Community and Public Service

Blog Post Who did Martin Luther King Jr. visit with during a 1957 trip to Philadelphia?	Blog Post Which member of Philadelphia's Cadwalader family was wounded in a duel with a local surgeon?
Blog Post This year marks the 120th anniversary of what local service organization?	Blog Post In 1934, the Voluntary Defender Association of Philadelphia was developed for what purpose?
Blog Post Finding Faces in the Leonard Covello Collection	Landing Page Teaching Thrift
Photo Album Franklin's Thrift: A Summer Teacher Institute 2012	Unit Plan Thrift and Community Development
Publication Philadelphia, China, and Chinatown	Blog Post What Philadelphia resident is responsible for creating Mother's Day?
Page 20th-Century Collections Guide: Women's History	Page 20th-Century Collections Guide: Community and Social Services
Subject Guide Community and Social Service History	Blog Post In 1821, Thomas P. Cope began a freight and passenger service that sailed between what two port cities in Pennsylvania and England?
Blog Post Organized in 1894 by prominent Philadelphia women, what club sought to promote “by education and active cooperation a higher public spirit and better public order”?	Blog Post Founded in 1800, the Magdalen Society of Philadelphia provided aid to wayward women. What is the organization now called?
Blog Post The Friendly Society, one of Philadelphia's first charitable organizations, was founded in what year?	Blog Post Who was the director of the American Red Cross Allied Prisoners of War Food Packing Service which delivered over one million food packages overseas during World War II?
Blog Post In what year was Philadelphia's first orphanage founded?	Blog Post HSP Civic Engagement Collections: A new NHPRC-funded project

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Community and Public Service

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