American Negro Historical Society collection, 1790-1905.

Format:

Manuscript

Microformat

Contributor:

American Negro Historical Society.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Scholarly Resources Inc.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--Sources.

African Americans.

African American Sunday schools.

History.

African American civic leaders.

African American churches.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Societies, etc--History--Sources.

African Americans--Correspondence.

African American churches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--Sources.

African American civic leaders--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--Sources.

African American Sunday schools--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

12 microfilm reels : illustrations ; 35 mm + guide (15 pages ; 22 cm)

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[Wilmington, DE] : Scholarly Resources, [1997?]

Contents:

reel 1. Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League ; Agricultural & Mechanics Assoc. of Penna. and N.J. ; Gilbert Lyceum correspondence, association rules and index ; Bannecker Institute

reel 2. Bannecker Institute (cont.) ; Zoar Sabbath School : catalogue of books (1844) ; Daughters of Africa Society ; Benjamin Lundy Philanthropic Society

reel 3. Benezet Joint Stock Association ; Lebanon Cemetery

reel 4. Lebanon Cemetery (cont.) ; Slave holders ledger, 1835-1841 ; Social Civic and Statistical Assn. of the Colored People of Penna. ; Negro Soldiers of Pennsylvania ; Jacob C. White, Sr.

reel 5. Jacob C. White, Sr. (cont.) ; Jacob C. White, Jr.

reel 6. Jacob C. White, Jr. (cont.) ; Dr. James Still ; Envelopes, postcards & scrapbook ; Isaac C. Wears ; William Still

reel 7. William Still (cont.) ; First African Presbyterian Church ; Second African Presbyterian Church ; Zoar Sabbath School misc. material ; Philadelphia black churches ; Bethel Church of Philadelphia historical chart ; Philadelphia Sunday schools ; Pythian baseball club

reel 8. Pythian baseball club (cont.) ; Robert Douglas estate, 1846-1893 ; William Johnson estate, 1850-1855 ; Macklin estate, 1845-1857 ; William Octavius Cato, 1856-1871 ; Perry Tilghman, 1852-1856 ; Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital ; Misc. material ; Black colonization movements ; Negro activities, 1808-1869

reel 9. Negro activities

reel 10. Negro activities (cont.) ; Portraits ; American Negro Historical Society ; Leon Gardiner ; Beatrice Gardiner

reel 11. Beatrice Gardiner (cont.) ; Nineteenth century black history ; Third person correspondence, n.d., 1918-1934 ; Julia Buchanan ; National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing ; Printed Ephemera

reel 12. Printed ephemera (cont.)

Notes:

Title from container.

"Published in cooperation with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Finding Aid/Index:

Introduction and contents list on reel 1.

Cited in:

Guide to the manuscript collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 8

OCLC:

37814435