Box 2

Scope and Contents Two manuscript ledger case books, 1847-1858, describing in minute detail the case histories of over 270 individual women, who were admitted as inmates and clients of the Rosine Association during the first ten years of its existence in Philadelphia. The vast majority of the rescued women were between the ages of 14 and 30 and native born from not only the Philadelphia-Pennsylvania region but also several northern and southern states. Most of the foreign born women were from northern Europe...

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Black silhouette of Mira Sharpless Townsend. Inscribed in pencil on the verso by her daughter Clara G. Troth, "my mother Mira Townsend." Below this pencil inscription is an inked backstamp "Cut with Scissors ...[balance of three lines is illegible]." Details of clothing lightly penciled on image. Undated.

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Includes manuscript and typed documents relating to the estates/household inventories of Mira Sharpless Townsend, her husband, Samuel Townsend, granddaughters Emily and Clara Troth and Mira's siblings, John M. Sharpless and Lydia A. Sharpless.

Scope and Contents Powell Stackhouse (1785-1863) was the father-in-law of Emily Townsend Stackhouse. The material includes papers in which he discussed his ownership of stock in Pennsylvania Hall "...destroyed by a Mob, countenanced and encouraged by Many Citizens..." and the restitution owed him by the mayor and city of Philadelphia, as well as his bequest of said restitution be given to the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, with comments regarding to slavery. Also his Will, an...

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Inscribed in on the front blank "To Joanna Sharpless - From her brother Joseph Townsend - Baltimore 6th mo. 6th. 1840."

Abstract Contains 43 cartes-de-visites /photographs mostly of male and female members of the Sharpless family and allied families - Townsend, Baldwin, Penniman, Brown, Troth and Stackhouse. Together with a round engraved portrait of John Townsend (1716-1803), believed to be accomplished by the noted French émigré artist, Charles B.J.F. de Saint-Memin. The portrait measures 5.5cm in diameter and is pasted on a front page of the album. One of the cartes-de-visite depicts Joanna Sharples (1763-1843),...