Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Friends' Home for Children
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-086
Overview
Friends' Home for Children (“Friendly Acres”) was established in 1881 in Philadelphia by Hicksite Quakers. The Home was a residential facility for orphans and other children in need, modeled on a homelike environment rather than the large institutional more typical of the era. The Home was administered by a Board of Managers which originally was composed entirely of members of the Society of Friends. Eventually it became a summer camp, “Camp Sommerdale,” a summer facility for the children....
Dates:
1881-1988
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Race Relations and its predecessors (1919-1970)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/800
Identifier: QM-Phy-800
Overview
Records, 1921-1969, of the Race Relations Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its predecessors, the Anti-Lynching Committee (1919-1921), Committee on the Interests of the Colored Race (1921-1929) Committee on Race Relations (1921-1929), and the Joint Committee on Race Relations(1929-1955).
Dates:
1921-1969
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania 1
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Civil rights movements -- Pennsylvania 1
- Civil rights workers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Declaration of Intention (Petition) 1
- Levittown (N.Y.) -- History 1
- Lynching 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 1
- Orphanages -- Pennsylvania 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Secane 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Race relations -- Pennsylvania 1
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Racism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Social service -- Pennsylvania 1
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 1
- Youth -- Services for 1 + ∧ less
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