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Dorothy Burr Thompson diaries and papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-2010-14
Overview
Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900 – 2001) was a prominent archaeologist who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1923. She specialized in Greek terracotta. Burr Thompson and her husband, Homer A. Thompson, were both heavily involved with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The collection includes her diaries, personal correspondence, and professional papers. It also includes contains both personal and research related photographs and postcards.
Dates:
1912 - 1991
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
William Thompson diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-080
Overview
Diary entries are largely related to William Thompson's family's grocery business, family news, illness, social calls, and Quaker meetings he attended. He occasionally also describes Quakers from England and Ireland making religious visits to America.
Dates:
1860
Khalil A. Totah and Eva Marshall Totah papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1210
Overview
The papers revolve around three topics and provide a picture of Quakers in Palestine in the 20th century: Khalil A. Totah, his second wife, Eva Marshall Totah and his first wife, Ermina Jones Totah. Khalil Totah discusses the situation in Palestine, primarily in the 1930s, and speaks of his own life and aspirations, as when he became a Quaker minister. His diaries expand the picture, adding information about Friends Boys School in Ramallah (Palestine) and his understanding of the political...
Dates:
1896-1955
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Overview
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1815 - 1858; 1806 - 1910
Turner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-152
Overview
This collection centers around the family and descendants of Joseph Turner, Jr., (1790-1850) and his wife Rebecca (Sinclair) Turner (1787-1877), members of Baltimore Monthly Meeting-Western District. They raised eight children and had fifty-four grandchildren. As a young man, Joseph left the family plantation near Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland, and became a lumber merchant in Baltimore. He served as Clerk of the Lombard Street Meeting. Rebecca was a recorded minister and traveled widely....
Dates:
1776-1954
James Tyson diaries
Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-019
Overview
The collection consists of four volumes of diaries which detail James Tyson's time at Haverford College, from daily activities to information on the courses Tyson was taking at the time. The entries range from 1859 to 1861.
Dates:
1859-1861
Unknown Diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-240
Overview
This collection contains one half of a daily diary from 1883 written by an unknown author.
Dates:
1883
Updegraff Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1031
Overview
Letters; diaries; genealogical material; land grants signed by Presidents John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, and Franklin Pierce; and other papers of the Updegraff family, mainly those of David B. Updegraff, which provide a picture of Quakerism in 19th-century Ohio.
Dates:
1810-1929; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1896
Hannah Milhous Vernon papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-173
Overview
This collection is comprised of the papers of Hannah Milhous Vernon, and includes two unbound commonplace books, the loose pages of Vernon's diaries, and a single unbound volume of meeting minutes for the Damorris Monthly Meeting of Women Friends.
Dates:
1855-1889
Walker-Conard-Cowgill Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-155
Overview
The Walkers, Conard, and Cowgills were Quaker families of Frederick County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The collections contains papers of the Walker and allied Coates, Cowgill, and Conard families, including general correspondence (1792-1912), Civil War correspondence and diaries (1893-1900) of Union soldier Edward B. Conard (ca. 1844-1917), diaries (1896-1898) of Jacob Walker, ledger (1847-1887) of David Walker (1818-1889), journals, financial and legal papers,...
Dates:
1699-1912 [bulk 1792-1912]
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