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The Biddle family papers consists of eight linear feet, spanning from 1766 to 1943, and bulking in the nineteenth century
and early twentieth century.
The collection comprises deeds, indentures, contracts, correspondence, receipts, photographs, ledgers and account books, publications,
essays,
postcards, ephemera, and clippings. The Biddle family papers preserve overone hundred and fifty years of material related
to this prominent
Philadelphia family, and detail extensively their professional lineage as attorneys, notary publics, and bankers. Resulting
from the intermarriage with
two other established Philadelphia families, the Biddle family papers also contain materials related to the Lippincott and
Rush families, which are
described in Series II.
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