HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF PHILADELPHIA-AREA PLACES: RESOURCES FOR STUDY OF RACE, CLASS, AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT:
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A former Bryn Mawr College student's project that seeks to make this early census of African-American Philadelphia, conducted by Pennsylvania Abolition Society, "more accessible and to highlight the research possibilities that it may offer."
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• W. E. B. Dubois, Map of African American households in the 7th ward of Philadelphia, from The Philadelphia Negro (1899) (Boston Public Library) [https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:gb19h9947]• City of Philadelphia, City Plans Division, "Geographical Distribution of the Negro Population of Philadelphia" 1932 (attached below).• J. M. Brewer, "Survey of Phila." [by values, race, and ethnicity], 1934 (Philadelphia Geohistory Network) [https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/index2.cfm#:::JMB1934.Phila::]
• "Fashionable" Philadelphia in 1878, mapping Philadelphia 1878 Red Book [http://bascom.brynmawr.edu/iconog/redbk1878/RedBook1878.html]. (Access as citiesclasses / student2018, per above].
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