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United States Historical Resources
- African American Social History
- Exploration and Native Americans
- Ethnic Groups
- Japanese American Internment
African Amercian Social History
- The Library Company has the papers of the Stevens
Family and associated families of Cogdell, Sanders, and Venning. The
Stephens Family came to Philadelphia from South Carolina in the 1850s
with the help of their White slaveowner father and became prominent
in Philadelphia's African American community. The papers range in time
from the 1770s through the 1920s.
Contact: Library
Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust St., Philadelphia. (215) 546-2465.
- African American newspapers are an important
source of information for Black history. A few papers are available
in the three colleges, while many more are available in the Philadelphia
area:
African-American Newspapers: 19th Century [on CD-ROM]. Includes:
Freedom's Journal (New York City), Colored American (New York City),
North Star (Rochester, NY), and National Era (Washinton, D.C.)
Contact: Swarthmore
Friends Historical Library CD-6 Pt. 1
For other African American newspapers, contact Margaret
Schaus.
Exploration and Native Americans
- American history is heavily collected. The Robert Dechert Collection
contains printed materials relating the experiences of French explorers
of North and South America, as well as documenting North American Jesuit
relations. Works that illustrate Native American life and costumes are
another emphasis of the Dechert Collection. Early examples include several
volumes of Theodor De Bry's India occidentalis (Frankfurt 1591); later
examples include M'Kenney and Hall. Later North American travel literature
is also strongly represented. Early narratives of the Lewis and Clark
expedition and such nineteenth-century illustrated books as those by
Maximilian Wied von Neuwied and Karl Bodmer complement some of the great
rarities of later western overland travel, including works by Zenas
Leonard and John Hale.
Contact: University
of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library, Special Collections, 3420 Walnut
St., Philadelphia. 215-898-7088
Ethnic Groups
- The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies has an extensive collection
of manuscripts and microfilms relating to many different ethnic groups
in the United States. Holdings, including family papers, photographs,
records of organizations, and newspapers, are particularly strong for
African Americans, Germans, Irish, Italians, Japanese, Jews, and Slovaks.
See the printed guide for more details:
A Guide to Manuscript and Microfilm Collections of the Research Library
of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. 1992
H Magill Ref Room Z1361 E4 B35 1992
B Canaday Ref f Z1361 E4 B35 1992
Contact: Balch Institute
for Ethnic Studies. 18 South 7th Street, Philadelphia. 215-925-8090
Japanese American Internment
- The American Friends Service Committee has an extensive collection
of papers documenting efforts on behalf of Japanese Americans during
World War II. AFSC sent representatives to visit the internment camps,
organized programs to place young interned Japanese Americans in colleges
and universities in the midwest and on the east coast, and set up hostels
to house Japanese American families once they were able to leave the
camps. Papers include reports, correspondence, and regional office files.
Contact: American
Friends Service Committee, Archives, 15th and Cherry Sts, Philadelphia.
215-241-7044
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