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Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-014
Abstract
Rose Dabney Malcolm Forbes' (ca. 1875-1947) main interest was peace and international relations, sbut he also gave her time to the fields of food conservation and child welfare. Forbes was chairman of the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman's Peace Party from 1915 to 1920. Under her leadership the Massachusetts branch helped organize a food conservation program during the First World War. In 1920 Forbes became a member of the Advisory Council Massachusetts branch of the Women's International...
Dates:
1914-1924
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-043
Abstract
Bliss Forbush (1896-1987), Quaker educator, administrator, and author, served as the Headmaster of Baltimore Friends School, Chairman of Friends General Conference, and Executive Secretary of Baltimore Monthly Meeting. The collection contains many of his scrapbooks, including “A Forbush Chronicle” is the three volume manuscript 1896-1976, with additions to 1979, of his autobiography. Also in this collection are the manuscripts of Elias Hicks, Quaker Liberal, and A History of Baltimore Yearly...
Dates:
circa 1915-1945
Collection
Identifier: HCQ-003-063
Abstract
The collection contains the Fords Against Boredom's budget and a printout of its website, which includes a list of its board members. The collection also includes thirty-three born-digital materials pertaining to planning FAB events.
Dates:
1997 - 2023
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: 9LS-20
Abstract
Rebecca Fordyce Gayton attended Bryn Mawr from 1912-1916. She received her AB in Psychology and Politics and Economics. She died in 1964. The Rebecca Fordyce (Gayton) scrapbook contains Fordyce's scrapbook. The scrapbook details Fordyce’s years at Bryn Mawr, from 1912 to 1916, with the bulk of the material being from 1912 to 1913.
Dates:
1912 - 1916
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Foreign Policy Association
Abstract
Collection includes program files, 1919-1988, and pamphlets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919-1988
Collection — othertype: SW/B/F671
Identifier: QM-B-F671
Scope and Contents
Records of Forest Preparative Meeting, 1851-1927. Includes men's and joint minutes 1851-1927 and women's minutes 1864-89.
Dates:
1851-1927
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-030
Abstract
Henry Chandlee Forman's "Early Nantucket and its Whale Houses" describes the history of 17th and 18th century Nantucket, including the "pioneers" of Nantucket, the history of the town planning and building, and the early economy of Nantucket, which was dependent on fishing and sheep-shearing.
Dates:
1966
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1139
Abstract
Photocopies of letters by and to Abby Kelley Foster (1811-1887) and her husband, Stephen S. Foster (1809-1881), along with some manuscripts.
Dates:
1837-1887
Collection
Identifier: BMC-12H-Foster-1904
Abstract
Dorothy Foster was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1900-1904. The papers consist of her letters written by Foster to her mother, Genevieve Stimpson, during her junior and senior years of college (1902-1904). The letters primarily concern her school work, her duties as class president, news about the college, guests she hosted, and lectures she attended. They are arranged in folders by date, with the exception of the first folder of miscellaneous items including academic records and an essay...
Dates:
1902 - 1904
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates:
1765-2006
