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 Author:  Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880Requires cookie*
 Title:  Samuel Stehman Haldeman letters, 1859-1875     
 Dates:  1844-1875 
 Abstract:  Students of African American history may find one of Haldeman's letters of interest: a December 1859 letter expresses Haldeman's disapproval of the Abolitionist activities of "negro stealing," and cites Samuel Morton's studies of the African's limited cranial capacity to justify American slavery. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.H129 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African Americans | Beetles. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Entomology. | Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 | LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Race, race relations, racism | Science. | Sedgwick, S. J. 
 Author:  Hare, Robert, 1781-1858Requires cookie*
 Title:  Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858     
 Dates:  1764-1858 
 Abstract:  In a series of essays originally rolled up as scrolls (Series II), Hare asserted that slavery was a positive good for slave, master, and community alike, but argued nevertheless that it be abolished gradually, with full compensation to slave owners, in favor of a free labor system marked by a pronounced racial subordination. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.H22 
 Extent:  3 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin (1792-1864) | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- 19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics -- United States | Essays. | Federalist Party -- Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money -- United States -- 19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism -- Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century 
 Author:  Hare-Willing family.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Hare-Willing Family Papers     
 Dates:  1724-1965 
 Abstract:  Of particular interest to students of African American history are records of the First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia (receipt book, 1820-1848; minute book, 1827-1844). 
 Call #:  Mss.Ms.Coll.104 
 Extent:  52 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Account books. | African American | African American churches -- United States | Americans Abroad | Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Beale, Catherine C. | Beale, Charles Willing, 1845-1932 | Beale, Constance R. | Beale, Edward Fitzgerald | Binney, Horace, 1780-1875 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 | Clark, John Innes | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Family Correspondence | First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia. | Flint (Ship) | General Correspondence | Hare, Charles Willing, 1871-1942 | Hare, Ellen Mary Cassatt | Hare, Emily P. Beale, 1848-1935 | Hare, Esther Binney, 1873-1967 | Hare, Esther Coxe Binney | Hare, George Harrison | Hare, Horace Binney | Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879 | Hare, Horace Binney, 1876-1956 | Hare, John Innes Clark, 1816-1905 | Hare, Margaret Willing, 1753-1816 | Hare, Robert, 1752-1811 | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Hare, Robert, 1869-1875 | Hare, Thomas Truxtun, 1878-1956 | Hare-Willing family. | Harvard University | Institutional Records | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Law | Legal Records | Letterbooks. | Mac Veagh, Margaret | Meigs, Ellen Mary Cassatt Hare | Minutes. | Miscellaneous | Natural history | Notebooks | Perry-Smith, Oliver, 1884-1969 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Councils. -- Common Council. | Philadelphia History | Receipt books. | Religion | Religion, religious organizations | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel. | Science -- United States -- 19th century. | Science and technology | Scrapbooks. | Smith, Stuart Farrar, 1874-1951 | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Steam-engines. | Titantic (Steamship) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States (Ship) | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Willing, Thomas, 1731-1821 | Women's History | World War I | World War II 
 Author:  Harvey, Jacob.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Jacob Harvey papers,1808-1847     
 Dates:  1808-1847 
 Abstract:  For interesting source material on African American history, see correspondence regarding the Missouri Compromise and slavery, and the commonplace book which also contains references to slavery. 
 Call #:  Mss.Film.1111 
 Extent:  3 microfilm_reel(s) 
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 Subjects:  Balloons. | Baltimore (Md.) -- Description and travel. | Canada -- Description and travel. | Depressions -- 1819 -- United States. | Harvey, Jacob. | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Microfilm Collection | Missouri compromise. | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel. | Quakers. | Robert Fulton (Ship). | Shakers. | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Voyages and travels. | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. 
 Author:  Hymes, Dell H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Dell H. Hymes Papers     
 Dates:  1885-2006 
 Abstract:  The following materials may be of interest to scholars of African American history: Baugh, John. Manuscript Materials. n.d. 5 folders (Approximately 105 pages). Typed materials of Baugh, a former student of Hymes, concerning African American language dialects--standard African American English and African American vernacular English. Includes several research proposals: "Black English Style Shifting," "Formal Refinement of the Notion for Rules within the Labovian Variable Paradigm," "Linguistic Characteristics of Afro-American Ethnicity Detection: Targets for the Acquisition of Standard English," "The Social Stratification of Black and Hispanic English;" and, a survey which was published in the Annual Review of Anthropology (1983): "A survey of Afro-American English." 
 Call #:  Mss.Ms.Coll.55 
 Extent:  ca. 176 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Aberle, David F., 1918- | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American Anthropological Association | American Association of Applied Linguistics | American Folklore Society | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Austerlitz, Robert, 1923-1994 | Basso, Keith, 1940- | Baugh, John | Bauman, Richard | Ben-Amos, Dan | Bennett, Ruth S. | Bernstein, Basil | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Burke, Kenneth,1897-1993 | Cambridge University Press | Cathlamet dialect | Cazden, Courtney, 1925- | Chinookan languages | Chomsky, Noam | Cowgill, George L. | Creole dialects | Diamond, Stanley | Douglas, Mary, 1921- | Dozier, Edward, 1916-1971 | Driver, Harold | Duranti, Alessandro, 1950- | Durbin, Marshall | Dyk, Walter, 1899-1972 | Embree, Lester | Fought, John. | Frake, Charles O. | French, David H. | Friedrich , Paul | Fromm, Erich,1900-1980 | Goffman, Erving | Goodenough, Ward Hunt | Gregorian, Vartan, 1934- | Grimshaw, Allen D. | Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013 | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001 | Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 | Hiz, Henry T. | Hockett, Charles, 1916- | Hoenigswald, Henry M., 1915-20 | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hymes, Dell H. | Indians of North America -- Ethnology | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast | Indians of North America -- Oregon | Irvine, Judith. | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971 | Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982 | Koerner, E.F. Konrad, | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kroeber, Theodora | Labov, William, 1927- | Language in Society | Language, linguistics | Languages, Mixed | Lévi-Strauss, Claude | Linguistic Society of America. | Linguistics | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Martin, Paul S., 1899-1974 | McDermott, Ray | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Mintz, Sidney Wilfred | Mouton Publishers | Nader, Laura, 1930- | Neustupny, Jiri | Nida, Eugene A. | Philips, Susan U. | Pidgin languages | Race, race relations, racism | Ramsey, Jarold | Rigsby, Bruce Joseph | Sankoff, Gillian | Sapir, J. David | Sapir, Philip | Schneider, David M., 1918-1995 | Scholte, Bob, 1902-1983 | Sebeok, Thomas A., 1920-2001 | Shahaptian languages | Sherzer, Joel. | Shuy, Roger W. | Silverstein, Michael | Snyder, Gary, 1930- | Social Science Research Council. Institute in Law and Social Relations | Stocking, George W. | Sturtevant, William C. | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Szwed, John F. | Tax, Sol, 1907-1995 | Tedlock, Dennis, 1939- | Toelken, Barre, 1935- | University of Pennsylvania Press | University of Pennsylvania-Annenberg School of Communication | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Anthropology | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Folklore & Folklife | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Linguistics | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Sociology | University of Pennsylvania-Graduate School of Education | University of Pennsylvania. | Voegelin, C.F. (Charles Freder | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research | Worth, Sol, 1922-1977