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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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Mott Manuscripts, SFHL-MSS-035 (collection description)
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1831-1959
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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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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
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Record of Garments
Creator: Female Anti-Slavery Sewing Society (author)
Date Created: 1852-06-23 - 1854
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Lucretia Mott letter to Elizabeth Pease
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1846-04-28
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Sallie Holley letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Creator: Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893
Date Created: 1867-11-09
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Lucretia Mott letter to Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Creator: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Date Created: 1859-01-02
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Mary Grew portrait
Date Created: 1890
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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
18
Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
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Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
7
Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
4
Barney, Nathaniel
2
Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
2
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
2
Palmer, Sarah Hopper, 1796-1885
2
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
1
Dickerson, Martina, 1829?-
1
Female Anti-Slavery Sewing Society (author)
1
Forten, Mary Virginia Wood, d. 1840
1
Grew, Mary, 1813-1896
1
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917
1
Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-
1
Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893
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Lewis, Esther, 1782-1848
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Mallory, Grace E.
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Mott, James, 1788-1868
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Paxson, Alice Hall, 1868-1955
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Pease, Elizabeth
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Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
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Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859
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Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895
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Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
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Yarnall, Ellis, 1817-1905
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Antislavery movements
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Women abolitionists
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Abolitionists
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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
16
Women's rights
14
Women--Diaries
13
Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
11
Quakers
11
Women social reformers
11
Fugitive slaves
10
Women in education
10
Personal correspondence
9
Women teachers
9
Antislavery movements--United States
8
Biography
8
Quaker abolitionists
8
Quaker women
8
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
8
Women orators
8
African American women abolitionists
7
Women abolitionists--United States
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Women--Education
7
Temperance
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Underground Railroad
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Lectures and lecturing
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Slavery
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War diaries
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Women medical students
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Women physicians
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Women--Societies and clubs
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Chester County (Pa.)
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Congresses and conventions
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Contraband of war
4
Freedmen
4
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
4
West Grove (Pa.)
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Books and reading
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Death
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Johnson, Jane, 1820?-
3
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
3
Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society
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African American schools
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African Americans--Education
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Barker, Joseph, 1806-1875
2
Boycotts
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Childbirth
2
Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912
2
Diaries
2
Discrimination in education
2
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
2
Fairs
2
Grew, Mary, 1813-1896
2
Hopper, Anna Mott, 1812-1874
2
Housekeeping
2
Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
2
Jackson, Rachel, 1807?-1883
2
M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874
2
Mobs
2
Normal School for Colored Girls (Washington, D.C.)
2
Pease, Elizabeth
2
Philadelphia (Pa.)
2
Portraits
2
Schofield, Martha
2
Slavery--Law and legislation
2
Slavery--Public opinion
2
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
2
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
2
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
2
Williamson, Passmore
2
Women in community organization
2
Abolitionists--Great Britain--History
1
African American abolitionists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
African American abolitionists--United States
1
African American artists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
African American educators--Pennsylvania-Philadelphia
1
African American women
1
African American women abolitionists--United States
1
African American women artists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
African Americans--Education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century
1
African Americans--Services for
1
African Americans--Suffrage
1
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1
Albums--1840-1850
1
American Civil War, 1861-1865
1
American Equal Rights Association
1
American poetry--Quaker authors
1
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
1
Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--History
1
Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
Beeson, John, 1803-1889
1
Bereavement
1
Bigelow, Alfreda, 1856-1933
1
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
1
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921
1
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891
1
Bowers, John C., 1810-1873
1
Bradburn, George, 1806-1880
1
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society
1
Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792-1860
1
Capital punishment
1
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
1
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
1
Children's periodicals
1
Church work with prostitutes
1
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
1
Combe, George, 1788-1858
1
Conversion
1
Correspondence
1
Cotton trade
1
Courage
1
Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890
1
Detroit (Mich.)
1
Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932
1
Divorce
1
Divorce--Social aspects
1
Divorced women
1
Douglass, Robert M. J., 1809-1887
1
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882
1
Douglass, William, of Philadelphia
1
Drama
1
Dwellings--Maintenance and repair
1
Embossed bindings (Binding)--1840-1850
1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
1
Equitable distribution of marital property
1
Femininity
1
Flowers--United States
1
Folger, Mayhew, 1774-1828
1
Forten, Charlotte L.
1
Forten, James, 1766-1842
1
Forten, James, 1816 or 1817-
1
Foster children
1
Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887
1
Friendship
1
Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845
1
Garrison, Ellen Wright, 1840-1931
1
Gay, Elizabeth Neall
1
Gouaches--1840-1850
1
Graphite drawings--1840-1850
1
Great Britain. Act for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Colonies
1
Grew, Henry, 1781-1862
1
Gurney, Samuel, 1786-1856
1
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
1
Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-
1
Hinton, Ada Howell
1
Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881
1
Hydrotherapy
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Indian soldiers
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Indians of North America--Civil rights
1
Indigestion
1
Interdenominational cooperation
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Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
1
Jewish women
1
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
1
Joshi, Anandi Gopal, 1865-1887
1
Kane, John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858
1
Kennett Square (Pa.)
1
Kimber, Abby, 1804-1871
1
Letter writing
1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
1
Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916
1
Love
1
Mario, Jessie White, 1832-1906
1
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
1
Medical education--History
1
Military Service and War Work
1
Miner, Myrtilla, 1815-1864
1
Morocco bindings (Binding)--1840-1850
1
New York (N.Y.)
1
New-England Anti-Slavery Society
1
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
1
Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853
1
Palmer, Sarah Hopper, 1796-1885
1
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886
1
Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940)
1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
1
Phrenology
1
Poetry
1
Poetry--Women authors
1
Poor -- Great Britain
1
Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899
1
Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
1
Prison reformers
1
Prisoners--Civil rights
1
Public speaking for women
1
Pugh, Sarah, 1800-1884
1
Puritans
1
Quaker authors
1
Quaker prison reformers
1
Quaker women--Diaries
1
Quakers--Family relationships
1
Quakers--Slavery--Anti-slavery movements
1
Racism
1
Religion
1
Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody, 1794-1846
1
Rose, Ernestine L. (Ernestine Louise), 1810-1892
1
Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.)
1
Sewing
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Swarthmore - Friends
40
Haverford College
15
Historical Society of PA
8
Drexel University
5
Howard University
1
Library Company
1
Presbyterian Historical Society
1
Type
Text
62
Diaries
13
Still image
2
Image
1
Physical object
1
Collection
Lucretia Mott manuscripts
27
Julia Wilbur papers
14
Pennsylvania Abolition Society papers
8
Ann Preston papers
4
Emily Howland Family papers
3
Lewis-Fussell Family papers
3
Abby Hopper Gibbons papers
2
Martha Schofield papers
2
African Americana Albums
1
Emily Howland family photographs
1
Female Anti-Slavery Sewing Society records
1
Francis J. Grimke papers
1
Mira Sharpless Townsend papers
1
Place
Philadelphia (Pa.)
25
Alexandria (Va.)
8
Washington (D.C.)
8
New York (State)
7
Cheltenham (Pa.)
6
Rochester (N.Y.)
5
Rush (N.Y. : Town)
5
Lockport (N.Y.)
4
Virginia
4
Chester County (Pa.)
3
Boston (Mass.)
2
Nantucket (Mass.)
2
Somerset (N.Y. : Town)
2
York (Pa.)
2
Aiken (S.C.)
1
Bermuda Islands
1
Bucks County (Pa.)
1
Canada
1
Darby (Pa.)
1
Edinburgh (Scotland)
1
Great Britain
1
Heathsville (Va.)
1
Illinois
1
Ireland
1
Irondequoit (N.Y.)
1
Jericho (Nassau County, N.Y.)
1
Medford (Mass.)
1
Michigan
1
Northampton (Mass.)
1
Oneida (N.Y.)
1
Pendleton (Ind.)
1
Swarthmore (Pa.)
1
Wellesley (Mass.)
1
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