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Quakers -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 587 Collections and/or Records:

Friends' Institute scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-007
Overview

The scrapbook of the Friends' Institute includes materials related to the Friends' Institute for Young Men, particularly for the lectures and events of the organization. Lectures focus on a variety of topics, including business ethics, party politics, early friends and their services in America, the idolatry of culture, and Siberian convicts. Also included are the annual reports of the board of managers.

Dates: 1881-1909

Friends' Reading Room Association records

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-013
Overview The Friends' Reading Room Association was founded in 1835, and dissolved in 1842. Its Constitution, included in the minutes, states its purpose: "An Institution in a central part of the city, which shall be furnished with a judcious selection of books, maps and periodical publications, calculated to promote moral and religous improvement, a knowledge of the principles and history of the Society of Friends and an acquiantance with the arts, science and general literature." This volume...
Dates: 1835-1886

Friends Summer School of Religious History records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-011
Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the two volumes of the Friends Summer School of Religious History records. The first volume includes list of attendees at the Friends Summer School of Religious History held at Haverford College, 1900 & 1904. The second volume includes the list of attendees at the Friends’ Summer School of Religious History, Bryn Mawr, 1907, and Haverford, 1910-1912. The records include names, addresses, and religious affiliations of the attendees.

Dates: 1900-1912

Friends World Conference minutes

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Identifier: HC.MC-950-078
Overview

This collection is comprised of the typed minutes of a Meeting of the Committee on arrangements for the London Conference.

Dates: 1920

William Frost correspondence

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Identifier: HC.MC-950-079
Overview

This collection is comprised of the handwritten letter (1809) between William Frost and Samuel Jenkins, and two letters between Thomas E. Drake and C.E.H. Whitlock concerning the sale of the original William Frost letter.

Dates: 1809, 1941

"George Fox, Seine Botschaft, Seine Wesen und Seine Leben"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-033
Overview

Emil Fuch's manuscript "George Fox, Seine Botschaft, Seine Wesen un Seine Leben" is written in German. In English, the title of the manuscript is "George Fox, his Message, his Essence, and his Life."

Dates: Undated.

"Quaker Influences on Whitman's Religious Thought"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-034
Overview

Walter B. Fulghum's dissertation "Quaker Influences on Whitman's Religious Thought" analyzes the influences of Quakerism, particularly the influences of Elias Hicks and Hicksite Quakerism, on Walt Whitman's religious thought. The manuscript discusses ways in which Whitman's personal demeanor and behavior reflected a Quaker influence, and connects Quakerism to the themes in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."

Dates: 1943

Garret family library catalog

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-012
Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the single volume manuscript list of the volumes in the Garret family library. The volume is organized by genre, including biographies, histories, journals, Christian morals, science, books of reference, essays & prose literature, poetry, travels & geography, fiction, foreign languages, Latin, and miscellaneous.

Dates: Undated

Garrett family genealogical records

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Identifier: HC.MC-950-080
Overview

This collection is comprised of the Garrett family genealogial records, and includes manuscripts concerning family history, research notes, and photographs of family members.

Dates: Undated.

Samuel Garrigues commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-014
Overview

The commonplace book of Samuel Garrigues includes extracts of minutes by Thomas Brown, Quaker testimonies, memorandum of Thomas Brown's last illness, and an Account of Ann Parrish. The volume also contains copies of letters written by Samuel Fothergill, Frances Dodshon, Thomas Lloyd, and Samuel Neale.

Dates: 1757-1820