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Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
"Simplicity. An Analysis of the role of simplicity in architecture and its development by the Religious Society of Friends"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-091
Overview
Frederick Charles Thum's M.F.A. thesis., entitled "Simplicity. An Analysis of the role of simplicity in architecture and its development by the Religious Society of Friends," explores the architectural evolution of the Quaker meeting house, and includes the following chapters: The Problem-Proper Relationship of the Needs of Man, The Key-simplicity, History of the Quakers, Quaker Simplicity, Meeting House Development in England, Plans for the Holy Experiment, James Portius and the Carpenters...
Dates:
1948
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
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- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
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- Smedley, Elizabeth Sharpless, 1842-1924 1
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