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Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S531
Abstract
Minutes of Shelter Island Executive Meeting, 1980-1999, including minutes (1980-1997).
Dates:
1980 - 1999
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M81
Abstract
Katharine Shepard (1905-1986) attended Bryn Mawr College in the late 1920s and early 1930's, and received degrees in Latin, Classical Archaeology, and Greek. She went on to a career in archaeology, and was employed by the National Gallery of Art. The Katharine Shepard Papers contains letters to and from her family and friends, primarily from her many trips abroad, as well as a few family momentos.
Dates:
1906 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1939
Collection — othertype: SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-S500
Abstract
Digital records for Shepherdstown Friends Meeting, 2010-2018.
Dates:
2010 - 2018
Collection — othertype: SC-118
Identifier: SFHL-SC-118
Abstract
This collection includes letters received by Anne E. Sheppard from members of her family, including her mother, Margaret G. Sheppard, and her cousins John W. Biddle, Martha H. Garrett, Rebecca C. Sheppard, and Mary M. Sheppard. Of these the most extensive are those of Martha H. Garrett, describing the daily life, education, and concerns of a young Quaker woman in Philadelphia in the 1860's. Especially interesting are her accounts of Freedmen's relief work and of her unorthodox practice of...
Dates:
1856-1869
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-858
Abstract
The collection particularly provides connections between the Irish and Philadelphia Friends in the 18th century, especially by the Sheppard and Wansborough families who intermarried. Included are letters of John Wilbur, central in the Gurney-Wilbur controversy.
Dates:
1656 - 1887
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-137
Abstract
Moses Sheppard (1775-1857) was a Quaker humanitarian and businessman of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Nathan and Sarah Shoemaker Sheppard, born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After their property was confiscated during the Revolutionary War, the family settled in Maryland. Sheppard never married and devoted most of his life to a number of social reforms, including the treatment of the insane and the colonization movement. As a member of Baltimore Monthly Meeting, he was...
Dates:
1794-1927
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Sheridan, Diana Brown
Abstract
This collection is comprised of materials gathered for Diana Brown Sheridan's oral history project on peacemaking women of Norway as well as her interviews with those women.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1984-1987
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-228
Abstract
Sherwood Select School was a Quaker high school in Sherwood, New York, established in 1871. In 1926, it became part of a consolidated public school system, renamed Sherwood Central School. Helen S. Judson (1885-1973) served as a teacher and then principal between 1909 and 1919. Emily Howland (1827-1929), Quaker educator and humanitarian, was a long time supporter of the School until her death in 1929. This collection contains the papers of Helen S. Judson, including correspondence while at...
Dates:
1909-1973
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-070
Abstract
Ann Shipley accompanied Anna Braithwaite on her two interviews with Elias Hicks in January and March 1824, and wrote a letter, dated October 15, 1824, defending Anna Braithwaite's account of the meeting. Her diary entries detail her travels throughout Pennsylvania, including visits with Friends and attendance at Quaker meetings.
Dates:
1820
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-857
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials relating to the Shipley and Strawbridge families of Philadelphia. Much of the collection is made up of scrapbooks and photograph albums from the 1890s through the 1970s. In addition to these scrapbooks and albums, the collection also includes a large amount of correspondence, personal papers, photographs, and diaries from members of the Strawbridge and Shipley families. Also included in the collection are items related to the department store chain of...
Dates:
1890-1996