Social service -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Papers on the VISA Program in Tanganyika
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-321
Overview
Collection of correspondence, reports, reminiscences, newsletters, and other memorabilia fo participants in the VISA Program in Tanganyika in 1961-1963.
Dates:
1961-2018
Margaret H. Collins Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-266
Overview
Margaret Hill Collins, a member of the Society of Friends, was an advocate for integrated housing in the Philadelphia suburbs. These papers include her writings and poetry, personal correspondence, and the records of the Community Support Corporation. The latter was a small nonprofit that remodeled and resold homes in low income communities in Delaware County, Pa. It was established in the mid 1970s and was headquartered on Jackson Street in Media.
Dates:
1932-2006
Committee on Economic Problems Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-730
Overview
The Committee on Economic Problems was appointed in 1937 to cooperate with the Social Order Committee of the Arch Street Yearly Meeting. Clair Wilcox, a Quaker professor of Economics at Swarthmore College was the first Chair. The Committee was interested in a variety of related issues, including industrial relations, unemployment, and economic and social research.
Dates:
1936-1948
Coordinating Committee for Testimonies & Concerns of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Associate Secretaries' Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-701
Overview
In 1974, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was restructured: three Coordinating Committees were each given oversight of the committees and programs under its care. The Coordinating Committee II, more frequently referred to as CC-2, had general responsibility for Testimonies and Concerns. In 1998, a system of standing committees replaced the three Coordinating Committees within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The Peace and Concerns Standing Committee assumed responsibility for many of the programs that...
Dates:
1971-2000
Friends Council for International Service Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Council for International Service
Abstract
Printed materials, including printed correspondence, pamphlets, and annual reports (1921-1928).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1929
Friends' Emergency and War Victims' Relief Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Emergency and War Victims
Abstract
Printed materials, including printed correspondence, pamphlets, and reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1916-1923
Elizabeth Gurney Fry collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-044
Abstract
This collection includes letters of Elizabeth Fry, both original and photocopies. The letters cover a wide range of subjects, from personal news to prison reform. Her correspondence is particularly concerned with education and religious instruction of prisoners, and the treatment of women and children prisoners. One letter describes the philosophy of Quaker marriages. Most of the recipients are unnamed. Also included are several letters of Joseph Fry, passes to visit Newgate prison, and...
Dates:
1800-1845
Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds) Holcombe Diaries
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-063
Overview
Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978) was a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference. Hadassah Holcombe taught mathematics at the Germantown Friends School for ten years, and, in addition to her other activities, served on the Boards of Swarthmore College, Antioch, George School, Sidwell Friends, and Haverford College. The collection...
Dates:
1904-1937
Robert Hoopes Maris Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-097
Overview
Robert Hoopes Maris (1890-1975) was a Quaker dentist who served with the American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I.. The collection contains chiefly correspondence with his family written while Maris was serving as a dentist with American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I. Also a photograph album and other papers.
Dates:
1918-1920
Karen A. Reixach Prison Reform Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-258
Overview
Contains correspondence, minutes, and other papers concerning Karen A. Reixach's work with Quaker meetings at Auburn Prison and Attica Prison in New York State, 1974-1986. A member of Rochester Monthly Meeting, she was active in prison reform and Quaker outreach to prisoners. She served on the Rochester Monthly Meeting and New York Yearly Meetings Prison Committees and as clerk of the Oversight Committee at Attica Prison.
Dates:
1974-1986
