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Thomas Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-156

Scope and Contents

This small collection contains chiefly short manuscripts, authors unknown, concerning women's issues, in particular suffrage and temperance.

Dates

  • Creation: ca. 1867-ca. 1919

Creator

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

Ellen L. Thomas (1853-1925), was a birthright member of Radnor Monthly Meeting and president of Montgomery County Suffrage Association.

Extent

0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This small collection contains chiefly short manuscripts concerning women's issues, in particular suffrage and temperance. Most of the material, including essays on prominent Quakers and piece books, are by Ellen L. Thomas (1853-1925), a birthright member of Radnor Monthly Meeting and president of Montgomery County Suffrage Association

Arrangement

The collection is divided into three series:

  1. Business papers
  2. Manuscripts
  3. Memorabilia

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession information

Donor: Unknown, date unknown

The source of these papers is unknown. At some date before 1967, the papers were catalogued and stored together with another group of papers from an identified source. In 2000, the papers were given separate cataloguing because they have no apparent connection.

Processing Information

Formerly cited as Walton and Thomas Families Papers, RG 5/160. The information concerning the source of these papers was lost, and sometime before 1967, the Thomas papers were catalogued and stored with a larger collection of papers concerning the Walton family, apparently unrelated. In October 2000, the two collections were catalogued as separate Record Groups.

Title
Thomas Family Papers, ca. 1867-ca. 1919
Author
FHL staff
Date
2000
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

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