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Quaker Emergency Service records
Collection — othertype: SC-192
Identifier: SFHL-SC-192
Abstract
The collection is organized into four folders: the group's general records, including the initial plan and charter; the records of the Civilian Readjustment Committee, the post-war arm of the group; information on a project in Brazil; and writings by people outside the group. Of interest are transcript talks given by Peter F. Amoroso of the New York Department of Correction, and Austin H. MacCormick of the Osborne Association. There is also a carbon copy, attributed to John S. Gough, of the...
Dates:
ca. 1941-1948
Josiah P. Marvel collected Quaker Emergency Service records
Collection — othertype: SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Abstract
Collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the wartime projects of the Quaker Emergency Service, 1942-1945, and its postwar Civilian Readjustment Committee, including typed minutes, 1947-1961. Also includes papers concerning the Spears Mobile Clinic which operated in Syria with the help of the Friends Ambulance Unit, including a typescript describing the mission; the dispersal of French funds, 1954-1958, raised by Mme. de la Noue for her Centre Guynemer and deposited with the Quaker...
Dates:
1942-1966
New York Yearly Meeting collection of Quaker poetry
Collection — othertype: SC-226
Identifier: SFHL-SC-226
Abstract
Contains poetry collected by New York Yearly Meeting as a topical collection. Folder 1 contains the commonplace book by an anonymous Quaker man which contains both original and copied works [n.d.]; Folder 2 contains the commonplace book of Aaron Baker (1772-1855) containing original and copies, ca. 1799-1855; Folder 3 holds loose manuscript poems; Folder 4 contains typed and printed poems and a detailed list of all the poems in the collection; Folder 5 contains loose poems by Benjamin...
Dates:
1761-1937
Collection of sufferings of Flushing Friends during the American Revolution
Collection — othertype: SC-243
Identifier: SFHL-SC-243
Abstract
Contains a document listing the Sufferings of Friends belonging to Flushing Monthly Meeting given to the Committee appointed to inspect the Sufferings of Friends, 1782. Also, accounts submitted by individuals and related epistles, 1775 and 1778, from London and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.
Dates:
1775-1789
Charles Edgar Roake family papers
Collection — othertype: SC-108
Identifier: SFHL-SC-108
Abstract
This collection includes photostatic copies of the birth certificate of Joseph Roake, and of other members of the Roake family. Also included is a photostatic copy of the journal of Joseph Roake. These materials appear in Charles Edgar Roake's book, The Journal of Joseph Roake, published in 1954.
Dates:
1739-1795
Leon A. Rushmore collection of New York Yearly Meeting miscellaneous papers
Collection — othertype: SC-213
Identifier: SFHL-SC-213
Abstract
This collection of miscellaneous papers collected by Leon A. Rushmore includes several religious essays or sermons, a copy of Nicholas Waln's 1772 prayer, and an undated address "To the great Sachems and Chief of the [missing] sitting around the Counsill at new york" possibly transcribed from dictation.
Dates:
ca. 1789-1833
Rutherford Literary Association secretary's book
Collection — othertype: SC-178
Identifier: SFHL-SC-178
Abstract
Constitution and minutes, 1889-1893, of Rutherford Literary.
Dates:
1889-1893
David Seaman correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-114
Identifier: SFHL-SC-114
Abstract
This collection includes the correspondence of David Seaman, primarily relating to the Hicksite controversy. Correspondents include Edward Hicks, Samuel Mott, Halliday Jackson, and John Comly.
Dates:
1808-1843
Sky Island Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-121
Overview
Sky Island was a refugee vacation hostel run by the American Friends Service Committee in copperation with the American Christian Committee for Refugees from about 1938 until at least 1947. Flora E. Pottenger was a teacher from Warsaw, Indiana, who worked at Sky Island during the summer of 1946. Her Sky Island papers, all photocopies, include correspondence, reports, and photographs.
Dates:
1945-1947
Smith family correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-133
Identifier: SFHL-SC-133
Abstract
The collection contains family correspondence, most received by Ebenezer R. Smith, a Quaker of New York State and Iowa. Of interest is an unsent letter to Orson Squire Fowler, phrenologist and radical author, in which Ebenezer Smith expresses interest in taking Fowler's courses in order to pursue a career as lecturer and phrenologist. Letters from his parents, Barak and Mary Smith, of Springdale, Iowa, and other relations mention farm life and family concerns.
Dates:
1852-1878
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- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 17
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 6
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 6
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 5
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 5
- Swarthmore College 5
- Jackson, William M. (William Morris), 1837-1919 4
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 4
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 4
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 3
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 3
- Cox, John, 1860-1951 3
- Friends World College 3
- Jackson, Anna M. (Anna Margaret), 1848-1920 3
- Long Island University 3
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 3
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 3
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on a Friends World College 3
- Nine-Partners' Boarding School (Washington, N.Y.) 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861 2
- Bogardus, Joseph A., 1851-1896 2
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 2
- Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 2
- Friends' Employment Society (New York, N.Y.) 2
- Gibbons family 2
- Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 2
- Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 2
- Gillingham family 2
- Gillingham, Anna, 1878-1964 2
- Hallock family 2
- Hicks family 2
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 2
- Hopper family 2
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 2
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 2
- Marlborough Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite: 1828-1847 : Milton, N.Y.) 2
- Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959 2
- Moses Brown School 2
- Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 2
- New York Friends Group 2
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1958-1974 : New York, N.Y.) 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings 2
- Nicklin, George L. 2
- Oakwood School (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) 2
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
- Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 2
- Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.) 2
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 2
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 2
- Spears Mobile Clinics 2
- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 2
- Underhill, Rachel W., 1844-1923 2
- Westtown Boarding School 2
- Wilbur, Henry Watson, 1851-1914 2
- Willis, Thomas, 1770 or 1771-1864 2
- Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956 2
- Wood, M. S. (Mary Sutton), 1805-1894 2
- Wood, William, 1797-1877 2
- Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends (Waterloo, N.Y.) 2
- Young Friends Aid Association (New York, N.Y.) 2
- Young Friends' Association (New York, N.Y.) 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 1
- Ackworth School 1
- Adams, Martha D. 1
- Ahimsa Farm 1
- Albertson family 1
- Alsop, John , b.1813 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- Amoroso, Peter F. 1
- Angell, Benjamin, d. 1868 1
- Arnold family 1
- Association of Friends for the Relief of Freedmen (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Axford, Roger W. 1
- Bacon, George B., 1835-1890 1
- Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
- Bajer, Fredrik, 1837-1922 1
- Baker, Aaron, 1772-1830 1
- Barnard College 1
- Barnard, Hannah, 1754?-1825 1
- Barrows, Samuel J. (Samuel June), 1845-1909 1
- Battin, Isaac, approximately 1835-1912 1
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 1
- Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
- Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921 1
- Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940 1
- Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
- Blom, Dorothea Johnson, -1911 1
- Boardman, Anna Florence, 1913-1978 1
- Bowery Savings Bank of New York 1
- Bowne family 1
- Bowne, Amy, 1795- 1
- Bowne, John, 1627-1695 1
- Bradley, A. Day (Amos Day), -1905 1
- Brainerd, Cephas, 1831-1910 1
- Braithwaite family 1 ∧ less
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