Subject | • | Business Records and Accounts |
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| | • | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
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| | • | Business and Skilled Trades |
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| | • | Early National Politics |
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| | • | Family Correspondence |
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| | • | General Correspondence |
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| | • | Pennsylvania History |
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| | • | Philadelphia History |
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| | • | Slaves, slavery, slave trade |
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| | • | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform |
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| | • | African American |
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| | • | Institutional Records |
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| | • | Marriage and Family Life |
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| | • | Science and technology |
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| | • | Account books. |
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| | • | American Philosophical Society |
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| | • | American Revolution |
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| | • | Americans Abroad |
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| | • | Antebellum Politics |
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| | • | Diaries. |
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| | • | Education |
(2)
| | • | Educational Material |
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| | • | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 |
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| | • | International Travel |
(2)
| | • | Land and Speculation |
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| | • | Legal Records |
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| | • | Literature, Arts, and Culture |
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| | • | Manuscript Essays |
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| | • | Miscellaneous |
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| | • | Race, race relations, racism |
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| | • | Religion |
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| | • | Religion, religious organizations |
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| | • | Social Life and Custom |
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| | • | Travel |
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| | • | Travel Narratives and Journals |
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| | • | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |
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| | • | Accounts. |
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| | • | African American churches -- United States |
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| | • | Agriculture |
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| | • | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania |
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| | • | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 |
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| | • | Bache, Franklin (1792-1864) |
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| | • | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 19th century. |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- United States. |
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| | • | Beale, Catherine C. |
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| | • | Beale, Charles Willing, 1845-1932 |
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| | • | Beale, Constance R. |
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| | • | Beale, Edward Fitzgerald |
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| | • | Bills (financial). |
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| | 1 | Author: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Rush memorandum book, 1805-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1805-1813 | | | | Abstract: | The account of Daphne Peterson, a freed African American, may be of particular interest. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89m | | | | Extent: | 1 volume(s) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Business Records and Accounts | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Land and Speculation | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | |
| 2 | Author: | Vaux, George, V, 1721-1803 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vaux Family Papers, 1690-1996
| | | | Dates: | 1690-1996 | | | | Abstract: | The collection may contain materials of interest relating to the family's involvement with the anti-slavery movement. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.73 | | | | Extent: | 150 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Business Records and Accounts | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Genealogy. | General Correspondence | Institutional Records | Land speculation | Legal Records | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Mineralogy. | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Quaker businesspeople | Quakers -- Missions. | Seneca Indians | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Surveying and Maps | Travel | Vaux Family | Vaux, George, V, 1721-1803 | Vaux, George, VII, 1779-1836 | Vaux, George, VIII, 1832-1915 | Vaux, William Sansom, 1811-1882 | Yellow fever. | |
| 3 | Author: | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Requires 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 | |
| 4 | Author: | Wyck Association | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Wyck Association Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1663-1972 | | | | Abstract: | With emphases on religion, education, and social concerns, the correspondence in the Wyck collection contains numerous references to African Americans. These issues emerge in the correspondence of Caspar Wistar Haines I, Hannah Marshall Haines, Reuben Haines III, Jane Bowne Haines I, Robert Bowne Haines I, and Caspar Wistar Haines II.See below for more specific subject references within the letters. The collection also contains a series of writings: diaries, essays, journals, notebooks, and poetry. Of particular interest are the papers describing the exploits of a runaway slave, Henry Hudson, in 1819. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.52 | | | | Extent: | 151.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | Accounts. | Agriculture | Bills (financial). | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Culture, community, organizations | Deeds | Diaries. | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Haines family | Haines, Ann, 1793-1869 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1762-18 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1853-1935 | Haines, Hannah Marshall, 1765- | Haines, Jane B., 1869-1937 | Haines, Jane Bowne, 1790-1843 | Haines, Jane Reuben, 1832-1911 | Haines, John Smith, 1820-1886 | Haines, Margaret Vaux Wistar, 1831-1917 | Haines, Margaret Wistar, 1728- | Haines, Mary T., 1892- | Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793 | Haines, Reuben, 1786-1831 | Haines, Robert B., 1827-1895 | Haines, Robert B., 1893-1967 | Hartshorne, Catherine Haines, | Home economics -- United States -- Accounting | Horticulture | Institutional Records | Jansen family | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marriage and Family Life | Miscellaneous | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs | Philadelphia History | Photoprints | Quakers | Race, race relations, racism | Receipts | Reconstruction | Religion, religious organizations | Science and technology | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social problems. | Trade | Wistar family | Wyck House (Philadelphia, Pa.) | |
| 5 | Author: | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Franklin Papers, 1642-1841
| | | | Dates: | 1642-1841 | | | | Abstract: | The Franklin papers contain several letters which refer to African Americans, particularly in regards to the need to abolish slavery and the establishment of a school for African American children. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F85 | | | | Extent: | 85.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Account books. | American Philosophical Society | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Diaries. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 | Family Correspondence | France -- Foreign relations -- United States | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Deborah Read Rogers, 1708-1774 | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States | Hays, I. Minis (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | Hodge, Sarah Bache, 1798-1849 | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794 | Military History | Pen works | Pencil works | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 18th century | Pennsylvania History | Political Correspondence | Postal service -- United States | Printed Material | Printers -- Pennsylvania | Printing and Publishing | Scientific Correspondence | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | United States -- Foreign relations -- France | United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- Politics and government -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States -- Politics and government -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Williams, Jonathan, 1719-1796 | Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815 | |
| 6 | 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 | |
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