Records describing over 6500 collections (~21 million individual items) of manuscripts and graphics, amassed since 1824, by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP).
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The Society's collections center on eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and parts of Delaware and Maryland, but also include a wealth of materials on the eastern United States, the founding of this country, and the diversity of ethnic and immigrant experiences across the United States. The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies merged with HSP in 2002. |
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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies |
Editor |
Cary Hutto |
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Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Women--Suffrage
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Armenian massacres, 1894-1896
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Baptist church buildings
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Baptists
1
Bible--Study and teaching
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Boundary disputes
1
Charitable Organizations--Philadelphia
1
City planning
1
Cuba--1890-1910
1
Disaster Relief--National and International
1
Elections
1
Indians--First contact with Europeans
1
International trade
1
International trade--19th century
1
Johnstown Flood
1
Law offices--Records and correspondence
1
Legal issues
1
Local transit--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
1
Mason-Dixon Line
1
Medical education
1
Merchants
1
Mills and mill-work
1
Native Americans
1
Pennsylvania--Boundaries
1
Pennsylvania--History
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Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865
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Pennsylvania--Politics and government
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Poverty, Alleviation of--19th and 20th Century
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Psychiatry
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Logan family
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Blain, Daniel
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Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Cox, Harold E. Dr
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Fairmount Park Art Association
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League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania
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League of Women Voters of Philadelphia
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Penn family
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Penn, Hannah Callowhill 1671-1726
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Penn, William 1644-1718
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Penn, William Sir 1621-1670
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Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
1
Philadelphia Transportation Company
1
Second Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1
Starr family
1
United States. Office of War Information
1
Waln family
1
Wister family
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Correspondence
Financial records
Photographs
6
Legal records
5
Minutes
5
Ephemera
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Scrapbooks
3
Account books
2
Business records
2
Commonplace books
2
Deeds
2
Diaries
2
Family papers
2
Maps
2
Publications
2
Wills
2
Atlases
1
Audiovisual materials
1
Biographies
1
Broadsides
1
Bylaws
1
Church records
1
Estate records
1
Medical records
1
Newsletters
1
Paper dolls
1
Press releases
1
Prints (Visual works)
1
Project files
1
Property records
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1674-1751
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1621-1670
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1644-1718
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1671-1726
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1671-1735
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1700-1746
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1701-1766
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1702-1775
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1706-1771
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1732-1808
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1740-1803
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1742-1813
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1747-1792
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1753-1821
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1761-1839
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1765-1836
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1781-1862
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1783-1854
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1796-1863
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1803-1881
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1806-1891
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1849-1903
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1849-1925
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1862-1950
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1870-1937
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1873-1956
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1903-1979
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b. 1737
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b. circa 1833
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ca. 1676-1741
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