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Bag once containing "Remaining Minute Books + papers of Soldiers Orphans Home"
Date Created: 1939-10-02
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Announcement from the Office of the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Committee
Date Created: 1869-10-20
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Envelope mailed from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Public Instruction to Mr. William Justice
Date Created: 1874-01-01
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Receipt: "Received of Mr. Wm. W. Justice - Ten Dollars - [illegible] Bacon"
Date Created: 1875-10-05
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Newspaper clippings associated with the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans School
Date Created: 1876-01-01
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Newspaper clippings associated with the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans School
Date Created: 1876-01-01
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Laura Edmonds letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Date Created: 1865-01-08
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Anna S. Hooper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Date Created: 1833-1893
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Jane Day letter to Anna M. Jackson
Date Created: 1915-02-03
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'In the Days of Anne Parrish'' newspaper article
Date Created: 1897-05-09
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Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
14
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity
7
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor (author)
6
Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter), 1808-
5
Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women
4
Buckley, Edward S. | Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter), 1808- | Wright, James A. | Still, William, 1821-1902 | Justice, William W.
3
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances (author)
3
German Society of Pennsylvania
3
Poor, Mary Wild, 1820-1912
2
Prince, William Henry, 1817-1883 (Doctor)
2
Richmond, Mary Ellen, 1861-1928
2
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
1
Bird, Sarah J., 1832-1914
1
Board of Directors and Managers of the Industrial Home for Colored Women (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Bond, Kate (Christiana), 1834-1924
1
Buckley, Edward S. | Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter), 1808- | Wright, James A. | Still, William, 1821-1902 | Justice, William W.
1
Buckley, Edward S. | Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter), 1808-. | Wright, James A. | Still, William, 1821-1902 | Justice, William W.
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Carstens, C. C. (Christian Carl), 1865-1939
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Dauman, Ada J. (Ada Jeanne), 1860-1954
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Elkinton, Katharine Wistar, 1892-1961
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Fussell, Susan, 1832-1889
1
Hoge, Mrs. (Jane Currie Blaikie), 1811-1890
1
Holbrooke, M. M.
1
Justice, William W.
1
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
1
Morse, Lucy Gibbons, 1839-1936
1
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
1
Officers and Teachers of the Union Mission for Colored People (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Palmer, Emma H.
1
Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor (author)
1
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867
1
Taliaferro, William, 1861-
1
United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania (author)
1
Wellman, C. E.
1
Wickersham, James Pyle, 1825-1891
1
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1948
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Charity organization
25
African Americans--Housing
20
Charities
20
Education equalization
18
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
14
Women--Services for
12
Commercial correspondence
11
Women--Societies and clubs
9
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor
8
New York Diet Kitchen Association
7
Poor--Services for
6
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
5
Child welfare
4
Poor--Social conditions
4
Women in charitable work
4
Beggars
3
Beggars--Social conditions
3
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
3
Food relief
3
German American women
3
German Americans
3
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892
3
Immigrants
3
Immigrants--Education
3
Immigrants--Housing
3
Isaac T. Hopper Home
3
Labor movement
3
Poor families
3
Public welfare
3
Quakers--Charities
3
Societies
3
Women ex-convicts
3
Women social reformers
3
Women--Charities
3
Account books
2
African Americans--Services for
2
American Friends Service Committee
2
Buckley, Edward S.
2
Charities--Finance
2
Charity-schools
2
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
2
Contraband of war
2
Correspondence
2
Finance
2
Fugitive slaves
2
Hart, Virginia, 1865-1906
2
Housing
2
Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter), 1808-
2
International relief
2
Jackson, Anna M. (Anna Margaret), 1848-1920
2
Justice, William W.
2
Orphanages
2
Prison reformers
2
Quaker women
2
Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858-1922
2
Still, William, 1821-1902
2
Swindlers and swindling
2
Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners
2
Wages
2
Welfare fraud
2
Women employees
2
Women medical students
2
Women physicians
2
Women--India
2
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Society of Friends
2
Wright, James A.
2
782 6th Avenue, New York, New York
1
African American business enterprises
1
African Americans
1
African Americans--Education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Alcoholics
1
Antislavery movements
1
Bodley, Rachel L.
1
Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
1
Cherokee (Iowa)
1
Clothing and dress
1
Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912
1
Congresses and conventions
1
Conversion
1
Corporal punishment
1
Dispensaries
1
Drug addicts--Services for
1
Endowments
1
Exhibitions
1
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances
1
Fund raising
1
Gibbons, James Sloan, 1810-1892
1
Gibbons, William, 1834-1855
1
Gifts
1
Haines, Samuel B. (Samuel Bowne), 1834-1913
1
Hartranft, John F., 1830-1889
1
Health
1
Hodge, Mary, 1763-1832
1
Hoge, Mrs. (Jane Currie Blaikie), 1811-1890
1
Homeless women
1
Hopper, Anna Mott, 1812-1874
1
Illegitimate children
1
India
1
Mentally ill--Services for
1
Missionary Work and Public Health
1
New York (N.Y.)
1
Older people--Services for
1
Parrish, Anne, 1760-1800
1
Personal correspondence
1
Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor
1
Poor children
1
Poor children--Social conditions
1
Poor women--Services for
1
Psychiatric hospitals
1
Quilting
1
Scholarships
1
Sewing
1
Social classes
1
Teacher-student relationships
1
Temperance
1
Textile fabrics
1
Thayer, James Bradley, 1831-1902
1
United States--History--1865-1921
1
Unwanted pregnancy--Decision making
1
Welfare recipients
1
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
1
Women abolitionists
1
Women authors
1
Women in missionary work
1
Women orators
1
Women prisoners
1
Women volunteers in social service
1
Contributing Institution
Swarthmore - Friends
36
Haverford College
26
Germantown Historical Society
21
The German Society
3
Drexel University
2
Type
Text
63
Administrative reports
3
Clippings (information artifacts)
2
Letters (correspondence)
2
Minutes (administrative records)
2
Agreements
1
Annual reports
1
Newspaper clippings
1
Collection
Abby Hopper Gibbons papers
24
African-History Collection
21
Josiah White papers
11
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor records
10
Branson-Jackson Family papers
4
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances records
4
Rachel Bodley papers
2
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons records
1
Emily Howland Family papers
1
Howard and Katharine Wistar Mason Elkinton Letters
1
Lewis-Fussell Family papers
1
Lucretia Mott manuscripts
1
Place
Philadelphia (Pa.)
34
Bridgewater (Pa.)
17
New York (N.Y.)
17
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
11
Albany (N.Y.)
4
611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA
3
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
3
Boston (Mass.)
2
Brookline (Mass.)
2
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
2
Washington (D.C.)
2
Barnstable (Mass.)
1
California
1
Cambridge (Mass.)
1
Cheltenham (Pa.)
1
Chicago (Ill.)
1
Cleveland (Ohio)
1
Harrisburg (Pa.)
1
Maryland
1
Northampton (Mass.)
1
Randalls Island (N.Y.)
1
Reedville (Va.)
1
Scarsdale (N.Y.)
1
Syracuse (N.Y.)
1
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