Collections | Archives & Manuscripts

“The Quakers and the American Revolution”

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-112

Abstract Arthur Mekeel's manuscript includes the following chapters: The Quakers in America in the eighteenth Century, The Problems of empire, The Quakers Take Alarm, The Breakdown of Non-Importation and the Challenge to Quaker Policy, The Tea Crisis and Its Sequel, The Quakers Cast Their Lot, Conciliation Efforts of the British Quakers, The First Year of War, the Quakers under the New Order, Suspicion of Quaker Treachery and the Virginia Exiles, The Later Years of the War in Pennsylvania, New Jersey...

Dates: Undated.

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Mekeel Family papers

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-1138

Abstract

Correspondence of Quaker Mekeel family members and relatives in New York state, Ohio, and elsewhere, 1824-1851. Predominant among them are Arthur Mekeel (1826-1850), Caleb Mekeel (1743-1859), Isaac Mekeel (1823-1844), Joshua Mekeel (b. 1795), and Phebe Quinby Mekeel (1800-1861).

Dates: 1824-1851

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Melanie Atherton Updegraff Collection

Collection

Identifier: BMC-M145

Abstract Melanie Atherton Updegraff (1886-1973) was a 1908 graduate of Bryn Mawr who went on to do missionary work for the Presbyterian Mission Board alongside her husband, Reverend David Benjamin Updegraff. The two were primarily stationed in Kolhapur and later Nipani, in West India. The collection includes correspondence between Updegraff and her sisters, children, and sister-in-law, among other family members, photographs of the Atherton and Updegraff families, an autograph collection, and...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1910s-1980s; 1685-2020

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Machteld J. Mellink papers

Collection

Identifier: BMC-2010-01

Abstract Machteld Johanna Mellink, celebrated archaeologist and professor of archaeology at Bryn Mawr College from 1949 to 1988, was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1917. She received her BA in 1938 and MA in 1941 from the University of Amsterdam, and her PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1943. The Machteld Mellink papers cover Professor Mellink’s academic and archaeological career from the late 1950s to the early 2000s. Included in the collection are her writings and notes,...

Dates: 1938 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1958 - 2001

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Seymour Melman Collected Papers

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Melman, Seymour

Dates: 1970-1987

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Members of Congress for Peace through Law Collected Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Members of Congress for Peace through Law

Dates: 1966-1983; Majority of material found within 1966-1971

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Swarthmore Borough Memorabilia Collection

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG7-017

Abstract

The Swarthmore Historical Society was founded in 1988, and its collections are deposited in Friends Historical Library. The Memorabilia Collection is composed of objects donated by Swarthmore residents, largely athletic and business items.

Dates: 1905 - 1981

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends Historical Library collection of memorials

Collection — othertype: MSS-056

Identifier: SFHL-MSS-056

Abstract Memorials are brief biographical essays which testify to the spiritual values of a Quaker's life. Early meetings only wrote memorials for ministers, but today some meetings continue the practice to memorialize all deceased members. In the 19th century, in particular, some Yearly Meetings periodically published compilations of memorials. This collection consists of miscellaneous memorials, from various meetings and regarding various Friends, collected by the Friends Historical Library over...

Dates: 1760 - 1920

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College