QM/Ph/YM. Yearly Meeting business and committees
Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/Ph/YM
YEARLY MEETING: A large autonomous body of Quakers, which meets for several days once a year. In theory, its decisions are binding on the monthly and quarterly meetings within its jurisdiction and on the committees and staff which carry out the work of the yearly meeting. It meets annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker organizations.
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Annual Sessions
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-001
Overview
A general meeting for Friends in the Delaware Valley area was first convened at Burlington in 1681. The first general meeting held in Philadelphia was in 1683, and in 1685, it was agreed that the meetings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be combined into one yearly meeting with alternate sessions at Philadelphia and at Burlington. The great Separation among Philadelphia Friends into Orthodox and Hicksite branches occurred at the Yearly Meeting of 1827. Through the course of the early...
Dates:
1662 - 2022
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Coordinating Committee for Education and Care of Members (1974-1998)
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/450
Identifier: QM-Phy-450
Scope and Contents
Records of the Coordinating Committee of PYM for Education and Care of Members (CC1) include: Minutes, Correspondence, and other administrative papers (1974-1998). For the most part though, this collection encompasses the records of other committees and groups, some technically under the CC1 umbrella and others not, as they relate to CC1. These records were held by CC1 and are thus kept with the CC1 collection. Groups with records included in the CC1 collection are...
Dates:
1974-1998
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Family Relations Committee (1955-1998)
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/574
Identifier: QM-Phy-574
Scope and Contents
Records of PYM's Family Relations Committee at Haverford include the Committee's Minutes (1963-1992), its Financial Records (1987-1994), those pertaining to its Counseling Services (1989-1992) and the Newsletters of its Subcommittee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns (1991-1992).
Dates:
1963-1994
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Field Committee (1981-1998)
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/557
Identifier: QM-Phy-557
Scope and Contents
Records of PYM's Field Committee at Haverford include the group's Minutes, Correspondence, Financial Records, Annual Reports and Reports of Visitations and Acclivities of the Field Committee--the development of the handbook and the sponsorship of intervisitation weekends for members of Monthly Meetings.
Dates:
1981-1998
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: First Day School Association
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/579
Identifier: QM-Phy-579
Scope and Contents
Records of First Day School Association of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Delaware County, PA), 1833-1956, including Association's Minutes (1862-1930), Minutes of its Executive Committee (1862-1913), Minutes of its Small Executive Committee (1912-1914) and the printed papers, proceedings and reports of its annual meetings (1865-1930). Records germane to the "First Day School Committee", including the Committee's Minutes (1890-1923), Circulating Libraries Records (1893-1901) and...
Dates:
1862-1927
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Temperance Association (1880-1949)
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/749
Identifier: QM-Phy-749
Scope and Contents
Records of the Friends Temperence Association of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1883-1943, include those of its Main Committee (1925-1939) and Executive Committee (1881-1925), as well as other Miscellaneous Papers (1893-1921) and its publication, "The Outlook" (1892-1898). Additional materials in the QM-Phy-750 collection which includes the successor temperance and alcohol problem committees.
Dates:
1881-1943
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: International Outreach Committee (1974-2016)
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/835
Identifier: QM-Phy-835
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Young Friends Movement (1912-1975)
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/584
Identifier: QM-Phy-584
Scope and Contents
Records of the Joint Young Friends Movement at Haverford include the organization's General and Annual Meeting Minutes (1929-1933), Annual Reports (1931-1947), Conference and Seminar Papers (1931-1971), Correspondence (1933-1971), Financial Records (1931-1960) Photographs (1919-1925), records of its Advisory Committee (1963-1966), its Business Committee (1931-1961), its Executive Committee (1921-1964), its Committee on Young Friends (1931-1951) and other miscellaneous committee or general...
Dates:
1912-1971
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Library Services Group
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/558
Identifier: QM-Phy-558
Scope and Contents
The records of PYM's Library Services Group at Haverford include the body's extensive collection of Minutes, as well as the records of its Bookmobile Program, its International Book Project, its Soviet Project, and those of the related Book Service Committee and Lending Sub-committee. At the time of this recording, some materials remain outside of the two boxes in Lockwood Annex, bound among 9 folders. Their locations below will read "1250/Lockwood/Library Services Group/Un-Boxed...
Dates:
1971-2002
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Miscellaneous Records
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/120
Identifier: QM-Phy-120
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Delaware County, PA), 1662-1968, including the records of a great number of its subcommittees.
Dates:
1662-1968
