Subject | • | General Correspondence |
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| | • | Travel Narratives and Journals |
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| | • | African American |
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| | • | Family Correspondence |
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| | • | International Travel |
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| | • | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
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| | • | Americans Abroad |
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| | • | Education |
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| | • | Exploration. |
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| | • | Science and technology |
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| | • | Sketches. |
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| | • | Slaves, slavery, slave trade |
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| | • | Travel |
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| | • | Business Records and Accounts |
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| | • | Business and Skilled Trades |
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| | • | Diaries. |
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| | • | Early National Politics |
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| | • | Educational Material |
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| | • | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 |
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| | • | Exploration |
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| | • | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 |
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| | • | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 |
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| | • | Journals (notebooks) |
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| | • | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 |
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| | • | Lectures |
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| | • | Literature |
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| | • | Literature, Arts, and Culture |
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| | • | Marriage and Family Life |
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| | • | Natural history |
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| | • | Notebooks |
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| | • | Poems |
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| | • | Race, race relations, racism |
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| | • | Religion |
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| | • | Scientific Data |
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| | • | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform |
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| | • | Watercolors |
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| | • | Account books. |
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| | • | Africa |
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| | • | Africa -- Description and travel |
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| | • | African American churches -- United States |
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| | • | American Philosophical Society |
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| | • | Antebellum Politics |
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| | • | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania |
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| | • | Archaeology |
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| | • | Arctic Indians |
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| | • | Arctic regions-Pictorial works |
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| | • | Asia Minor -- Description and travel |
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| | • | Avesta |
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| | • | Aymara Indians |
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| | • | Bache, Franklin (1792-1864) |
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| | 2 | 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 | |
| 3 | Author: | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elisha Kent Kane Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1953 | | | | Abstract: | Among the most popular of American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, Kane visited Africa in 1846 aboard the frigate United States. The Kane collection contains a variety of fascinating materials relating to the slave trade and plight of African Americans in the nineteenth century. The papers consist of manuscript materials entitled "Journal of a Trip to Africa," "Slave voyage notebook," and "Whydah slave trade." Also, there are two "Africa: miscellaneous" folders which include an essay on the commercial policy and history of the Gold Coast, along with quantitative data for the years 1820-1843 regarding the repatriation of African Americans to Liberia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.K132 | | | | Extent: | 6.75 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Africa | Africa -- Description and travel | Americans Abroad | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration | Arctic regions-Pictorial works | Asia Minor -- Description and travel | Bills. | Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | Colonization, repatriation | Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 | Egypt -- Description and travel | Engravings. | Exploration | Exploration. | Explorers -- United States | Family Correspondence | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 | General Correspondence | Geometry -- Study and teaching | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | International Travel | Inuit -- Canada | Inuit -- Greenland | Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island | Journals (notebooks) | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795- | Lectures | Letterbooks | Liberia -- Description and travel | Logbooks | Maps. | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania | Meteorology -- Arctic Regions | Mexico -- Description and travel | Mineralogy -- Study and teaching | North Carolina -- Description and travel | Northwest Passage | Notebooks | Obstetrics | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Hospitals | Philadelphia. General Hospital | Plantations | Receipts | Silhouettes | Sketches. | Slave trade -- Africa | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States. Navy | Watercolors | |
| 4 | Author: | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J.P. Lesley Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1826-1898 | | | | Abstract: | The antislavery interests of J. Peter and Susan Lesley are reflected in letters from correspondents such as Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The collection also includes a letter of Frederick Douglass (September 6, 1856) in which Douglass offers to assist Susan Lesley in locating the son of a "colored" friend of hers. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L56 | | | | Extent: | 7.75 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Americans Abroad | Avesta | Biographies. | Cartography. | Charities -- United States. | Clippings. | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Desor, E. (Edouard), 1811-1882 | Diaries. | Education -- United States | Egypt -- Antiquities. | Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Family Correspondence | Flint, Austin | France -- Description and travel | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt | Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Maps | Geology -- Nova Scotia -- Surveys | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Germany -- Description and travel | Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 | Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 | Hawaiian language | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | International Travel | Javanese language | Journals (notebooks) | Lesley, Allen | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lesley, Joseph, 1831-1889 | Lesley, Susan I. (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874 | Marriage and Family Life | Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 | McKinley, Alexander | Nova Scotia -- Surveys | Obelisks | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology -- Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania -- Surveys | Philology | Photographs | Poems | Scientific Data | Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate , 1841-1906 | Sketches. | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Switzerland -- Description and travel | Thomson, J. Edgar (James Edgar), 1808-1874 | Transcendentalism | Travel Narratives and Journals | Unitarianism | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 | Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 | Wright, Chauncey,1830-1875. | |
| 5 | Author: | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel George Morton Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1850 | | | | Abstract: | Morton's diary, made on a trip that be made to the West Indies, records observations made on many of the Islands on life, work, agriculture, slavery, and derogatory comments on the native inhabitants. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M843 | | | | Extent: | 2.25 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | African American | Archaeology | Aymara Indians | Bachman, John (1790-1874) | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Barbados -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Botany | Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853 | Conrad, Timothy Abbott, 1803-1877 | Cooper, William, 1776-1848 | Craniology. | Craniometry | Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 | DeKay, James Ellsworth, 1792-1 | Diaries. | Doornik, Jacob Elisa, 1777-183 | Education | Egyptology. | Exploration. | Fermine Gomez Farias | French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877 | General Correspondence | Geology | Gliddon, George R.(George Robi | Gomez, Jose Justo Gomez de la | Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Pr | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Indians of North America -- Kentucky | Indians of North America -- Massachusetts | Indians of North America -- Mississippi | Indians of North America -- Ohio | Indians of North America -- Physical characteristics | Indians of North America -- Rhode Island | Indians of North America -- Tennessee | Indians of South America -- Peru | Indians of South America -- Physical characteristics | International Travel | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Medicine | Mineralogy | Miscegenation | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Natural history | Naumkeag Indians | Ornithology | Paleontology | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Pentland, Joseph Barclay | Phrenology | Race | Race, race relations, racism | Rush, William, 1756-1833 | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Skull. | Slavery -- Barbados | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) | Watercolors | |
| 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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