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Balch Institute ethnic images in advertising collection [Box 1 Folder 2]
In 1999, the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies created an exhibition on the depictions of various ethnic groups in local, regional, and national advertisements and mass media. This artificial collection of graphics resulted from staff culling items…
Foreign pauperism in Philadelphia : a memorial to the legislature of Pennsylvania exhibiting reasons for the amendment of certain laws in relation to the poor and to foreign emigrants, with the bill annexed
"Resolved, that H.A. Stephens, Esq. be requested to prepare a memorial and bill to be presented to the legislature of Pennsylvania, praying that some provision may be made for defraying the travelling expenses of destitute emigrants into the…
Rules and regulations of the Board of Managers of the Alms-House and House of Employment.
Retrospective conversion record: In-house.
The life, experience, and Gospel labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen : To which is annexed the rise and progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Containing a narrative of the yellow fever in the year of Our Lord, 1793 : with an address to the people of colour in the United States / Written by himself, and published by his request.
Includes a narrative of the proceedings of the coloured people during the awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 ... By Absalom Jones and Richard Allen (p. 29-44) which is an abridgement of their A narrative of the proceedings of the Black…
Laurie and Whittle’s new chart of the Caribbee or West India Islands, from Porto Rico to Trinidad inclusive with the coast of the Spanish Main, thence to Guayra [cartographic material] : Improved by various emendations and additions / From the chart constructed under the orders of the Spanish government by Don Cosme Churuca, and Don Joaquin Franco. Fidalgo, Captains in the Spanish Navy; John Purdy Delinr.; G. Allen Sculpt.
Sea chart detailing the longitude, topography, and the sovereign country of the island colonies.