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Friends Association of Byberry Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-019
Abstract

The Byberry Friends Association was a Quaker group which met monthly in Byberry, Pa, to hear papers on a variety of topics and to discuss issues of the day. This collection contains the records of the Friends Association of Byberry, 1900-1932.

Dates: 1900-1932

Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-084
Abstract

The Friends Boarding House Association was incorporated in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the purpose of establishing a boarding home for Quakers and others. The Association was dissolved in 1913 with the establishment of a Boarding Home under the care of the Quarterly Meeting. The collection contains records of the Friends Boarding House Association, 1877-1913, including legal papers, minutes and other documents.

Dates: 1877-1913

Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia Records

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-021
Abstract

The Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia was incorporated in 1873 by Hicksite Quakers to operate stores for the sale of Quaker Books and to subsidize the publication and reprinting of important Quaker books. It ceased operation in 1908. The collection contains minutes, committee reports, correspondence, financial and legal papers.

Dates: 1873-1909

Friends Central School Records

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-022
Abstract Friends' Central School was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a Quaker secondary school by a Joint Committee of three Hicksite monthly meetings (Society of Friends). It was first located at 4th and Cherry Sts. In 1857, it was moved to 15th and Race Sts., and in 1925, it was moved to its present location in Overbrook, Pa. The current academic program includes grades K-12. The collection contains minutes of the Friends' Central School and Friends' Central School System and related...
Dates: 1844-1951

Friends Historical Association records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-901
Abstract

The collection contains records of meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, information concerning the Conference for Quaker Historians and Archivists, details about various committes within the association, publications and publicity, events, and miscellaneous materials of the Friends Historical Association.

Dates: 1873-2012

Friends' Home for Children

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-086
Abstract Friends' Home for Children (“Friendly Acres”) was established in 1881 in Philadelphia by Hicksite Quakers. The Home was a residential facility for orphans and other children in need, modeled on a homelike environment rather than the large institutional more typical of the era. The Home was administered by a Board of Managers which originally was composed entirely of members of the Society of Friends. Eventually it became a summer camp, “Camp Sommerdale,” a summer facility for the children....
Dates: 1881-1988

Friends Housing, Inc., Records

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-030
Abstract

This collection contains the records, 1966-1975, of Friends Housing, Inc., a non-profit Quaker organization founded in 1966 to aid in the rehabilitation of low income housing in the Mantua section of Philadelphia, Pa. The records include minutes and reports, correspondence, and related papers.

Dates: 1966-1975

Friends Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-031
Abstract

Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia was an organization of Hicksite Quakers in Philadelphia founded in 1869 to solicit donations of money and goods to distribute to the Native American tribes assigned to the oversight of the Yearly Meeting by the Department of Interior during the period of Grant's peace policy. The collection includes reports and minutes, financial reports, correspondence, and lists of goods.

Dates: 1869-1875

Friends' Institute scrapbook

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-007
Abstract

The scrapbook of the Friends' Institute includes materials related to the Friends' Institute for Young Men, particularly for the lectures and events of the organization. Lectures focus on a variety of topics, including business ethics, party politics, early friends and their services in America, the idolatry of culture, and Siberian convicts. Also included are the annual reports of the board of managers.

Dates: 1881-1909

Friends Instruction Association records

 Collection — othertype: RG4-028
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-028
Abstract Contains the records of the Friends Instruction Association including minutes and financial records, receipts from stores, and published bylaws. Friends Instruction Association was organized in 1873 by Philadelphia Quaker women as A Mothers Meeting. Originally part of the Penn Sewing School, the group incorporated in 1876 as Friends Instruction Association. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting provided a meeting space in the Race Street meeting house. Its purpose was...
Dates: 1843-1894

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 5
Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 3
Elkinton family 3
Haverford College 3
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A Quaker Action Group 2
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2
Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916 2
Benezet, Anthony 2
Brown, Mary Wistar, 1807-1842 2
Brown, Moses, 1793-1879 2
Brown, Moses, 1829-1883 2
Byberry Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Cadbury family 2
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 2
Comly, John, 1773-1850 2
Cope family 2
Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854 2
Cornplanter, Seneca chief 2
Evans family 2
Fisher family 2
Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779 2
Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 2
Friends Instruction Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 2
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 2
Lakey, George 2
Lippincott, H. Mather, Jr. (Horace Mather), 1921-2010 2
Lloyd family 2
Lyttle, Bradford 2
Ogden family 2
Ogden, Charles Smith, 1822- 2
Parrish family 2
Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 2
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Penn, William, 1644-1718 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Reynolds, Earle L. 2
Shivers, Lynne 2
Swarthmore College 2
Taylor, George Washington 2
Van Hoy, Judy, 1960- 2
Walker family 2
Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
Wistar, Thomas 2
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Alexandria Boarding School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Alford, Terry (Seller) 1
Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
Alsop family 1
Alston, Jonathan 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Protective League 1
Anderson, J. Aubrey 1
Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 1
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason 1
Atkinson, Caroline J., 1881-1953 1
Ault, Jennie Fuehrer, 1906-1995 1
Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
Bacon family 1
Bacon, David 1
Baily, Alfred 1
Baily, Theodate Lang 1
Balderston, Lloyd, 1863-1933 1
Balderston, Mark 1
Balderston, Mary F. 1
Baldwin, James, 1841-1925 1
Barnes, Gregory Allen, Sir 1
Bassett family 1
Beheiren 1
Bettle, Samuel 1
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
Biddle, John W., 1835-1916 1
Biddle, Robert, 1867-1935 1
Biddle, William C. 1
Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
Boyd, Lizette, 1838-1867 1
Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
Braxton, John Worth 1
Brinton, William, 1759-1842 1
Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
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Broomell, Anna Pettit 1
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Brown, Elizabeth Potts 1
Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
Brown, Mary Farnum 1
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Bush, Annie Hallowell, 1849-1930 1
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Byrns, Elinor 1
Cadbury, Caroline, 1801-1868 1
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