Bliss Forbush Meetinghouse Photographs Album, 1930 - 1961
Scope and Contents
This collection is arranged in a single album, which consists of black and white photographs, mostly of the exteriors of meeting houses. These meeting houses include: Media; Providence; Newtown Square; Radnor; Haverford; Merion; Darby; Chester; Springfield; Middletown; Concord; Chichester; Willistown; Landsdowne; Swarthmore; Old Kennett; Old New Garden; Centre; London Grove; London Britain; New Garden; Birmingham; Marlborough; Malorne [?]; Whiteland; West Chester; West Grove; New West Grove; Old Birmingham; Bradford; Kennett Square; Romansville; East Caln; Unionville; Goshen; Birmingham; Fallowfield; East Sadsberry; Christiana; Old Sadsbury; Sadsbury; Oxford;' Uwchlan; Downingtown; various unidentified.
Dates
- Creation: 1930 - 1961
Creator
- Forbush, Bliss, 1896-1990 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is available for research use.
Biographical / Historical
Bliss Forbush (1896-1987), Quaker educator, administrator, and author, served as the Headmaster of Baltimore Friends School, Chairman of Friends General Conference, and Executive Secretary of Baltimore Monthly Meeting. He was born in 1896, the son of William B. and Maud Forbush. He married E. La Verne Hill in 1915 and died in 1987. Bliss Forbush served as a member of the American Section of the World Council of Churches, 1941-1951, representing Friends General Conference and as a delegate to the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 1948.
Extent
.31 cubic ft. (1 box, stored with PA-034 and PA-036)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bliss Forbush, 1968.
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