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Title: How the whites gave smallpox to the Cherokee in 1865 (Cherokee)
Identifier(s): audio:19455; APSdigrec_6860; Recording Number: 19; 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--History; Smallpox--United States--History
Date: 1945-09-24

Title: No. 27 Dr. Samuel Adams to Sally Preston Adams
Identifier(s): text:321042
Description: Friendly letter; mentions the route he traveled from Dorchester to Springfield; warns her to be careful about smallpox; mentions that the enemy remain in Philadelphia.; Dr. Samuel Adams was an American physician who served as a surgeon for various Continental Artillery regiments through the end of the U.S. Revolutionary War.; generic note; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1745-1819et al
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Smallpox; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778
Date: 1778-06-07; 2020

Title: Adams, Dr. Samuel to Sally Preston, 1776 March 26; No. 20 Dr. Samuel Adams to Sally Preston
Identifier(s): text:346261
Description: Mentions that his regiment was ordered into Boston and the prospect that it will remain there through the summer; expresses fear about contracting smallpox "as it is all around us"; remarks that "we have been and yet remain in somewhat of an unsettled and confused state"; signs himself "Medicus."
Subject: Smallpox; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces
Date: 1776-03-26; 2022

Title: Adams, Samuel to Sally Preston Adams, 1778 June 7
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:130
Description: Friendly letter; mentions the route he traveled from Dorchester to Springfield; warns her to be careful about smallpox; mentions that the enemy remain in Philadelphia.; Dr. Samuel Adams was an American physician who served as a surgeon for various Continental Artillery regiments through the end of the U.S. Revolutionary War.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1745-1819
Source: The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s (Mss.B.F327); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F327-ead.xml
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Smallpox; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778; ; ;
Date: 1778-06-07; 2020

Title: Adams, Dr. Samuel to Sally Preston Adams, 1778 June 7; No. 27 Dr. Samuel Adams to Sally Preston Adams
Identifier(s): text:346271
Description: Friendly letter; mentions the route he traveled from Dorchester to Springfield; warns her to be careful about smallpox; mentions that the enemy remain in Philadelphia.
Subject: Smallpox; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces
Date: 1778-06-07; 2022

Title: How the whites gave smallpox to the Cherokee in 1865 (English)
Identifier(s): audio:19454; APSdigrec_6859; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 01
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--History; Smallpox--United States--History; Cherokee Indians--Medicine
Date: 1945-09-30

Title: Huntington, Jedediah to Jabez Huntington, 1775 December 4; No. 588 Jedediah Huntington to Jabez Huntington
Identifier(s): text:349018
Description: Informs him that a privateer commanded by Capt. [John] Manly captured a British brig [the Nancy] that was laden with almost every kind of ordnance that is needed and describes the cargo; mentions that the new regiments fill up slowly and that many men are determined to leave the service; informs him that the enemy in Boston moved all their cannon to oppose the Americans on Cobble Hill; informs him about conferences on the lines that are "very Friendly in Appearance," about the arrival of American reinforcements, about prices of provisions, and about a general inoculation for smallpox in Boston; mentions that Gen. [ John] Burgoyne will return to England.
Creator: Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818et al
Subject: Privateering; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Smallpox; Smallpox--Vaccination--Early works to 1800; Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786; Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
Date: 1775-12-04; 2022

Title: Huntington, Jedediah to Jabez Huntington, 1776 July 29, August 3; No. 593 Jedediah Huntington to Jabez Huntington
Identifier(s): text:348961
Description: Informs him about the availability and the prices of cloth and various commodities and mentions that "Almost all the Goods of all Kinds are moved into the Country"; informs him about the arrival of row galleys and about an engagement between them and British vessels; informs him that several transports carrying Massachusetts troops were stopped at Hell Gate, [N.Y.] because of smallpox and remarks that the lack of vegetables is one cause of sickness at present; informs him that approximately fifty vessels have joined the British fleet and that they probably carry foreign [German] troops.
Creator: Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818et al
Subject: Smallpox; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786
Date: 1776 July 29, August 3; 2022

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6950; APSdigrec_1054; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 16
Description: "Mrs. Chester Johnson introduces the song in Tlingit. It belonged to her father's mother's father, qalaXetl or ltuneX'. His spirit was tlIngit-ani-Adi qu yek or Smallpox Spirit, probably referring to the epidemic of 1838."; Recording ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tsimshian language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Smallpox--Alaska; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Another Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6941; APSdigrec_1055; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 17
Description: Mrs. Chester Johnson introduces the song in Tlingit. One of four songs belonging to her father's mother's father; also given by the Smallpox Spirits. The words are in Tsimshian.; Recording ends with identification of this song and the song recorded prior to it by Frederica de Laguna. For other song, see Related Recording. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tsimshian language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Smallpox--Alaska; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: The Small Pox Epidemic on the Reservation
Identifier(s): audio:4438; APSdigrec_0347; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Source: Lukoff, Fred. Onondaga material, [1948, 1950]. (Mss.Rec.3);
Subject: Onondaga language; Smallpox; Epidemics--New York (State); Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.); Onondaga Indians--History
Date: 1950-08-12

Title: Quincy, Edmund to Dorothy Quincy Hancock, 1776 May 25; No. 2043 Edmund Quincy to Dorothy Quincy Hancock
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:880
Description: Mentions the danger from smallpox; remarks: "I am now become so much a Citizen of the world, that places and circumstances grow more indifferent"; mentions the evacuation of Boston by the British and reports that a large British force is being sent to America; reassures her that Philadelphia is not endangered; remarks that he is at a great loss because of the state of America and of Massachusetts in particular; expresses hope for "the introduction of diverse useful manufactures" in Boston; comments that "the present quarrel must inevitably issue in a Separation & mutual independence of the old & new country."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Politics and Causes of Revolution; Smallpox; War and families--United States--History--18th century
Date: 1776-05-25; 2021

Title: Maury, Rev. James to Moses Fontaine, 1795 June 11; No. 921 Rev. James Maury to Moses Fontaine
Identifier(s): text:353623
Description: Discusses various types of eyeglasses; discusses his own manuscript regarding measures "for our Security against the French Intrigues & Encroachments in America"; comments on the favorable state of affairs in the war with France and on the prospect of peace; informs him about family matters, mentions smallpox, and remarks that a measles epidemic is "retarding our plantation Business so much at a critical Season of the Year, that our Crops & Harvest is likely to Suffer by it."
Creator: Maury, James, 1746-1840et al
Subject: Eyeglasses; United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763; Smallpox; Measles; Agriculture
Date: 1759-06-11; 2023

Title: The Small Pox Epidemic on the Reservation
Identifier(s): audio:4478; APSdigrec_0401; Recording Number: 18; Program Number: 01
Description: A translation into English of a recorded Onondaga text as it is played back to the speaker in segments.
Source: Lukoff, Fred. Onondaga material, [1948, 1950]. (Mss.Rec.3);
Subject: Smallpox; Epidemics--New York (State); Onondaga language; Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.); Onondaga Indians--History
Date: 1950-08

Title: Discussion of the date of the smallpox epidemic
Identifier(s): audio:4073; APSdigrec_1884; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 02
Description: This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 79, channel 3.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Smallpox--North Dakota; Hidatsa Indians--History--19th century; Indians of North America--North Dakota--History
Date: 1971

Title: Page proofs of Cullen's Practice of Physic
Identifier(s): text:333440
Description: Pages 169-240.
Subject: Medicine; Medical education; Rheumatism; Toothache; Gout; Exanthemata; Smallpox; Chickenpox; Measles; Measles virus; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: undated; 2019

Title: Page, Mann, Jr. to George Weedon, 1777 April 22
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:1598
Description: Letter from Mann Page, Jr. to General Weedon, including a note about smallpox inoculation.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778; Smallpox; Vaccination; Inoculation (Founding); Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
Date: 1777-04-22; 2021

Title: Marble, Henry to Luke Drury, 1782 January 22; No. 879 Henry Marble to Luke Drury
Identifier(s): text:353716
Description: Informs him that Gen. [Alexander] McDougall was arrested by Gen. [William] Heath and is a candidate for general court-martial; informs him that thirty prisoners escaped from the "New Stone provost" and that the commander of the guard was arrested, tried, and reprimanded in general orders; mentions that they still have no money; informs him that provisions are now issued under a new system and that West Point is supplied by Comfort Sands and Company and describes a ration of provisions; mentions that all the troops who have not had smallpox are to be inoculated immediately.
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Armies--Commissariat; Smallpox; Inoculation; McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786; Heath, William, 1737-1814; Sands, Comfort, 1748-1834
Date: 1782-01-22; 2023

Title: Medical lecture notes "Excerpta Medica," 1864-1865; Medical notes - Excerpta Medica - William F. Jenks
Identifier(s): text:332584
Description: Blank pages within notebook were not scanned.
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Medical education; Medical sciences; Specific heat; Temperature; Typhoid fever; Smallpox; Electricity; Chickenpox; Epidemics; Pregnancy; Abortion; Miscarriage; Abortion; Reproduction; Jenks, William F. (William Furness), 1842-1881
Date: 1864-1865; 2020

Title: Hiltzheimer, Jacob diary, 1779-1780
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:1312
Description: Volume 9 of Jacob Hiltzheimer's diaries, with entries dated from 1779 February 21 to 1780 March 5. 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. 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; Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--18th century; Horses; Horse trading; Livestock; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Meteorology--Observations; Smallpox; Naglee, John, 1724?-1780; Walker, Hannah, 1741-1790; Republican Society (Pa.); United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; United States. War Office; United States. Board of Treasury
Date: 1779-1780; 2021