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Bryn Mawr College

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Cadbury-Brown Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1177
Abstract

19th-century papers of the interrelated Cadbury and Brown Quaker families.

Dates: 1804-1974

Friends Freedmen's Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-024
Overview Friends' Freedmen's Association was an organization of Philadelphia Quakers founded in 1863 as Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freemen. Its purpose was to provide relief and education to formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War. The name was changed circa 1873. From 1947-1955 the Association supported black students in schools and summer work camps. From 1955-1970 the income from investments was used to provide grants for...
Dates: 1863-1982

Fritz and Karoline Solmitz papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M94
Overview Fritz Solmitz (1893-1933) was an early and outspoken leader in the opposition to Nazism, an editor of a Social Democratic newspaper in Lübeck and a member of the City council. Because of his active opposition to the Nazis, and probably because he was a Jew, he died of mistreatment in a German prison shortly after Hitler came to power. Karoline Somitz (1893-1966) was, like her husband, active in civic affairs. Much of the collection contains letters and photographs, some translated from...
Dates: 1929 - 2006

Esther B. Rhoads papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Overview The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (forced removal and incarceration). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts,...
Dates: circa 1895-1979

Arthur H. and Esther Willits Thomas Correspondence, 1888-1945

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1037
Overview

A collection of correspondences between Arthur H. Thomas and Esther E. Willits and assorted family and friends of the couple. Topics include daily life, courtship, marriage, illness, and business.

Dates: 1888-1945; Majority of material found within 1891-1899

James Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1218
Abstract James Wood (1839-1925) was “interested in education, philanthropy, in the various branches of agriculture, in archaeology, history, Indian lore, anthropology, science, in prison reform and above all, in the Bible and religion,” (ABS, 2). He was also a business man, serving as President of the Genesee Salt Company in Piffard, New York. The James Wood papers are divided into twelve series: “Biographical Material:” “Agriculture;” Business and Financial Material;” “Collected Quaker Material;”...
Dates: Bulk, 1865-1921 1865-1964; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1921

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correspondence 3
Quakers 2
Quakers -- Family relationships 2
manuscripts (documents) 2
photograph albums 2
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photographs 2
African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
African Americans -- Education -- Southern States 1
African Americans -- Education -- Virginia 1
African Americans -- Services for -- Southern States 1
Agriculture 1
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
American periodicals 1
Bedford (Westchester County, N.Y.) 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Education -- Southern States 1
Europe 1
Freedmen -- Education -- Southern States 1
Freedmen -- Services for -- Southern States 1
Freedmen -- Southern States 1
Haverford (Pa.) 1
Japan -- History 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Mount Kisco (N.Y.) 1
Nonprofit organizations -- Southern States 1
Prison reformers 1
Quaker businesspeople 1
Quakers -- Education -- Japan 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
Refugees 1
Religion 1
Schools -- Southern States 1
Sheep 1
Society of Friends 1
Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 1
Society of Friends -- Education 1
Society of Friends -- Japan 1
Society of Friends -- Social life and customs 1
Trade schools -- Virginia 1
Travel 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans 1
Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
autobiographies (documents) 1
awards 1
bookkeeping records 1
business records 1
clippings (information artifacts) 1
diaries 1
family papers 1
financial records 1
lecture notes 1
letters (correspondence) 1
pamphlets 1
trade catalogs 1
travel photography 1
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