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Scope and Contents Collection consists of 5 out of at least 9 volumes of clippings, drawings, and excerpts kept by Besson in Philadelphia between 1813 and 1857. Collection includes numbered volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, and 9. The contents range from historical anecdotes; to a list of Philadelphia's mayors between 1701 and 1820; to cures for such things as "the Bite of a mad dog" or "the Polypus in the nose"; to a diagram showing the arrangement of Philadelphia's wards; to census summaries. The volume marked "No. 5" has...