The Port folio / by Oliver Oldschool, Esq.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Contributor:

Dennie, Joseph, 1768-1812, editor.

Hall, John E. (John Elihu), 1783-1829, editor.

Standardized Title:

Port folio (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1801)

Language:

English

Genre:

Periodicals.

Penn Provenance:

Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 1827-1892 (autograph) (n.s., v.1; ser.2, v.1; ser.4, v.1)

Shaw, Graham (autograph) (bookplate) (n.s., v.3-4)

Foulke, George D. (autograph) (n.s., v.5)

Physical Description:

47 volumes : plates, portraits, maps, plans, facsimiles ; 22-34 cm

Monthly 1822-1827

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 3d, 1801)-v. 5, no. 51 (Dec. 28, 1805); New ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 11, 1806)-new ser., v. 6, no. 24 (Dec. 10, 1808) ; New ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1809)-new ser., v. 8, no. 6 (Dec. 1812) ; 3rd ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1813)-3rd ser., v. 6, no. 6 (Dec. 1813) ; 4th ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1816)-4th ser., v. 20, no. 6 (Dec. 1825); Hall's 2nd ser., v. 1, no. 1 (July 1826)-Hall's 2nd ser., v. 2, no. 6 (Dec. 1827).

Other Title:

Portfolio, and New York monthly magazine Jan.-May 1822

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1801-1827.

Notes:

Publication suspended Jan.-June 1826 and Jan.-June 1827.

Published: Philadelphia : Harrison Hall, 1816-

Founded by Joseph Dennie in connection with Asbury Dickins and ed. by Dennie until 1812. "The editors...from the death of Dennie until 1827, when the magazine finally ceased, were Paul Allen, Nicholas Biddle, Dr. Charles Caldwell, Thomas Cooper, Judge Workman, John Elihu Hall, and his three brothers."--Smyth's Philadelphia magazines.

Local Notes:

Vols. for 1809-1812 designated series 2 in U. of P. Library.

Ser. 4, v. 14 lacks Oct. 1922; Ser. 4, v. 19 lacks Jan. 1825.

Unbound issues in original covers bear consecutive numbers; no. 254 erroneusly numbered no. 253 on cover.

v. 1-5 shelved with folios.

Finding Aid/Index:

Jan. 1816-Dec. 1825, in: 4th ser., v. 20. 64 p.

OCLC:

6594597