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Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

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BOX 26-29 Social History, 1656-1992
Correspondence, family and personal papers, journals, financial and legal documents, deeds and indentures, accounts and receipts, transcripts, reports, notes, prints and photographs, illustrated and printed ephemera and other printed matter, background and reference material, and miscellaneous items documenting various topics of social history including African Americans, education, the labor movement, Native Americans, religion, and women.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, topic, or type of material.
BOX 26 African-American history
(57)
Background and reference material, undated
Antislavery societies
Background and reference material, 1984
Pennsylvania, 1790, 1862-1864
Bacon, William, report to the Domestic Missionary Society of Philadelphia, Pa., undated
Correspondence
Bringhurst, James and Joseph, 1786, 1792, 1817
Miscellaneous, 1801, 1820, 1826-1827, 1838-1852, 1867, 1890, undated
Indentures, 1783-1788, 1795
King, Lewis, land deed, 1909
Newspapers
The Liberator, 1843, 1852, 1865 See Oversize
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1866 See Oversize
Staunton Vindicator, 1860 See Oversize
Slavery
Accounts, manifests, and other documents, 1775, 1817, 1855, 1864
Bills of sale, 1744-1747, 1770, 1797-1803, 1817, 1838-1844, 1864
Legal documents, 1758, 1786-1792, 1797, 1810, 1841
Manumission, 1764, 1783, 1788
Communes, religion, and sects
(56)
Background and reference material, 1951-1956, 1992, undated
German baptismal record, 1765
Kemper, Jackson, 1835
Mormons, 1855
Education
(53)
Background and reference material, 1990-1991, undated
Academies and other institutions, 1789-1790, 1800-1819, 1826-1853, 1862-1864, 1875, 1895, undated
(2 folders)
Accounts and receipts
Meredith family, 1786-1797
Miscellaneous, 1753-1768, 1779-1802, 1817-1842, 1858-1860, undated
Wetherill family, 1787-1789, 1798-1800, 1807-1813, 1820, undated
BOX 27 Colleges and universities
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.
(53.3)
Coates family, 1856-1862, 1879, undated
(3 folders)
Miscellany, 1863, undated
Miscellaneous, 1811, 1819, 1826, 1834-1835, 1844, 1850, 1858
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1791, 1827, 1879, 1903-1904
Correspondence, 1778, 1814-1819, 1825, 1834-1840, 1854, undated
Kirk, Lewis, mathematics exercise book, undated
Muhlenberg, William A., 1831-1832, 1839, undated
Union library, undated
Juveniles, background and reference material, 1962, undated
(52)
Labor
(54)
Background and reference material
Notes, undated
Printed matter, 1965, undated
Association of Journeymen Hatters, undated
Brotherly Union Society, hat ribbon, 1823
Correspondence, 1863, 1897-1901
Manual Labor Banking House
Background and reference material, undated
Bank notes, 1836-1837
Oil
(54.2)
Background and reference material, 1948, undated
Accounts and receipts, 1788, 1886
Correspondence, 1860-1863, 1883
Printed matter, 1868
Printed matter
Communist Manifesto, 1912
Miscellaneous, 1892
Native Americans
(59)
Background and reference material, 1950, undated
Bloody Indian Battle Fought at Miami Village, November 4, 1791, printed copy, 1802
Correspondence
Addison, Alexander, to Thomas Mifflin, 1796
Miscellaneous, 1752, 1767, 1776, 1786, 1796, 1813, 1849
BOX 28 Trent, William, 1757, 1776
Croghan, William, 1786, undated
Documents and reports, 1711, 1852, undated
Notes by Cresson on Indian treaties and speeches, undated
Speeches by Cornplanter, Half-Town, and Big-Tree, chiefs of the Seneca Nation, 1791
Quakers
(58)
Correspondence, 1656, 1788
Documents, 1741-1742, 1756, 1772, 1798, undated
Free Quakers
Copy of a 1706 application for a burial ground, 1803
Transcripts of Free Quaker meetings, 1781-1786
Miscellany, undated
Travel
(55)
Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike Road Co., minutes of meeting, 1822
Journal, Pennsylvania-New York trip, 1836
Women
(51)
Background and reference material, 1921, 1953, undated
Accounts and receipts, 1783, 1827-1831, 1860-1862, 1871-1876, undated
Coates-Hornor families, 1739, 1755, 1792, 1799-1805, 1844, 1852-1858, 1875-1885, 1898, undated
(2 folders)
(51.3)
Correspondence, 1801, 1835-1844, 1850, 1864, 1873-1876, 1884-1901, undated
(2 folders)
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme
(51.7)
Background and reference material, 1952, undated
Correspondence, 1777-1790, 1797, undated
Inventory, 1779
Land survey map, 1770
Print, undated
"Flowers and Mosses of the Ocean," 1849, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 29 Legal documents, 1781-1789, 1795, 1853, undated
(51.4)
Miscellany, 1864, undated
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer
(51.6)
Background and reference material, undated
Correspondence, 1851-1862
Prints and photographs, 1826, 1849, 1859, undated
Rossiter, Nellie Lincoln, 1835-1838, 1885-1887, undated
(51.8)
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