Quakers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 562 Collections and/or Records:
Anonymous recipe book
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-032
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of an anonymously written single volume recipe book. The majority of recipes are for baked goods, puddings, and preserves (jams/jellies), and preserving foods like oysters, nuts, tomatoes, cabbage, etc. The volume also includes recipes for dying cloth various colors, household tips like removing ink stains, and recipes for tooth powder, white wash, paint, soap, and treatments for various illnesses. Additionally, this volume includes advertisements and newspaper...
Dates:
1862
Anonymous religious notebook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-025
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the single volume notebook of an anonymous Quaker. The notebook includes discussions of religious doctrines, scriptures, and religious topics like, atonement, and the trinity.
Dates:
Undated
Anonymous scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-002
Overview
This collection is comprised of five volumes of anonymous scrapbooks from the Quaker Collection.
Dates:
1894
“An Account of all the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly and Particular Meetings of the Friends of America, 1772”
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-122
Overview
This anonymously written volume provides a list of every meeting held in Colonial United States in 1772. Entries include the locations and dates of the yearly and quarterly meetings, and each entry for a monthly meeting includes a list of the particular meetings belonging to that monthly meeting. Meetings for Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. The volume includes an index for the meetings at the back.
Dates:
1772
"The Contribution of the Quakers to the Reconstruction of the Southern States"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-004
Overview
Francis Anscombe's dissertation, "The Contribution of the Quakers to the Reconstruction of the Southern States," was written in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the department of history and government at the University of North Carolina. The manuscript includes descriptions of Quakers' religious tenents and beliefs about war. It focuses largely on descriptions of Quakers' efforts at reconstruction during the antebellum era, particularly in North Carolina and...
Dates:
1926
Takeo Arishima correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-004
Overview
This collection is comprised of the personal correspondence of Takeo Arishima, a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Also includes a single portrait photograph of Arishima.
Dates:
1903-1907
Thomas Arnold correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-005
Overview
This collection is comprised of the personal correspondence of Thomas Arnold.
Dates:
1837-1848
Edward Ash letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-001
Overview
Edward Ash was a British Quaker and doctor. His letterbook includes personal correspondence related to religious convictions and family news. Letter writers include Barclay, Anna Maria C. of Horne, Robert Barron, Gulielma Penn, and William Pim. A number of letters are addressed to George Fox. A copy of a letter from Ellis Hooke to Margaret Fell is also included.
Dates:
Undated.
Richard Mead Atwater papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-006
Overview
Richard Mead Atwater (1844-1922) was the son of Stephen Atwater and Mary Weaver, both of whom were Quaker. This collection is comprised of Atwater's diary, 1862; letters concerning Brown University; club memberships and letters concerning the memberships and autobiographical remarks written in 1917 as well as an earlier biographical sketch.
Dates:
1862-1922
William Aubrey correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-007
Overview
This collection is comprised of two hand copied letters of William Aubrey. The original letters are dated 1732, and are related to Aubrey's will.
Dates:
Undated.
