Showing Collections: 61 - 70 of 78
Janet Stokes diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-077
Abstract
Janet Stokes was a British Quaker who moved to Philadelphia in the 1970s. She worked at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and served as a hospital chaplain after she retired. Entries are generally related to personal and religious reflection and descriptions of Stokes's struggles with depression.
Dates:
1996-1997
Mary Howell Swett diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-079
Abstract
Diary of Mary Swett's religious visit to England in 1797. Entries describe her travel, attendance at meetings, and Quaker hosts in England.
Dates:
1797-1799
Florence E. Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-145
Abstract
Florence E. Taylor was the descendant of a Quaker family whose roots went back to the settlement of Pennsylvania. Her parents were Frederick W. Taylor (1848-1919) and Emily Hunt Taylor (d. 1942). Fred Taylor, a wealthy Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist to the Society of Friends, was the son of Charles Maus Taylor and Anna E. W. Sterling Taylor. His grandfather was Israel Taylor (1782-1850). The collection includes correspondence of Israel Taylor (1782-1850) and Charles M. Taylor...
Dates:
1806-1995
Charles and Priscilla Townsend Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-350
Abstract
Members of the Charles and Priscilla Townsend family were active in the Society of Friends in Philadelphia and in Quaker concerns, especially penal reform, abolition, and the natural sciences. The collection includes journals, correspondence, and writings in addition to transcripts and reference material on family members. Much of the material is available in published form.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1811 - 1858; 1793-2020
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Hannah Milhous Vernon papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-173
Abstract
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
Abstract
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]
Emma Waln diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-081
Abstract
Emma Waln's diary entries detail her active social life, including descriptions of attendance of various social events, including whist parties, women's clubs meetings, lectures, and parties, as well as more informal social calls from friends and family. Waln's diary also describes attending classes and lectures at Swarthmore College.
Dates:
1890-1891
Margaretta Walton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-159
Abstract
Margaretta Walton (1829-1904), eminent Quaker minister of Ercildoun, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The collection contains diaries and correspondence of Walton and her husband, Jesse Pusey Walton; business papers and memorabilia; sermons; and related papers. Also included in the collections are journals (1836-1853) of her father, Joseph Shoemaker Walton, who was companion to several Quaker ministers.
Dates:
1812-1961
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Library
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 49
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 29
- Subject
- diaries 56
- Quakers -- Diaries 41
- Quakers -- History 30
- Quaker women 29
- Quaker women -- United States 22
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 16
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 11
- Women and religion 11
- Quaker women -- Diaries 10
- Women clergy -- United States -- Diaries 9
- correspondence 9
- travel literature 9
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 7
- Quakers 7
- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 7
- Quakers -- Education 7
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs 7
- Quakers -- Travel 7
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 6
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 6
- Quakers -- Family relationships 6
- Abolitionists 5
- Motherhood -- United States -- History 5
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 5
- Wills 5
- commonplace books 5
- deeds 5
- Diaries 4
- Haverford (Pa.) 4
- Quaker women -- Education 4
- Quaker women -- United States -- Diaries 4
- Society of Friends -- Clergy -- Diaries 4
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
- Women -- Religious life 4
- Women travelers 4
- clippings (information artifacts) 4
- marriage certificates 4
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 3
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 3
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker women -- History -- 20th century 3
- Quakers -- Genealogy 3
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 3
- Quakers -- Social service 3
- Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 3
- family papers 3
- genealogies (histories) 3
- letters (correspondence) 3
- African Americans -- Education 2
- American poetry 2
- Antislavery movements 2
- Antislavery movements -- United States 2
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Conservative Quakers 2
- Death 2
- Education -- Pennsylvania 2
- Farmers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Health 2
- Indians of North America 2
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Mental health 2
- Montgomery County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Poetry -- Women authors 2
- Prison visits 2
- Quaker businesspeople 2
- Quaker farmers 2
- Quaker horticulturalists 2
- Quaker philanthropists 2
- Quaker scientists 2
- Quaker social reformers 2
- Quaker women -- 19th century -- Correspondence 2
- Quaker women -- 20th century 2
- Quaker women -- Religious life 2
- Quakers -- Great Britain 2
- Quakers -- New England 2
- Quakers -- New Jersey 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2
- Quakers -- Poetry 2
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 2
- Quakers -- Virginia 2
- Sermons 2
- Social reformers 2
- Society of Friends -- Clergy 2
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 2
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 2
- Virginia -- History -- Sources 2
- Wilmington (Del.) 2
- Women -- Education 2
- Women -- Mental health -- United States -- History 2
- Women -- United States -- Social life and customs 2
- Women and peace 2
- Women authors, American -- Diaries 2
- Women philanthropists -- Pennsylvania 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Yellow fever 2
- account books 2
- albums (books) 2
- estate records 2 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 77
- French 1
- Names
- Haverford College 5
- Westtown Boarding School 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Howland family 2
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 2
- Rhoads, Sarah Wistar, 1839-1920 2
- Scattergood, Thomas, 1748-1814 2
- Sharpless family 2
- Shoemaker family 2
- Valentino, Carmen 2
- Allen family 1
- Alsop, John , b.1813 1
- Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911 1
- Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912 1
- Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 1
- Bacon family 1
- Bacon, Edith Farquhar, 1892-1988 1
- Bacon, Elizabeth, 1794-1844 1
- Bacon, Francis R. (Francis Rogers), 1888-1965 1
- Bacon, George 1
- Bacon, Samuel Allen, 1848-1908 1
- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 1
- Baumgardt, David, 1890-1963 1
- Benezet, Anthony 1
- Benezet, Eugenie 1
- Blunston family 1
- Bonner family 1
- Bowerman, Sarah Upton 1
- Bringhurst, Hannah Peters 1
- Brinton family 1
- Brinton, David, 1864-1945 1
- Brinton, Eleanor Fisher, 1868-1958 1
- Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
- Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
- Brinton, William Fisher, 1909-2008 1
- Broomell, Anna Pettit 1
- Browett, Elizabeth 1
- Brown, Mary Farnum 1
- Brown, Mary Wistar, 1807-1842 1
- Brown, Moses, 1793-1879 1
- Brown, Moses, 1829-1883 1
- Brown, Thomas Wistar, 1826-1916 1
- Brown, William 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Bushong family 1
- Bushong, Edith K., 1836-1914 1
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
- Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874 1
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
- Coates family 1
- Collins family 1
- Collins, Isaac 1
- Collins, Isaac, 1787-1863 1
- Collins, Rebecca, 1805-1892 1
- Comfort family 1
- Comfort, Elizabeth Cadwallader 1
- Conard family 1
- Conard, Edward B., ca. 1844-1917 1
- Cooke, Lydia Barton 1
- Cowgill family 1
- Cowgill, Eliza Coates 1
- Cresson, Sarah 1
- Cripps, Arthur Shearly, 1869-1952 1
- Dover Monthly Meeting of Friends (Dover, N.H.) 1
- Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith 1
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 1
- Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality 1
- Elfreth family 1
- Emlen, Samuel 1
- Emlen, Sarah Foulke Farquhar (Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen), 1787-1849 1
- Evans family 1
- Evans, Elizabeth Reeve 1
- Evans, Hannah Bacon 1
- Fahnestock, Zephine 1
- Fallowfield Monthly Meeting of Friends 1
- Fell family 1
- Fenimore, Amy 1
- Fisher family 1
- Fisher, Abraham, 1823-1909 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Fisher, Sarah Wright, 1822-1886 1
- Fisher, Susanna G., 1865-1956 1
- Florence E. Taylor 1
- Foster School for Girls (Clifton Springs, N.Y.) 1
- Foulke family 1
- Foulke, Susan 1
- French family 1
- Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 1
- Friends World Conference. Committee on Education 1
- Friends of Ramallah Friends Meeting (Quakers) 1
- Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freedmen 1
- Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
- Fussell family 1
- Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
- Fussell, Henry B. (Henry Bartholomew), 1815-1890 1
- Fussell, Henry M. (Henry Moore), d.1917 1
- Fussell, Linnaeus, 1842-1907 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
