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Haverford College

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Wistar Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1321
Scope and Contents Correspondence, letter books, diaries, scrapbooks, account books, deeds, marriage certificates, genealogical material, and miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of, or about, Thomas Wistar Brown (1826-1916), his father Moses Brown (1793-1878), his mother Mary (Wistar) Brown (b. 1807), his brother Moses Brown (b. 1829), his wife Mary (Farnum) Brown, his son John Farnum Brown (1873-1894) and others. Under correspondence, there are four letters from Eliza Paul (Kirkbride) Gurney to...
Dates: 1701-1917

Cadbury-Brown Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1177
Abstract

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

Dates: 1804-1974

Cope-Evans Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1170
Overview

Letters (with accompanying poetry, acrostics, drawings, clippings, etc.), marriage certificates, photographs, friendship book, estate related papers, account books, and computer disks. Primarily letters of the closely related Quaker families of Cope and Evans of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); other families include Brown, Drinker, and Haines.

Dates: 1732-1911

J.P. Elkinton autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-116
Overview

J. P. Elkinton’s autobiography describes his childhood and family, his attendance at Haverford College, from which he graduated in 1908. He also describes his experiences with the Society of Friends, particularly his travels on religious visits, and his adult life with his wife, Mary Bucknell, and their children. In addition to stories from various periods of his life, he provides biographical sketches of his family members.

Dates: 1966

Morris-Shinn-Maier collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1191
Overview This collection spans approximately 200 years, from the late 1700s to the late 1900s, and five generations of the Morris-Shinn-Maier family, which are traced through matrilineal and patrilineal lines. They were prominent Quaker businessmen and lawyers in the Philadelphia area, and a large portion of the collection is dedicated to their legal and business material, as well as a great deal of very detailed financial material. There is also a quantity of personal material, namely diaries and...
Dates: 1720-1975

Updegraff Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1031
Overview

Letters; diaries; genealogical material; land grants signed by Presidents John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, and Franklin Pierce; and other papers of the Updegraff family, mainly those of David B. Updegraff, which provide a picture of Quakerism in 19th-century Ohio.

Dates: 1810-1929; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1896

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Agriculture -- United States 2
Death 2
Health 2
Land titles 2
Quaker businesspeople 2
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Quakers 2
clippings (information artifacts) 2
letters (correspondence) 2
manuscripts (documents) 2
marriage certificates 2
poetry and poems 2
Abolitionists 1
African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
Americans -- Travel -- England -- History -- 19th century 1
Antislavery movements -- United States 1
Art critics -- United States 1
Backlog Camp 1
Baptists 1
Bird watching 1
Business 1
Business ethics 1
Cadorus farm 1
Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States 1
Diaries 1
Diaries -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Drawing 1
England -- Description and travel 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- Photographs 1
Farm life 1
Freed persons 1
Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States 1
Freed persons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Land tenure -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Land titles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Mental Illness 1
Mental health 1
New Hampshire -- Quakers 1
Ohio -- Description and travel 1
Photography 1
Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker abolitionists 1
Quaker lawyers 1
Quaker women -- Religious life 1
Quakers -- Diaries 1
Quakers -- Education 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- History 1
Quakers -- Ohio 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Germantown (Philadelphia) 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- Travel 1
Quakers -- Virginia 1
Quakers in business 1
Reports 1
Society of Friends -- Social life and customs 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Vacations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century 1
Yellow fever -- History 1
account books 1
annual reports 1
autobiographies (documents) 1
bookkeeping records 1
correspondence 1
deeds 1
estate records 1
geological maps 1
letter books 1
maps (documents) 1
poems 1
scrapbooks 1
travel photography 1
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