Catharine Willis autograph album, 1830-1851.

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

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Amy Post (December 20, 1802 – January 29, 1889) was an activist who was central to several important social causes of the 19th century, including the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Post's upbringing in Quakerism shaped her beliefs in equality of all humans, although she ultimately left the Religious Society of Friends because of her desire to actively support social change efforts that called upon her to collaborate with non-Quakers. A friend of many prominent activists including Frede...

Earle, Phebe.

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Roberts, Elizabeth, 1936-....

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Member and officer of various women's organizations related to medicine; resident of Durham, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1950-1975 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32720149 Epithet: aunt of Henry Hallam British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000246 Elizabeth Roberts was a member and officer of various women's organizations related to medicine, an active mem...

Lewis, Sarah (Teacher)

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Gallaudet, Edward, 1809-1847

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Hopper, Anna M.

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Yarnall, E. C.

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Pelham, M. A.

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Burleigh, Gertrude.

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Minster, S. C.

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Willis, Catharine

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The Pennsylvania suffragists and abolitionists who signed this autograph album were members of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Lucretia Mott and Amy Post attended the first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848. From the description of Catharine Willis autograph album, 1830-1851. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 45605909 ...

Jackson, M. S. (Mike S.)

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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880

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Lucretia Mott (née Coffin) was born Jan. 3, 1793 in Nantucket, MA. She was a descendent of Peter Folger and Mary Morrell Folger and a cousin of Framer Benjamin Franklin. Mott became a teacher; her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid significantly more than female staff. A well known abolitionist, Mott considered slavery to be evil, a Quaker view. When she moved to Philadelphia, she became Quaker minister. Along with white and black wo...

Cox, Lydia E.

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Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889

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Secretary of the National Academy of Design. From the description of Letter : New York, to John Sartain, Philadelphia, 1846 Feb. 2. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28489519 Born in Alexandria, Va., in 1808, John Gadsby Chapman studied painting briefly in Philadelphia before traveling to Europe in 1828, where he spent almost two years in Italy. He returned to Alexandria in 1831 and exhibited paintings in Alexandria, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Boston, and Philadelphi...

Minster, Jane D.

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Philadelphia female anti-slavery society

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Miller, Anna.

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Yarnall, Rebecca.

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Brooke, E. B.

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