Repository:Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Repository Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Postal Address 1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Place Pennsylvania, United States
Phone 215-732-6200
URL http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=1


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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a long-established research facility, based in Philadelphia. It is a repository for millions of historic items ranging across rare books, scholarly monographs, family chronicles, maps, press reports and varied ephemera, reaching back almost 300 years, and accessible on the society’s website.

Online collections and information include:

  • Abolition and Antislavery Movements, including the Underground Railroad
    • Minute Book of the Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia
    • Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers
    • Journal C of Station No. 2 of the Underground Railroad, Agent William Still, 1852-1857
  • Civil War Philadelphia: Selections from the HSP collections
  • Japanese American Internment and Redress
    • Iwata Family Papers
    • Sumiko Kobayashi Papers
  • Immigration and Ethnicity
    • Irish Immigration
    • Ethnic Fraternal Organizations
    • Nativism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
    • African immigrant oral histories
    • Latino Philadelphia oral histories

The Historical Society also has an online catalog and several research guides.

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