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"2nd Minute Book of Hebrew Sunday School Society, 1858," 1858-1882
Creator: Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) Records
Date Created: 1858-1882
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"Remember me when far away..."
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1813 - 1872
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"Tis Good to Live. A Thanksgiving Hymn"
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Dates Created: undated ,
Dates Created: 1813 - 1872
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"To a departed sister"
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1862-11-03
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"Cousin L" letter to Martha Schofield
Date Created: 1861-1869
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''Thoughts for the House''
Date Created: 1800 - 1900
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26th Annual Report of the Association for the Care of Colored Orphans
Creator: Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.)
Date Created: 1862
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A prayer occasioned by hearing of the severe sickness of a much esteemed friend
Date Created: 1816 - 1906
9.
A. W. Whippes letter
Date Created: 1800-1870
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Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, SFHL-RG5-174 (collection description)
Creator: Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
Dates Created: 1824-1992 ,
Dates Created: 1824-1992 (bulk 1850-1892)
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Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
64
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
59
Schofield, Martha
31
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
18
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia
17
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892
16
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.)
14
Hale, David E.
14
Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
13
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.) (author)
12
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor (author)
10
Schuylkill Arsenal
10
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing
8
Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike Company (author)
7
Hopkinson, C. A., Mrs.
7
Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
7
Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
7
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances (author)
6
Magdalen Society of Philadelphia
6
Ballston Female Heathen School Society
4
Bartram, Sadie (Sarah Mott Brouwer), 1844-1878
4
Chester County Board of Relief
4
Lankton, Chloe, 1812-1890
4
Morgan, Maria M., 1818-1896
4
Thayer, Sarah Smith, 1827-1903
4
Bacon, Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey, 1833-1906
3
Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
3
Davis, Maria Mott
3
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
3
Jones, Sybil, 1808-1873
3
Morse, Lucy Gibbons, 1839-1936
3
Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women
3
Ridgeway, William Oldden, 1838-1925
3
Woolsey, Jane Stuart
3
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
2
Broadbent and Phillips
2
Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892
2
Dana, Thesta Dorcas, 1816-1907
2
Gibbons, Julia, 1837-1889
2
Griffith, Edith, 1801-1873
2
New York Female Association
2
Perry, Sophia E.
2
Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
2
Philadelphia Home for Destitute Colored Children
2
White, Rebecca, -1906
2
Woolsey, Abby Howland, 1828-1893
2
Adams, Enoch George, 1829-1900
1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
1
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912
1
Association for Jewish Children (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans
1
Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923
1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961
1
Biddle family
1
Bigelow, Jane Tunis Poultney, 1829-1889
1
Blockley Baptist Church
1
Board of Relief
1
Bodley, Rachel L.
1
Briggs, George W. (George Ware), 1810-1895
1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973|Cogdell|Holden, Sallie Sanders Venning, 1872-1959|Jackson, Mary Hinkson, 1928-2014|Sanders|Stevens|Venning
1
Bunting, Anna Webster, 1842-1914
1
Cadbury, Caroline, 1801-1868 (author)
1
Campbell, William J., 1850-1931 | Campbell, Sarah Jane, 1844-1928 | Campbell, Marianne, 1840-1913
1
Cassey, Amy Matilda, 1808-1856 | Dickerson, Mary Anne, 1822-1858 | Dickerson, Martina, 1829?-
1
Cedar Hill Cemetery
1
Charles Taber & Co.
1
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
1
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
1
Clark, E.
1
Darling, Adella Hance Letchworth, 1850-1933
1
Davis, David H., 1801-1867
1
Dennis, Jonathan, 1809?-1878
1
Dickerson, Mary Anne, 1822-1858
1
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882 (author)
1
Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
1
Evergreen Cemetery (Camden, N.J.)
1
Foote, Maria Wood, 1801-1871
1
Foulke, Jean Kane
1
Foulke, Jean Kane, 1867-
1
Frame, Carrie Willets (Caroline Willets), 1841-1925
1
Friends Instruction Association
1
Fussell, Jane Foulke, 1782-1857
1
Fussell, Susan, 1832-1889
1
Gardiner, Leon, 1892-1945
1
Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
1
Gibbons, Eliza (Elizabeth)
1
Godey, Louis Antoine, 1804-1878
1
Goodwin, R.J.P. (Doctor)
1
Gould, Harriett C.
1
Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James), 1850-1937
1
Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-
1
Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) Records
1
Hentz, Caroline Lee, 1800-1856
1
Holden, Miriam Young
1
Hopper, Rosa De Wolf (Rosalie), 1826-1910
1
Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881
1
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia | Ralston, Sarah
1
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
72
Personal correspondence
59
Women artists
59
Botanical illustration
46
War--Relief of sick and wounded
46
Flowers in art
45
Correspondence
37
Philadelphia (Pa.)
29
Charities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
28
Institutional care
26
Women--Institutional care
26
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
25
Charities--Finance
23
Charities
22
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia (Pa.)
21
Older people--Housing
21
Older people--Institutional care
21
Ralston, Sarah
21
Women physicians
19
Slavery
18
Fugitive slaves
17
Women medical students
17
Hammond General Hospital (Point Lookout, Md.)
16
Women--Societies and clubs
16
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.)
15
Contraband of war
15
Charity organization
14
Hale family
14
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
14
Portraits
14
Orphanages
12
Women teachers
12
American Civil War, 1861-1865
11
Society of Friends
11
Charity-schools
10
Quaker women
10
Quakers
10
Schofield, Martha
10
Accounting
9
Antislavery movements
9
Female friendship
9
Sick
9
Women in education
9
Zoological illustration
9
Death
8
Diaries
8
Freedmen
8
Girls' schools
8
Pansies
8
Roses
8
Scientific illustration
8
Stocks
8
Women--Diaries
8
African American children
7
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
7
Asters
7
Draft
7
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing
7
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor
7
Gifts
7
Medical education
7
Military hospitals
7
Minutes (Records)
7
Shipping
7
Abolitionists
6
Birds
6
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
6
Ornithological illustration
6
Soldiers
6
War--Religious aspects--Society of Friends
6
Women social reformers
6
Annual reports
5
Bacon, Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey, 1833-1906
5
Children--Institutional care
5
Endowments
5
Evangelicalism
5
Excerpts
5
Freedmen--Charities
5
House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5
House of the Good Shepherd (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5
Inventories
5
Juvenile delinquency
5
Magdalen Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5
Marriage
5
Poor women
5
Prostitution
5
Quakers--Religious life
5
Quotations
5
White, William, 1748-1836
5
African Americans--Education
4
Alphabet
4
American poetry--Quaker authors
4
Biography
4
Board of Relief
4
Calligraphy
4
Child Welfare
4
Chronic pain
4
Chronically ill
4
Civil War
4
Education--Finance
4
Emerson, Sarah Hopper, 1835-
4
Faith
4
Finance, Personal
4
Gibbons, William, 1834-1855
4
Invalids
4
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
4
Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
4
Poverty
4
School management and organization
4
Social Welfare
4
Social service
4
Thank-you notes
4
Thayer, Sarah Smith, 1827-1903
4
Women abolitionists
4
Women and peace
4
Women in missionary work
4
Women--Services for
4
Women--Suffrage
4
Woolsey, Jane Stuart
4
Account books
3
African American churches
3
African Americans
3
African Americans--Services for
3
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
3
Ballston (N.Y. : Town)
3
Ballston Female Heathen School Society
3
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894
3
Bartram, Sadie (Sarah Mott Brouwer), 1844-1878
3
Books and reading
3
Bunting, Anna Webster, 1842-1914
3
Burial records
3
By-laws
3
Constitutions
3
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882
3
Early College Years
3
Gibbons, James Sloan, 1810-1892
3
Health
3
Household employees
3
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
3
Londonderry (Chester County, Pa. : Township)
3
Photographs
3
Princeton Theological Seminary
3
Quakers--Charities
3
Quakers--Social life and customs
3
Records (Documents)
3
Ridgeway, William Oldden, 1838-1925
3
Speeches, addresses, etc.
3
Wills
3
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
3
Women's rights
3
Women--Political activity
3
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
2
Advertising
2
African American abolitionists
2
African American children--Care
2
African American schools
2
African American women
2
African American women abolitionists
2
African Americans--Charities
2
African Americans--Education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
2
African Americans--Housing
2
Animals in art
2
Antislavery movements--United States
2
Archives
2
Bereavement
2
Bunting, John, 1839-1904
2
Burleigh, Gertrude Kimber
2
Capital punishment
2
Caregivers
2
Child welfare--Pennsylvania
2
Children's writings
2
Clinical medicine--Study and teaching
2
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
2
Coeducation
2
College buildings
2
Commonplace books
2
Congresses and conventions
2
Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887
2
Davis, Maria Mott
2
Death--Religious aspects
2
Debates and debating
2
Deeds
2
Education--Societies, etc.
2
Examinations
2
Fatehpur (India : District)
2
Financial records
2
Fund raising
2
Fussell, Emma Jane, 1839-1862
2
Genealogy
2
Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869
2
Hookstown (Pa.)
2
Hospitals
2
Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
2
Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881
2
Johnson, Rachel Kerr, 1837-1888
2
Law
2
Lectures and lecturing
2
London (England)
2
Maine Insane Hospital
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Swarthmore - Friends
374
Haverford College
97
Historical Society of PA
40
Athenaeum
32
Drexel University
24
National Archives
10
Presbyterian Historical Society
7
Chester County Archives and Record Services
5
Swarthmore - Peace
4
Chester County History Center
3
Library Company
3
Temple University
3
College of Physicians
2
PA State Archives
2
Catholic Historical Research Center
1
Howard University
1
Legacy Foundation
1
Princeton University
1
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Text
429
Still image
75
Letters (correspondence)
9
Financial records
8
Diaries
7
Stock certificates
7
Constitutions
4
Minutes (administrative records)
4
Administrative reports
3
Biographies (literary works)
3
Photographs
3
Bylaws (administrative records)
2
Newspaper clippings
2
Notes (documents)
2
Physical object
2
Poems
2
Rules (instructions)
2
Account books
1
Administrative regulations
1
Annual reports
1
Business cards
1
Circular letters
1
Genealogies (histories)
1
Indexes (reference sources)
1
Invitations
1
Library catalogs
1
Maps (documents)
1
Minutes;
1
Resignation letters
1
Scrapbooks
1
Silhouettes
1
Collection
Abby Hopper Gibbons papers
137
Lewis-Fussell Family papers
67
Martha Schofield papers
56
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection
32
Emily Howland Family papers
31
Lucretia Mott manuscripts
30
Aimwell School records
20
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society/Ralston House records
20
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor records
18
Josiah White papers
18
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans records
15
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances records
15
Sharpless Family papers
14
Emily Howland family photographs
10
Recommendations for Employment at the Schuylkill Arsenal
10
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing records
8
Julia Wilbur papers
8
Ann Preston papers
7
Magdalen Society of Philadelphia records
6
Chester County Board of Relief records
5
Ballston Female Heathen School Society records
4
Mariana Wright Chapman Family papers
4
Rachel Bodley papers
4
Branson-Jackson Family papers
3
Pennsylvania Abolition Society papers
3
Rachel Kerr Johnson papers
3
Rebecca Singer Collins papers
3
African Americana Albums
2
Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer records
2
Eastern State Penitentiary
2
Jean Kane Foulke papers
2
New York Female Association records
2
Philadelphia Home for Destitute Colored Children annual reports
2
Sophia Perry diaries
2
The Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia records
2
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania clipping scrapbooks
2
Annual Announcements of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
1
Association for Jewish Children records
1
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
1
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons records
1
Belva Ann Lockwood papers
1
Biddle Family papers
1
Caroline Katzenstein papers
1
Clara Marshall papers
1
Dora Kelly Lewis correspondence
1
Emily Greene Balch papers
1
Francis J. Grimke papers
1
Friends Instructional Association records
1
Hannah J. Bailey papers
1
Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia records
1
Jane Addams collection
1
Leon Gardiner collection
1
Logan Family papers
1
Marion Craig Potter papers
1
Martha Dunn Corey papers
1
Martha Tracy papers
1
Martin-Campbell-Furlong Family papers
1
Mira Sharpless Townsend papers
1
Miriam Y. Holden Collection
1
Mother Bethel AME Church records
1
New Century Trust records
1
Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection
1
Union League Collections - Civil War
1
Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights Collection
1
YWCA of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch records
1
Place
Philadelphia (Pa.)
131
New York (N.Y.)
29
Point Lookout (Md.)
28
Darby (Pa.)
24
Washington (D.C.)
19
Winchester (Va.)
13
Alexandria (Va.)
9
New York (State)
7
Chester County (Pa.)
6
Pennsylvania
6
Boston (Mass.)
5
Cheltenham (Pa.)
5
Salem (Mass.)
5
Auburn (N.Y.)
4
Baltimore (Md.)
4
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
4
Michigan
4
New Hartford (Conn.)
4
Rochester (N.Y.)
4
3615 Chestnut St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3
Ballston (N.Y. : Town)
3
London (England)
3
Northampton (Mass.)
3
Skaneateles (N.Y.)
3
England
2
Fatehpur (India : District)
2
Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
2
Hagerstown (Md.)
2
Harrison (N.Y.)
2
Hookstown (Pa.)
2
Langley (Va.)
2
Longport (N.J.)
2
Richmond (Va.)
2
Sherwood (N.Y.)
2
South China (Me.)
2
Syracuse (N.Y.)
2
1408 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
1863 Mount Ephraim Ave
1
229 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
315 Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
525 N 53rd St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
5800 Frankford Ave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
627 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
Aiken (S.C.)
1
Allahabad (India)
1
Bayside (New York, N.Y.)
1
Bensalem (Pa.)
1
Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.)
1
Brownsville (Fayette County, Pa.)
1
Cambridge (Mass.)
1
Camden (N.J.)
1
Cayuga County (N.Y.)
1
Cheyney (Pa.)
1
Chicago (Ill.)
1
Cincinnati (Ohio)
1
Cirencester (England)
1
Columbia (S.C.)
1
Crosswicks (N.J.)
1
Dayton (Ohio)
1
Delaware County (Pa.)
1
Falls Church (Va.)
1
Firozabad (India)
1
Fishkill Landing (N.Y.)
1
Gorham (Me.)
1
Great Bend (Pa.)
1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
1
Heathsville (Va.)
1
Indiana
1
Lancaster (Pa.)
1
Lima (Pa.)
1
Mainpuri (India)
1
Martinsburg (W. Va.)
1
Medford (Mass.)
1
Media (Pa.)
1
Middleburg (Va.)
1
Montréal (Québec)
1
Mount Holly (N.J.)
1
New Bedford (Mass.)
1
Newport (R.I.)
1
Newtonville (Newton, Mass.)
1
Newtown Square (Pa.)
1
Norfolk (Va.)
1
North Carolina
1
Pendleton (Ind.)
1
Petersburg (Va.)
1
Pittsfield (Mass.)
1
Portsmouth (R.I.)
1
Rockville (S.C.)
1
Rush (N.Y. : Town)
1
Rye (N.Y.)
1
Saint Helena Island (S.C.)
1
Shanghai (China)
1
Somerset (N.Y. : Town)
1
South Carolina
1
Steubenville (Ohio)
1
Strasburg (Va.)
1
Utah
1
Utica (N.Y.)
1
Vienna (Austria)
1
Virginia
1
Wadmalaw Island (S.C.)
1
Washington County (Md.)
1
Waterbury (Conn.)
1
Westchester County (N.Y.)
1
Weymouth (Mass.)
1
Williamsport (Md.)
1
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