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"Remember me when far away..."
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1813 - 1872
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"The Child's Playhouse"
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1842
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"Tis Good to Live. A Thanksgiving Hymn"
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Dates Created: undated ,
Dates Created: 1813 - 1872
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"To a departed sister"
Creator: Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
Date Created: 1862-11-03
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"Cousin L" letter to Martha Schofield
Date Created: 1861-1869
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'Penn Sewing School. 1868-1888. A Retrospect of Twenty Years."
Creator: Dorland, Annie Caley, 1839-1894
Date Created: 1888-04-28
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Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Creator: Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899
Date Created: 1896-06-09
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Aaron Sharpless and Susanna F. Sharpless letters to Mary F. Kite
Creator: Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 (author)
Date Created: 1851-09-18
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Aaron Sharpless and Susanna F. Sharpless letters to Mary Kite
Creator: Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 (author)
Date Created: 1851-12-13
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Aaron Sharpless letter
Creator: Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 (author)
Date Created: 1859-11-12
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157
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
58
Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892 (author)
37
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
33
Preston, Ann, 1813-1872
21
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
16
Logan, Deborah Norris, 1761-1839
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Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874
13
Collins, Isaac, Jr., 1787-1863 (author)
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Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women
12
Schofield, Martha
12
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
10
Jones, Sybil, 1808-1873
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Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 (author)
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Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Corder, Susanna, 1787 or 1788-1864 (author)
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Friends Instruction Association
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Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892
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Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
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Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 (author)
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Ashworth, John, 1848-1935
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Hopper, Edward, 1812-1893
3
Kite, James, 1808-1856 (author)
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Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Board of Managers of the Pauline Temporary Home (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Dickinson, Henry, 1815-1895
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Gurney, Eliza Paul, 1801-1881 (author)
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Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852
2
Jones, Eli, 1807-1890
2
Kite, Edith Sharpless, 1777-1861 (author)
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Kite, Joseph, 1795-1854 (author)
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Mott, James, 1788-1868
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
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Price, Jane Jackson, 1817-1895
2
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2
Smedley, Jacob, 1835-1893 (author)
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Tierney, Agnes L. (Agnes Leo), 1868-1947
2
White, Rebecca, -1906
2
Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 (author)
2
Yarnall, Mordecai, 1784-1811 (author)
2
Abbott, R. S. (Ruth Smith), 1826-1916
1
Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911
1
Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912
1
Ashworth, Alicia S. (Alicia Sarah), 1810-1891 (author)
1
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1
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1
Bean, Joel, 1825-1914
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1
Biddle family
1
Birdsall, William W. (William Wilfred), 1854-1909
1
Board of Managers of the Florence Crittenton Home (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Board of Managers of the Germantown Door of Hope (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Home for Incurables (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926
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Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist (author)
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Cadbury, Richard, 1825-1897
1
Campbell, Sarah Jane, 1844-1928
1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
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Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
1
Cocks, William W., 1861-1932
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Collins, Elizabeth Cope (author)
1
Coope, Rachel, 1771-1807 (author)
1
Corlies, Sarah Fisher, 1838-1904
1
Cornell, Thomas Clapp, 1819-1894
1
Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
1
Donlevy, Alice H., 1846-1929
1
Dorland, Annie Caley, 1839-1894
1
Dorsey, Elizabeth, 1837-
1
Edwards, William L., 1815- (author)
1
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
1
Elkinton, Howard W. (Howard West), 1892-1955
1
Emerson, Sarah Hopper, 1835-
1
Evans, Matilda, 1872-1935
1
Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 (author)
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Female Anti-Slavery Sewing Society (author)
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Ferris, David, 1821-1908
1
Flitcraft, Sarah B., 1841-1917
1
Friends Equal Rights Association (New York, N.Y.)
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Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia
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Fussell, Joseph, 1820-1904
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Fussell, Rebecca Bond, 1751-1851
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Quakers
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Society of Friends
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Quaker women
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Quakers--Religious life
112
Personal correspondence
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Faith
69
Quakers--Charities
59
Public worship--Society of Friends
46
Charities
42
African Americans--Education
40
Schofield, Martha
39
African American schools
37
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
36
African Americans--Services for
35
Schools
35
African Americans--Charities
33
Annual reports
33
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
33
Education
33
School management and organization
33
Diaries
32
Antislavery movements
30
Charity organization
27
Death
26
Society of Friends--Wilburite controversy
24
Women physicians
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Women medical students
22
Philadelphia (Pa.)
18
Quaker abolitionists
18
Sick
17
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
17
Women abolitionists
17
Society of Friends--Schisms and separations
16
Christian life
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Quakers--Clergy
15
Quakers--Family relationships
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Women in education
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Women orators
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Women--Charities
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Biography
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Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
14
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861
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Logan, Albanus Charles, 1783-1854
14
Logan, George, 1753-1821
14
Pennsylvania--History
14
Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865
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Women historians
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Women social reformers
13
Women teachers
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Abolitionists
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Books and reading
12
Clergy--Travel
12
Minutes (Records)
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Cost accounting
11
Quakers--Education
11
Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892
10
Jackson, Anna M. (Anna Margaret), 1848-1920
10
Spiritual journals
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Genealogy
9
Quakers--Social life and customs
9
Slavery
9
Health
8
Quakers--Genealogy
8
Women's rights
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7
Conscientious objectors
7
Death--Religious aspects
7
Funeral rites and ceremonies
7
Indians of North America
7
Quakers--Conduct of life
7
Travel
7
Women clergy
7
Women--Diaries
7
Women--Education
7
Women--Suffrage
7
American poetry--Quaker authors
6
Botany
6
Chester County (Pa.)
6
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
6
Public health
6
Services for women
6
Sewing schools
6
Sewing--Study and teaching
6
Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787
6
Sick children
6
Swarthmore College
6
West Grove (Pa.)
6
Women--Societies and clubs
6
Working class--Housing
6
Bible
5
Christianity
5
Female friendship
5
Finance
5
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
5
Gifts
5
Hicksites
5
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852
5
Londonderry (Chester County, Pa. : Township)
5
Marriage
5
Prison reformers
5
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
5
Social service
5
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
5
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
5
Westtown Boarding School
5
African Americans--Social conditions
4
Collins, Isaac, Jr., 1787-1863
4
Freedmen--Education
4
Future life
4
Gibbons, William, 1834-1855
4
God
4
Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-
4
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830
4
Kite, Benjamin, 1754-1838
4
Peace movements
4
Pease, John, 1797-1868
4
Portraits
4
Quaker authors
4
Religion
4
Temperance
4
War--Relief of sick and wounded
4
Women educators
4
Women--Economic conditions
4
Women--Services for
4
Art, Chinese--Collectors and collecting
3
Bartram, Sadie (Sarah Mott Brouwer), 1844-1878
3
Children--Death
3
Constitutions
3
Devil
3
Draft
3
Fairs
3
Freedmen--Charities
3
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
3
God (Christianity)
3
Hospitals
3
London Grove (Pa.)
3
Mott, James, 1788-1868
3
Parables, Biblical
3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
3
Phrenology
3
Pugh, Sarah, 1800-1884
3
Quaker church buildings
3
Quaker girls
3
Quaker missionaries
3
Quaker preaching
3
Race discrimination--Religious aspects--Christianity
3
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania
3
Southern States
3
Tierney, Agnes L. (Agnes Leo), 1868-1947
3
Trust in God
3
United States--History--1865-1921
3
Weddings
3
Williamson, Passmore
3
Wistar, Caspar, 1801-1867
3
Women and peace
3
Women authors
3
Account books
2
American Civil War, 1861-1865
2
Animal magnetism
2
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
2
Banks and banking
2
Barker, Joseph, 1806-1875
2
Betrothal
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Bettle, Jane, 1773-1840
2
Bigelow, Alfreda, 1856-1933
2
Boards of directors
2
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society
2
Childbirth
2
Christmas
2
Church work with prostitutes
2
Clergy
2
Clothing and dress
2
Collins, Rebecca Singer, 1804-1892
2
Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912
2
Combe, George, 1788-1858
2
Condolence notes
2
Davis, Maria Mott
2
Diseases
2
Draftees
2
Freedmen
2
Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845
2
Fugitive slaves
2
Garrison, Ellen Wright, 1840-1931
2
Geology
2
Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855
2
Grew, Mary, 1813-1896
2
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847
2
Hopper, Anna Mott, 1812-1874
2
Hopper, Edward, 1812-1893
2
Housekeeping
2
Indigestion
2
Jackson, Rachel, 1807?-1883
2
Johnson, Jane, 1820?-
2
Jones, Sybil, 1808-1873
2
Kennett Square (Pa.)
2
Ketcham, Edward Hallock, 1835-1863
2
Kite, William, 1810-1900
2
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Haverford College
366
Swarthmore - Friends
271
Historical Society of PA
46
Drexel University
22
Germantown Historical Society
9
Bryn Mawr College
1
Swarthmore - Peace
1
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693
Letters (correspondence)
286
Diaries
21
Still image
8
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5
Notes (documents)
3
Correspondence
2
Minutes (administrative records)
2
Testimonies
2
Color lithographs
1
Genealogies (histories)
1
Manuscript
1
Marriage certificates
1
Memorandums
1
Petitions
1
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Sharpless Family papers
239
Rebecca Singer Collins papers
82
Lucretia Mott manuscripts
79
Martha Schofield papers
55
Josiah White papers
35
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons
32
Branson-Jackson Family papers
28
Lewis-Fussell Family papers
24
Ann Preston papers
21
Abby Hopper Gibbons papers
20
Emily Howland Family papers
19
Logan Family papers
14
Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer records
6
Emily Howland family photographs
6
Friends Instructional Association records
6
Mariana Wright Chapman Family papers
6
Welfare History Collection
6
Howard and Katharine Wistar Mason Elkinton Letters
4
Penn Sewing School records
4
African-History Collection
2
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor records
2
Julia Wilbur papers
2
Aimwell School records
1
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons records
1
Biddle Family papers
1
Female Anti-Slavery Sewing Society records
1
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia records
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Hannah J. Bailey papers
1
Jane Campbell Scrapbooks
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M. Carey Thomas papers
1
Mira Sharpless Townsend papers
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East Bradford (Pa. : Township)
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London (England)
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24
Darby (Pa.)
22
West Chester (Pa.)
20
Aiken (S.C.)
17
Stoke Newington (London, England)
15
4061 N 18th St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
14
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11
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9
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