Carson Family Papers Finding Aid

Scope and Content

The Carson Family Papers, 1826-1943

Accession number: INDE- 4170

Catalog number: INDE 104535

Extent: 3 LF

Location:
Independence National Historical Park, 143 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

Description:
The Carson Family Papers contain correspondence and ephemera from the Carson family during their involvement in various organizations in the preservation of Independence Hall. This collection covers the time that Hampton L. Carson was the Attorney General for Pennsylvania, The Board Chairman of the National Museum at Independence Hall as well as the President of the Historical Society of Philadelphia as well as his son (Joseph Carson) and daughter-in-law's (Marian S. Carson) tenure in the Independence Hall Association.

Organization:
Series I is correspondence records from 1893-1943.
Series II is general ephemera from 1826-1967.

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SERIES I: Correspondence, 1893-1943

Box 1

File Unit 001: Correspondence, 1893-1898
File Unit 002: [Correspondence], 1898-1913
File Unit 003: Correspondence, 1901-1910
File Unit 004: Correspondence, 1911-1912
File Unit 005: Correspondence, 1913
File Unit 006: Correspondence, 1914-1915
File Unit 007: Correspondence, 1922-1929
File Unit 008: Correspondence, 1940-1943

SERIES II: Ephemera, 1826-1967

File Unit 009: Independence Hall Photographs, 1922
File Unit 010: Signers of the Declaration, 1852-1967 (Folder 1 of 2)
File Unit 011: Signers of the Declaration, 1852-1967 (Folder 2 of 2)
File Unit 012: Independence Hall, 1873-1941
File Unit 013: Independence Hall, 1942-1943
File Unit 014: [Newspaper Clippings], 1913-1945 (Folder 1 of 2)
File Unit 015: [Newspaper Clippings], undated (Folder 2 of 2)
File Unit 016: [Photographs], undated

Box 2

File Unit 017: [Published Articles], 1924-1959
File Unit 018: Papers relating to Independence Hall, 1826-1922
File Unite 019: [Photograph of the Declaration of Independence], undated
File Unit 020:Catalog of the Portraits in Independence Hall, 1915

Oversized Box 1

File Unit 017: [Published Articles], 1924-1959