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Friends Freedmen's Association Records
Friends' Home for Children
Friends Instruction Association records
Friends Neighborhood Guild
Friends Neighborhood Guild is a social welfare agency established by Hicksite Quakers in 1879 to serve the Poplar section of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It began as a volunteer organization for immigrant children and evolved into a settlement house and community center. This collection primarily contains early records of Friends Neighborhood Guild, and also the records of two related Quaker societies, the Friendly Settlement Association and the Spring Street Mission.
Gibbons Home (Springfield, Pa.) records
Grandom Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children
Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.)
The Howard Institution was a Quaker women's charity founded in Philadelphia in 1853 to provide shelter to discharged female prisoners. Its scope was later broadened to assist more generally troubled women and girls. It ceased activity in 1956. The collection contains correspondence from 1942 to 1956, administrative papers, and printed reports and history.
Ladies Benevolent Association of New Brighton (Pa.)
Penn Sewing School records
Penn Sewing School was founded in 1868 as the Friends Sewing School. The name was changed in 1871 and classes suspended in 1899. The collection contains minute books (1876-1906), charter, history, printed report, and other papers.
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- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 2
- Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing 2
- Friends Instruction Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons 1
- Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Colored Women 1
- Beaver Valley General Hospital (New Brighton, Pa.) 1
- Beehive School for Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Benezet House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Biddle, Robert, 1867-1935 1
- Biddle, William C. 1
- Bryn Mawr College 1
- Byberry Library Company 1
- Central Employment Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Central Soup Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Cheyney Training School for Teachers 1
- Christiansburg Industrial Institute 1
- Cooper, Stanley B. 1
- District Nurse Association of New Brighton (Pa.) 1
- Dockhorn, Robert B. 1
- Earlham College 1
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- Eastburn, Margaret Roberts, 1880-1964 1
- Evans, Charles, 1802-1879 1
- Freedmen's Friend (Cambria, Va.) 1
- Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.) 1
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- Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children (West Chester, Pa.) 1
- Friends Freedmen's Association 1
- Friends Mission No.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Neighborhood Guild 1
- Friends Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Shelter for Girls 1
- Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freedmen 1
- Friends' Boarding Home of the Concord Quarterly Meeting 1
- Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends' Home for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends’ Freedmen’s Association 1
- Fuel Saving Society of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia 1
- Gibbons Home (Springfield, Delaware County, Pa.) 1
- Gibbons, Joseph, 1799-1880 1
- Gibbons, Sallie P. 1
- Grandom Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Grandom, Hartt, 1778-1840 1
- Guilford College 1
- Haverford College 1
- Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Humphreys, Richard, 1750-1832 1
- Ingram, William S. 1
- Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Institute for Colored Youth at Cheyney 1
- Jeanes, Joseph 1
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 1
- Joseph Sturge Mission School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Ladies Benevolent Association of New Brighton (Pa.) 1
- Leidy, Joseph 1
- Lester, Muriel, 1883-1968 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Locust Street Mission Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- McInnes, Robert K. 1
- Mullen, Phillip W. 1
- Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women 1
- Northern Female Association for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Perot, T. Morris 1
- Philadelphia First Day School Union 1
- Philadelphia Society for Supplying the Poor with Soup 1
- Philadelphia Soup House 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Child Welfare Sub Committee 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936). Indian Committee 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Committee on Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages (1881-1892) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Committee on the Education of the Colored People of the South (1887-1892) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Social Service Committee 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee of Mission Work Among Women & Children 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Books of the Temperance branch 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Improper Publications 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Purity 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Concord Quarterly Meeting of Friends 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Concord Quarterly Meeting of Friends 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Coordinating Committee for Testimonies and Concerns 1
- Richard Humphreys Foundation 1
- Robins, George 1
- Shoemaker family 1
- Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 1
- Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936 1
- Society for the Free Instruction of African Females 1
- Society for the Free Instruction of the Black People (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Spring Street Mission (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Spring Street Settlement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
- Swarthmore Country Week Picnic Association 1 ∧ less