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The American Negro Historical Society Collection includes a variety of materials that illustrate the black experience in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The historical society was founded in 1897 by a group of African Americans in Philadelphia that included Robert Adger, W.M. Dorsey and Jacob C. White, Jr. This collection includes:

• Minutes of the American Negro Historical Society
• Correspondence
• Membership lists
• Bills and receipts
• Land acquisition books
• Records of several civic and philanthropic organizations (including Banneker Institute; Benezet Joint Stock Association; Daughters of Africa Beneficial Society; and the Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League), schools (Zoar Sabbath School, Roberts Vaux Consolidated School) and churches (First African Presbyterian Church, Bethel Church)
• Records of an African-American baseball club called the Philadelphia Pythians
• Broadsides of organizations such as the Colored People's Union League Association
• Photos
• Slaveholder's ledgers

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