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Benezet House Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-010
Overview
The Benezet House Association, Philadelphia, Pa., was formed in 1917 to assist and educate the City's poor African American and immigrant residents. It was created by the merger of the Joseph Sturge Mission School, a First Day school for African Americans founded in 1865; Anthony Benezet School, founded in 1795 as the School for Black People and their Descendants (also known as the Raspberry Street School); and Western District Colored School, founded 1848 under the care of Twelfth Street...
Dates:
1846-1945
Friends Neighborhood Guild
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-035
Overview
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.
Dates:
1880-1962
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- Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 1
- Community centers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Home missions -- Pennsylvania 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 1
- Poor -- Pennsylvania 1
- Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
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- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Social service -- Pennsylvania 1
- Social settlements -- Pennsylvania 1
- Social work with African Americans 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Urban poor -- Pennsylvania 1
- Youth -- Services for 1 ∧ less
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- Beehive School for Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Benezet House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Mission No.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Neighborhood Guild 1
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