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Box 4

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Owners of La Salle's lands: A partial genealogy; includes family genealogies and Jim Butler notations

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1

Connections among Belfield, Butler Place, Grumblethorpe, Wakefield, Little Wakefield, and Vernon. Genealogies of Logan, Fisher, Wister, Butler, Peale, Lindley, Emlen, and Boas families.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1987 - 2018

Miscellaneous notes about La Salle property and previous residents, circa 2000's

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: circa 2000's

"Three Centuries on the South Campus" with edits

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1987 - 2018

Jim Butler notes - Belfield and Germantown history

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1987 - 2018

"A survey of the textile industry in Germantown," Germantown Crier, 1990 - 1991

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: 1990 - 1991

"Germantown, Philadelphia: An emigre textile settlement c. 1860-1960," Martha C. Halpern, 1998

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 6

Includes William Logan Fisher, Charles Willson Peale, Belfield, Wingohocking Creek, Thomas Rodman Fisher, Wakefield Mills

Dates: 1998

Jim Butler correspondence - permission to use portrait and photograph reproductions, 2002, n.d.

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: 2002, n.d.

Jim Butler correspondence - miscellaneous, 1995 - 1998

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: 1995 - 1998

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography - research and submission guidelines, 1997

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: 1997

Alexander Sharpe Ross - illustrator, 2006

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The James Butler Local History Papers were acquired from a Butler family member after James Butler’s passing in 2020. Butler conducted extensive research on the historic residences on La Salle University’s campus, with a particular interest in the Belfield estate - also known as the Peale House. The research also encompassed La Salle’s South campus and Germantown. He researched the families that once resided on what is now La Salle's campus and related families by marriage, including Peale,...
Dates: 2006