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Collection — othertype: PG-2
Identifier: SFHL-PG-2
Abstract
PG2 Quaker Schools Reference Files consists primarily of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other materials (mostly secondary source), collected at various times from various sources, and organized by school. Most of the schools were established by Quakers or Quaker organizations.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 2000
Collection — othertype: SC-243
Identifier: SFHL-SC-243
Abstract
Contains a document listing the Sufferings of Friends belonging to Flushing Monthly Meeting given to the Committee appointed to inspect the Sufferings of Friends, 1782. Also, accounts submitted by individuals and related epistles, 1775 and 1778, from London and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.
Dates:
1775-1789
Collection — othertype: SC-053
Identifier: SFHL-SC-053
Abstract
This collection consists of a stamp album compiled by Marguerite Hallowell and entitled "Quakers on Stamps." Included are international postage stamps depicting Quakers, with brief historical notation. Also included are photocopies of several articles on Quakers and postage stamps, including one by Maurice Mook entitled "Friendly Philately", which appeared on the November 1956 Friends Journal. Marguerite Hallowell notes that this article inspired her collection.
Dates:
c. 1956
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-103
Abstract
Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) is a group founded in 1983 to promote production and distribution of Quaker materials. It is an international network of organizations and individuals that work to make Quaker publications more accessible and to support the production of Quaker publications through forums, conferences, annual meetings, and collaborative projects. This collection includes documents concerning the group's formation, membership lists, treasurer's records, correspondence,...
Dates:
1983-2010
Collection — othertype: SC-275
Identifier: SFHL-SC-275
Abstract
The collection contains two detailed draft manuscript reports of the events and proceedings in Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting and the Quarterly Meeting with attention to property and control of the records.
Dates:
1827-1829
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-128
Abstract
James Morgan Read (1908-1985) was a Quaker and president of Wilmington College from 1960-69. He also served as the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner from 1951-60, and was a vice president of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation from 1969 until his retirement in 1974. The bulk of the collection documents James Read's work as a consultant after 1974. His diaries date from his association with Wilmington College. Areas of particular interest include the establishment of Soviet-American...
Dates:
1940-1987
Collection — othertype: SC-105
Identifier: SFHL-SC-105
Abstract
This collection includes photographic copies of letters regarding his travels in the ministry, family birth certificates, and a list of ship stores. Also included is a letter from John Pemberton, relating family news and giving an account of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Dates:
1756-1831
Collection — othertype: SC-106
Identifier: SFHL-SC-106
Abstract
This collection includes Mercy Redman's journal of her visits to eighty-seven meetings in New York, New England, and Pennsylvania. During this time she met and travelled with John Woolman. Also included is a copy of the record kept by Thomas Redman of his imprisonment and trial for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the United States. A poem written by John E. Redman and various other family documents are also included.
Dates:
1760-1806
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-239
Abstract
Emory J. and Deborah Gorman Rees were Quaker missionaries in South Africa 1899-1903 and participated in Friends African Industrial Mission (FAIM) in British East Africa (now Kenya) from 1903 to 1926. The collection contains primarily the correspondence of Deborah with her mother and sister, Sarah and Zoa Gorman. The letters begin in 1899 and continue through 1925, with breaks when the Reeses returned to the United States. Also included are stories, letters from Emory to his family, and...
Dates:
1899 - 1985
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-166
Abstract
Rosalie Stork Regen (1909-1993) was a Quaker author and playwright who joined the Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting in 1941. She was the daughter of Charles Wharton Stork and Elisabeth von Pausinger Stork. An active member of the Society of Friends, Rosalie taught First Day School and visited Quakers all over the world. The collection includes journals kept continuously from 1936 to the time of her death in 1993. She also maintained a prodigious correspondence with family and friends....
Dates:
1856-1993