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Quakers -- Portraits

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Francis G. Allinson photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-06-005
Overview Francis G. Allinson's photograph album features photographs from his travels in Europe, particularly of landscapes, buildings, ruins, and mountains. According to some of the labels on the photos, a number of photos were taken in Germany, along the Rhine river. Also included are a number of Quaker portraits, including those of Charles S. Taylor, Abraham Taylor, Lizzie Rob, Belle Pugh, Amelia Gummere, Bessie Eyre, William Kimber, Howard Taylor, Samuel Alsop, Edward Allinson, and Samuel...
Dates: 1833

Friends Historical Library cased photographs collection

 Collection — Othertype PA-107
Identifier: SFHL-PA-107
Overview

This collection consists of miscellaneous cased photographs - primarily daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, with some other formats - collected at various times from various sources by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Many were acquired as parts of manuscript collections of family papers.

Dates: approximately 1840-1870

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting lantern slide collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SFHL-PA-219
Overview

This is a collection of glass lantern slides, originally owned by Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (CPMM), and likely compiled by the Philadelphia Young Friends' Association. Most slides depict Quaker meetinghouses, portraits of Quakers, slides of Quaker conferences, or topics relating to Quakerism in the United Kingdom.

Dates: circa 1900-1920

William Curtis papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-052
Overview

This collection is comprised of a single folder of papers related to William Curtis, and includes a printed portrait, obituary, and clipped 1946 article on Curtis from "Nature."

Dates: 1946

Abby Hopper Gibbons Family Photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-069
Identifier: SFHL-PA-069
Overview

Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893) was an important figure in many of the reform movements in the middle and late nineteenth century. Like her father, Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), "Abby" Gibbons was an ardent abolitionist and dedicated to prison reform. This collection includes: a carte de visite album compiled by Abby Hopper Gibbons; a daguerreotype of Abby with her husband James and children; and photographs of her descendents, the Dunning family.

Dates: 1854 - 1935

Morrell Family Album

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-057
Overview

This collection consists of a large family album of tintypes, cabinet cards, and cartes de visite depicting members of the Morrell family. The Morrell family was a prominent land-holding family in Kittery and North Berwick, Maine. John Morrell settled the area circa 1676 and was a Quaker at a time when Friends were persecuted; nevertheless, he and his descendents continued their association with the Society of Friends.

Dates: 1860 - 1875

Anna Wharton Morris family photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-075
Overview Anna Wharton Morris was the youngest daughter of Joseph Wharton, prominent Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist. She was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, active in prison reform and other social reform movements of her day, and was a profilic writer, primarily of short stories and essays. In 1896, she married Harrison S. Morris, Philadelphia author and arts administrator, and they had one child, Catharine Morris Wright. The photographs in this collection are related to...
Dates: 1823 - 1997

Jehu Newlin photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-06-003
Overview

The photograph album of Jehu Newlin includes portraits of various Quakers, including Charles Wakefield, Foster Green, Jane Newson, Sarah Gibbons, and Theodore Harris.

Dates: Undated.

Portraits & Miscellaneous Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-850
Overview

This collection contains an expansive range of subjects, with historical highlights including portraits of a wide variety of Quakers, Quaker Native American missions, the early years of Haverford College, and the rise of photography.

Dates: Undated.

Isaac Shoemaker scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-018
Overview

The scrapbook of Isaac Shoemaker includes portraits of Shoemaker's family, including Charles Shoemaker, Elizabeth Robeson, Susan Wood, Hannah Taylor, Abraham M. Taylor, George Washington, Daniel Wheeler, and Robert Morton. Also includes sketches of meeting houses, plants found on his travels, and landscapes, including landscapes of South Carolina, Louisiana, western prairies, Spanish Missions in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Yosemite.

Dates: 1841-1866