Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records
Abstract
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys was founded in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Home for Destitute Colored Children, a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children (generally boys) and then placed them with private families. The Home built a new facility in Cheyney, Pa, in 1922, and the name was changed to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys in 1945. The collection contains minutes, financial and legal records, and reports.
Dates
- Creation: 1855-1956
Creator
- Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) (Organization)
- Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
The Home for Destitute Children was founded in 1855 by Mary Jeanes in Philadelphia, PA. It was incorporated on April 11, 1856, as a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children and then placed them with private families (at one point as apprentices). First located in West Philadelphia, it accepted both sexes until 1919. The Home moved to Cheyney, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1922. The name was changed in 1945 to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys.
Extent
1.75 linear ft. (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
- Board of Trustees
- Committee on Management
- Financial Records
- Miscellaneous
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Gift
Date: 1982 and earlier.
Processing Information
Previously cited as Home for Destitute Colored Children. For better access annual reports transferred in 2004 to Friends Historical Library, SG3, Annual Reports.
Topical
- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania
- African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population
- African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Apprentices -- Pennsylvania
- Boys -- Education -- Pennsylvania
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
- Education -- Pennsylvania
- Nonprofit Organizations -- Pennsylvania
- Poor -- Services for
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Quaker women -- Societies and clubs
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania
- Youth -- Employment -- Pennsylvania
- Title
- Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records, 1855-1956
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- ca. 1982
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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