Pennsylvania Magazine of HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CXXX
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THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CXXX 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107 2006 CONTENTS ARTICLES Page From Forts to Families: Following the Army into Western Pennsylvania, 1758–1766 Holly A. Mayer 5 The Rise and Fall of Repeal: Slavery and Irish Nationalism in Antebellum Philadelphia John F. Quinn 45 Prestige, Professionalism, and the Paradox of Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Nudes Sarah Gordon 79 The Revolt of the Long Swede: Transatlantic Hopes and Fears on the Delaware, 1669 Evan Haefeli 137 William Hamilton and The Woodlands: A Construction of Refinement in Philadelphia James A. Jacobs 181 The New Deal Arrives in Penn’s Woods: The Beginnings of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania Joseph M. Speakman 211 “For the Like Uses, as the Moor-Fields”: The Politics of Penn’s Squares Elizabeth Milroy 257 The First Design for Fairmount Park Michael J. Lewis 283 Control and Competition: The Architecture of Boathouse Row Thomas G. Beischer 299 Reconstructing Rachel: A Case of Infanticide in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic and the Vagaries of Historical Research Laura Keenan 361 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS Newly Available and Processed Collections at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Melissa Mandell and HSP Archives Staff 105 ROUNDTABLE A Roundtable Discussion of Matthew Countryman’s Up South Lisa Levenstein, Robert O. Self, Joe W. Trotter, and Matther J. Countryman 387 EXHIBIT REVIEW Sleights of Hand (Wyeth) Steven Conn 415 BOOK REVIEWS 113, 233, 331, 483 INDEX Frances S. Lennie 493 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS Chair COLLIN F. M CNEIL Executive Vice Chair BRUCE K. FENTON Vice Chairs MAJID ALSAYEGH HOWARD H. LEWIS WALTER LICHT DAVID A. OTHMER THOMAS J. SUGRUE Secretary HENRY LAFAYETTE COLLINS III Treasurer STEPHEN P. M ULLIN Councilors ROGER H. BALLOU EDITH NEWHALL DEBORAH DILWORTH BISHOP CHARLES W. NICHOLS LEONARD L. COMBS SARAH D. PRICE BARBARA L. GREENFIELD JAMES R. ROEBUCK BARBARA D. HAUPTFUHRER PAGE TALBOTT W. WHITNEY HUNTER BINNEY H. C. WIETLISBACH KRISHNA LAHIRI GEORGE W. CONNELL, Emeritus TSIWEN M. LAW JACK M. FRIEDLAND, Emeritus CAROL CLARK LAWRENCE BRUCE H. HOOPER, Emeritus CHARLES E. MATHER III DAVID W. MAXEY, Emeritus JOHN J. MEDVECKIS HARRISON M. WRIGHT, Emeritus KAREN R. NAGEL THOMAS BARBANO, Ex officio JOHN C. HAAS, Ex officio as of October 2006 STAFF DAVID MOLTKE-HANSEN, President and CEO PRESIDENT’S OFFICE LIBRARY Institutional Advancement LEE ARNOLD, Director of the Library and MICKEY HERR, Director of Institutional Collections Advancement DEBORAH RAKSANY, Grants and ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT Communications Officer KRISTINA LEIDY, Membership Coordinator LESLIE HUNT, Senior Archivist, Manuscripts Department Administration MATTHEW LYONS, Senior Manuscripts CHRIS BRUNO, Administrative Officer Librarian CHRISTIANNE BALSAMO, Administrative Assistant Conservation and Stack Management LINDSEY MEARS, Manager of Preservation and Conservation Services BUSINESS OFFICE Grant Projects KATHERINE WALDRON, Staff Accountant JOANNE DANIFO, Project Archival Processor FLORA SYLVESTER, Accounting Clerk CARY MAJEWICZ, Project Archival Processor FACILITIES RESEARCH SERVICES WILLIAM MCGOLDRICK, Facilities Manager MAX MOELLER, Director of Research Services TYRONE LITES, Assistant Facilities Manager JACK GUMBRECHT, Assistant Director of NADEMA DICKERSON, Facilities Technician Research Services DANIEL N. ROLPH, Head of Reference Services RONALD MEDFORD, Senior Research Services EDUCATION AND INTERPRETATION Associate SARAH HEIM, Public Services Librarian KATHRYN E. WILSON, Director of Education R. A. FRIEDMAN, Graphics Rights Specialist and Interpretation LOUIS MEEHAN, Photographer JOAN SAVERINO, Assistant Director for Education CATALOGING JENNIFER COVAL, Educator RYN EYTANJIAN MELISSA M. MANDELL, Program Assistant B K , Director of Cataloging Publications TAMARA GASKELL MILLER, Director of Publications as of October 1, 2006 INDEX 2006 AAS. See American Anti-Slavery Society Alloway, John, correspondence with William Aberdeen Proving Grounds, 223 Penn, 271, 280 abolition/abolitionists, 45–78 Alrichs, Pieter (Swedish colonial merchant), abortion, in eighteenth-century, 363–64, 363n 162 Academy of Natural Sciences, 89–90, 91, 93 American Anti-Slavery Society (AAS), 49, 51 Acrelius, Israel (Swedish missionary), 138, American Architect (journal), 321 139, 145 The American Backwoods Frontier: An ACS. See American Colonization Society Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation Act of Union, repeal of, 45. See also Repeal ( Jordan and Kaups), 139 associations American Colonization Society, 48 Adams, Andrew (1800–60), 286, 291 book on, 427–29 Adams, Sean Patrick, Old Dominion, “American Gothic,” Charles Brockden Brown Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, and, book on, 118–19 Politics, and Economy in American Institute of Architects, Phila. chap- Antebellum America, rev., 341–42 ter, 287 Adeleke, Tunde, Without Regard to Race: The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The Other Martin Robison Delany, by Wood, rev., 234–35 rev., 123–24 American Judaism: A History, by Sarna, rev., Adrift (Wyeth painting), 415–16 127–28 AFIR. See Association of the Friends of American Philosophical Society, 89, 93. See Ireland and Repeal also Philosophical Society (Phila.) African Americans, 45, 48, 50, 59, 60, 69, 213, American Repeal Association, 52, 56, 62, 64, 222, 222n, 232 67, 68 at Battle of Gettysburg, book on, 343–44 American Republican Party, 71–72 (with “colored” CCC camps and, 225, 227 photo), 74, 77 Delaware Moors and, 378–79, 379n American Revolution, 144, 172–73, 186, 190, leadership and, book on, 123–24 192, 194, 204 roundtable discussion of Matthew and Fries’s Rebellion, book on, 336–37 Countryman’s Up South, 387–406 Amherst, Gen. Jeffery, 15, 23, 41 introduction (Miller), 387 Amish, Hostetler’s writings on, book on, “Matthew Countryman’s Up South 435–37 and Urban Political History” (Self ), Ammansland (Swedish colonial settlement), 393–98 157 “Rethinking the Boundaries of the Ammerman, Joe (PA senator), 347 Modern Freedom Struggle” An Analysis of the Life-Forms in Art (Allen), (Trotter), 399–406 92–93 “Revisiting the Roots of 1960s Civil Anderson, Fred, The Dominion of War: Rights Activism: Class and Gender Empire and Liberty in North in Up South” (Levenstein), 388–92 America, 1500–2000, with Cayton, response to articles (Countryman), rev., 351–52 407–13 Anderson, Susan (historian), 309 slave history of, book on, 240–41 Andersson, Anders (Finnish colonist), 168–69 unemployment and, 214–15 Andrews, William S. (architect), 291–92, 309 Agnew, Hayes (anatomist), 90 Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic,by The Agnew Clinic (1891 Eakins painting), 97 Knutson, ed., rev., 415–20 Alaska, CCC camps in, 219 Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic, exhibit Albany, NY, Repeal association in, 58 curated by Knutson, Foster, and Allegheny County Emergency Association, Taylor, rev., 415–20 216, 217, 220 Aniello, Tomasso [Mazinello] (ca. 1647), 153 Allegheny Mountains, 9, 13, 17, 18 Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Allegheny National Forest, CCC camps in, Investigation of Consecutive Phases 224, 225, 228 of Animal Movements, 1872–1885 Allen, Harrison (professor), 91, 95 (Muybridge), 79–109 446 subscribers to, 96 The Attitudes of Animals in Motion title page, 96 (illus.) (Muybridge), 84 Animal Locomotion: The Muybridge Work Atwood, Craig D., Community of the Cross: at the University of Pennsylvania. Moravian Piety in Colonial The Method and the Result Bethlehem, rev., 113–14 (Muybridge Commission), 87–88, Avondale, PA, mine fire at, 345 91, 95, 95n, 98 anthracite coal region (PA) Babylonian Exploration Fund, 100, 103 decline in late twentieth century, book on, Bachelors Barge Club, 300 (photo), 304–5, 439–40 313, 326–28 (with photo) Knox Mine disaster in, book on, 345–46 Baird, John A., Jr., book rev. by, 248–49 1919–50, book on, 344–45 Baldwin Locomotive, records of (1825–69), antislavery 111–12 American Colonization Society and, Ball, Erica L., book rev. by, 123–24 427–29 Baltimore, MD, Repeal association in, 54, 55, pamphlets (1835), 49–50 64 antivice crusaders/activists (Phila.), 80, 80n, 94 Baltzell, E. Digby (historian), 93 “Arcadia” (1883 Eakins photographs), 97 Barbon, Nicholas (London real estate devel- architecture, American, 321, 324 oper), 269 The Architecture of Country Houses Barclay, Robert (Quaker apologist), 277, 278 (Downing), 306 Barker, George F. (professor), 91, 92 Armstrong, Betty (captive), 19 Barnard, Philip, book rev. by, 118–19 Armstrong, Maj. George, 10, 15–16 Barratt, Carrie Rebora, book rev. by, 340–41 Armstrong, Col. John, 22–23, 35–36 Barron, Michaell (deputy sheriff ), 162 Armstrong, Rebecca (wife of John), 22–23 Barton, George W. (Phila. judge), 59 army, on western PA frontier (1758–66), 5–43 Barton, Rev. Thomas, 12–13, 22 discipline delivered by, 25–29 Bartram, John (naturalist), 296 military chaplains, 22–23 Basalla, George, book rev. by, 238–39 morale of, 34–35 battlefields. See individual battles by name Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the Beatty, Charles (chaplain), 22 American Frontier, 1758–1775,by Beaux-Arts structures, 316 McConnel, rev., 334–35 Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of army followers, in western PA (1758–66), German-American Identity,by 5–43, 5n, 30n Kazal, rev., 125–26 presence of, 29–34 Bedford, Duke of [ John Russell], 11 as troublemakers, 36–38 Beeman, Richard R., The Varieties of Political art Experience in Eighteenth-Century American, history and culture of, book on, America, rev., 233–34 340–41 Beischer, Thomas G., “Control and Andrew Wyeth: