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"There is a few members the committee did not get to lis[t] names not recollected."

Scope and Contents The Frankford Friends Forum was started in 1930 by attenders of Frankford meeting, primarily driven by Walter C. Longstreth who served as organizer through 1951. The records are a preserved sampling, and include correspondence files, press releases, and lecture summaries primarily from 1940-1951, along with a chronological series of programs from 1930-1980. Lecturers included Henry J. Cadbury, Bayard Rustin, Countee Cullen, Rachel Davis DuBois, Clair Wilcox, Scott Nearing, and...

Scope and Contents Although various committees and relatives approved the adaptive re-use of the Frankford Burial Ground as a playground, the formal process was never concluded. The first file includes letters (both in support and against the playground use) and related records, along with a 1931 publication about Smith Memorial Playgrounds that discusses the Unity and Waln location. The second two folders are Thomas Shoemaker's correspondence files working to prevent the lease or sale of the Burial Ground and...

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File was maintained by Walter Longstreth and includes transcribed extracts from old deeds, various property drawings, and other documentation to determine legal ownership of the grounds and buildings at Unity and Waln Streets, related to Frankford Meeting's authority (or not) independent of Green Street and various investigations into selling and/or moving the property and lot. Selected 1930s reports from Green Street's Committee for Oversight of Frankford Meeting are also present.

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Includes building plans, construction contracts, schematics, correspondence, and related records. Blueprints and elevations have been removed, unfolded, and added to the oversize file of property records for Frankford Meeting (oversize folder 9.2).