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Collection — othertype: SC-065
Identifier: SFHL-SC-065
Abstract
This collection primarily includes correspondence of Mahlon and Sarah Janney. These letters relate mainly to family and local news of Loudon Co., Virginia. One letter, written by Thomas Scattergood and Josiah Bunting, provides a brief account of their travels as Quaker ministers. Also included are unsigned fragments, one of which provides an account of a visit to Virginia Yearly Meeting, and another of which concludes a poem addressed to Richard Mott. Also included are notes from the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1763-1932, 1763-1823
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-102
Abstract
This collection contains Janney family papers, and includes family correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, legal papers, maps, and photographs.
Dates:
1800-1870
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-072
Abstract
Dr. O. Edward Janney was a prominent Quaker doctor from Baltimore who was active in many of the social reform movements of his time. He worked with the Society for the Suppression of Vice in Baltimore and labored in the causes of temperance, woman suffrage, inter-racial relations, peace, and other reforms. In 1907, Dr. Janney gave up the practice of medicine to devote his energies full time to reform activities. The collection contains correspondence (1874-1945), diary (1914), memoirs,...
Dates:
1874-1945
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Abstract
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-051
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the single volume "Det Norske kvekersamfunns Historie i forste Halvdel av det 19de Hundrearet," which translates from Norwegian to "The Norwegian Quaker History in the First Half of the 19th Century."
Dates:
Undated.
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-M28
Abstract
Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was an historian and a campaigner for women's suffrage and Ethel B. Weed was a lieutenant in the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Civil Information and Education Office in Japan. Beard and Weed corresponded, with Weed providing research assistance to Beard for a proposed book on Japanese women's history and Beard providing advice to Weed regarding her activties with the Civil Information and Education Office. The collection consists of documentation...
Dates:
1945 - 1951
Collection — Box: 60
Identifier: HC.MC-950-274
Abstract
This collection contains a letter from Herbert V. Nicholson, a Quaker missionary and vocal opponent of Japanese internment camps, about the first established Japanese Yearly Meeting in 1917. Throughout the letter, he writes about the attendees, the regions they're coming from, as well as how the Yearly Meeting has much room to grow.
Dates:
1917-05-12
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-293
Abstract
Jean Gore was a peace and justice advocate for many years, particularly active through the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Branch in Boulder, Colorado.
Dates:
1969-2012
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M95
Abstract
Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, BMC class of 1918, was the first woman licensed to pilot a balloon in the United States, and the first woman to enter the stratosphere (with a flight that reached 57, 559 feet). She served as a consultant and lecturer for NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center from 1964-1970. At the age of 79 Piccard was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, one of the “Philadelphia Eleven”- the first ordained female priests. The material in this collection consists of...
Dates:
1960 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1980
Collection
Identifier: HCS-001-032
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Paul Channing Jefferson, associate professor emeritus of history at Haverford College. These papers include manuscript and published materials pertaining to Jefferson's scholarship, course materials, and Jefferson's doctoral thesis.
Dates:
1964-2007; Majority of material found within ca. 1970s-1980s