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SFHL/FHL/PA. Photograph Collections

 Record Group Term
Identifier: SFHL/FHL/PA
Collections of still photographic types, including paper prints, cased photographs, glass plates, and slides. Historically, when processing a collection, FHL staff have often removed the photographs from the manuscript portion (e.g. RG4 organizational records or RG5 family or personal papers) and stored them as an associated PA photographs collection. FHL staff have also assembled alphabetical files by topic, such as the Meetinghouse Picture File.

Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:

Willets-Lapham family photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-160
Identifier: SFHL-PA-160
Abstract The Willets family were members of Westbury Monthly Meeting (New York) and lived at their farm, Homewood, from the mid 19th century until 1965. Eliza K. Willets, the last resident, was the daughter of Thomas Whitson Willets and Hannah Keese; known affectionately as Aunt Lila, she graduated from Swarthmore College in 1893. Her sister, Anna, married Edward Morgan Lapham of Chicago in 1908. In 1940, their daughter, Anne Willets Lapham, married E. Wayne Frazer, the son of John E. and Elizabeth...
Dates: 1866 - 1971

Scattergood Hostel and Scattergood Friends School photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-165
Identifier: SFHL-PA-165
Abstract

Scattergood Friends School opened in Iowa in 1890. The school closed during the Great Depression, and was repurposed during World War II as Scattergood Hostel to acclimate refugees from Europe. In 1944, it reopened as a school and remains open today. The bulk of this collection is photographs of Scattergood Refugee Hostel, but there are also photographs of pre-war and post-war Scattergood Friends School.

Dates: 1915 - 1953

Second General Conference of the Evangelical Friends Alliance photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-166
Identifier: SFHL-PA-166
Abstract

The Evangelical Friends Alliance was formed in 1965 as an association of four evangelical Quaker groups. This collection consists of about a dozen black and white photographs from the Second General Conference of the Evangelical Friends Alliance, held July 23-27 1975, at George Fox College in Newberg, Oregon. The theme was “Game Plan for the Fourth Quarter… A World-Wide Strategy for Friends in the Final 25 Years of the Twentieth Century”

Dates: 1975

Livezey-Laughlin family photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-167
Identifier: SFHL-PA-167
Abstract

Thomas Livezey Laughlin (1873-1946), an Ohio physician and a Quaker, was the son of George and Anna Louise Laughlin. His son, Thomas L. Laughlin Jr. (1907-1973) was also a medical doctor. This collection of photographs depicts family members, scenery (Livezey home, hunting, etc.), and vacation photos including international travel.

Dates: 1909 - 1970

Northwest Yearly Meeting photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-168
Identifier: SFHL-PA-168
Abstract

Northwest Yearly Meeting is the central organizing body for Quaker meetings in the Oregon/Washington area. This collection contains loose black and white photographs of people and places connected to Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Dates: 1970 - 1980

A. Keith and Ruth Smiley slides

 Collection — Othertype PA-161
Identifier: SFHL-PA-161
Abstract

A. Keith and Ruth Smiley were Quakers active in the Mohonk area. This collection consists of slides they took on their travels to England, Africa, and other sites.

Dates: 1952 - 1976

Frances Bradshaw Blanshard photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-170
Identifier: SFHL-PA-170
Abstract

Frances Bradshaw Blanshard attended Smith College and later became dean of women at Swarthmore College. She also had ties to Yale University, where her husband (Brand Blanshard) was a philosophy professor. This collection largely consists of portraits of Frances Blanshard, with some photographs of family members.

Dates: 1891 - 1925

Lansdowne Monthly Meeting photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-171
Identifier: SFHL-PA-171
Abstract

These pictures are of meeting activities, past and present members, and meeting houses, along with some others, for Lansdowne Monthly Meeting in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1953 - 2000

Friends Historical Library collection of panoramic photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-172
Abstract

This collection includes rolled panoramic photos, mostly Quaker conferences, including New York Yearly Meeting (NYYM), Friends General Conference (FGC), Friends World Conference, Young Friends Conference, and more.

Dates: 1911 - 1967

Cooper family pictures

 Collection — Othertype PA-175
Identifier: SFHL-PA-175
Abstract

This collection includes two family albums, loose photographs, and a rolled panoramic photograph relating to the Cooper family of Chester Co., Pa., and Camden/Medford, N.J.

Dates: 1918 - 1925