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Fair Hill Boarding School records

 Collection — othertype: SC-036
Identifier: SFHL-SC-036
Abstract This collection includes manuscripts relating to the establishment of Fair Hill Boarding School by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Included are documents concerning the purchase of land, distribution of the Fair Hill Fund, and lists of rules for Westtown and Nine Partners Boarding Schools. These materials reflect Quaker views of education and their objectives in the establishment of Quaker schools. Especially interesting is a letter from Ann King relating the efforts of Nine Partners School to...
Dates: 1815-1869

Charles Farquar correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-037
Identifier: SFHL-SC-037
Abstract

This collection includes correspondence from Benjamin Hallowell to his brother-in-law, Charles Farquar. The letters relate primarily to family news, and occasionally address issues related to the Alexandria Boarding School and methods of teaching scientific and mathematical information.

Dates: 1829-1842

Fisher-Whitson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-281
Abstract This collection contains manuscripts and other materials relating to the Whitson, Smedley, Fisher and other Quaker families of southeastern Pennsylvania. Along with commonplace books, correspondence, and photographs are a series of thematically arranged genealogical binders assembled by the donors. Of particular interest are the battlefield correspondence of Sam Smedley who was killed in the American Civil War and the journal of Esther Whitson, later Cope, who served as a nurse with the AFSC...
Dates: 1778-2011

Bliss Forbush Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-043
Abstract Bliss Forbush (1896-1987), Quaker educator, administrator, and author, served as the Headmaster of Baltimore Friends School, Chairman of Friends General Conference, and Executive Secretary of Baltimore Monthly Meeting. The collection contains many of his scrapbooks, including “A Forbush Chronicle” is the three volume manuscript 1896-1976, with additions to 1979, of his autobiography. Also in this collection are the manuscripts of Elias Hicks, Quaker Liberal, and A History of Baltimore Yearly...
Dates: circa 1915-1945

Maria Fox family correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-041
Identifier: SFHL-SC-041
Abstract

This collection primarily includes letters written by Maria Fox to her parents in Philadelphia while she was a student at Wilmington Boarding School. Also included are two letters from Maria's sister, Sarah Ann. The correspondence gives an account of the daily experiences of a student at Wilmington Boarding School. One letter briefly mentions a talk given at the school by the Quaker minister, Emmor Kimber.

Dates: 1809-1825

Theodore Friend Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-D11
Abstract

Theodore Friend was President of Swarthmore College from 1973 to 1982. He is a teacher, historian, and novelist. His books include Indonesian Destinies (Harvard University Press, 2003) and Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines (Yale University Press, 1965). He is President Emeritus of the Eisenhower Fellowship and a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Dates: 1923 - 1982

Friends General Conference Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-025
Abstract

Friends General Conference is a Quaker organization in the unprogrammed tradition of the Religious Society of Friends which primarily serves affiliated yearly and monthly meetings. For additional information about Friends General Conference, please consult their web site: http://www.fgcquaker.org/info/

Dates: 1867-2013

Friends' Opportunity in the Orient

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-036
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1923-1924

Anna Gillingham Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-051
Abstract Anna Gillingham (1878-1964) was a prominent Quaker educator and author. She taught at Friends Central School in Philadelphia from 1901-05, was school psychologist in the Ethical Culture School in New York City from 1905-36, directed the remedial reading program at the Punahon School in Honolulu from 1936-38, and was a consultant on remedial reading after 1938. She also co-authored a book on remedial training for children with Stillman. She was co-founder of the Orton Society, a national...
Dates: 1849-1962

Griscom family correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-050
Identifier: SFHL-SC-050
Abstract This collection primarily includes correspondence between William Wade Griscom and his family while he was at Benjamin Hallowell's boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia. Correspondents include his father, William, his stepmother, Sarah Whitelock, and his sister, Hannah S. Included are grade reports from Friends Central School and from Alexandria Boarding School, descriptions by William Wade Griscom of his trips to Washington, D.C., and an account of a lecture by Horace Mann. Also included...
Dates: 1844-1896

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Swarthmore College 12
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Hallowell family 3
Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 3
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Comly, John, 1773-1850 2
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Holcombe, Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds), 1891-1878 2
Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 2
Nason, John W. 2
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 2
Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 2
Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 2
Truman, George 2
White, Barclay, 1821-1903 2
Ackworth School 1
Alsop, John , b.1813 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Andrews, C. F. (Charles Freer), 1871-1940 1
Association of Friends Schools. Executive Committee 1
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Atkinson, Stephen, b. 1819 1
Augur, Margaret Riggs 1
Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956 1
Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
Bailey, Moses, 1892-1994 1
Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1864-1950 : Baltimore, Md.) 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Committee on Education 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Fair Hill Fund 1
Barnard, Ella K. (Ella Kent), 1853- 1
Barnard, Mary A. (Mary Anna), 1828-1865 1
Beans, Mary, b. 1811 1
Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
Bentley, Caleb, 1761?-1851 1
Birdsall, William W. (William Wilfred), 1854-1909 1
Bowne, Amy, 1795- 1
Brown, Gould 1
Browning, Robert M., 1913-2009 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 1
Bush, Annie Hallowell, 1849-1930 1
Bush, Edwin M. 1
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Bushong, Edith K., 1836-1914 1
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Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
Camp, Kay 1
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Canton Christian College 1
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Carey, Matthew, 1760-1839 1
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Charles F. Kettering Foundation 1
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Comly, Debby Ann, 1812-1882 1
Comly, Isaac, 1779-1847 1
Comly, Rebecca, 1773-1832 1
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Cooper, Lucy M. (Lucy Middleton), 1813-1872 1
Cope, Esther Whitson, b.1900 1
Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847 1
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Cromwell, Caroline A., b. 1833 1
Dartmouth Conference (XIII : 1981 : Moscow) 1
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Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
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Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-1990 1
Elizabeth R. Lippincott (Elizabeth Roberts), 1888-1979 1
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Farquar, Charles, 1800-1844 1
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Fisher family 1
Fisher, Alfred William 1
Fisher, Thomas S., b.1928 1
Forbes, Hugh, -1770 1
Forbush, Bliss, 1896-1990 1
Forbush, La Verne, 1894-1990 1
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