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Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-070
Abstract

Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn (1818-1911) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Quaker. The collection contains diaries (1881-1908), reminiscences (1893), and other family papers.

Dates: 1881-1908

Ann Paschall Jackson Family Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-186
Abstract The collection contains diaries, ledgers, and albums of Ann Price Gibson Paschall Jackson (1792-1874) and her family. Related to many Pennsylvania Quaker families including Price, Sharples/Sharpless, Paschall, and Townsend, Ann P. Paschall (later Ann P. Jackson) was recorded as a minister of Darby Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1831. Series 1 is composed of her diaries, 1814 to 1874. The detailed entries concern religious and practical matters. Series 2 contains diaries, ledgers, and...
Dates: 1709 - 1936; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1874

William Jackson journal

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-036
Abstract

William Jackson's diary of his religious visit to England and Ireland. Diary entries detail the preparations required to make the journey, as well as details about the voyage itself. Upon his arrival in Ireland, entries describe attendance at Quaker Meetings, visits with Friends, and descriptions of the various Friends who hosted Jackson during his time abroad.

Dates: 1802-1803

Asa M. Janney family papers

 Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-310
Abstract The collection consists of correspondence and other papers of the Virginia Quaker family of Asa M. Janney. The letters contain family news and note Quaker concerns and activities. Of special interest are letters from Asa's older brother, Samuel M. Janney, noted Quaker minister, author and abolitionist. Also included are an account book of Janney's Forest Mills flour mill, 1860-1862; a Swarthmore College student notebook kept by his grandson, Thomas Janney Brown; and a notebook of...
Dates: 1831 - 1950

O. Edward Janney (Oliver Edward) Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-072
Abstract Dr. O. Edward Janney was a prominent Quaker doctor from Baltimore who was active in many of the social reform movements of his time. He worked with the Society for the Suppression of Vice in Baltimore and labored in the causes of temperance, woman suffrage, inter-racial relations, peace, and other reforms. In 1907, Dr. Janney gave up the practice of medicine to devote his energies full time to reform activities. The collection contains correspondence (1874-1945), diary (1914), memoirs,...
Dates: 1874-1945

Jenkins family papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-190
Identifier: SFHL-SC-190
Abstract Papers of the Jabez Jenkins family of Pennsylvania, 1829-1849. Includes "On board the Packet Ship George Washington Capt. Holdrege Liverpool to New York 1833: Some Recollections of England &c." 1833, manuscript Recollections of travel in England and Scotland in 1833 by Jabez Jenkins. Jenkins stopped for a relatively short time in England, on his way home to Philadelphia from Canton. Observations were largely of architecture and industry in London, Birmingham, Staffordshire, Manchester,...
Dates: 1829-1854

Margaret Jenkins journals

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-095
Abstract

This collection is comprised of three volumes of the travel journals of Margaret Jenkins. The first volume describes Jenkins's voyage from New York to San Francisco, and her voyage home from San Francisco to New York via Liverpool. The remaining two volumes describe Margaret Jenkins's trip to the Himalayan Mountains in 1911 and 1912, to visit her cousin, who was a missionary there.

Dates: 1875-1912

Karl D. Jessen papers

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Identifier: BMC-3H-Jessen
Abstract Karl Detlev Jessen (1872-1919) was a professor of German Literature at Bryn Mawr College from 1910 to 1919. He was involved with the Socialist movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Karl D. Jessen papers house the records of Karl D. Jessen. This collection dates from 1872 to 1980, with bulk dates of 1890 to 1917. This collection consists mostly of correspondence between Jessen and his family, friends, and colleagues, in addition to manuscripts and manuscript...
Dates: 1872 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1917
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Alice Jones diary

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-037
Abstract This collection is comprised primarily of the original, handwritten diary of Alice Jones, and a photocopy of the original. Diary entries discuss the history of the Friends School in Ramallah, Palestine, religious reflection and discussions concerning the divides between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Palestine, and discussions concerning the politics within Palestine. Jones also provides descriptions of the children she teaches at the school.In addition to the Jones's diary,...
Dates: 1919-1946; 1930

Jones-Cadbury Family papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1172
Abstract

The Quaker families of Jones and Cadbury were interrelated with many other Quaker families in the United States and England. This collection provides a rich source of genealogical and historical information, not only on the Jones and Cadbury families, and especially Mary Hoxie Jones (1904-2003) and Emma Cadbury Jr. (1875-1965), but also, significantly, on the Warder family, as well as the Bartram, Brown, Carter, Foulke, Kaighn, Lowry, Mennell, Pearsall, Shinn, and Shipley families.

Dates: ca. 1770-1994

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Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 6
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Cornplanter, Seneca chief 5
Jones, Mary Hoxie 5
Kite family 5
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 5
Walton family 5
Moore family 4
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 4
Walker family 4
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Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 3
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Collins family 3
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Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 3
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Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham 3
Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 3
Scattergood family 3
Scattergood, Thomas, 1748-1814 3
Sharpless, Joshua 3
Shinn family 3
Shipley family 3
Simmons, Henry 3
Society of Friends 3
Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 3
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 3
Valentino, Carmen 3
Woolman, John, 1720-1772 3
Allen family 2
American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2
Archaeological Institute of America 2
Babbitt, James A. 2
Bacon family 2
Bacon, David 2
Bacon, George 2
Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 2
Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 2
Benezet, Anthony 2
Bettle, Samuel 2
Borton, Hugh 2
Brinton, Anna Cox 2
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 2
Cadbury, Catherine J. 2
Cadbury, William Warder 2
Canton Christian College 2
Carpenter, Rhys 2
Carter family 2
Coates family 2
Coleman, John Royston 2
Comly, John, 1773-1850 2
Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 2
Emlen, Samuel 2
Fallowfield Monthly Meeting of Friends 2
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 2
Ferris, Henry 2
Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779 2
Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 2
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Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 2
Guilford College 2
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 2
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 2
Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 2
Howland family 2
Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 2
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) 2
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 2
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Jones, James Parnell 2
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Jones, Virginia Costello 2
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Ly , Juwan Usang 2
Madāris al-Frindz (Rām Allāh) 2
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Morris, Margaret Hill 2
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 2
New York State Reformatory for Women (Bedford Hills, N.Y.) 2
Parke, Thomas, 1749-1835 2
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