Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds and business papers relating to Shoemaker family properties in Philadelphia and Pike County.
Dates
- Creation: 1860-1957
Creator
- Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 (Person)
- Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 (Contributor, Person)
- Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936 (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936) was her brother.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds and business papers relating to Shoemaker family properties in Philadelphia and Pike County.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series:
- Journals
- Correspondence
- Deeds for burial ground lots
- Pictures
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Anna Griscom Elkinton, 1962
Separated Materials
A cased photograph of Thomas H. Shoemaker, age 3 and a half years was removed from the collection and recatalogued in Cased Pictures.
Processing Information
Cased photograph removed to FHL Cased Pictures Collection. Related family business papers were catalogued separately as RG 5/138, Shoemaker Family Papers.
Subject
- Shoemaker family (Family)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Burial -- Pennsylvania
- Charities -- Pennsylvania
- Civic leaders -- Pennsylvania
- Land use -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Quaker philanthropists
- Quaker philanthropists
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries
- Quakers -- Education
- Quakers -- History
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Real property -- Pennsylvania
- Real property -- Pennsylvania -- Pike County
- Society of Friends -- Charities
- Women civic leaders -- Pennsylvania
- Women philanthropists -- Pennsylvania
- Title
- An Inventory of the Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers, 1860-1957
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1962
- 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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