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Bye Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-022
Abstract
Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. The collection includes correspondence, business records, photographs, and memorabilia of E. Mortimer and Pusey Passmore Bye, Thomas Jenkinson, Thomas H. Speakman, and Nathaniel Smith. Also includes accounts of Phebe Thomas who died at the age of 104 in Chester County (Pa.) and had witnessed the Battle of Brandywine as a child.
Dates:
1685-1931
Mary Bye Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-024
Abstract
Mary (Du Bois) Bye, Quaker peace and social activist and member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in Pennsylvania, was born in 1913. This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues.
Dates:
1966-[on-going]
Henry J. Cadbury correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-016
Identifier: SFHL-SC-016
Abstract
This collection primarily includes correspondence related to Frederick Tolles' article "Emerson and Quakerism" and to Henry Cadbury's article " Quakerism in Friedrichstadt.". Correspondents include Frederick Tolles, Bliss Perry, R.L. Rusk, Jessie Carter, and others.
Dates:
1936-1951
Richard Tapper Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-025
Abstract
Richard Tapper Cadbury (1853-1929) was a Quaker businessman, teacher, writer, and art connoisseur. His mother's brother, Earl Shinn, Jr., (1838-1886) was a well-known art critic. The collection contains correspondence and memorabilia of the Cadbury, Comfort, Haines, and Shinn families. The letters give a detailed picture of life in Philadelphia Quaker families of the mid 19th century, and of the hardships of those who participated in the California gold rush.
Dates:
1799-1924
William P. Camp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-244
Abstract
William P. Camp (1917-1999) was a Pennsylvania psychiatrist, concerned with ethics in the mental health field and very active in his profession and in Quaker organizations. His wife, Kay Camp, was a teacher and peace activist who served as the president of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Both of the Camps were active in Quaker concerns and members of Norristown Monthly Meeting. The papers chronicle Dr. Camp’s life, particularly his professional and volunteer activities....
Dates:
1936-1992
Mary Capper correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-017
Identifier: SFHL-SC-017
Abstract
Transatlantic correspondence between Mary Capper and the Cadbury family in Philadelphia. Letters concern family and spiritual matters. Correspondents include Joel and Caroline Cadbury, and their daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Cadbury.
Dates:
1816-1835
Carman family papers
Collection — othertype: SC-230
Identifier: SFHL-SC-230
Abstract
The collections contain journals, correspondence, and miscellaneous Quaker papers. A small journal kept by Thomas Carman, 1864 and 1867, describes his travels which included upstate New York, Baltimore, and Richmond (where he attended general Quaker meetings and visited African American services). Also a photocopy of a journal kept by Catharine Williams, describing a trip to Iowa in 1864 where she attended Yearly Meeting. Correspondents include Benjamin Angell, Edward Dorland, George M....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1786-1894
Kenneth L. Carroll Papers, 1953-2006
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-287
Abstract
Kenneth Carroll was a professor of Religious studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas beginning in 1952. He also spent a sabbatical at Haverford College as the T. Wistar Brown Fellow in 1969 and 1970 and retired to Easton, Maryland, in 1986. Carroll is a recognized authority on the history of the Society of Friends on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia and has written widely on this and other subjects. Collection primarily consists of correspondence related to Carroll's...
Dates:
1953-2006
Friends Historical Library cased photographs collection
Collection — othertype: PA-107
Identifier: SFHL-PA-107
Abstract
This collection consists of miscellaneous cased photographs - primarily daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, with some other formats - collected at various times from various sources by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Many were acquired as parts of manuscript collections of family papers.
Dates:
approximately 1840-1870
Central Employment Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-015
Abstract
The Central Employment Association, a women's charity, was established circa 1840 in Philadelphia by Hicksite Quakers as the Northern Female Association for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor. The collection contains the charter and by-laws, work and financial records, and correspondence, 1840-1942.
Dates:
1840-1942
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- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 198
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- Quakers -- New York (State) 64
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- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 46
- Quakers -- New Jersey 41
- Quakers -- Diaries 36
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- Society of Friends -- Education 35
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- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 33
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- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 19
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- Swarthmore College 52
- American Friends Service Committee 27
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 20
- Westtown Boarding School 17
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 15
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 12
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 11
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 11
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 11
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 11
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 9
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 8
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 7
- George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 7
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 7
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 7
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 7
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 7
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 7
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 7
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 6
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 6
- Lloyd family 6
- Moore family 6
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 6
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 6
- Valentino, Carmen 6
- Wharton family 6
- Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 6
- Williams family 6
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 5
- Cooper family 5
- Fisher family 5
- Foulke family 5
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 5
- Hunn family 5
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 5
- Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 5
- Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 5
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 5
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 5
- Palmer family 5
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 5
- Penn, William, 1644-1718 5
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 5
- Price family 5
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 5
- Schofield, Martha 5
- Smedley family 5
- Smith family 5
- Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975 5
- Truman, George 5
- Walker family 5
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 5
- Wilson family 5
- Bassett family 4
- Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 4
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 4
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 4
- Coffin family 4
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 4
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 4
- Elkinton family 4
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 4
- Forbush, Bliss, 1896-1990 4
- Fothergill, Samuel 4
- Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 4
- Gibbons family 4
- Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 4
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 4
- Hallowell family 4
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Jackson, William M. (William Morris), 1837-1919 4
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 4
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 4
- Parrish family 4
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 4
- Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 4
- Sharpless family 4
- Stabler family 4
- Taylor family 4
- Thomas family 4
- Walton family 4
- Young Friends' Association (New York, N.Y.) 4
- Alexandria Boarding School (Alexandria, Va.) 3
- Allen family 3
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968) 3
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 3
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 3
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 3
- Brinton family 3
- Broomell, Anna Pettit 3
- Brown family 3 + ∧ less
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