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• The diary of Sallie Sanders Venning (1890)
  The diary presented here is the first of three diaries written by Sallie Sanders Venning between 1890-1892. Sarah Sanders Venning, known as Sallie, was born in Philadelphia on March (or August)13, 1872. She was the daughter of Julia Sanders and Edward Y. Venning. She was a substitute teacher during the time the diary was kept. She married William B. Holden in 1903 and was widowed in 1928. She was active in St. Thomas African Episcopal Church and in various women's clubs. She died in 1959.
• Joseph E. Hill School war bond certificate
  Certificate of Joseph E. Hill School buying U.S. war bonds through a systemic purchase plan.
• The Griot Press, premiere issue (May 1992)
  The Griot Press was a minority owned and published lesbian and gay magazine.
• Philadelphia Police Department Certificate of Appreciation presented to Jaci Adams
  This recognition was posthumously awarded to Jaci Adams for her service on the LGBT Police Liaison Committee of which Adams was the longest serving member. Jaci (pronounced "Jackie") Adams was born in 1957/1958 in Beckley, West Virginia. She died on February 16, 2014. Adams was a transgender woman active in LGBT and AIDS programs. Diagnosed with AIDS in 1983, Adams worked to promote AIDS testing and treatment, and worked to help people harmed by discrimination, homelessness, incarceration, poverty, prostitution, and drug addictions. Adams obituary in the Philadelphia Daily News on February 17, 2014 stated the following: "...Jaci was able to shed light into the darkness that often shrouds the frequently misunderstood and abused dwellers of the LGBT world."