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William Webb Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-126

Scope and Contents

The collection contains chiefly letters written by William Webb Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.

Dates

  • Creation: 1917-1923

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.

Biographical / Historical

William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania.

Extent

1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.

Arrangement

The collection is divided into six series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Writings
  3. Business papers
  4. Pictorial material
  5. Memorabilia
  6. Reference material

Physical Location

For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donor: Margaret Price, 1970

The collection was given by Margaret Price, sister of William Webb Price.

Processing Information

Processed by FHL staff, 1971

Title
An Inventory of the William Webb Price Papers, 1917-1923
Author
FHL staff
Date
1971
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries

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