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Title: Diocesan Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania. [membership certificate]
Description: Life membership certificate containing an allegorical scene. Shows a boy, in a field, spreading seeds from a sling around his chest. A farmer and plow follow behind him and an angel holding the Holy Bible floats on a cloud above him. In the background, parishioners arrive at a church at which the boy directs his gaze. The missionary society, approved in 1854, sought the "extension of missionary effort under the direction of ecclesiastical authority in said diocese and better support of clergyman, the education of persons for ministry, and such objectives incidental to above, as may tend to the extension of said church.", Not in Wainwright., Issued to John R. Whitney on December 19, 1854. Signed D.S. Miller, Cor[respondence] Sec[retar]y, Alonzo Potter, President, and Edwd. Biddle, Treasurer., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 53, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Diocesan Missionary
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Diocesan Missionary

Title: Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society. [life membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing a border of vignettes and scenes related to agriculture, horticulture, and industrial arts. Floral pictorial elements, a beehive, and watering can surround the scenes and vignettes. Shows farmers loading hay on a wagon; the coat of arms of Pennsylvania; a Victorian-style farm house; cows and horses at pasture; and figures representing agriculture, a blacksmith, and a sailor. The female agricultural figure sits and holds a sickle and a bale of wheat near an arrangement of farm produce. The artisan, holds a hammer, and stands over an anvil. The sailor, holds a spy glass, and sits next to a crate, barrels, and an anchor. Land and marinescapes are visible behind the figures. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year., Not in Wainwright., Issued to C. F. Peters, ca. 1863. Signed A. B[rower] Longaker, Secretary and Thomas B. Knox, President., Seal of the society blindstamped on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 169, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Pennsylvania State Life Membership, Inscribed on verso: Estate of Anna M. Peters Sept. 8, 1938., Knox served as president of the PSAS 1862-1864.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Pennsylvania State Life Membership

Title: East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society
Description: Fair certificate containing an ornate border with vignettes, female allegorical figures, and pictorial elements related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show the Pennsylvania coat of arms (surrounded by flags) and montages of scenes of life on a farm. Farm scenes include a farmhouse; barns; a woman milking a cow; a farmhand settling a horse; piglets suckling on their mother; sheep being corralled; a field being cleared; and farmhands loading a wagon full of hay. Allegorical figures hold a sickle, cornucopia of flowers, a basket of fruit, and the head of a ram that lays near other farm animals. Border also includes cherubs, garlands of vines and flowers, fruit bushes, and displays of farm produce. Two bales of wheat clustered with doves, a bee hive, and gardening tools form another pictorial element. The East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society was established in 1860 in Norristown following a split from the Montgomery County Agricultural Society. The society held its first fair in 1861., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Charles P. Peters in 1867 for King of peaches being the best variety on exhibition. Signed Joshua Ashbury, President and A.S. Hallman for Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 62, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - East Pennsylvania
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - East Pennsylvania

Title: The Delaware County Society, for the Promotion of Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic and Household Arts
Description: Fair certificate containing vignettes and scenes related to farming, industry, and domestic work. Predominately contains farm images that show farmers reaping, plowing, and threshing fields, transporting a truck of hay near the coastline, scraping feathers from a goose on a table as a locomotive travels past in the distant background, and a woman milking a cow in the field. Industrial images include women working at sewing machines and operating mechanical looms; a printer at a press; a mill; and a hull of a ship under construction. Vignettes also show farm animals and produce; bakeware, cookware, and other implements to prepare food; and the figure of William Penn., Not in Wainwright., Issued September 1857 to J[ohn?] Davidson for H[orse?] General Scott 2 years old. James Andrews, President. Abram P. Morgan, Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 49, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 D 343, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 65 D 343

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