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Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-924
Abstract
A collection of photographs, drawings, postcards, and news articles on meetinghouses located outside of the United States. Photographs feature both the building and meeting members. Drawings are both printed and originals.
Dates:
Undated
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-123
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) was born into an extended Quaker family who lived for generations in Clarke and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage (1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). During her retirement years, Pidgeon became...
Dates:
1769-1979[bulk 1905-1979]
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-124
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) was born into an extended Quaker family who lived for generations in Clarke and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage (1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). During her retirement years, Pidgeon became...
Dates:
1906-1979
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Piedmont Peace Resource Center
Abstract
This collection consists of flyers, announcements, financial records, booklets, printed correspondence. Includes information about the "Alternatives to Military Service" project.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1984-1992
Collection — othertype: SC-238
Identifier: SFHL-SC-238
Abstract
The collections contains correspondence between George F. White and Moses Pierce in which Pierce asks White to clarify his views on abolition, temperance, and peace. White does not agree with abolitionists who want an immediate end to slavery, and he thinks that Great Britain's Abolition of Slavery Act was a ill-conceived. He notes the wretched conditions of factories and mines in England and Scotland as other forms of slavery. Pierce, in copies or drafts of the letters he sent, argues that...
Dates:
1839-1926 (bulk 1842-1846)
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-313
Abstract
11 letters written by Charles Piersol to Chris Holladay. The letters contain his observations of racism in Virginia during his departure, his work as a "cowboy" on the ship, and his experiences of the American Zone, the Red Cross, and the devastation following the war.
Dates:
1946
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M133
Abstract
Constance Grenelle Wilcox, Bryn Mawr Class of 1917, was a successful playwright and novelist. Some of Wilcox's written works include: Pan Pipes (1919), The Princess in the Fairy Tale (1919) and Told in a Chinese Garden (1932). The Constance Grenelle Wilcox papers include her unpublished manuscript, The Unsophisticate. The papers also include a series of other unpublished plays and children's stories. There is also correspondence in the collection.
Dates:
1897 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1935
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-149
Abstract
Collection contains letters, memorials, commonplace books, and miscellaneous items of the Pike family, especially Sarah Pike, and letters of Thomas Scattergood to his son, Alfred Scattergood.
Dates:
1769-1902
Collection — Box: PA 222-?
Identifier: SFHL-PA-222
Abstract
This collection consists of 10 pages of sketches, in ink and marker, depicting attendees at New York Yearly Meeting and Friends United Meeting. Many are identified, including Dr. Elton Trueblood, Arthur O. Roberts, and David X. Spencer. Some sketches include writing, perhaps notes of proceedings and/or quotes. The portraits are accompanied by a photocopied cover note from Jody Pike (a member of Conscience Bay Monthly Meeting) to Flop Collinan.There is also one photograph of New...
Dates:
1972
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/P500
Identifier: QM-Ph-P500
Scope and Contents
Includes: minutes of the men's meeting, 1838-1854; deed, 1834.
Dates:
1834-1854