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War Tax Resistance Collected Records

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-War Tax Resistance

Dates: 1970-2004

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

War Tax Resister's Penalty Fund Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-192

Abstract

The War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund began in 1982 as a volunteer project of the North Manchester, Indiana Fellowship of Reconciliation. It supported and encouraged conscientious war tax resisters in the U.S. As of 1994, the group had worked with about 1000 tax resisters and supporters, and numbered 500 members nationally.

Dates: 1981-1996

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

James Warbasse and Agnes Dyer Warbasse Collected Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Warbasse, James

Abstract

James Warbasse was a Brooklyn physician and socialist who, with his wife, Agnes Dyer Warbasse, was interested in labor, social conditions, and cooperative movements.

Dates: 1914-1917

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

James P. Warburg Collected Papers

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Warburg, James P.

Dates: 1948-1967

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Ann Warder diaries

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-082

Abstract

This collection includes three bound volumes of handwritten transcriptions and extracts of Ann Head Warder’s diaries, originally written between 1786 and 1789. The transcriptions were written by later family members during the 19th century. Diary entries describe Ann’s voyage to America and her travels within New York and Pennsylvania, including people she met, Quaker meetings she attended, and social calls made during her travels.

Dates: 1786-1789

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wardlaw, Ada

Dates: 1937-1963

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

"Education of the Freedmen By Philadelphia and Baltimore Quakers During the Civil War and Reconstruction Period"

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-094

Abstract Frank O. Wargny's 1947 master's thesis at John Hopkins University, entitled "Education of the Freedmen by Baltimore Quakers during the Civil War and Reconstruction Period," describes the efforts of Philadelphia and Baltimore area Quakers to provide education to freed slaves during and after the Civil War. It provides a brief history of Philadelphia area Quakers' abolition efforts prior to the Civil War, including the work of Benezet and Woolman, but the majority of the manuscript focuses on...

Dates: 1947

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Waring Family papers

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-1285

Abstract

This collection documents several generations of the Waring family, mainly through financial records and correspondence. Some materials related to Thomas Waring's time as Superintendent of the Cooper Hospital in Camden, New Jersey.

Dates: 1863-1941

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Warminster Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/W300

Identifier: QM-Ph-W300

Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite Warminster Preparative Meeting, 1841-1953, as follows: minutes, 1841-1953; women's minutes, 1841-1881; account books, 1841-1953; women's account book, 1841-1883; property records, 1840, 1858; miscellaneous papers, 1895-1953.

Dates: 1841-1953

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College