Delaware County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources

Overview Contains the papers of the Allen Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which traced its ancestry back to one of William Penn's commissioners. Includes papers relating to the Allen and related Breidenhart, Casdorp, Gibbons, Hubley, Jacobs, Matlack, and Samuel families. The Allen family papers contain extensive genealogical material, family correspondence, journals and memorials which provide excellent source material on Quaker family life in the 19th...

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Includes: correspondence and meeting agendas and minutes.

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Includes: correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, flyers, and newspaper clippings.

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Includes: correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, flyers regarding the August 6, 1986 commemoration; also a play written about the bombings and the aftermath by Steve Friedman titled "Fallout".

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Primarily printouts of emails regarding activities of Delaware County Wage Peace & Justice.

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Includes correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes and notes, flyers, and reference material. Correspondents include Alison D. Oldham, J. Tucker Taylor, Willard C. Richan, and Curt Weldon.

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This is a collection of printed ephemera and related correspondence of Charles Palmer of Chester, Pennsylvania. The materials reflect his interests in temperance and other social reforms, politics, the Society of Friends, and other topics. While there is a small amount of correspondence, most is related to business or community involvement on Delaware County, Pennsylvania.