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Title: Affidavit concerning race
Identifier(s): text:293463
Description: Affidavit concerning the definition of "Negro" in a January 1837 case in New York City conerning a discriminatory housing covenant barring housing to "negroes or any person or persons of the negro race or blood."
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al
Subject: African Americans; Discrimination in housing
Date: 1937

Title: Conversation about digging sticks and house fires
Identifier(s): audio:4781; APSdigrec_0707; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 14
Description: Also discusses different types of structures, traditional pipes; Copied by collector from his original tapes. This is the collector's original tape 65, program 12.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967-1969. (Mss.Rec.81);
Subject: Indians of North America--North Dakota--History; Mandan Indians--History; Hidatsa Indians--History; Mandan Indians--Material culture; Hidatsa Indians--Material culture; Fires; Dwellings; Housing
Date: 1969

Title: Receipt, 1779 April 30
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:15967
Description: Receipt for Thomas Harper received of Gouverneur Morris for fiftytwo pounds to be paid in exchange for "One Quarters Rent" of a house on Pine street.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Lived Experience; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic conditions; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Finance, Personal--United States; Housing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Rent; Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816; Harper, Thomas
Date: 1779-04-30; 2022