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Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Abstract
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-074
Abstract
The Pennsylvania Hall Association was a stockholders association formed in 1837 to erect a building in Philadelphia dedicated “to Liberty and the Rights of Man.” Many of the primary movers behind the Association were Quakers involved in the anti-slavery movement. The building was opened on May 14, 1838, and, as a symbol of the abolitionist movement, was destroyed by an angry mob on May 17, 1838. This collection contains minutes of the Board of Managers of the Association, 1838-1847,...
Dates:
1837-1899 (bulk 1837-1849)
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-033
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the single volume letterbook of the Pennsylvania History Press, and includes the business correspondence of the organization. Many of the letters are addressed to various members of the press, including Arthur H. Thomas, Richard T. Cadbury, Rayner W. Kelsey, and Arthur N. Leeds. Pasted into the front cover of the volume is a pamphlet entitled "At the Forks of the Delaware, 1794-1811," published by the Pennsylvania History Press.
Dates:
1920-1922
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-11-020
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M66
Abstract
The Pennsylvania National Organization for Women (PA NOW) papers occupy fourteen boxes and contain the feminist organization’s records about their activities and meetings as well as materials about women’s issues such as reproductive rights; violence against women; gender, economic, and constitutional equality; and civil rights. The records date from 1970 to 2007 and include newspaper clippings, articles, meeting notes, office files, activism realia, and lobbying records, among other...
Dates:
1970 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1996
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-031
Abstract
Organizations with the name Pennsylvania Peace Society existed as early as 1822. The records in this collection date from the late 19th century and into the first years of the 20th century. Material about earlier versions of the PPS maybe found in the records of the American Peace Society (DG 003); and in the records of the Universal Peace Union (DG 038).
Dates:
1866-1928; Majority of material found within 1893-1928
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-145
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the accounts of the treasurer of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Public Economy (1818-1819), correspondence (1818), and checks (1818).
Dates:
1818-1819
Collection
Identifier: QM-PaPr
Abstract
This collection includes the minutes of the Longwood Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, as
well as records of its Financial Association and its Representative Committee. Also included are
some minutes of Kennett Monthly Meeting, from which the Longwood meeting split off
beginning in the 1840s. There are detailed records of this split, including lists of the members
who were disowned from Kennett Monthly Meeting for associating under the name “Progressive
Friends.” Minutes and letters...
Dates:
1851 - 1941
Collection — othertype: SC-097
Identifier: SFHL-SC-097
Abstract
This collection includes letters written to Elijah Pennypacker concerning the anti-slavery movement. It includes correspondence from Abby Kelly and H.B. Stanton relating to the American Anti-Slavery Society, from Thomas Garrett concerning arrangements for transportation and placement of emancipated and self-emancipated people, and from William Still about a visit and lecture by William Wells Brown.
Dates:
1839-1861