Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 28

Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-007
Abstract

The Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer was a Quaker women's organization founded in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to provide relief for impoverished sick children and their mothers from the crowding and oppressive heat during the summer months. The collection contains minutes, 1818-1854 (gap 1819-1821) and other records, including acting committee minutes and workbook, 1843-1851.

Dates: 1818-1862

Nancy J. Babb Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Babb, Nancy
Abstract Nancy Babb (1884-1948) was a member of the Society of Friends who served as a field representative for the Red Cross and then as a relief worker in Russia from 1917 to the mid 1920s. On her return to the United States in 1928 Babb lectured about her work in Russia. Babb also volunteered for a number of various women's organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Babb established the National Circulating Library of Student's Peace Posters, an organization...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1921-1949

Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-276
Abstract

Margaret Hope Bacon was a prolific Quaker author and social activist. Her Research Papers consist primarily of the manuscripts and files assembled in the process of research.

Dates: 1947-2007

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-051
Abstract

Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.

Dates: 1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954

Kay Camp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates: 1955-2006

Helen M. Carroll Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-305
Content Description

Helen Carroll's files related to her peace and social concerns, including some material on Swarthmore borough (inc Swarthmore U. N Committee), the PYM U. N.committee, and other Quaker-related papers.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1955-1992

Emlen Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Abstract Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates: 1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849

Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-018
Abstract

The Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing was a Quaker charity founded in 1828 to distribute clothing and provide other assistance to the sick and poor of Philadelphia. It went out of existence in 1975.

Dates: 1828-1978

Dora Anne Gilbert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-050
Abstract

Dora Ann Gilbert (1869-1964), was Quaker librarian and genealogist from Chester, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1893. The collection contains chiefly biographical and genealogical materials relating to the Gilbert, Strickland, Trego, and allied families, together with memorabilia relating to Swarthmore College Class of 1893, of which Gilbert was a member.

Dates: 1893-1958

Alice Gitchell journals

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1306
Abstract This collection contains 41 handwritten, bound journals and documents from the Women's Committee of the 1985 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting written by and belonging to Alice M. Gitchell. Journal entries cover the years 1964-2010 and include personal and religious reflections and desciptions of dreams, personal and professional day to day activities, major life events, and ongoing struggles with mental health. Documents from the 1985 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting include correspondence and drafts...
Dates: 1946-2011

Filtered By

  • Subject: Quaker women -- Pennsylvania X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Library
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 21
Swarthmore College Peace Collection 4
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 3
 
Subject
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 16
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 13
Quakers -- Social life and customs 7
Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 6
Quakers -- Societies, etc. 6
∨ more
Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 6
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 5
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 4
Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 4
Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 4
genealogies (histories) 4
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 3
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 3
Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 3
Quakers -- Diaries 3
Quakers -- Great Britain 3
Quakers -- History 3
Sick -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 3
Society of Friends -- Charities 3
Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 3
diaries 3
Charities -- Pennsylvania 2
Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania 2
Clothing and dress 2
Education -- Pennsylvania 2
Genealogists -- Pennsylvania 2
Montgomery County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 2
Patients -- Clothing 2
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 2
Quaker philanthropists 2
Quaker women 2
Quaker women -- New Jersey 2
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
Quakers -- Education 2
Quakers -- New York (State) 2
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
Quakers -- Virginia 2
Society of Friends -- Great Britain 2
Swarthmore (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 2
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Societies, etc. 2
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 2
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc. 2
Women and peace 2
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 2
Women genealogists -- Pennsylvania 2
African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population 1
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population 1
African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 1
Albion (Orleans County, N.Y.) 1
American fiction 1
American periodicals 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Antislavery movements -- United States 1
Apprentices -- Pennsylvania 1
Archivists -- Pennsylvania 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Beacon (Periodical) 1
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania 1
Boys -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
Bucks County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
Burial -- Pennsylvania 1
Businessmen -- United States 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- New Brighton 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Records and correspondence 1
Chester (Pa.) -- Quakers 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
Children -- Religious aspects -- Periodicals 1
Children's literature -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Children's literature -- Religious aspects 1
Children's periodicals 1
Church work -- Southern States 1
Civic leaders -- Pennsylvania 1
College students -- Pennsylvania 1
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States 1
Debt -- Pennsylvania 1
Environmental health 1
Epidemics -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Famines -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Pennsylvania 1
Feminists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Frederick County (Va.) -- History -- Sources 1
Free produce movement 1
Freed persons -- Services for -- Southern States 1
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
Great Britain -- Description and travel 1
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration 1
Historians -- Pennsylvania 1
Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania 1
Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
Historic sites -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
Housewives -- Pennsylvania 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 2
Westtown Boarding School 2
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Unitarian Association 1
∨ more
Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Atkinson, Lydia T. (Lydia Townsend), 1843-1901 1
Babb, Nancy J. (Nancy Jones), 1884-1948 1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
Ballantyne, Edith 1
Beaver Valley General Hospital (New Brighton, Pa.) 1
Bowne, Amy Robinson 1
Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
Camp, Kay 1
Carroll, Helen M. (Carroll, Helen Mansfield), 1912-1997 1
Cederfeld, Benny 1
Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
Coates family 1
Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887 1
Conard family 1
Conard, Edward B., ca. 1844-1917 1
Cowgill family 1
Cowgill, Eliza Coates 1
District Nurse Association of New Brighton (Pa.) 1
Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 1806-1882 1
Emlen family 1
Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
Emlen, James, 1792-1866 1
Emlen, Samuel 1
Emlen, Samuel, 1829-1920 1
Emlen, Sarah Foulke Farquhar (Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen), 1787-1849 1
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing 1
Florence E. Taylor 1
Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
Fothergill, Samuel 1
Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 1
Gilbert family 1
Gilbert, Dora Anne, 1869-1864 1
Gitchell, Alice 1
Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Haines family 1
Haines, Elizabeth Shinn, 1823-1883 1
Hallowell family 1
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 1
Harris, Dorothy G. (Dorothy Gladden), 1902-1972 1
Heacock family 1
Heacock, Eliza 1
Heacock, Elizabeth Walker 1
Heacock, Jane 1
Heacock, Joseph, 1800-1883 1
Heacock, Joseph, 1846-1918 1
Heacock, Martha 1
Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
Hunn family 1
Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
Kulka, Rosa 1
Ladies Benevolent Association of New Brighton (Pa.) 1
Lloyd, Elizabeth, 1811-1896 1
Longstreth family 1
Morton, John, active 1790-1800 1
Morton, Mary Robinson, 1757-1829 1
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
Noailles, Louis Marie, vicomte de, 1756-1804 1
Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women 1
Patterson, Mary Sullivan, 1906-1987 1
Paxson, Alice Hall , 1868-1955 1
Penrose family 1
Philadelphia Quaker Women (Organization) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on the United Nations 1
Portell-Vilá, Herminio, 1901-1992 1
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 1
Pusey, Caleb, 1650-1727 1
Richland Turnpike or Plank Road Company 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Abigail, -1835 1
Robinson, Rowland 1
Robinson, Sarah Richardson 1
Robinson, Thomas, 1731-1817 1
Sharpless family 1
Shaw, Paul Vanorden, 1898- 1
Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836 1
Shinn family 1
Shoemaker family 1
Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 1
Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936 1
Solenberger, Edith R. (Edith Reeves), 1886-1976 1
Sterling family 1
Still, William, 1821-1902 1
Strickland family 1
Sullivan family 1
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
Swarthmore College 1
+ ∧ less