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Essays on the public charities of Philadelphia. : Respectfully addressed to the serious consideration of the benevolent, who have "a heart to feel and a hand to bestow."
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 C1892 C799p v. 5 no. 12
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Charities.
- African Americans.
- Charities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Charities.
- Women--Employment.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Women--Employment--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 20 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [Second edition].
- Other Title:
- Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 5 no. 12 PU
- Fingerprint:
- d.n. p-to 0.-- scme (3) 1828 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pa.] : [publisher not identified], [1828]
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- Six numbered essays signed: Hamilton [i.e. Mathew Carey]; no. I dated Nov. 7, 1828; no. II dated Nov. 10, 1828.
- "Corrections of, or additions to, these essays will be received until the 18th inst., when a third edition will be put to press."--p. 20.
- "Postscript."--p. 19-20, includes a list of charities with their treasurers and addresses.
- Not in Lib. Company. Afro-Americana.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is v. 5 no. 12 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together.
- Cited in:
- Shoemaker 32582
- Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 25627
- OCLC:
- 78872520
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