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RG 15, Eastern State Penitentiary, Prison Administration Records, Series 50, Wardens’ Daily Journals, 1829-1961 (collection description)
Creator: Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
Date Created: 1829-1961
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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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Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records (collection description)
Creator: Gardiner, Leon, 1892-1945
Date Created: 1715-1962
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Sarah Josepha Hale Collection (collection description)
Creator: Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
Date Created: 1826-1869
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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church records (collection description)
Creator: Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Date Created: 1822-1972
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Martin-Campbell-Furlong Family Papers, MC 90 (collection description)
Creator: Campbell, William J., 1850-1931 | Campbell, Sarah Jane, 1844-1928 | Campbell, Marianne, 1840-1913
Date Created: 1795-1963
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Ann Preston papers--ACC-289 (collection description)
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1831-1880
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Rebecca Singer Collins papers (collection description)
Creator: Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892
Date Created: 1824-1886
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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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The Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances records (collection description)
Creator: The Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances
Date Created: 1800-1999
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Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia
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Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 (author)
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Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
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Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.)
16
Hale, David E.
14
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.) (author)
12
Lewis, Esther, 1782-1848
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Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
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Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor (author)
9
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
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Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
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Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances (author)
8
Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike Company (author)
7
Magdalen Society of Philadelphia
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Ballston Female Heathen School Society
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Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
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Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing
4
Fussell, Joseph, 1820-1904
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Jacobs, Esther Ann Fussell, 1818-1901
4
New York Female Association
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Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859
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Chew, Katherine Banning, 1770-1855 (author)
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Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
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Griffith, Edith, 1801-1873
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Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 (author)
3
Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women
3
Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 (author)
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Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
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Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
2
Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892
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Davis, Maria Mott
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Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
2
Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) Records
2
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852
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Jones, Sybil, 1808-1873
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Lewis, Mariann, 1819-1866
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Schofield, Martha
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Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 (author)
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Townsend, Mary, 1814-
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
1
Aimwell School (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
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
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Buell, James
1
Cadbury, Caroline, 1801-1868 (author)
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Campbell, William J., 1850-1931 | Campbell, Sarah Jane, 1844-1928 | Campbell, Marianne, 1840-1913
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Cassey, Amy Matilda, 1808-1856
1
Cassey, Amy Matilda, 1808-1856 | Dickerson, Mary Anne, 1822-1858 | Dickerson, Martina, 1829?-
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Chandler, Joseph R., 1792-1880
1
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
1
Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
1
Charles Taber & Co.
1
Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892 (author)
1
Concord Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (author)
1
Dickerson, Martina, 1829?-
1
Dickerson, Mary Anne, 1822-1858
1
Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862
1
Friends Instruction Association
1
Fussell, Hannah Lewis, 1800-1874
1
Fussell, Jane Foulke, 1782-1857
1
Fussell, Rebecca Bond, 1751-1851
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Gardiner, Leon, 1892-1945
1
Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Gibbons, Eliza (Elizabeth)
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Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892
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Gibbons, James Sloan, 1810-1892
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Gibbons, Rebecca Donaldson, 1786-1869
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Godey, Louis Antoine, 1804-1878
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Goodwin, R.J.P. (Doctor)
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Greaves, James R. (James Richardson), 1794-1870 (author)
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Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James), 1850-1937
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Hentz, Caroline Lee, 1800-1856
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Hewes, Josiah, 1733- (author)
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Holden, Miriam Young
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Hopkinson, C. A., Mrs.
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Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888
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Howland, Sarah T., 1795-1842
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Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881
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Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia | Ralston, Sarah
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Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
1
Kane, Jane
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Kimber, Abby, 1804-1871
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Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861
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Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912|Lewis family|Fussell family
1
Logan, Deborah Norris, 1761-1839
1
Middleton, Phebe Sharpless, 1793-1850 (author)
1
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
1
Mott, James, 1788-1868
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Mott, Marianna Pelham, 1825-1872
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Northern Soup Society of Philadelphia (author)
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Orphan Society of Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
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Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
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Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 (author)
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Personal correspondence
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Charities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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Institutional care
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Women--Institutional care
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Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Older people--Housing
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Older people--Institutional care
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Ralston, Sarah
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Charities
26
Correspondence
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Quakers
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Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
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Charities--Finance
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Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
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Society of Friends
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Antislavery movements
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Quaker women
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Women--Societies and clubs
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Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.)
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Charity organization
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Hale family
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Orphanages
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African American children
12
Girls' schools
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Minutes (Records)
12
Death
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Charity-schools
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Annual reports
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Women physicians
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Women--Education
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African Americans--Education
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Endowments
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Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor
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Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
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Slavery
8
Women medical students
8
Women teachers
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Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Phrenology
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Stocks
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Women in education
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Abolitionists
6
Children--Institutional care
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Evangelicalism
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House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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House of the Good Shepherd (Philadelphia, Pa.)
6
Juvenile delinquency
6
Magdalen Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Poor women
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Prostitution
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Quakers--Religious life
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Temperance
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White, William, 1748-1836
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Wills
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Women abolitionists
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Charitable bequests
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Condolence notes
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Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances
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Quaker abolitionists
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School management and organization
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Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844
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Sick
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Travel
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Women--Services for
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Accounting
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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American poetry--Quaker authors
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Animal magnetism
4
Ballston (N.Y. : Town)
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Ballston Female Heathen School Society
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Biography
4
Collective settlements
4
Diaries
4
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882
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Education--Finance
4
Faith
4
Gibbons, James, 1843-1844
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Princeton Theological Seminary
4
Quakers--Charities
4
Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787
4
Social service
4
Women and peace
4
Women in missionary work
4
Women social reformers
4
Women's rights
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Account books
3
African Americans
3
African Americans--Education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
3
African Americans--Services for
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Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878
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Constitutions
3
Cost accounting
3
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
3
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing
3
Fugitive slaves
3
Gifts
3
Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869
3
Hospitals
3
Journals (Diaries)
3
Londonderry (Chester County, Pa. : Township)
3
New York Female Association
3
Pennsylvania. Department of Justice
3
Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
3
Prison wardens
3
Prisoners
3
Prisons
3
Public health
3
Public worship--Society of Friends
3
Records (Documents)
3
Seneca Indians
3
Sick children
3
Townsend, Mary, 1814-
3
Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859
3
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
3
Women clergy
3
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
2
African American artists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
2
African American churches
2
African American women
2
American Civil War, 1861-1865
2
Astronomy
2
Bereavement
2
Books and reading
2
Burleigh, Gertrude Kimber
2
By-laws
2
Childbirth
2
Deeds
2
Douglass, Robert M. J., 1809-1887
2
Education
2
Embossed bindings (Binding)--1830-1840
2
Fairs
2
Financial records
2
Financial statements
2
Flowers
2
Flowers--United States
2
Freedmen
2
Fussell, Edwin, 1813-1882
2
Fussell, Linnaeus, 1842-1907
2
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
2
Genealogy
2
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892
2
Gibbons, William, 1834-1855
2
Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia (Pa.)
2
Hinton, Ada Howell
2
Indians of North America
2
Jewish religious education of children
2
Jewish women--Societies and clubs--Finance
2
Kennett Square (Pa.)
2
Love
2
Marriage
2
Morocco bindings (Binding)--1830-1840
2
Mortgages
2
National American Woman Suffrage Association
2
Nature
2
Nobel Prize winners
2
Peace movements
2
Phillips, Ellen
2
Poor women--Services for
2
Portraits
2
Purvis, Sarah Forten, 1814-1883
2
Quaker authors
2
Quakers--Social life and customs
2
Quotations
2
Race discrimination--Religious aspects--Christianity
2
Religious poetry
2
School libraries
2
Schools
2
Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826
2
Social classes
2
Social reformers
2
Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform
2
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania
2
Society of Friends--Schisms and separations
2
Speeches, addresses, etc.
2
Suffragists
2
Temperance-United States
2
Tumors
2
Watercolors--1830-1850
2
Weather
2
White, Rebecca, -1906
2
Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825
2
Women Nobel Prize winners
2
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
2
Women--Charities
2
Women--Suffrage
2
Abolitionists--Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia
1
Accidents
1
Acknowledgments
1
Advertising
1
Advertising fliers
1
African American abolitionists
1
African American abolitionists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
African American baseball players--History
1
African American children--Education
1
African American civic leaders--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
African American educators
1
African American educators--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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Swarthmore - Friends
163
Haverford College
122
Historical Society of PA
55
Athenaeum
26
Drexel University
10
Library Company
5
Presbyterian Historical Society
5
PA State Archives
3
Swarthmore - Peace
3
Temple University
3
Catholic Historical Research Center
1
Howard University
1
Princeton University
1
Type
Text
319
Letters (correspondence)
41
Stock certificates
7
Financial records
6
Administrative reports
4
Biographies (literary works)
4
Diaries
4
Minutes (administrative records)
4
Physical object
4
Constitutions
2
Newspaper clippings
2
Notes (documents)
2
Poems
2
Account books
1
Administrative regulations
1
Articles of incorporation
1
Birth certificates
1
Bylaws (administrative records)
1
Correspondence
1
Financial records;
1
Genealogies (histories)
1
Indexes (reference sources)
1
Invitations
1
Library catalogs
1
Lists (document genres)
1
Memorandums
1
Minutes;
1
Powers of attorney
1
Rules (instructions)
1
Silhouettes
1
Still image
1
Testimonies
1
Wills
1
Collection
Lewis-Fussell Family papers
48
Sharpless Family papers
48
Abby Hopper Gibbons papers
33
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection
26
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances records
21
Aimwell School records
19
Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society/Ralston House records
19
Lucretia Mott manuscripts
19
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans records
17
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor records
17
Emily Howland Family papers
13
Josiah White papers
10
Ann Preston papers
9
Magdalen Society of Philadelphia records
7
Ballston Female Heathen School Society records
5
Martha Schofield papers
5
African Americana Albums
4
Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer records
4
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing records
4
New York Female Association records
4
Rebecca Singer Collins papers
4
Eastern State Penitentiary
3
Mira Sharpless Townsend papers
3
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons records
2
Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia records
2
Julia Wilbur papers
2
Pennsylvania Abolition Society papers
2
Biddle Family papers
1
Branson-Jackson Family papers
1
Emily Greene Balch papers
1
Emily Howland family photographs
1
Francis J. Grimke papers
1
Friends Instructional Association records
1
Hannah J. Bailey papers
1
Jane Addams collection
1
Leon Gardiner collection
1
Logan Family papers
1
Mariana Wright Chapman Family papers
1
Marion Craig Potter papers
1
Martin-Campbell-Furlong Family papers
1
Miriam Y. Holden Collection
1
Mother Bethel AME Church records
1
Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection
1
YWCA of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch records
1
Place
Philadelphia (Pa.)
171
York (Pa.)
27
East Bradford (Pa. : Township)
13
New York (N.Y.)
13
Chester County (Pa.)
9
Pendleton (Ind.)
7
Pennsylvania
6
West Chester (Pa.)
6
Ballston (N.Y. : Town)
4
Boston (Mass.)
3
New York (State)
3
Rochester (N.Y.)
3
1900 N Broad St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2
3615 Chestnut St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2
Baltimore (Md.)
2
Cayuga County (N.Y.)
2
Delaware County (Pa.)
2
Frankford (Philadelphia, Pa.)
2
Salem (Mass.)
2
Washington (D.C.)
2
Wilmington (Del.)
2
12th St and Fairmount Ave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
717 N Hancock St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1
Albany (N.Y.)
1
Alexandria (Va.)
1
Belleville (N.J.)
1
Bridgewater (N.J.)
1
Brownsville (Fayette County, Pa.)
1
Cambridge (Mass.)
1
Camden (N.J.)
1
Caribbean
1
Cheyney (Pa.)
1
Cleveland (Ohio)
1
Columbus (Ohio)
1
Dayton (Ohio)
1
Doylestown (Pa.)
1
England
1
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Harrisburg (Pa.)
1
Indiana
1
Kennett Square (Pa.)
1
Lancaster (Pa.)
1
London (England)
1
Lynn (Mass.)
1
Madison County (Ind.)
1
Marion County (Ind.)
1
Media (Pa.)
1
Mount Pleasant (Jefferson County, Ohio)
1
New Bedford (Mass.)
1
Newport (R.I.)
1
Norristown (Pa.)
1
North Carolina
1
Northumberland County (Pa.)
1
Ohio
1
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
1
Pittsfield (Mass.)
1
Port Elizabeth (N.J.)
1
Radnor (Pa.)
1
Richmond (Ind.)
1
Rockville (S.C.)
1
Rush (N.Y. : Town)
1
Somerset (N.Y. : Town)
1
South Carolina
1
South China (Me.)
1
Stoke Newington (London, England)
1
Vienna (Austria)
1
Wadmalaw Island (S.C.)
1
Weymouth (Mass.)
1
Williamsport (Pa.)
1
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