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Quakers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 563 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Thompson letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-024
Overview

Thomas Thompson was a British Quaker, pharmaceutical chemist, and Elder in his Meeting. This letterbook includes Thompson's personal correspondence with Robert Southey concerning Quaker related pamphlets, particularly a pamphlet entitled "Life of Wesley."

Dates: 1820

Opal Thornburg collection on Marcus Mote

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-133
Overview

This collection is comprised of the clippings, illustrations, and correspondence of Opal Thornburg, related to her research on Marcus Mote. The collection includes biographical sketch of Marcus Mote.

Dates: 1947

"Simplicity. An Analysis of the role of simplicity in architecture and its development by the Religious Society of Friends"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-091
Overview Frederick Charles Thum's M.F.A. thesis., entitled "Simplicity. An Analysis of the role of simplicity in architecture and its development by the Religious Society of Friends," explores the architectural evolution of the Quaker meeting house, and includes the following chapters: The Problem-Proper Relationship of the Needs of Man, The Key-simplicity, History of the Quakers, Quaker Simplicity, Meeting House Development in England, Plans for the Holy Experiment, James Portius and the Carpenters...
Dates: 1948

Harry Timbres and Rebecca Timbres Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-172
Overview

This collection consists of the papers of Harry Garland Timbres and Rebecca Timbres Clark.

Dates: 1936-1937

Margaret Tinkcom collection on Friends Select School

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-076
Overview

This collection is comprised of the correspondence, manuscripts, and research notes concerning Tinkcom's research on the Friends Select School.

Dates: 1961

"The Children of Light"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-093
Overview

Elizabeth Stanley Trotter's "The Children of Light: Being the story of George Fox, the Quaker, and of Oliver Cromwell, the Soldier, and of William Penn, the Settler, and some of those who followed them" is entirely written in verse, and is split into four "books."

Dates: 1941, undated

Union Benevolent Association record book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-042
Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the single volume record book of Union Benevolent Association, and records the names and dates of visitors to the association.

Dates: 1856-1859

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

Vaux Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1217
Overview The Vaux family was deeply involved with Quaker and Native American affairs throughout much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. George Vaux, Sr. was involved in Quaker activity through the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and other Quaker meetings throughout the world (including Antigua and London). Both George Vaux, Jr. and Mary Morris Vaux Walcott, his sister, served as commissioners for the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners. This organization was established by the United States Congress in...
Dates: 1708-1995; Majority of material found within 1912-1932

Hannah Milhous Vernon papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-173
Overview

This collection is comprised of the papers of Hannah Milhous Vernon, and includes two unbound commonplace books, the loose pages of Vernon's diaries, and a single unbound volume of meeting minutes for the Damorris Monthly Meeting of Women Friends.

Dates: 1855-1889