Haverford College
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Morris-Shinn-Maier collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1191
Overview
This collection spans approximately 200 years, from the late 1700s to the late 1900s, and five generations of the Morris-Shinn-Maier family, which are traced through matrilineal and patrilineal lines. They were prominent Quaker businessmen and lawyers in the Philadelphia area, and a large portion of the collection is dedicated to their legal and business material, as well as a great deal of very detailed financial material. There is also a quantity of personal material, namely diaries and...
Dates:
1720-1975
Updegraff Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1031
Overview
Letters; diaries; genealogical material; land grants signed by Presidents John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, and Franklin Pierce; and other papers of the Updegraff family, mainly those of David B. Updegraff, which provide a picture of Quakerism in 19th-century Ohio.
Dates:
1810-1929; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1896
James Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1218
Abstract
James Wood (1839-1925) was “interested in education, philanthropy, in the various branches of agriculture, in archaeology, history, Indian lore, anthropology, science, in prison reform and above all, in the Bible and religion,” (ABS, 2). He was also a business man, serving as President of the Genesee Salt Company in Piffard, New York. The James Wood papers are divided into twelve series: “Biographical Material:” “Agriculture;” Business and Financial Material;” “Collected Quaker Material;”...
Dates:
Bulk, 1865-1921 1865-1964; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1921
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- Agriculture 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Art critics -- United States 1
- Backlog Camp 1
- Baptists 1
- Bedford (Westchester County, N.Y.) 1
- Cadorus farm 1
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States 1
- Diaries -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Haverford (Pa.) 1
- Land tenure -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Mount Kisco (N.Y.) 1
- Ohio -- Description and travel 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker lawyers 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs 1
- Religion 1
- Sheep 1
- Society of Friends 1
- Travel 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Yellow fever -- History 1
- autobiographies (documents) 1
- awards 1
- bookkeeping records 1
- business records 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1
- diaries 1
- financial records 1
- lecture notes 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- pamphlets 1
- photograph albums 1
- photographs 1
- trade catalogs 1
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