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Personal correspondence between young women, 1805

First Annual Report, Philadelphia Orphan Society, 1816

Report of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society, 1835

Certificate of indenture, 1837

Program from Jewish Women’s Congress, 1893

Flier from the Visiting Nurses Service, c. 1895

Entrance exam, Smith College, 1897

Correspondence about nursing employment, 1904

Pamphlet from an organization opposed to Women’s Suffrage, c. 1910s

Photograph of Kitchen Class for Immigrant Women, 1911

Article about immigrant assimilation, 1913

Budget, Hadassah Nurses in Palestine, 1913

Junior High School report card, 1930

Sketches of the Henry St. Settlement, 1934

Photograph of women protesting nuclear weapons testing, 1961

Trading Card, Famous Scientists, c. 1990

Editorial on behalf of gay rights, 2001
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