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Christopher Marshall Jr. account book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-08-016
Overview

The account book of Christopher Marshall Jr. records the accounts of various individuals, including payments made and account balances.

Dates: 1771-1796

Mitchell Family letters

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-959
Overview

The papers of the Mitchell family, Quakers in 19th century Philadelphia.

Dates: 1830 - 1911

Morris family financial records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-08-018
Overview

The Morris family financial records include account books, trustee accounts, and receipt books. Volumes generally record deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.

Dates: 1794-1943

Morris-Shinn-Maier collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1191
Overview This collection spans approximately 200 years, from the late 1700s to the late 1900s, and five generations of the Morris-Shinn-Maier family, which are traced through matrilineal and patrilineal lines. They were prominent Quaker businessmen and lawyers in the Philadelphia area, and a large portion of the collection is dedicated to their legal and business material, as well as a great deal of very detailed financial material. There is also a quantity of personal material, namely diaries and...
Dates: 1720-1975

George Newbold Correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-194
Identifier: SFHL-SC-194
Abstract

Contains business and family correspondence received by George Newbold.

Dates: 1804-1850

Alfred Parrish family papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-342
Overview

Business letter books, estate papers, and personal correspondence of Alfred Parrish (1848-1921). He and his brother Dillwyn Parrish were involved with tramway (trolley) development internationally. A birthright Quaker from Philadelphia, Alfred Parrish left the United States in 1879 and spent the remainder of his life in Europe, mostly England and Italy. His daughter, Gladys Parrish Huntington, was a well-known novelist.

Dates: 1851 - 1957

Partnership for Productivity Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-102
Overview Contains the records, 1968-1987, of Partnership for Productivity, a Quaker-sponsored program in overseas economic development, created to advise small business ventures primarily in African countries. Founded in 1969 by David H. Scull with an initial project in Western Kenya, it was designed to provide capital for loans or investments combined with management counsel and personal supervision through its two organs, the Partnership for Productivity Foundation/USA, Inc., and the Partnership...
Dates: 1968-1990

Caleb Peirce letterbook

 Collection — othertype: RG5-340
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-340
Overview

Letter book of Philadelphia Quaker merchant Caleb Peirce (1763-1853). 270 complete business letters, 43 partial with alternating pages removed. Peirce operated a hardware store that offered all types of metalwork as well as related household and some fine goods. He corresponded with shippers, suppliers, fellow merchants, and customers, and the letters document the challenges of domestic and international commerce.

Dates: 1805 - 1812

Rhoads-Evans-Garrett Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1331
Overview

The William Evans Rhoads family papers collection contains letters, financial material, deeds, photographs, genealogical charts and more, related to William Evans Rhoads, his children, and his ancestors extending back to the early 1800s. William Evans Rhoads was a Quaker businessman living in Moorestown, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century.

Dates: 1699-2011

Alfred D. Sharples invoices and correspondence received

 Collection — othertype: SC-298
Identifier: SFHL-SC -298
Overview

The collection contains invoices, estimates, and correspondence received by West Chester Quaker businessman, Alfred D. Sharples. These include work contracted for the Friends' Boarding Home of Concord Quarterly Meeting and properties owned by Sharples in West Chester and Philadelphia. Most of the contractors were based in West Chester and include glaziers, brickmakers, steam and gas fitters, painters, etc.

Dates: 1883 - 1915

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Westtown Boarding School 4
Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854 3
Cope family 2
Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 2
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 2
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Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 2
Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858 2
Morris family 2
Alford, Terry (Seller) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Anna Morris Shinn Maier 1
Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911 1
Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912 1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
Baxter family 1
Baxter, Mary, 1830-1918 1
Baxter, William, 1824-1886 1
Biddle family 1
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
Brinton family 1
Brinton, David, 1864-1945 1
Brinton, Eleanor Fisher, 1868-1958 1
Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
Brinton, William Fisher, 1909-2008 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Cadbury, Lydia C. Shinn 1
Cadbury, Richard, 1825-1897 1
Cadorus, Page 1
Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 1
Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874 1
Collins, Julia Cope 1
Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
Cope, Annette 1
Cope, Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) 1
Cope, Clementine 1
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker) 1
Cope, Elizabeth Stewardson 1
Cope, William D. (William Drinker) 1
Darlington family 1
Darlington, Martha Sharples, 1906-1979 1
Darlington, Richard Stiles 1
Dolobran Mining Company 1
Evans family 1
Evans, Anne Tall 1
Evans, Francis Algernon 1
Evans, J. Morris 1
Evans, Rachel Reeve Cope 1
Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 1
Evans, William Bacon, 1875-1964 1
Fisher family 1
Fisher, Abraham, 1823-1909 1
Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819 1
Fisher, Sarah Wright, 1822-1886 1
Fisher, Susanna G., 1865-1956 1
Friends Select School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends' Boarding Home of the Concord Quarterly Meeting 1
Garrett, Thomas Cresson, 1805-1888 1
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 1
Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore 1
Guest family 1
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
Haines, Elizabeth Shinn, 1823-1883 1
Haines, Henry 1
Harrison, Hannah 1
Harvey, Francis A. (Francis Adolphus), 1905- 1
Haverford College 1
Hicks family 1
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820 1
Hockley, Richard 1
Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
Hopkins, Mary Brinton, 1831-1926 1
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
Howell, John Ladd, 1738-1785? 1
Howell, John, 1713- 1
Howland family 1
Howland, David P., 1809-1852 1
Hume, Sophia, 1701-1774 1
J.E. Rhoads and Sons 1
James, Dorothy Biddle 1
Jenkins, Mary Ash, 1875-1948 1
Jones, Owen 1
Jones, William 1
Ladd, John, -1740 1
Langmuir, Robert (Bookseller) 1
Leeds, Morris Evans 1
Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
Maier family 1
Maier, James Shinn 1
Maier, Paul David Irwin 1
Maier, William Morris 1
Marriott, Charles 1
Marshall, Christopher 1
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 1
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