Association of Friends for the Relief of Freedmen (New York, N.Y.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Friends' Employment Society Record
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-098
Abstract
The Friends Employment Society was founded in 1862 in New York City by Hicksite women as the Women's Association of Friends for the Employment and Relief by Clothing of the Suffering Poor. Incorporated in 1902, it provided employment for the working poor by providing sewing projects. In 1948 it revised its charter to state its purpose of giving help to needy people, through contributions to other charitable organizations. This collection contains minutes and...
Dates:
1862-1948
Joseph Sturge Mission School Opening and Friends' Freedmen's Relief Association Funds Request
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-280
Abstract
This collection contains a leaflet regarding the opening of Joseph Sturge's First Day School at the Friends Locust St. Mission House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1st, 1865. The school was established as First Day school for poor African Americans and immigrants. The school later merged and formed the Benezet House Association to provide education and relief to African Americans. Lack of demanding and funding led to the school's demolishment in 1945. There is also a letter from...
Dates:
December 1862 and September 1874
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- African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Church work with the poor -- New York (State) 1
- Clothing and dress 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Poor -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quaker women -- New York (State) -- Societies and clubs 1
- Quakers -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- Poor -- Services for 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Social service -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Civilian relief 1
- Virginia 1
- Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc. 1
- Women -- New York (State) -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women -- New York (State) -- Societies, etc. 1
- Women in charitable work -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- pamphlets 1 + ∧ less
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