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Title: How they got fire (Cherokee)
Identifier(s): audio:19482; APSdigrec_6887; Recording Number: 28; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded on SoundScriber disc. Large scratch near end of disc prevents accurate tracking.
Source: Harris, Zellig S. Cherokee materials, 1941-1946. (Subcollection I2.4 of American Council of Learned Societies) (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Fire--Folklore
Date: 1945-08-22

Title: How they got fire (English)
Identifier(s): audio:19481; APSdigrec_6886; Recording Number: 28; Program Number: 01
Description: Recorded on SoundScriber disc. Large scratch near end of disc prevents accurate tracking.
Source: Harris, Zellig S. Cherokee materials, 1941-1946. (Subcollection I2.4 of American Council of Learned Societies) (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Fire--Folklore
Date: 1945-08-22

Title: Rabbit
Identifier(s): audio:19486; APSdigrec_6891; Recording Number: 29; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded on SoundScriber disc.
Source: Harris, Zellig S. Cherokee materials, 1941-1946. (Subcollection I2.4 of American Council of Learned Societies) (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Fire--Folklore
Date: 1945-08-23

Title: Why fire came to the Indians
Identifier(s): audio:5166; APSdigrec_2926; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 13
Source: Crawford, James M. Recordings of Native American languages, 1956-1973. (Mss.Rec.184);
Subject: Alabama language; Alabama Indians--Folklore; Fire--Folklore
Date: 1973

Title: This new map of the city of Philadelphia for the use of fire men and others is most respectfully dedicated to the citizens and members of the engine & hose companies, by . . . John A. Paxton.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3535; APSdigobj3535
Description: Contains: a listing of engine & hose houses; a vignette of the Fair Mount Water Works; an extension of the northwestern end of the map of the city to include Fair Mount; and cut away diagrams of two fire plugs.
Creator: Strickland, W.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps; Fire stations
Date: [ca. 1816]

Title: Story of the origin and use of Indian fire
Identifier(s): audio:6524; APSdigrec_3213; Recording Number: 12B; Program Number: 01
Description: Story given in English, then in Shawnee. Shawnee section begins at 4:20.
Source: Norcross, Amoena. Shawnee language recordings, 1994. (Mss.Rec.236);
Subject: Shawnee language; Shawnee Indians--Folklore; Fire--Folklore; Shawnee Indians--Fire use
Date: 1994

Title: Newport, March 16, 1752. Notice is hereby given to the curious, that at the Court-House, in the Council-Chamber, is now to be exhibited, and continued from day to day, for a week or two; a course of experiments, on the newly-discovered electrical fire: containing; not only the most curious of those that have been published in Europe, but a considerable number of new ones lately made in Philadelphia; to be accompanied with methodical lectures on the nature and properties of that wonderful element
Identifier(s): text:1772; APSimg6453; Goodman Number: 140; 973 C683 No. 275
Description: Kinnersley, collaborator with Benjamin Franklin in his electrical studies, lectured on electricity and lightning in Philadelphia, Newport, New York, and elsewhere before accepting an appointment as professor of English at the College of Philadelphia in 1753.; Photocopy. Location of original source unknown.
Creator: Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity--Experiments; Fire; Public speaking
Date: 1752

Title: Hiltzheimer, Jacob diary, 1783-1784
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:1007
Description: Volume 13 of Jacob Hiltzheimer's diaries, with entries dated from 1783 March 1 to 1784 February 29. This diary documents Hiltzheimer’s daily life and activities as a livery stable owner, livestock dealer, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly and Street Commissioner, including business transactions, personal details about his family and friends, and observations on events happening within Philadelphia, such as estimates of damage done while the British occupied the city, Independence day celebrations and an earthquake. Hiltzheimer notes the names of friends, dignitaries, and political acquaintances with whom he socializes frequently. He also records the weather conditions in Philadelphia on nearly a daily basis.; Portions of these diaries were edited and published by Jacob Cox Parsons, "Extracts From the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer of Philadelphia 1765-1798" (Philadelphia, 1893).; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; Social networks--History--18th century; Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; German Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1783; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic conditions; Meteorology--Observations; Trials--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Ferries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Horses; Horse trading; Livestock; Military occupation damages; War damage compensation; Measles; Sleighing; Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800; Mifflin, George, -1785; Walker, Hannah, 1741-1790; Amicable Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.); German Society of Pennsylvania
Date: 1783-1784; 2021

Title: Hiltzheimer, Jacob diary, 1782-1783
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:1076
Description: Volume 12 of Jacob Hiltzheimer's diaries, with entries dated from 1782 March 4 to 1783 February 28. This diary documents Hiltzheimer’s daily life and activities as a livery stable owner, livestock dealer, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, including business transactions, personal details about his family and friends, and observations on events happening within Philadelphia, such as celebrations for the birth the Dauphin. Hiltzheimer notes the names of friends, dignitaries, and political acquaintances with whom he socializes frequently. He also records the weather conditions in Philadelphia on nearly a daily basis.; Portions of these diaries were edited and published by Jacob Cox Parsons, "Extracts From the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer of Philadelphia 1765-1798" (Philadelphia, 1893).; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; Social networks--History--18th century; Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; German Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1783; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--18th century; Horses; Horse trading; Livestock; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--French forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; Meteorology--Observations; Trials--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Ferries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Sleighing; African Americans--History--18th century; Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810; Dickinson, John, 1732-1808; Walker, Hannah, 1741-1790; Amicable Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.); German Society of Pennsylvania
Date: 1782-1783; 2021