Datasets prepared by Swarthmore College Libraries including the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
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The Rosine Association Casebooks give biographies of women assisted by the Rosine Association, "a house for the reformation, employment and instruction of women, who had led immoral lives," between 1848 and 1858. A typical entry discusses the woman's place of birth, her family situation, her life in brief, and her contact with the Association. Dataset and transcripts prepared by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Rosine Association casebooks dataset
This survey of Philadelphia's Black population, conducted by a committee of Quakers in 1847, contains forty-three elements of information for each of more than four thousand households. Source material from, and dataset prepared by, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Philadelphia African American Census 1847 dataset
This is the register of interments, 1843-1981, at Fair Hill, a Philadelphia burial ground administered by Quakers. Fair Hill was one of the first racially integrated cemeteries in Philadelphia, and is the final resting place of many prominent women's rights activists and abolitionists (both Quaker and non-Quaker), including Lucretia Mott and Robert Purvis. Source material from Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College; data prepared with the support of Historic Fair Hill.
Fairhill burial ground dataset
OCR text extracted from scanned PDFs of Swarthmore College's newspaper, The Phoenix from 1993-02-26 to 2011-04-28, a total of 399 issues. These were drawn from the Tricollege Images & Manuscripts Digital Collection.