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1.
Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights Collection (collection description)
Creator: various
Date Created: 1850-1921
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Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.), Germantown Branch Records (collection description)
Creator: Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.), Germantown Branch
Dates Created: 1785-1982 ,
Dates Created: 1785-1982 (bulk 1869-1982)
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Abby Howland Woolsey letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Creator: Woolsey, Abby Howland, 1828-1893
Date Created: 1865-1880
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Abby Howland Woolsey letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Creator: Woolsey, Abby Howland, 1828-1893
Date Created: 1868-1891
5.
By-Laws
Creator: Women's Christian Association of Germantown
Date Created: 1870-1920
6.
Annual Announcements of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (collection description)
Creator: Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Date Created: 1850-1970
7.
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Public Relations office records--ACC-133 (collection description)
Creator: Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Date Created: 1869-1923
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The Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia records--ACC-002 (collection description)
Creator: Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia
Date Created: 1861-1964
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Julia Wilbur diary, May 1870 to May 1871
Creator: Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
Date Created: 1870-05-17 - 1871-05-04
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Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1871
Creator: Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
Date Created: 1871
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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
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Schofield, Martha
21
Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
19
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia
15
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.)
14
Hale, David E.
14
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor (author)
11
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
11
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.) (author)
10
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances (author)
7
Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike Company (author)
7
Hopkinson, C. A., Mrs.
7
Magdalen Society of Philadelphia
7
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing
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Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
6
Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874
5
Gibbons, Julia, 1837-1889
5
Thayer, Sarah Smith, 1827-1903
5
Ballston Female Heathen School Society
4
Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women
4
Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
4
Rantoul, Robert S. (Robert Samuel), 1832-1922
4
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
3
Corlies, Sarah Fisher, 1838-1904
3
Dana, Thesta Dorcas, 1816-1907
3
Davis, Maria Mott
3
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892
3
New York Female Association
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Stone, Mary Taylor, 1842-1926
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Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
3
Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911
2
Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912
2
Bacon, Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey, 1833-1906
2
Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
2
Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892
2
Dorsey, Elizabeth, 1837-
2
Griffith, Edith, 1801-1873
2
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
2
Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons (Philadelphia, Pa.)
2
Hopper, Elizabeth, 1803-1872
2
Hopper, Maria, 1845-1899
2
Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter), 1808-
2
Jones, Sybil, 1808-1873
2
Lankton, Chloe, 1812-1890
2
Nerland, W. A. (William A.)
2
Perry, Sophia E.
2
Philadelphia Home for Destitute Colored Children
2
Posey, L. O. (Lawrence Obanyon), 1850-1907
2
Rantoul, Harriet Charlotte, 1837-1899
2
Schofield, E. H. (Eliza Hough), 1840-1913
2
Stearns, John, 1827-1898
2
Thaxter, Levi
2
Unknown
2
White, Rebecca, -1906
2
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
2
Woolsey, Abby Howland, 1828-1893
2
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
1
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Alsop, Sarah J., 1818?-1878
1
Amberley, Katharine Louisa Stanley Russell, viscountess, 1842-1874
1
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
1
Association for Jewish Children (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans
1
Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923
1
Baker, Eveline Stevens, 1817-1903
1
Baker, George E.
1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961
1
Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889
1
Bell, Eliza H. (Eliza Hough Jackson), 1813-1901
1
Biddle family
1
Bigelow, Jane Tunis Poultney, 1829-1889
1
Blockley Baptist Church
1
Bodley, Rachel L.
1
Briggs, George W. (George Ware), 1810-1895
1
Briggs, Virgil
1
Broadbent and Phillips
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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
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey, 1828-1906
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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
Christman, Joseph C.
1
Clark, E.
1
Collins, Ellen, 1828-1912
1
Corson, Robert Rodgers, 1831-1904
1
Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887
1
Day, Katharine S. (Katharine Seymour), 1870-1964
1
Dickerson, Mary Anne, 1822-1858
1
Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
1
Ernsberger, W. H.
1
Evergreen Cemetery (Camden, N.J.)
1
Fisk, N. B. (Nathaniel Benjamin), 1848-
1
Foote, Maria Wood, 1801-1871
1
Foulke, Jean Kane
1
Foulke, Jean Kane, 1867-
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Personal correspondence
75
Women artists
58
Botanical illustration
46
Flowers in art
45
Correspondence
35
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
29
Charities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
28
Philadelphia (Pa.)
28
Institutional care
26
Charities--Finance
25
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
25
Women--Institutional care
25
Charities
24
Women physicians
24
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
22
Schofield, Martha
22
Charity organization
20
Older people--Housing
20
Older people--Institutional care
20
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia (Pa.)
19
Ralston, Sarah
19
Women's rights--United States--History--20th century
19
Women--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century
19
Women medical students
18
Women--Suffrage
18
Portraits
16
Women--Societies and clubs
16
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.)
15
Hale family
14
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
14
Women in education
14
African Americans--Education
12
Orphanages
12
Quakers
12
Quaker women
11
Accounting
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African American schools
10
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9
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9
Endowments
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Women social reformers
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African American children
8
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8
Roses
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Society of Friends
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Stocks
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Women teachers
8
Asters
7
Birds
7
Charity-schools
7
Death
7
Finance, Personal
7
Girls' schools
7
Minutes (Records)
7
Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927
7
Account books
6
African Americans--Housing
6
Annual reports
6
Children--Institutional care
6
Evangelicalism
6
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor
6
House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
6
House of the Good Shepherd (Philadelphia, Pa.)
6
Juvenile delinquency
6
Magdalen Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)
6
Ornithological illustration
6
Poor women
6
Prostitution
6
Social service
6
Swarthmore College
6
White, William, 1748-1836
6
Women's rights
6
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5
Clinical medicine--Study and teaching
5
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing
5
Freedmen
5
Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association
5
Quakers--Charities
5
School management and organization
5
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
5
Teachers--Salaries, etc.
5
Thayer, Sarah Smith, 1827-1903
5
Women--Diaries
5
African Americans--Charities
4
African Americans--Services for
4
Alphabet
4
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
4
Antislavery movements
4
Biography
4
Calligraphy
4
Coeducation
4
Early College Years
4
Freedmen--Education
4
Genealogy
4
Gifts
4
Household employees
4
Letters to the editor
4
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
4
Marriage
4
National American Woman Suffrage Association
4
Peace movements
4
Quakers--Religious life
4
Quotations
4
Race relations
4
Rantoul, Robert S. (Robert Samuel), 1832-1922
4
Records (Documents)
4
Sewing schools
4
Sick
4
Speeches, addresses, etc.
4
United States--History--1865-1921
4
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
4
Wills
4
Women and peace
4
Women in missionary work
4
Women orators
4
Women--Services for
4
Abolitionists
3
African American students
3
African Americans
3
African Americans--Social conditions
3
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
3
American poetry--Quaker authors
3
Archives
3
Ballston (N.Y. : Town)
3
Ballston Female Heathen School Society
3
Burial records
3
By-laws
3
Capital punishment
3
Christmas
3
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
3
Congresses and conventions
3
Cutler, H. M. Tracy (Hannah Maria Tracy), 1815-1896
3
Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887
3
Excerpts
3
Faith
3
Fund raising
3
Garrison, William Lloyd, Jr., 1838-1909
3
Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-
3
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907
3
Hospitals
3
Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881
3
Indians of North America
3
Invalids
3
Lectures and lecturing
3
Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917
3
Londonderry (Chester County, Pa. : Township)
3
Mortgages
3
Photographs
3
Posey, L. O. (Lawrence Obanyon), 1850-1907
3
Princeton Theological Seminary
3
Prison reformers
3
Racism
3
Rantoul, Harriet Charlotte, 1837-1899
3
Securities
3
Slavery
3
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania
3
Teacher-student relationships
3
Travel
3
Vocational education
3
War--Religious aspects--Society of Friends
3
Weiss, John, 1818-1879
3
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
3
Women--Finance, Personal
3
Wright, Martha Coffin, 1806-1875
3
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
2
Advertising
2
African American abolitionists
2
African American children--Care
2
African American churches
2
African American household employees
2
African American women
2
African Americans--Civil rights
2
African Americans--Crimes against
2
African Americans--Education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
2
American Civil War, 1861-1865
2
Animals in art
2
Anniversaries
2
Bacon, Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey, 1833-1906
2
Bereavement
2
Boardinghouses
2
Bunting, John, 1839-1904
2
Checks
2
Child welfare--Pennsylvania
2
Chronic pain
2
Chronically ill
2
Clergy
2
College buildings
2
Commonplace books
2
Constitutions
2
Dairy products
2
Dana, Thesta Dorcas, 1816-1907
2
Davis, Paulina W., 1813-1876
2
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882
2
Education
2
Education equalization
2
Education--Societies, etc.
2
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Swarthmore - Friends
391
Haverford College
87
Historical Society of PA
40
Athenaeum
31
Drexel University
29
University of Delaware
20
Presbyterian Historical Society
8
Swarthmore - Peace
7
Chester County History Center
5
Temple University
4
Germantown Historical Society
3
Library Company
3
College of Physicians
2
PA State Archives
2
United Lutheran Seminary
2
Catholic Historical Research Center
1
Howard University
1
Legacy Foundation
1
Princeton University
1
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Text
426
Still image
79
Physical object
13
Financial records
8
Letters (correspondence)
7
Stock certificates
7
Image
5
Minutes (administrative records)
4
Administrative reports
3
Biographies (literary works)
3
Constitutions
3
Diaries
3
Notes (documents)
3
Photographs
3
Annual reports
2
Bylaws (administrative records)
2
Newspaper clippings
2
Poems
2
Rules (instructions)
2
Administrative regulations
1
Business cards
1
Fliers;
1
Genealogies (histories)
1
Indexes (reference sources)
1
Invitations
1
Library catalogs
1
Lists (document genres)
1
Maps (documents)
1
Minutes;
1
Scrapbooks
1
Silhouettes
1
Collection
Martha Schofield papers
83
Abby Hopper Gibbons papers
79
Lewis-Fussell Family papers
70
Lucretia Mott manuscripts
59
Emily Howland Family papers
36
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection
31
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society/Ralston House records
20
Woman Suffrage collection
20
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor records
18
Aimwell School records
16
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans records
16
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances records
16
Sharpless Family papers
15
Josiah White papers
14
Branson-Jackson Family papers
10
Emily Howland family photographs
9
Magdalen Society of Philadelphia records
7
Ann Preston papers
6
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing records
6
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania clipping scrapbooks
5
Ballston Female Heathen School Society records
4
Belva Ann Lockwood papers
4
Julia Wilbur papers
4
Penn Sewing School records
4
Rachel Bodley papers
4
African-History Collection
3
Mariana Wright Chapman Family papers
3
New York Female Association records
3
Rachel Kerr Johnson papers
3
Rebecca Singer Collins papers
3
The Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia records
3
African Americana Albums
2
Anna M. Sheeder diaries
2
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
2
Eastern State Penitentiary
2
Jean Kane Foulke papers
2
Marion Craig Potter papers
2
Martha Dunn Corey papers
2
New Century Trust records
2
Philadelphia Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons
2
Philadelphia Home for Destitute Colored Children annual reports
2
Sophia Perry diaries
2
Women's Missionary Societies of the Lutheran Church records
2
American Women's Hospitals Service records
1
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 records
1
Belle Hawkes 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
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 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
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
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
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Philadelphia (Pa.)
138
Aiken (S.C.)
36
Cheltenham (Pa.)
23
New York (N.Y.)
20
Darby (Pa.)
13
Washington (D.C.)
13
Boston (Mass.)
7
New York (State)
6
Blackville (S.C.)
5
London (England)
5
Orange (N.J.)
5
Pennsylvania
5
Salem (Mass.)
5
Sherwood (N.Y.)
5
Auburn (N.Y.)
4
Charleston (S.C.)
4
Columbia (S.C.)
4
Northampton (Mass.)
4
Northumberland County (Va.)
4
3615 Chestnut St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3
Ballston (N.Y. : Town)
3
Bayside (New York, N.Y.)
3
Beverly Farms (Mass.)
3
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
3
Baltimore (Md.)
2
Bridgewater (Pa.)
2
Camden (N.J.)
2
Cayuga County (N.Y.)
2
Chester County (Pa.)
2
Chicago (Ill.)
2
Delaware County (Pa.)
2
Heathsville (Va.)
2
Longport (N.J.)
2
Mainpuri (India)
2
New Hartford (Conn.)
2
Newtonville (Newton, Mass.)
2
Oxford (Pa.)
2
Rochester (N.Y.)
2
South Carolina
2
Syracuse (N.Y.)
2
1408 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
1863 Mount Ephraim Ave
1
340 S Front St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
525 N 53rd St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
5800 Frankford Ave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
Allahabad (India)
1
Allegheny County (Pa.)
1
Arlington (Va.)
1
Bensalem (Pa.)
1
Blackheath (London, England)
1
Bowers (Pa.)
1
Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.)
1
Brownsville (Fayette County, Pa.)
1
Cambridge (Mass.)
1
Cape May (N.J.)
1
Catskill (N.Y.)
1
Chepstow (Wales)
1
Cheyney (Pa.)
1
Cincinnati (Ohio)
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Crosswicks (N.J.)
1
Dayton (Ohio)
1
Deerfield (Mass.)
1
Dublin (Ireland)
1
Eden (N.Y.)
1
Ellenton (S.C.)
1
England
1
Fatehpur (India : District)
1
Firozabad (India)
1
Fishkill Landing (N.Y.)
1
Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
1
Fort Myers (Fla.)
1
Frenchtown (N.J.)
1
Gorham (Me.)
1
Greenville (S.C.)
1
Hamburg (S.C.)
1
Hanover (N.H.)
1
Harleysville (Pa.)
1
Harrison (N.Y.)
1
Holyoke (Mass.)
1
Honolulu (Hawaii)
1
Hookstown (Pa.)
1
Iran
1
Ireland
1
Lancaster (Pa.)
1
Lewes (Del.)
1
Media (Pa.)
1
Montréal (Québec)
1
Mount Holly (N.J.)
1
Nantucket (Mass.)
1
Naugatuck (Conn.)
1
Nether Providence (Pa.)
1
New Bedford (Mass.)
1
New York
1
Newport (R.I.)
1
North Carolina
1
Palmyra (N.Y. : Town)
1
Pendleton (Ind.)
1
Pittsfield (Mass.)
1
Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
1
Quakertown (Pa.)
1
Rockaway (New York, N.Y.)
1
Saint Helena Island (S.C.)
1
Savannah (Ga.)
1
Sea Islands
1
Shanghai (China)
1
South China (Me.)
1
Steubenville (Ohio)
1
Stonington (Conn.)
1
Trenton (Mo.)
1
Venango County (Pa.)
1
Vienna (Austria)
1
Vineland (N.J.)
1
Virginia
1
West Chester (Pa.)
1
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Wester Ross (Scotland)
1
Westford (Mass.)
1
Weymouth (Mass.)
1
Wilmington (Del.)
1
unknown
1
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