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Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-276
Overview
Margaret Hope Bacon was a prolific Quaker author and social activist. Her Research Papers consist primarily of the manuscripts and files assembled in the process of research.
Dates:
1947-2007
Ruth Anne Hillborn papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-012
Abstract
This collection includes the journal of Ruth Anne Hillborn from 1864-1868. She relates events concerning the emancipation of enslaved people, the U. S. Civil War, and the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. She also describes Lucretia Mott and her ministry. This collection also includes miscellaneous poetry, a facsimile letter to the Women's Aid Association of Philadelphia about efforts in freedman's relief, a letter from John Bailey on Quaker ministry, and extracts from an account of the death of...
Dates:
1806-1868
Lewis-Pratt Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-244
Abstract
Collection of manuscripts of the Lewis and Pratt families of Delaware County in Pennsylvania. Includes bible pages with births, marriages, and deaths, as well as Quaker documents. Of particular interest is a letter from Thomas H. Speakman to his sister, M.M. Jenkinson on an inheritance which also includes a reference to Rowland Johnson, Lucretia Mott, Clement Biddle, and James Martin at the Cherry Street meeting house.
Dates:
ca.1790-1851 & n.d
Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Overview
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
Charles Smith Ogden family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-108
Overview
Charles Smith Ogden (1822-1904) was a Quaker businessman, genealogist, and civic leader. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, educated in Friends' schools, and married Emma Corbit in 1848. He worked as a wholesale druggist before the Civil War, was active on the committee to elect Abraham Lincoln, and served as Consul to Quebec, Canada, 1860-1864. In 1886, he began a tour around the world, which is recounted in his travel letters, 1886-1891. This collection contains genealogical material,...
Dates:
1732-1938
Palmer Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-087
Overview
The Palmer family was a Hicksite Quaker family who settled in Bucks County, PA, but who were also active in Delaware County, especially as several family members attended Swarthmore College. Dating from the 1880s to the 1890s, this collections consists of cabinet cards and cartes de visite that depict members of the Palmer family as well as family relatives or friends.
Dates:
1880s-1890s
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- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1
- Bailey, John, 1776-1861 1
- Barney, Nathaniel 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887 1
- Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912 1
- Combe, George, 1788-1858 1
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- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Darlington family 1
- Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887 1
- Davis, Maria Mott 1
- Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 1806-1882 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Dugdale, Ruth 1
- Dutton, Ruth A. P. (Ruth A. Pratt), -1909 1
- Earle, Mary Hussey 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Francke, Marie Ogden, 1878-1955 1
- Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896 1
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 1
- Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 1
- Grew, Mary, 1813-1896 1
- Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
- Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 1
- Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-1913 1
- Hallowell, Mary 1
- Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921 1
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hillborn, Ruth Anne, 1832-1869 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Johnson, Oliver, 1821-1907 1
- Johnson, Rowland, 1816-1886 1
- Lewis family 1
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
- Lord, George 1
- Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916 1
- Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 1
- Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 1
- Marriott, Charles 1
- Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 1
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871 1
- McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874 1
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Needles, Elizabeth 1
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1
- Ogden family 1
- Ogden, Charles Smith, 1822- 1
- Ogden, Emma Corbit, 1827-1874 1
- Palmer family 1
- Parker, Emma Parker, 1817-1898 1
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 1
- Potter, William J. (William James), 1829?-1893 1
- Pratt family 1
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 1
- Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 1
- Rotch, William, 1759-1850 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Speakman, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1820-1904 1
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 1
- Stevenson, Thomas B., 1810-1863 1
- Still, William, 1821-1902 1
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 1
- Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907 1
- Webb, Richard Davis 1
- Webb, Ruth D. 1
- White, George F., 1789-1847 1
- Willets, Amos, 1792-1864 1
- Willets, Samuel 1
- Women's Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
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