder 10: Transportation

Folder 11: Welfare I

Folder 12: Welfare II

Folder 13: Welfare and the poor

Folder 14: Welsh

Folder 15: Witches

Series VI: Box 29: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Abuse

Folders 2-4: Amusements – to 1875

Folder 5: Animals

Folder 6: Architecture

Folder 7: Blacks

Folder 8: Business

Series VI: Box 30: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Business: fair, debts, iron, labor, mill, occupations, peddler

Folder 2: Chester County and West Chester: miscellaneous notes

Folder 3: Crime and punishment: miscellaneous notes, prisoners, theft

Folder 4: Diary: Cassandra R. Brinton, 1851

Folder 5: Diary: Elizabeth Donne: 1852-1853

Folder 6: Diary: Mary Walton, 1816

Folders 7-8: Family

Folder 9: Ferris, Zechariah - letter to Joseph Talcot, 1799

Folder 10: Fights

Series VI: Box 31: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Food

Folder 2: Holidays

Folder 3: Household

Folder 4: Ill – care of the ill

Folder 5: Internal improvements (roads, bridges, etc.)

Folder 6: Inventories – 1700s

Folder 7: Inventories – 1800s

Series VI: Box 32: (legal size files)

Folder 1: Miscellaneous notes

Folder 2: People

Folder 3: Poor – care of the poor

Folder 4: Religion: Baptists, Catholics [blank section], Episcopal, German Reformed, Lutheran, Methodist, miscellaneous, Presbyterian, general religion, Rosacrucians, Sundays

Folder 5: Religion: Quakers

Folder 6: Superstition

Folder 7: Transportation, mail, internal improvements

Folder 8: War

Series VI: Box 33: Note cards

Architecture;

Books

Series VI: Box 34: Note cards

Books

Series VI: Box 35: Note cards

Books;

Descriptions

Series VI: Box 36: Note cards

Descriptions

Series VI: Box 37: Note cards

Descriptions;

Needlework

Series VI: Box 38: Note cards

Miscellaneous subjects;

Lecture notes(?)

Series VI: Box 39: Note cards

Lecture notes(?)

Series VI: Box 40: Photographs/slides

Folder 1: Negatives of furniture, ceramics, portraits, etc.

Folder 2: Slides: furniture

Folder 3: Slides: English needlework

Folders 4-5: Slides: Needlework

Folder 6: Slides: New needlework

Series VI: Box 41: Photographs/slides

Slides: Needlework; coverlets and quilts; Christmas things; toys and cookie cutters; English slides; private home [Schiffers’ residence?]

Series VI: Box 42: Photographs/slides

Slides: Pennsylvania needlework; English/American needlework

Series VI: Box 43: Photographs/slides

Slides: American needlework; Delaware Valley arts and crafts (for D.C. Arts Trust and PAFA)

Series VI: Box 44: Photographs/slides

Slides: spice boxes; miscellaneous slides; miscellaneous antiques; needlework

Series VI: Box 45: Photographs/slides

Slides: Quaker arts and crafts; Delaware Valley homes

Series VI: Box 46: Photographs/slides

Slides: Herbert’s Hill Farm (furniture and needlework); unknown Asian location (India?); miscellaneous slides

Series VI: Box 47: Photographs/slides

Slides: Furniture (mostly); also houses – Stenton and others

Series VI: Box 48: Photographs/slides

Slides: Houses; furniture

Series VI: Box 49: Photographs/slides

Slides: Furniture

Series VI: Box 50: Photographs/slides

Slides: Furniture

Series VI: Box 51: Photographs/slides

Slides: Furniture; English furniture; ceramics

Series VI: Box 52: Photographs/slides

Slides: Ceramics and English ceramics

Series VI: Box 53: Photographs/slides

Slides: Arts and crafts

Series VI: Box 54: Photographs/slides

Slides: Arts and crafts

Series VI: Box 55: Photographs/slides

Slides: Talks – working on

Note: the following titles were transferred to the Printed Books and Periodicals Collection:

“Architecture in Chester County, Pennsylvania: An Exhibition of Photographs …” held

at University of Delaware, 1960, text by Alan Gowans.

“Early Architecture of Chester County, Pennsylvania: An Exhibition of Photographs …” held

at Swarthmore College, 1960.

Garth’s Auction Barn. Auction catalog for early American antiques, May 28, 1966.

Nagy, John C. History of Hibernia Iron Works: West Caln Township, Chester County. 1964

“The Preservation of Yellow Springs,” ca.1974.