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biographies (documents)

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

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"Members of the Prison Society: Biographical Vignettes"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-102
Overview This collection is comprised of the two volume manuscript by Peter P. and Elizabeth W. Jonitis, entitled "Memoirs of the Prison Society: Biographical Vignettes of the Managers of the Philadelphia Society for Assisting Distressed Prisoners and the Members of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1830." The biographical sketches were compiled in order to determine how many of the 344 members of the organizations were Quakers, so as to study Quaker...
Dates: 1982