Subject | • | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
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| | • | Pennsylvania History |
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| | • | Slaves, slavery, slave trade |
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| | • | Philadelphia History |
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| | • | Business Records and Accounts |
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| | • | Early National Politics |
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| | • | Miscellaneous |
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| | • | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform |
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| | • | African American |
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| | • | American Philosophical Society |
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| | • | Family Correspondence |
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| | • | General Correspondence |
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| | • | Institutional Records |
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| | • | Legal Records |
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| | • | Marriage and Family Life |
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| | • | Native America |
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| | • | Science and technology |
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| | • | American Revolution |
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| | • | Anishinaabe |
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| | • | Bache, A.D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 |
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| | • | Business and Skilled Trades |
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| | • | Diaries. |
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| | • | Geology -- Pennsylvania |
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| | • | Land and Speculation |
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| | • | Literature, Arts, and Culture |
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| | • | Manuscript Essays |
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| | • | Pencil works |
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| | • | Political Correspondence |
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| | • | Reconstruction |
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| | • | Scientific Correspondence |
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| | • | Seneca Indians |
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| | • | Slavery -- United States. |
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| | • | Social Life and Custom |
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| | • | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |
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| | • | Account books. |
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| | • | Accounts. |
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| | • | Adena culture -- West Virginia |
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| | • | Advance (Brig) |
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| | • | Africa, West -- Description and travel |
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| | • | African Americans -- History -- To 1863 |
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| | • | Agriculture |
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| | • | Akwesasne Counselor Organization |
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| | • | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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| | • | American Anthropological Association |
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| | • | American Colonization Society |
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| | • | Americans Abroad |
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| | • | Antebellum Politics |
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| | • | Anthracite coal industry -- United States -- Pennsylvania |
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| | • | Anthropology -- Methodology |
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| | • | Anthropology -- Research |
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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: | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sol Feinstone Slavery collection, 1773-1888
| | | | Dates: | 1773-1888 | | | | Abstract: | A rich source of material for students of African American history. | | | | Call #: | Mss.326.F33 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | African Americans -- History -- To 1863 | Brown, John, 1800-1859 | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 | Early National Politics | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 | Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 | Legal Records | Miscellaneous | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Reconstruction | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | |
| 3 | 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. | |
| 4 | Author: | American Philosophical Society | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Philosophical Society Archives
| | | | Dates: | 1743-1984 | | | | Abstract: | The APS archives does not contain a tremendous amount of African American history materials. Nevertheless, the following letter is significant: Dearborn, Benjamin. Letter to the American Philosophical Society. 1803 February 4. Suggestions on the abolition of slavery. | | | | Call #: | APS.Archives | | | | Extent: | 192.25 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Adena culture -- West Virginia | African American | American Philosophical Society | Anishinaabe | Astronomy -- 18th century | Aztecs. | Bache, A.D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bache, Franklin (1792-1864) | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield | Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805 | Cherokee Indians | Choctaw Indians | Colonial Politics | Dercum, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, West Virginia) | Hanson, Laura E. | Hassler, F. R (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | History of science and technology. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America -- Kentucky | Indians of North America -- Mississippi | Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast | Indians of North America -- West Virginia | Institutional Records | Keen, William W. (William Williams) | Lingelbach , William E. (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Miscellaneous | Morris, Roland Sletor, 1874-19 | Mound builders | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural history | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | Ojibwe people | Patterson, , Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Pencil works | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plains Indians | Priestly, Joseph R. | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shryock, Richard Harrison (1893-1972) | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Southeast Indians | United States History. | Vautravers, Jean-Rodolphe | Warden, David Baillie, 1772-18 | Wood, George Bacon, 1797-1879 | |
| 5 | 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.) | |
| 6 | Author: | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865
| | | | Dates: | 1840-1865 | | | | Abstract: | Among his many interests, Foulke was concerned with the colonization of West Africa for settlement of ex-slaves. As an agent for the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, Foulke kept a valuable diary of his activities in 1852. Colonization also appears as a theme in his correspondence with Edward Everett (1794-1865), Elliott Cresson (1796-1854), John H. B. Latrobe (1803-1891), William Francis Lynch (1801-1865), and William McLain (1855-1857), among others. Many of the above letters have been digitized, and a gallery to promote the study of the colonization cause in the Foulke Papers can be found here: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/gallery-colonization-foulke | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F826 | | | | Extent: | 3.75 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West -- Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Archaeology -- Pennsylvania | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration | Bache, A.D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bringhurst | Cadwalader, John | Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Cassin, John, 1813-1869 | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs -- New Jersey | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilwor | Grinnell, Henry | Hart, George H. | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Landis, Henry D. | Law | LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Legal Records | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Liberia -- Description and travel | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyceums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Miscellaneous | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Native America | New York Prison Association | Olden, Charles Smith | Packard, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus) (1794-1867) | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Political Correspondence | Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania | Prisons -- Design and construction | Prisons -- New York (State) | Prisons -- Pennsylvania | Reformers -- Pennsylvania | Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Science and technology | Sheafer, P. W. (Peter Wenrick), 1819-1891 | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Wilson, John Wall | |
| 7 | 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 | |
| 8 | Author: | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1920-2000 | | | | Abstract: | The Wallace Papers contain at least one set of materials which may be of interest to students of African American History: Lott, Steve. [Student at West Chester State College.] "Slavery." 1972. Photocopied introduction to Lott's paper "Industrialization and the Black Population in S.E. Penna., 1780-1840." Includes 36 bibliographic index cards pertaining to sources in African American history in Pennsylvania, focusing on slavery and abolitionism. Also includes a photocopy of Joseph E. Walker's "A Comparison of Negro and White Labor in a Charcoal Iron Community" from the journal Labor History, volume 10, number 3 (1969). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.64a | | | | Extent: | 103.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Akwesasne Counselor Organization | American Anthropological Association | American Philosophical Society | Anishinaabe | Anthracite coal industry -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Anthropology -- Methodology | Anthropology -- Research | Anthropology -- Study and teaching. | Arctic hysteria | Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912 | Blacksnake, Governor, ca. 1753 | British Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County | Broomall, John Martin, 1816-18 | Carey family | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Carte de visite photographs | Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Chester County (Pa.) -- History | Chittibhol, Bancha (Thai stude | Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 | Coal -- Geology -- Pennsylvania | Coal mine accidents -- Pennsylvania -- History | Coal trade -- Pennsylvania -- History | Cognition and culture | Congdon, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) | Cornplanter, 1732-1836 | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Counterinsurgency -- Thailand | Cross-cultural studies | Cults | Culture | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Delaware County (Pa.) -- History | Delaware Indians -- New York (State) -- History | Delaware Indians -- Pennsylvania -- History | Disasters | Disasters -- Psychological aspects | Disasters -- Social aspects | Domestic relations -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century | Du Pont de Nemours family | Du Pont family | Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977 | Ethnicity -- Pennsylvania -- History | Ethnohistory | Ethnopsychology | Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Foster, Michael K. | Gelatin silver prints | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Germans -- Pennsylvania | Goodenough, Ward Hunt | Gouaches -- Color | Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin B | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 | Haudenosaunee | Hsu, Francis K. | Hypocalcemia | Hypoglycemia | Indians of North America -- Claims | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- Missions | Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- History | Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- History | Industries -- Pennsylvania -- History | Inuit -- Greenland | Irish -- Pennsylvania | Iron industry and trade -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Civilization and social life | Iroquois Indians -- Folklore | Iroquois Indians -- Government relations | Iroquois Indians -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Religion | Iroquois Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Iroquois Indians -- Social conditions | Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs | Jackson, Halliday,1771-1835. | Jennings, Francis P. | Kehoe, John, 1837-1878 | Kinzua Dam | Labor and laboring classes -- Pennsylvania -- History | Labor movements -- History | Labor, industrialization | Lammot family | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Lowell (Mass.) -- History | Maps. | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Millenialism | Mills and millwork | Mohawk nation at Akwesasne | Molly Maguires | National Science Foundation | Nativistic movements | Negatives | Newspaper clippings. | Nutrition -- Psychological aspects | Onondaga Indians | Paranoia | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Pennsylvania -- History | Personality and culture | Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Piblokto | Postal cards. | Power (Social sciences) | Prophets | Psychiatric hospital care | Psychiatry | Psychobiology | Psychology | Psychology and religion | Psychotherapy patients | Quakers -- Pennsylvania | Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History | Religion | Religion and science | Revitalization movements | Richter, Daniel (two letters, | Rockdale (Pa.) -- History | Rorschach test | Rorschach tests | Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects | Schizophrenia -- Physiological aspects | Schizophrenics | Schuylkill County (Pa.) -- History | Scrapbooks. | Sellers family | Seneca Indians | Seneca Indians -- History | Seneca Indians -- Religion | Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs | Siney, John, 1835-1881 | Six Nations Indian Museum | Sketches. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Slides. | Smith Family | Social change | Social movements | Social sciences -- Methodology | Society of Friends | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Spiro, Melford Elliott | St. Clair (Pa.) -- History | Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Sturtevant, William C. | Technological innovation | Technology -- Social aspects | Textile industry | Textile machinery | Textile manufacturers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Textile workers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Tintypes | Transportation -- Pennsylvania -- History | Tuscarora Indians | Tuscarora Indians -- Social life and customs | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Woodcuts -- Color | Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century | World War, 1939-1945 | |
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