Brown family

Found in 2 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

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Asa M. Janney family papers

 Collection — Box 1

Identifier: SFHL-RG5-310

Overview The collection consists of correspondence and other papers of the Virginia Quaker family of Asa M. Janney. The letters contain family news and note Quaker concerns and activities. Of special interest are letters from Asa's older brother, Samuel M. Janney, noted Quaker minister, author and abolitionist. Also included are an account book of Janney's Forest Mills flour mill, 1860-1862; a Swarthmore College student notebook kept by his grandson, Thomas Janney Brown; and a notebook of...

Dates: 1831 - 1950

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Abolitionists 1

African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1

African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1

Americans -- Travel -- England -- History -- 19th century 1

Business 1

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Business ethics 1

Death 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

Freed persons 1

Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States 1

Freed persons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1

Health 1

Land titles 1

Mental Illness 1

Mental health 1

Photography 1

Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1

Quaker abolitionists 1

Quaker businesspeople 1

Quakers -- Education 1

Quakers -- Family relationships 1

Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Germantown (Philadelphia) 1

Quakers -- Social life and customs 1

Quakers -- Travel 1

Quakers -- Virginia -- Diaries 1

Quakers -- Virginia -- Loudoun County 1

Quakers in business 1

Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Quakers 1

Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1

Vacations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century 1

Women -- Diaries 1

bookkeeping records 1

clippings (information artifacts) 1

estate records 1

letters (correspondence) 1

marriage certificates 1

poetry and poems 1

travel photography 1

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