Patricia Henning papers Bulk, 1980-2004 1922-2004

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Patricia Henning papers Bulk, 1980-2004 1922-2004

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Pat Henning (1933-2005) was a social activist and local historian who resided in the West Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pat Henning papers, 1922-2004, are comprised of newspaper clippings, copies of primary materials, articles, pamphlets, and brochures. There is also a small amount of primary material in the collection, of which the majority is correspondence of Mrs. Francis A. Wister (1920s-1930s) and records of the . Mount Airy Express

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Germantown Historical Society

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Germantown Historical Society

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Germantown, a neighborhood in the northwest section of Philadelphia, was the site of several nationally significant events. It was settled in the late 1600s by Mennonite and Quaker German-speaking emigrants and incorporated as a borough in 1689. Germantown is sometimes called the home of the American anti-slavery movement, because the first organized protest against slavery in the Americas was begun by four members of the Germantown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quake...

Henning, Patricia, 1933-2005

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Pat Henning (1933-2005) was a local historian and social activist based in the West Mount Airy section of Philadelphia. She served on the board of the West Mt. Airy Neighbors, a local community association, and helped develop the Mt. Airy Learning Tree, a community service organization. She founded the Mt. Airy Historical Awareness Committee, and worked on many of the oral history projects conducted by the Germantown Historical Society in the early 1990s. Henning also founded and se...

Mount Airy Express.

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