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Poor Richard's books : an exhibition of books owned by Benjamin Franklin now on the shelves of the Library Company of Philadelphia / compiled by James Green.
Library Company of Philadelphia.Date: 1990- Books
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A compilation of the laws of the state of Pennsylvania, relative to the poor from the year 1700, to 1795, inclusive. Published for the Guardians of the Poor.
Pennsylvania.Date: 1796- Books
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Memoirs of the yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia, and other parts of the United States of America, in the summer and autumn of the present year, 1798. Including, tables of the weather, and the daily returns of the sick and dead; the proceedings of the Board of Health, and Guardians of the Poor. With the various events of each day, noted at the time of their occurrence; and the publications which appeared in the different newspapers, during the continuance of the disease, dissections at Boston, &c. &c. To which is added, a collection of facts respecting the origin of the fever / By William Currie.
Currie, William, 1754-1828.Date: 1798- Books
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Memoirs of the yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia, and other parts of the United States of America, in the summer and autumn of the present year, 1798 : including, tables of the weather, and the daily returns of the sick and dead ; the proceedings of the Board of Health, and Guardians of the Poor ; with the various events of each day, noted at the time of their occurrence ; and the publications which appeared in the different newspapers, during the continuance of the disease, dissections at Boston, &c. &c. ; to which is added, a collections of facts respecting the origin of the fever / by William Currie, S.C.M.P.
Currie, William, 1754-1828.Date: 1798- Books
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History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals : from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years, showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, guardians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction. With an appendix containing a list of former visiting and resident physicians. Illustrated from photographs / Compiled...by Charles Lawrence.
Lawrence, Charles, 1837-Date: 1905- Books
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History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries ... : showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, gaurdians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction / with an appendix, containing a list of former visiting and resident physicians ; illustrated from photographs. Compiled and published by Charles Lawrence, superintendent from 1891-1900.
Lawrence, Charles, 1837-Date: 1905- Books
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An appeal to the people of Pennsylvania on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor of the Commonwealth.
Committee on an Asylum for the Insane Poor of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa)Date: 1838- Books
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An appeal to the people of Pennsylvania : on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor of the Commonwealth.
Philadelphia (Pa.). Committee on an Asylum for the Insane Poor of Pennsylvania.Date: 1838- Books
Poor women and the growth of man-midwifery in Philadelphia and its environs, 1765-1848 / by Katherine Okuda Klein.
Klein, Katherine Okuda.Date: 2002- Books
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A second appeal to the people of Pennsylvania : on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor of the Commonwealth.
Philadelphia (Pa.). Committee on an Asylum for the Insane Poor of Pennsylvania.Date: 1840- Books
Taxonomies of knowledge : information and order in medieval manuscripts / edited by Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom.
Date: [2015]- Books
Receiving Erin's children : Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish famine migration, 1845-1855 / J. Matthew Gallman.
Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew)Date: [2000], ©2000- Pictures
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English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
Date: [1780?]Reference: 42559i- Pictures
Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]Reference: 2033483i- Archives and manuscripts
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915-1987)
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian, FRS, OM (1915-1987) Medical Scientist; Nobel LaureateDate: 1937-1991Reference: PP/PBM