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Howland, Emily, 1827-1929

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-260
Overview Mariana Wright Chapman was a prominant New York Quaker suffragist. The collection includes correspondence received while she was active in suffrage activities in New York State, 1893-1900, family letters, particularly between Mariana and her husband, Noah, and the correspondence of the Wrights, the Chapmans, and of her son, A.Wright Chapman. The collection also includes Mariana's journals from 1895-1900, that of Caroline Willets, 1842-1846, and as well as suffrage memorabilia, family...
Dates: 1808-1983 (bulk: 1842-1911)

Cornelia Hancock Correspondence

 Collection — Othertype RG5-308
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-308
Overview Cornelia Hancock (1840-1927) was a Civil War nurse, Reconstruction-era teacher in South Carolina, and, later, Philadelphia social worker. The papers consist primarily of her letters written in the post-Civil War years, 1865-1879, when she was teaching the children of formerly enslaved people in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The collection includes reference material used by the donor, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, in preparation for her book South after Gettysburg which was based on...
Dates: 1861 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1865-1880

Emily Howland Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-066
Overview Emily Howland (1827-1929) was a Quaker humanitarian and educator who is particularly known for her work with formerly-enslaved African Americans in Virginia during and after the American Civil War. A birthright Friend, Emily Howland was the only daughter of Slocum and Hannah (Tallcot) Howland of Sherwood, N.Y. She was educated locally and for a brief period in Philadelphia, and then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1857 to teach at the Miner School for Freedmen. During the war she worked at a...
Dates: 1763-1929

Emily Howland family photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-115
Overview

Emily Howland (1827-1929) was a Quaker humanitarian and educator who is particularly known for her work with formerly enslaved people in Virginia during and after the American Civil War. This collection includes family photographs and photographs of Howland's abolition and women's rights colleagues.

Dates: 1763 - 1929

Emily Howland papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1164
Overview

The collection consists of correspondence between the administrator of Emily Howland's estate, Richard C.S. Drummond, and representatives of 39 mostly southern African American educational institutions, as beneficiaries of her will.

Dates: 1926-1975

Helen S. Judson Collected Sherwood Select School Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-228
Overview Sherwood Select School was a Quaker high school in Sherwood, New York, established in 1871. In 1926, it became part of a consolidated public school system, renamed Sherwood Central School. Helen S. Judson (1885-1973) served as a teacher and then principal between 1909 and 1919. Emily Howland (1827-1929), Quaker educator and humanitarian, was a long time supporter of the School until her death in 1929. This collection contains the papers of Helen S. Judson, including correspondence while at...
Dates: 1909-1973

Universal Peace Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-038
Overview

The most colorful and important peace organization to rise from the the Civil War was the Universal Peace Union (UPU). This militant band grew out of reaction against compromising tactics which the American Peace Society adopted during the Civil War.

Dates: 1846-1938; Majority of material found within 1867-1923; Majority of material found within 1938

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African Americans -- Education 3
Quakers -- Education 2
Quakers -- Social service 2
Women -- Suffrage 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
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Antislavery movements 1
Arbitration (International law) 1
Arbitration (International law) -- History -- Sources 1
Arbitration, Industrial 1
Arbitration, Industrial -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Cat Island (Fla.) 1
Cayuga County (N.Y.) 1
Civil rights 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Education -- New York (State) 1
Freedmen 1
Freedmen -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
Freedmen -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
Labor movement 1
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Laing School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Pacifism 1
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Private schools -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
Quaker abolitionists 1
Quaker women 1
Quaker women -- Education 1
Quaker women -- Education -- New York (State) 1
Quakers -- Diaries 1
Quakers -- New Jersey 1
Quakers -- New York (State) 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Sanford House (Sanford, Fla.) 1
Schools -- Quakers 1
Suffrage 1
Suffrage -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Suffragists -- United States 1
Temperance 1
United States 1
Voting 1
Voting -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Education 1
Women -- Suffrage -- United States 1
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women abolitionists 1
diaries 1
letters (correspondence) 1
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