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1948 Democratic National Convention ticket
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-238
Overview
This collection contains a ticket to the 1948 Democratic National Convention.
Dates:
1948
"A Account of the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly & Particular Meetings of the people called Quakers"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-141
Overview
This manuscript book of meetings, compiled in about 1765 by an anonymous author, lists the Quaker Meetings in the Yearly Meetings of New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and North Carolina. According to a note on the back of the first page of the photostatic copy, the original manuscript was located at the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, as of 1932, and that it had previously belonged to a woman named Mary Olney.
Dates:
1765
A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Abington Friends School (Abington, Pa.) Account book
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-001
Overview
Abington Friends School was established by Abington Monthly Meeting in the latter part of the eighteenth century as a day school. The account book covers the period 1828-1842. Pupil's names are given with the status of their payments, etc.
Dates:
1828-1842
Abington Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/A200
Identifier: QM-Ph-A200
Scope and Contents
Records of Abington Monthly Meeting and its predecessors since 1670. Included of the Pre-Separation and Hicksite records: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women; minutes of the women's meeting; registers of births and deaths; marriage and membership records through the present day; certificates of removal, disownments, etc.; epistles received and other miscellaneous papers. The records of the Orthodox branch of Abington Monthly Meeting...
Dates:
1670-2021
Abington Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/A220
Identifier: QM-Ph-A220
Scope and Contents
The original records of Abington Preparative Meeting -- pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox -- include minutes of men's, women's and joint business meetings as well as other records. Records of Abington Preparative Meeting include: men's minutes, 1786-1897 (H), 1827-1868 (O); women's minutes, 1787-1893 (H); women's account books, 1834-1874; school fund account books, 1773-1900 (H).
Dates:
1773-1943
Abington Quarterly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-A250
Scope and Contents
Records of Abington Quarterly Meetings, 1786, include: Hicksite and United men’s minutes; Orthodox men’s minutes; Hicksite women's minutes; Orthodox women’s minutes; First-day School Union records; minutes of the Hicksite Meeting on Worship and Ministry, the Ministry and Counsel Committee, and of the Meeting of Ministers and Elders, Orthodox; Orthodox meeting financial records; minutes of the Abington Visitation Committee; minutes of the Gwynned Visitation Committee; minutes of the...
Dates:
1786-2018
Agreement between Pennsylvania and the Susquehanna and Sheona
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-056
Overview
Agreement between James Logan, on behalf of William Penn, and six Susquehanna and Sheonah related to who can live among the Native Americans, permits for liquor sales, and punishments for those who declare that the English are not their friends.
Dates:
1700
Aimwell School records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1183
Overview
The Aimwell School in Philadelphia was founded in 1796 by Anne Parrish (1760-1800) for the purpose of providing "a good English education" in the primary and grammar grades for underprivileged girls. It was instituted by the Society for the Free Instruction of Female Children and operated under the management of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1796-1935
Allen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-001
Overview
Contains the papers of the Allen Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which traced its ancestry back to one of William Penn's commissioners. Includes papers relating to the Allen and related Breidenhart, Casdorp, Gibbons, Hubley, Jacobs, Matlack, and Samuel families. The Allen family papers contain extensive genealogical material, family correspondence, journals and memorials which provide excellent source material on Quaker family life in the 19th...
Dates:
1700-1954
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 15
- Bryn Mawr College 11
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 11
- Westtown Boarding School 11
- Penn, William, 1644-1718 9
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 8
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 8
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 7
- Lloyd family 7
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 7
- Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends 6
- Elkinton family 6
- Foulke family 6
- George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 6
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 6
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 6
- Smith family 6
- Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 6
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 5
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 5
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 5
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 5
- Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 5
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 5
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 5
- Hunn family 5
- Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 5
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 5
- Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972 5
- Sharpless family 5
- Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
- Allen family 4
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 4
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
- Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 4
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1934) 4
- Civilian Public Service 4
- Cope family 4
- Evans family 4
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 4
- Fisher family 4
- Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 4
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 4
- Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology 4
- Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1936- ) 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 4
- Media Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District (Philadelphia, Pa.) 4
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 4
- Palmer family 4
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 4
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. International Outreach Committee (1974-) 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Religious Education Committee 4
- Plymouth Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
- Scattergood, Joseph 4
- Smedley family 4
- Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 4
- Taylor family 4
- Truman, George 4
- United Nations 4
- Valentino, Carmen 4
- Walker family 4
- Walton, George A. (George Arthur), 1883- 4
- Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 4
- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 4
- Williams family 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Geneva, Switzerland (International Office) 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 3
- American Young Friends Fellowship 3
- Bartram family 3
- Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 3
- Brinton family 3
- Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 3
- Bunting family 3
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Carter, Arabella, 1867- 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Cooper family 3
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends 3
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 3
- Darlington family 3
- Davis, Bainbridge C., 1910-1993 3
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 3
- Earlham College 3
- Elfreth, Jacob R., Sr., 1789-1870 3
- Elkinton, Joseph, 1794-1868 3 ∧ less
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