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Holmes-Webb Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-065
Abstract
William B. Webb was a druggist and member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite). He married Rebecca Turner in 1853. Their youngest daughter, Rebecca St. Claire Webb, married Jessie Herman Holmes in 1892. Holmes was a prominent Quaker, taught philosophy and religion at Swarthmore College, and was active in AFSC relief in Europe after World War I. He also served as President of the National Federation of Religious Liberals and was an active member of the Socialist Party. The...
Dates:
1839-1972
Hunn-Karsner Photograph Collection.
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-214
Abstract
The collection contains photographs of the family of Quakers Ezekiel Hunn and Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn and their granddaughter, Katherine Hunn Karsner, who married Joseph Reed Karsner in 1930. Compiled Katherine Hunn Karsner, it includes 19th century family albums, early twentieth century photographs, and also focuses on Katherine's daughter, Mary Ann Karsner Kegler (1932-1983) who moved to Alaska as a college student and was one of the founders of Chena Ridge Monthly Meeting.
Dates:
1870 - 1970
William Huntington papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1181
Abstract
The collection relates primarily to William Huntington, (1907-1990), a 20th century Quaker peace activist and the ship The Golden Rule which Huntington and others used to protest atomic testing in the South Pacific. Included are correspondence, photographs, conference papers, newspaper articles, memoranda, and minutes.
Dates:
1932-1984
J. Stuart Innerst Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-103
Abstract
J. Stuart Innerst was a United Brethren in Christ missionary to China in the 1920s. Innerst and his wife Marion Reachard Innerst left China in 1927 with great concerns about the influence of western imperialism in that country. J. Stuart Innerst served as pastor of several churches and joined the Society of Friends in 1943. In addition to his pastoral work, Innerst also served as the Director of the Quaker Friends in Washington Program (1960-1961, lobbied members of Congress regarding China,...
Dates:
1920-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Elmore Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-202
Abstract
Writings, correspondence, and other papers of Elmore Jackson (1910-1989), a noted Quaker author and former U.S. State Department official. Jackson was particularly involved in using Quaker principles in the realm of international relations. This collection also includes the papers of his wife, Elisabeth Rose Averill Jackson (1909-).
Dates:
1927-1985
O. Edward Janney (Oliver Edward) Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-072
Abstract
Dr. O. Edward Janney was a prominent Quaker doctor from Baltimore who was active in many of the social reform movements of his time. He worked with the Society for the Suppression of Vice in Baltimore and labored in the causes of temperance, woman suffrage, inter-racial relations, peace, and other reforms. In 1907, Dr. Janney gave up the practice of medicine to devote his energies full time to reform activities. The collection contains correspondence (1874-1945), diary (1914), memoirs,...
Dates:
1874-1945
Elizabeth Marsh Jensen papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1154
Abstract
Papers of Quaker Elizabeth Marsh Jensen, who worked for the American Friends Service Committee in several capacities, notably in Mexico to assist Spanish Civil War refugees from 1940 to 1941. She was also a businesswoman who successfully ran a ranch in Colorado.
Dates:
1912-1989
Jones-Cadbury Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1172
Abstract
The Quaker families of Jones and Cadbury were interrelated with many other Quaker families in the United States and England. This collection provides a rich source of genealogical and historical information, not only on the Jones and Cadbury families, and especially Mary Hoxie Jones (1904-2003) and Emma Cadbury Jr. (1875-1965), but also, significantly, on the Warder family, as well as the Bartram, Brown, Carter, Foulke, Kaighn, Lowry, Mennell, Pearsall, Shinn, and Shipley families.
Dates:
ca. 1770-1994
Margaret E. Jones Papers
Collection — othertype: RG5-167
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-167
Abstract
Margaret E. Jones (1895-1984), daughter of William B. and Phebe Jones, was a birthright Quaker member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in New Jersey. She was involved with the American Friends Service Committee for many years, first as a staff member, then serving on the Board of Directors. The collection contains scrapbooks kept by Margaret E. Jones while she was in Europe involved in relief work in 1933 and again from 1958-1959. Includes a number of photographs of places and...
Dates:
1937-1969
Rufus M. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1130
Abstract
Rufus Matthew Jones (1863-1948) was a Quaker historian, mystic, and philosopher. Born in South China, Maine, to Edwin and Mary Gifford Hoxie Jones, he taught philosophy at Haverford College between 1893 and 1934, and was involved in the Haverford Emergency Unit, American Friends Service, and Fellowship of Reconciliation, and is often attributed as having helped to unite Yearly Meetings in the United States. The collection consists of Rufus Jones’ correspondence, diaries, financial papers,...
Dates:
1779 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1952
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 45
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- Bryn Mawr College 1
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- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 18
- correspondence 17
- Quakers 15
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 10
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 8
- Quaker women 7
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 7
- World War, 1939-1945 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 7
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- International relief -- France 6
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 6
- Quakers -- History 6
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 6
- diaries 6
- letters (correspondence) 6
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- International relief 5
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Society of Friends -- Japan 5
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 5
- International relief -- Germany 4
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace movements -- United States 4
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 4
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 4
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 4
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 4
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- photographs 4
- Charities -- France 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- International relief -- Societies, etc 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism 3
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker missionaries 3
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Education 3
- Quakers -- Germany 3
- Quakers -- Indiana 3
- Quakers -- Japan 3
- Quakers -- Social service 3
- Social service -- France 3
- Social service -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Society of Friends -- Charities 3
- Society of Friends -- Germany 3
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 3
- Society of Friends -- United States 3
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 3
- lecture notes 3
- speeches (documents) 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 2
- Child welfare -- Germany 2
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Diaries 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Economic conversion -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 2
- Germany 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Indians of North America 2
- Indians of North America -- Government relations 2
- International relief -- Europe 2
- International relief -- Poland 2
- International relief -- Russia 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 2
- Missionaries 2
- Nonviolence 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear disarmament 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Photographs 2
- Poland -- Pictorial works 2
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 2
- Quaker businesspeople 2
- Quaker philanthropists 2
- Quaker photographers 2
- Quaker social reformers 2
- Quaker women -- 20th century 2
- Quakers -- Delaware 2
- Quakers -- France 2 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 126
- German 1
- Names
- Civilian Public Service 13
- Haverford College 12
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 11
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 9
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 8
- Swarthmore College 8
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 7
- Brinton, Anna Cox 6
- Friends World Committee for Consultation 6
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Society of Friends 5
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 5
- Westtown Boarding School 5
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 5
- A Quaker Action Group 4
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 4
- Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 4
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 4
- Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 4
- Jones, Mary Hoxie 4
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 4
- Quaker United Nations Office 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 3
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 3
- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 3
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 3
- Cary, Stephen G. 3
- Clark, Rebecca Timbres, 1896- 3
- Coleman, John Royston 3
- Davis, Bainbridge C., 1910-1993 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
- Earlham College 3
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 3
- Furnas, Paul J. 3
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 3
- Harvard University 3
- Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- Miles, Catharine Cox 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 3
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Shipley family 3
- Snyder, Edward F. 3
- Timbres, Harry, 1899-1937 3
- War Resisters League 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 3
- Young, Mildred Binns 3
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- American Friends Service Committee. China Program 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service 2
- Bacon family 2
- Bacon, Francis R. (Francis Rogers), 1888-1965 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
- Bowles, Gordon Townsend 2
- Bowles, Jane T. 2
- Brethren Service Committee 2
- Brinton family 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Brown family 2
- Cadbury family 2
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 2
- Carter family 2
- Chance, Harold J., 1898-1975 2
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 2
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Cox, Lydia Shipley Bean 2
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 2
- Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 2
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 2
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 2
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Friends Ambulance Unit 2
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 2
- Friends Medical Society 2
- Friends Mississippi Project 2
- Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas 2
- Friends World Conference 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
- Harker, Charles H. 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Innerst, J. Stuart, 1894-1975 2 + ∧ less
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