Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library
Organization
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting maps
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-029
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of two published maps of the locations of the meetings in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. One map is dated 1838, and the second map is dated 1897.
Dates:
1838-1897
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-148
Abstract
This collection is comprised of a single folder of miscellaneous papers related to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The collection includes three handwritten pages of journal fragments, a handwritten interview with George Keith, as reported to PYM (1692), a photocopy and typed transcript of the PYM Declaration of Beliefs, three handwritten pages of minutes for the PYM Meeting for Suffering, and a typed informal report concerning Emergency Service Work (1917).
Dates:
1692, 1917
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-016
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three items of minutes and notes from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting annual meeting.
Dates:
1802-1854
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Conflict Resolution Programs and Friends Suburban Project (1977-1998)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/768
Identifier: QM-Phy-768
Abstract
Friends Conflict Resolution Programs of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, part of the Friends Suburban Project from 1977 to 1983, began as an attempt to utilize Quaker insights to address and solve disputes in local communities. Initially named the Friends Mediation Service, the Friends Conflict Resolution Programs acquired its current title in 1991. Its mediators work with both Quaker and non-Quaker organizations and communities and have published two manuals, The...
Dates:
1969-1998
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends' Workcamp Program (1942-2015)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/774
Identifier: QM-Phy-774
Abstract
The Weekend Workcamps Program originated on the eve of World War II. It provides volunteers and opportunity to work in an inner city community, interact with neighbors, and dialog on peace and justice issues. Today the Friends' Workcamp Program operates under the auspices of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Standing Committee on Peace and Concerns. Records include minutes, reports, project files, correspondence, and other records from 1942 to the present.
Dates:
1942-2015
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Library Services Group
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/558
Identifier: QM-Phy-558
Scope and Contents
The records of PYM's Library Services Group at Haverford include the body's extensive collection of Minutes, as well as the records of its Bookmobile Program, its International Book Project, its Soviet Project, and those of the related Book Service Committee and Lending Sub-committee. At the time of this recording, some materials remain outside of the two boxes in Lockwood Annex, bound among 9 folders. Their locations below will read "1250/Lockwood/Library Services Group/Un-Boxed...
Dates:
1971-2002
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Mississippi Project (1964-1966)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/826
Identifier: QM-Phy-826
Abstract
In response to the 1964 bombing of 44 black churches in Mississippi, Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings coordinated a joint effort to rebuild the destroyed churches and to attempt to foster racial reconciliation in the area. The project sent Lawrence and Viola Scott to Jackson, Mississippi as Quaker representatives. By 1966, the group had rebuilt 33 of the 44 churches, and built a community center in rural Canton, Mississippi. This collection is primarily composed of financial...
Dates:
1949-1967
Richard Price correspondence with John Watson
Collection — Othertype SC-254
Identifier: SFHL-SC-254
Abstract
Richard Price's letters to fellow Hicksite Quaker John Watson provide a rich account of the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation with references and comments on many of the personalities involved: Elias Hicks, William Wharton, Jonathan Evans, as well as visiting Quaker ministers including George Truman, Lucretia Mott, Ann Jones, Mary and Susan Cox, and Martha Smith. Price also wrote a detailed account of the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1848. The collection contains a small number...
Dates:
1826-1867-1826-1848 (bulk)
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Abstract
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
Rhoads Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1033
Abstract
Nineteenth century letters and papers primarily of the Quaker Gibbons and Rhoads families, often relating to abolition and the Free Produce Association.
Dates:
1822-1955
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- Quakers -- History 10
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 9
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 7
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 5
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- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 4
- Society of Friends -- Maryland 4
- Society of Friends -- New Jersey 4
- manuscripts (documents) 4
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 3
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) 3
- Quakers -- Diaries 3
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- Society of Friends -- United States 3
- correspondence 3
- minutes (administrative records) 3
- Indians of North America 2
- Indians of North America -- Government relations 2
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History 2
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- Quaker church buildings 2
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- Quakers -- New Jersey 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century 2
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 2
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- Spiritual life -- Society of Friends 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- diaries 2
- photographs 2
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History 1
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- American poetry 1
- Architecture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Art and mythology 1
- Art, Ancient 1
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 1
- Church history -- Liberia 1
- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History 1
- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conflict management 1
- Crime prevention -- Citizen participation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Defense industries -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County -- History -- Sources 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Diaries 1
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- Feminism and art 1
- Feminist psychology 1
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- Feminists -- 20th century 1
- Free produce movement 1
- Goddesses in art 1
- Haiti 1
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- Indians of North America -- Oklahoma 1
- Inner cities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Japan 1
- Japan -- History 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
- Jungian Psychology 1
- Kickapoo Indians -- History 1
- Kinzua Dam (Pa.) 1
- Land titles -- Pennsylvania 1
- Media (Pa.) 1
- Mediation 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Military-industrial complex -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County -- History -- Sources 1
- Modoc Indians -- History 1
- Nurturing behavior 1
- Oneida Indians 1
- Osage Indians -- History 1
- Oto Indians -- History 1
- Pageants 1
- Palestine 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County -- History -- Sources 1
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Conscientious objectors 1
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Conscientious objectors 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions 1
- Photography 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Public worship -- Society of Friends 1
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- Quaker authors -- 20th century 1
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