Bryn Mawr College
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Cadbury-Brown Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1177
Abstract
19th-century papers of the interrelated Cadbury and Brown Quaker families.
Dates:
1804-1974
Friends Freedmen's Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-024
Overview
Friends' Freedmen's Association was an organization of Philadelphia Quakers founded in 1863 as Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freemen. Its purpose was to provide relief and education to formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War. The name was changed circa 1873. From 1947-1955 the Association supported black students in schools and summer work camps. From 1955-1970 the income from investments was used to provide grants for...
Dates:
1863-1982
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Overview
The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (forced removal and incarceration). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts,...
Dates:
circa 1895-1979
Arthur H. and Esther Willits Thomas Correspondence, 1888-1945
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1037
Overview
A collection of correspondences between Arthur H. Thomas and Esther E. Willits and assorted family and friends of the couple. Topics include daily life, courtship, marriage, illness, and business.
Dates:
1888-1945; Majority of material found within 1891-1899
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Quakers -- Family relationships 2
- African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Virginia 1
- African Americans -- Services for -- Southern States 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- American periodicals 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
- Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Education -- Southern States 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States 1
- Freed persons -- Services for -- Southern States 1
- Freed persons -- Southern States 1
- Japan -- History 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Southern States 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quakers -- Education -- Japan 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Schools -- Southern States 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Society of Friends -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- Social life and customs 1
- Trade schools -- Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans 1
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
- correspondence 1
- letters (correspondence) 1 + ∧ less
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