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Title: Expert Opinion on the Wine Market
Identifier(s): video:1132; 2012_04_006
Description: Talks Offered in Celebration and Appreciation of Mary Patterson McPherson, Executive Officer (2007 – 2012); Storchmann examines the market prices of wines and how to make a profit from wine futures.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 159, No. 2 (June 2015), pp. 129-140
Subject: Wine industry, Economic aspects; Wine industry, Marketing; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2012-04-20

Title: Kean & Nichols receipt to Richard Dowdle, 1779 August 14; Kean & Nichols. Receipt to Richard Dowdle
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8202
Description: Receipt for the balance of a cask of wine.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Food industry and trade--United States--History
Date: 1779-08-14; 2022

Title: Dorsey, Leonard receipt; No. 1726 Leonard Dorsey, receipt, 1783 June 17
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:665
Description: Account with Jasper Yeates for sugar and coffee.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Food industry and trade--United States--History; Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817
Date: 1783-06-17; 2021

Title: This is to certify that _____ of _____ was this __ day of _____ 18__, admitted and sworn to the freedom of the above named Company
Identifier(s): text:663; APSimg6672; Goodman Number: 313
Description: Certificate of membership for the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, London, which includes the seal and oath of the organization.
Creator: Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (Great Britain)
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Eyeglasses; Organizations; Optical industry
Date: [18__]

Title: Histoire naturelle économique et politique des poissons utilies; précédée de celle des morses, des phoques et des cétacées
Identifier(s): text:595; APSimg6612; Goodman Number: 229
Description: Prospectus for a work published as Histoire générale des pêches anciennes et modernes dans les mers et les fluves des duex continens (Paris, 1815). Noël de la Morinière's life-long study of fish, both from the viewpoint of their natural history and economic value, earned him the offices of inspector of navigation and inspector general of oceanic fishing in France.; Located in folder: Morniere to Thomas Jefferson. 1813 February 5.
Creator: Morinière, Noël de la, 1765-1822
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Fish; Aquatic animals; Fishing industry
Date: 1812

Title: Elementary treatise on mineralogy. Prospectus of a treatise on mineralogy; adapted to the present state of science; including important applications to the arts and manufactures
Identifier(s): text:258; APSimg6458; Goodman Number: 151; 973 C683 No. 419
Description: Elementary treatise on mineralogy. Prospectus of a treatise on mineralogy; adapted to the present state of science; including important applications to the arts and manufactures.; Godon's Elementary treatise was apparently never published.
Creator: Godon, S[ilvain] (ca. 1774-1840)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Minerals; Industry
Date: 1810

Title: Sammlungen von mineralien, petrefakten und krystall-modellen/ Collections de minéraux, de petrifications et modèles de cristaux
Identifier(s): text:250; APSimg6459; Goodman Number: 152; 973 C683 No. 392
Description: German and French in two columns. Advertises that samples sold are perfectly suited for teaching and study.; Torn along the left margin, making it difficult to read portions of the German text on the left half of the page.
Creator: Heidelberger Mineralien-Comptoir
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Industry; Minerals
Date: 1828

Title: Sujets de prix, proposés par l'Académie...pour l'année 1782.... [Page 2:] Pour l'année 1783. ...A Lyon, le 5 septembre 1780
Identifier(s): text:63; APSimg6386; Goodman Number: 1; 973 C683 No. 207
Description: Gives details of two prizes proposed and funded by Abbé Guillame-Thomas-François Raynal. The first, to be awarded in 1782, offers 600 livres for the best entry relating to the prosperity of manufacturing in Lyon. The second, to be awarded in 1783,offers 1200 livres for the best entry discussing the beneficial and detrimental effects of the discovery of America. Signed in type by [Marc-Antoine-Louis Claret de Fleurieu de] La Tourrette, perpetual secretary of the academy.
Creator: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Awards; Organizations; Discovery & exploration; Industry
Date: 1780

Title: Fred D. Richey - Correspondence, 1923-1933
Identifier(s): text:190858
Source: Milislav Demerec Papers (Mss.B.D394); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D394-ead.xml
Subject: Demerec, M. (Milislav), 1895-1966; United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Bureau of Plant Industry; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Corn; Genetics, genomics and breeding of crop plants
Date: 1923-1933

Title: An Act to prevent Forestalling and Regrating, and to encourage Fair Dealing.; 14 (OS). Pennsylvania..An act to prevent forestalling and regrating, and to encourage fair dealing
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7143
Description: American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; Broadsides; Food industry and trade--United States--History; Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Morris, John, Jr.
Date: 1778-01-02; 2022

Title: Townsend and White to Willson and Barton, 1783 July 5; Townsend & White. Letter to Willson & Barton;
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8537
Description: Letter from Townsend & Jno White to Willison and Barton about trade at the end of the Revolution. At the end of the short letter is a list of goods and related prices, including flour, [m]ead, sugar, cocoa, rum, cotton, coffee, salt, pork, and beef amongst other items. Potentially, although it is not clear, the cost of a slave is written. Another note is written at the bottom and on the verso are calculations.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Economy; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic conditions; Commerce and trade--Philadelphia--18th century; Commercial products--United States--History--18th century; Food industry and trade--United States--History; International trade--18th century; Slave trade--United States--History; Slavery--United States--History--18th century
Date: 1783-07-05; 2022