Haverford College
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cope-Evans Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1170
Overview
Letters (with accompanying poetry, acrostics, drawings, clippings, etc.), marriage certificates, photographs, friendship book, estate related papers, account books, and computer disks. Primarily letters of the closely related Quaker families of Cope and Evans of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); other families include Brown, Drinker, and Haines.
Dates:
1732-1911
Elkinton, Waring Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1239
Overview
This collection includes information about multiple generations of the Elkinton and Waring families. It is concentrated on two generations: firstly, that of Howard West Elkinton (1892-1955) and Katharine Wistar Mason Elkinton (1892/3-1961), his wife, and secondly, that of their daughter, Theodora Elkinton (1927-) who married Thomas Waring (1921-2001). It is a story of life choices made by these Quakers: for Howard and Katharine Elkinton, to serve under the American Friends Service Committee...
Dates:
1815-2006
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
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- Quakers -- Family relationships 2
- Abolitionists 1
- African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
- Agriculture -- United States 1
- Americans -- Travel -- England -- History -- 19th century 1
- Art critics -- United States 1
- Backlog Camp 1
- Business 1
- Business ethics 1
- Cadorus farm 1
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Death 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States 1
- Drawing 1
- England -- Description and travel 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- Photographs 1
- Farm life 1
- Freedmen 1
- Freedmen -- Education -- Southern States 1
- Freedmen -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Health 1
- Land tenure -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Land titles 1
- Mental Illness 1
- Mental health 1
- Photography 1
- Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker abolitionists 1
- Quaker lawyers 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Germantown (Philadelphia) 1
- Quakers -- Travel 1
- Quakers -- Virginia 1
- Quakers in business 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Vacations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
- Yellow fever -- History 1
- account books 1
- bookkeeping records 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- estate records 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- marriage certificates 1
- poetry and poems 1
- travel photography 1 + ∧ less
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