Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Sturge Mission School Opening and Friends' Freedmen's Relief Association Funds Request
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-280
Overview
This collection contains a leaflet regarding the opening of Joseph Sturge's First Day School at the Friends Locust St. Mission House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1st, 1865. The school was established as First Day school for poor African Americans and immigrants. The school later merged and formed the Benezet House Association to provide education and relief to African Americans. Lack of demanding and funding led to the school's demolishment in 1945. There is also a letter from...
Dates:
December 1862 and September 1874
Winston-Clark Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1165
Overview
Approximately 500 letters (also a few clippings, poems and other items) of the related Clark and Winston families of Virginia and Indiana. Letters discuss family and friends, the small schools that many members of these families began in the Midwest, as well as comments on politics, slavery, religion, education, the Civil War and friends/family fighting in the Confederate army, and other topics.
Dates:
1814-1900
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- Subject: Quakers -- Education X
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- African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Business 1
- Charities 1
- Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Death 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Virginia 1
- Farm life 1
- Health 1
- Lay ministry 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Prisons -- United States 1
- Quakers -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Education -- 19th century 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Quakers -- Indiana 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Quakers -- Political activity -- 19th Century 1
- Quakers -- United States -- Civil War, 1861–1865 1
- Quakers -- Virginia 1
- Religion 1
- Religion and politics 1
- Slavery 1
- Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Civilian relief 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Quakers 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- pamphlets 1
- poems 1 + ∧ less
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