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Friends Historical Library collected silhouettes

 Collection — othertype: SAFE
Identifier: SFHL-PA-033
Abstract

This collection combines various silhouette albums and images acquired by Friends Hitorical Library into a single finding aid.

Dates: Circa 1803-1845

Smedley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Abstract The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates: 1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950

Smedley Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-221
Abstract The Smedley family in America is descended from a George Smedley, a Quaker, who arrived in Pennsylvania about 1682, purchasing property from William Penn in what is now Middletown Township, Delaware County. The collection represents the descendants of Thomas Smedley and his brother Edward G. Smedley. The property was purchased by a nephew, Walter Smedley, a well-known Philadelphia Quaker architect. His widow married C. Canby Balderston, a business executive. The family sold the...
Dates: ca. 1875-1979

Smedley Family Scrapbook

 Collection — othertype: MSS-066
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-066
Abstract These manuscripts of the Smedley family, Quakers of Chester County, Pennsylvania, were collected by Mary (Green) Smedley in the early 20th century. The scrapbook contains primarily 18th century legal and property documents concerning Thomas Smedley (1688?-1758) of Willistown, Chester County, a member of Goshen Monthly Meeting, and his descendants, particularly George Smedley (d. 1783) and family. The scrapbook includes records relating to a property dispute between George Smedley and George...
Dates: 1700 - 1833

Courtney C. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-D09
Abstract

Courtney C. Smith (1916-1969) was the ninth president of Swarthmore College, from 1953 to his death. The collection contains his official correspondence including correspondence with faculty. It includes extensive material on the controversy surrounding the construction of The Blue Route, Interstate Highway 476.

Dates: 1953-1969

Philip W. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-224
Abstract Philip W. Smith (1889-1981) was a Quaker dairyman from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who was active in Russian concerns and a prominent peace activist. In 1925-1926, he spent two years on a collective farm in Russia, and in later life he traveled extensively for peace causes. He was a member of Buckingham Monthly Meeting. This collection contains his correspondence, several journals and day books, photographs, writings on Russia, dairy farm records, and information on various groups he was...
Dates: 1906-1981

Samuel Smith papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-119
Identifier: SFHL-SC-119
Abstract This collection includes 10 memorandum books of Samuel Smith, recounting his experiences as a travelling Quaker minister on his journeys in the eastern United States, Liverpool, London and Scotland. Also included is the copy book of a certain "S.B." of Darby Monthly Meeting, dated 1740-1746. This book contains tables of climates and distances, home remedies, and personal financial records. Notable are a list of the holdings of the Philadelphia library in 1741, an elegy to John Chalkley...
Dates: 1740-1817

Stackhouse Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-306
Abstract The Stackhouse family was a Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quaker family with roots in the earliest settlement of America. The papers include diaries, ledgers, correspondence and other family papers and voluminous genealogical research conducted by Powell Stackhouse, Jr. They were united by the descendants of two sons of Amos and Mary (Powell) Stackhouse who shared an interest in family history. Powell Stackhouse, Jr., (1827-1900) was a real estate lawyer and conveyancer who pursued a...
Dates: 1804 - 1951; Majority of material found within 1820-1916

William Macy Stanton Family Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-242
Abstract Contains the papers of William Macy and Lois V. Stanton, compiled by Lois V. Stanton. The Stantons were active Quakers, and William Macy Stanton, Jr., was a conscientious objector in WWII. Both Stantons served in the American Friends Service Committee reconstruction efforts in Europe after the war as well as other Quaker activities and organizations. William Stanton worked for Swarthmore College for over twenty-five years, serving as director of physical plant. Of particular interest are the...
Dates: 1937-1995

Stout-Alston Family Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-141
Abstract

The Stout and Alston families were Quaker merchant families of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and Maryland. This collection of paper contains the personal and business correspondence, business and legal papers of Quaker merchants in Delaware, Philadelphia, and Maryland. The papers are chiefly of Jacob Stout (1774-1855), of Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware, who served as Governor of Delaware and Judge of Court of Appeals, and Jonathan Alston of Leipsic, Delaware.

Dates: 1750-1905 (bulk, 1750-1830)

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Swarthmore College 41
American Friends Service Committee 12
Westtown Boarding School 12
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 11
Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 6
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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 6
Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 6
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 6
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 6
Foulke family 5
George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 5
Hunn family 5
Lloyd family 5
Smedley family 5
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
Comly, John, 1773-1850 4
Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 4
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 4
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
Jackson, John, 1809-1855 4
Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 4
Palmer family 4
Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 4
Penn, William, 1644-1718 4
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
Sharpless family 4
Truman, George 4
Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 4
Williams family 4
Allen family 3
Bunting family 3
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 3
Cooper family 3
Darlington family 3
Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 3
Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 3
Fisher family 3
Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 3
Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 3
Gwynedd Boarding School (Gwynedd, Pa.) 3
Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 3
Hamm, Thomas D. 3
Haverford College 3
Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 3
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 3
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 3
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 3
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 3
Mather family 3
Miller family 3
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
Ogden family 3
Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 3
Parrish family 3
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 3
Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 3
Paschall family 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 3
Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 3
Price family 3
Richardson family 3
Schofield, Martha 3
Scott, Job, 1751-1793 3
Sellers family 3
Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 3
Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 3
Smith family 3
Swarthmore Chautauqua Association 3
Taylor family 3
Walker family 3
Walton family 3
Warner family 3
Wharton family 3
Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 3
Wilson family 3
Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
American Anti-slavery Society 2
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 2
Atkinson family 2
Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956 2
Balderston, C. Canby (Caleb Canby), 1897-1979 2
Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 2
Bartram family 2
Bassett family 2
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
Birdsall, William W. (William Wilfred), 1854-1909 2
Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 2
Brinton family 2
Broomell, Anna Pettit 2
Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 2
Byberry Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Bye family 2
Cadbury family 2
Carter, Arabella, 1867- 2
Chase, William Merritt, 1848-1916 2
Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 2
Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1934) 2
Churchman, George, 1730-1814 2
Comly family 2
Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends 2
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