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Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Overview
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-044
Overview
The Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children, an Orthodox Quaker charity which provided shelter and education for black children, was organized in 1854 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Home was incorporated in 1860. By the end of the 19th century, the organization's primary function was providing financial support for other educational and shelter programs for black youths, including The Shelter (Association for the Care of Colored Orphans). This bound volume contains the...
Dates:
1859-1907
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-043
Overview
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys was founded in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Home for Destitute Colored Children, a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children (generally boys) and then placed them with private families. The Home built a new facility in Cheyney, Pa, in 1922, and the name was changed to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys in 1945. The collection contains minutes, financial and legal records, and reports.
Dates:
1855-1956
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- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania 2
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- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population 2
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- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania 2
- Education -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 2
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 2
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 2
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population 1
- Apprentices -- Pennsylvania 1
- Boys -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney 1
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 1
- Church work with African Americans 1
- Indians, treatment of 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quaker women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Quakers -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
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- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
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- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney 1
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- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 1
- Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Youth -- Employment -- Pennsylvania 1 ∧ less
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- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
- Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
- Foulke, Elizabeth, 1758-1820 1
- Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Murray, John, 1758-1819 1
- Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 1
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 1
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 1
- Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 1 ∧ less
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