- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol 671", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"671", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Francis Porteus Corbin papers"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1716-1899", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1716/1899"}
{"value"=>"1789-1884", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1789/1884"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 linear feet (7 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- date_inclusive_start
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1716
- date_inclusive_end
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1899
- origination
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{"value"=>"Corbin, Francis Porteus, 1801-1876", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Francis Porteus Corbin (1801-1876) was an American businessman of Philadelphia and Paris. He owned property in Georgia and Louisiana and was interested in political affairs in the U.S. and Europe.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"Four series: I. Correspondence, 1809-1884; II. Financial Papers, 1789-1899; III. Legal Papers and Memoranda; IV. Printed Matter", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection consists of Corbin's correspondence, financial and legal papers, and printed matter. Personal and financial correspondence concerns politics, presidential candidates and political parties, ca. 1840-1870; management of Corbin's plantations in Georgia and Louisiana; Civil War matters such as secession, abolitionists, antislavery party, Charleston, S.C., at the outbreak of the war, the Confederacy, and Reconstruction; and references to notable people of the day in Europe and the United States. Also, family correspondence, letters of introduction, commissions to buy household and other goods in Paris for Americans, and papers dating back to 1716, relating to the estate of James Hamilton.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Francis Porteus Corbin papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/671#c1106346'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/671#c1106352'>Financial Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/671#c1106356'>Legal Papers and Memoranda</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/671#c1106357'>Printed Matter</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"accession_number"=>"MSS 43M90"}
{"date"=>"1943", "source"=>"Barke, P", "address"=>"Purchase", "value"=>"Barke, P, 1943"}
- keydate
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1716
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Francis Porteus Corbin papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}
- extent_statement
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3 linear feet (7 boxes)
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Francis Porteus Corbin (1801-1876) was an American businessman of Philadelphia and Paris. He owned property in Georgia and Louisiana and was interested in political affairs in the U.S. and Europe. Collection consists of Corbin's correspondence, financial and legal papers, and printed matter. Personal and financial correspondence concerns politics, presidential candidates and political parties, ca. 1840-1870; management of Corbin's plantations in Georgia and Louisiana; Civil War matters such as secession, abolitionists, antislavery party, Charleston, S.C., at the outbreak of the war, the Confederacy, and Reconstruction; and references to notable people of the day in Europe and the United States. Also, family correspondence, letters of introduction, commissions to buy household and other goods in Paris for Americans, and papers dating back to 1716, relating to the estate of James Hamilton.", "generated"=>true}
- date_start
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1716
- date_end
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1899
- date_bulk_start
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1789
- date_bulk_end
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1884