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1.
Pennsylvania Abolition Society papers, Collection 0490 (collection description)
Creator: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Date Created: 1833-1870
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2.
Mott Manuscripts, SFHL-MSS-035 (collection description)
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1831-1959
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3.
Julia Wilbur papers (collection description)
Creator: Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895
Dates Created: 1843-1908 ,
Dates Created: 1843-1908 (bulk 1843-1895)
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Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records (collection description)
Creator: Gardiner, Leon, 1892-1945
Date Created: 1715-1962
5.
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers, FHL-RG5-320 (collection description)
Creator: Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859
Dates Created: 1806-1910 ,
Dates Created: 1806-1910 (bulk 1815-1858)
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Esther Fussell Lewis, Esther Ann Fussell Jacobs, and Elizabeth Lewis letter to Graceanna Lewis
Creator: Lewis, Esther, 1782-1848
Date Created: 1842-05-15
7.
Lucretia Mott letter; James Miller McKim letter to Lucretia Mott
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1864
8.
William Henry Furness letter to Anna Davis Hallowell
Creator: Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896
Date Created: 1893-01-03
9.
Priscilla Townsend letter to Graceanna Lewis; Mary Townsend note
Creator: Townsend, Mary, 1814-
Date Created: 1848-03
10.
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her brother
Creator: Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
Date Created: 1834-11-28
11.
Frances D. Gage letter to Lucretia Mott
Creator: Gage, Frances Dana, 1808-1884
Date Created: 1852-07-07
12.
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1874-01-09
13.
Lucretia Mott letter to Sarah
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1851-04-28
14.
Record of Garments
Creator: Female Anti-Slavery Sewing Society (author)
Date Created: 1852-06-23 - 1854
15.
Lucretia Mott letter to Elizabeth Pease
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1846-04-28
16.
Sallie Holley letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Creator: Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893
Date Created: 1867-11-09
17.
Martha Schofield letter to Samuel S. Ash
Creator: Schofield, Martha
Date Created: 1880-11-16
18.
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1867-05-26
19.
Alexander Milton Ross letter to Maria Mott Davis
Creator: Ross, Alexander Milton, 1832-1897
Date Created: 1881-01-07
20.
Oliver Johnson letter to Lucretia Mott
Creator: Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Date Created: 1880-10-22
21.
Lucretia Mott letter to Auburn
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1864-09-06
22.
Lucretia Mott letter to Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1859-01-02
23.
Letter from Lucretia Mott to C. W. Pennock
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1843-10-26
24.
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord, Marianna Pelham Mott, and Maria Mott Davis
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1864-08-27
25.
Nathaniel Barney letter to James and Lucretia Mott
Creator: Barney, Nathaniel
Date Created: 1861-04-07
26.
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1865-02-16
27.
Esther Ann Jacobs letter to Graceanna Lewis
Creator: Jacobs, Esther Ann Fussell, 1818-1901
Date Created: 1896-03-28
28.
Mary Grew portrait
Date Created: 1890
29.
William Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Creator: Howland, William, 1823-1905
Date Created: 1901-04-21
30.
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1855-04-27
31.
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis; Rebecca Lewis Fussell letter to Edwin Fussell
Creator: Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
Date Created: 1843-08-09
32.
Mary Townsend letter to Graceanna Lewis
Creator: Townsend, Mary, 1814-
Date Created: 1835-1855
33.
Lucretia Mott letter to C. W. Pennock
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1843-10-26
34.
Lucretia Mott letter
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1860-05-12
35.
Antislavery Card
Date Created: 1825
36.
Julia Wilbur diary, May to September 1865
Creator: Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
Date Created: 1865-05-14 - 1865-09-30
37.
Julia Wilbur diary, October to December 1865
Creator: Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
Date Created: 1865-10-01 - 1865-12-31
38.
Ann Preston to my dear H
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1837-07-03
39.
Ann Preston to my dear H
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1839-04-31
40.
Anna Davis Hallowell letter
Creator: Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-
Date Created: 1855-1865
41.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Minutes, 1839-1844
Creator: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Date Created: 1839-1844
42.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Minutes, 1838-1839
Creator: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Date Created: 1838-1839
43.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Minutes, 1848-1862
Creator: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Date Created: 1848-1862
44.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Minutes, 1868-1870
Creator: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Date Created: 1868-1870
45.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Minutes, 1833-1838
Creator: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Date Created: 1833-1838
46.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Minutes, 1845-1848
Creator: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Date Created: 1845-1848
47.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Minutes, 1862-1867
Creator: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Date Created: 1862-1867
48.
Emily Howland letter draft to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Creator: Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
Date Created: 1890-01-10
49.
Ann Preston to my dear H
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1838-06-17
50.
Lydia Maria Child letter to Lucretia Mott
Creator: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Date Created: 1839-03-05
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Quakers
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Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society
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American Equal Rights Association
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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
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Banneker Institute
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Camp William Penn (La Mott, Pa.)
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Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
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Lucretia Mott manuscripts
67
Julia Wilbur papers
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Lewis-Fussell Family papers
9
Pennsylvania Abolition Society papers
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Emily Howland Family papers
7
Abby Hopper Gibbons papers
5
Ann Preston papers
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African Americana Albums
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