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Friends' Home for Children
Friends Housing, Inc., Records
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.
Friends Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia
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.
Friends Instruction Association records
Friends Intelligencer Associates Executive Committee Records
Contains the records, 1885-1944, of the Executive Committee, Friends Intelligencer Associates, the group which managed and edited the Hicksite Quaker periodical, Friends Intelligencer from 1920 to 1955. Includes minutes, 1916-19, miscellaneous papers including financial statement, 1885-1930, and mailing lists to 1944.
Friends Medical Society and Reproductive Rights
This collection contains various materials on the Friends Medical Society as they relate to reproductive rights and abortion rights between 1967 and 2017. It also contains corresponding letters, journal excerpts, and newspaper clippings relating to general reproductive rights and abortion rights by Quakers and non-Quakers.
Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children Records
The Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children was founded in 1966, to bring injured and orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children to the United States for medical treatment. Some children were placed in foster homes or were permanent adopted. The organizers worked in cooperation with Welcome House in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and with other organizations. The group disbanded in October 1969.
Friends Neighborhood Guild
Friends Neighborhood Guild is a social welfare agency established by Hicksite Quakers in 1879 to serve the Poplar section of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It began as a volunteer organization for immigrant children and evolved into a settlement house and community center. This collection primarily contains early records of Friends Neighborhood Guild, and also the records of two related Quaker societies, the Friendly Settlement Association and the Spring Street Mission.
Friends' Opportunity in the Orient
Friends Opportunity in the Orient was an unofficial Hicksite organization which sponsored a Quaker teacher in Canton, China, in the 1920s. The collection contains primarily correspondence with Margaret Hallowell Riggs, who was sponsored to teach at Canton Christian College and Canton Hospital.
Friends Reading Circle of Media
Friends Reading Circle of Media was a Quaker book group established in 1877 in Media, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of discussing Quaker and other religious writings and as a social gathering for Friends. This collection contains its minutes, 1877-1891. Also included are minutes of the Friends Reading Circle for the Northern District, 1875-1876, whose secretary, Elton B. Gifford, moved to the Media area in 1877.
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- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 6
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- Penn, William, 1644-1718 6
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 6
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 6
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 6
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- Comly, John, 1773-1850 5
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 5
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 5
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- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 5
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 5
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 5
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 5
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 5
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 5
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 5
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 5
- Parrish, John, 1729-1807 5
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 5
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 5
- Schofield, Martha 5
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 5
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 5
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 5
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 4
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- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 4
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 4
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- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 4
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 4
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- Simmons, Henry 4
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- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Walton family 4
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- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 4
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 4
- Young Friends' Association (New York, N.Y.) 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
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- Allinson, Samuel, 1739-1791 3
- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 3
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 3
- Brinton, Anna Cox 3
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- Canton Christian College 3
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- Evans, Charles, 1802-1879 3
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 3
- Evans, William Bacon, 1875-1964 3
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- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 3
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 3
- Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 3
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