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Friends World College Collected Papers 1957-1992

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-116
Overview Friends World College was conceived as an accredited, co-educational, degree-granting liberal arts college combining a residence program with the opportunity for foreign travel and study. Planned as a "college without walls," it was sponsored by the New York Yearly Meeting and opened in September 1965. It was merged into Long Island University in 1991. The collection contains Mary-Cushing Niles's files pertaining to all aspects of Friends World College. Mary-Cushing Niles (1900-1993), a...
Dates: 1957-1992

Ruth P. Ringenbach Collected Friends World College Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-247
Overview Ruth P. Ringenbach, a member of Westbury Monthly Meeting, was a member of the Friends World College Association and served on the New York Yearly Meeting Liaison Committee. She was treasurer of the Association from 1978-1985. Friends World College became independent of New York Yearly Meeting in 1975, but members of the Association who were also members of New York Yearly Meeting served as a liaison between Friends World College and New York Yearly Meeting, keeping the Yearly Meeting...
Dates: 1975-1985

Friends World College Records

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-082
Overview Friends World College was conceived as an accredited, co-educational, degree-granting liberal arts college combining a residence program with the opportunity for foreign travel and study. Planned as a "college without walls," it was sponsored by the New York Yearly Meeting and opened in September 1965. The College flourished in the 1960s counterculture environment, but ran into financial difficulties in the 1970s. While much of its support came from...
Dates: 1958-2001

Frost family correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-292
Identifier: SFHL-SC-292
Overview

The collection contains correspondence between members of the Gideon and Mary W. (Willets) Frost family, Hicksite Quakers of Westbury, Long Island, New York. Gideon Frost was a successful merchant, philanthropist, and founder of Friends Academy at Locust Valley. Family members were active in Quaker concerns, especially education and abolition. The letters mention prominent Friends, family, and anti-slavery concerns.

Dates: 1831 - 1871

Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-174
Overview Abby Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893), daughter of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), was an important figure in many of the reform movements of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, especially abolition and her work with the Women's Prison Association and Isaac T. Hopper Home. In 1833, she married fellow Hicksite Quaker, James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), a member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Her daughter, Sarah Hopper Emerson, used some of this material as a basis for her 1897 biography...
Dates: 1824-1992 [bulk 1850-1892]

Anna Gillingham Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-051
Overview 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

Robert Wallace Gilmore Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-163
Abstract

Robert W. Gilmore was a Quaker pacifist who was involved in a number of peace groups, either as a staffperson or as a Board member. His papers reflect these involvements through correspondence and other materials.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-1982

Samuel B. Haines Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-055
Overview

Samuel Bowne Haines (1834-1913) was a banker and a minister in New York Monthly Meeting. The collection contains family correspondence (1859-1869), expense book of Samuel B. Haines, and Quaker manuscripts, possibly by Mary Caley. Also includes genealogical and biographical materials on the Haines, Gaskill, and related families.

Dates: 1850-1894

Charles Thomas Hancock, II, New York Young Friends Correspondent papers

 Collection — othertype: SC -296
Identifier: SFHL-SC -296
Overview Charles Thomas Hancock, II, was a Quaker historian and activist. He served as a CO in World War II and was a member of Scarsdale Monthly Meeting and later Mount Toby Monthly Meeting. He served as editor of a newsletter, the New York Young Friends Correspondent from 1949-1951. The small collection contains largely business correspondence concerning the Correspondent, with some older Quaker material for reference. The Correspondent was published from 1939 to about 1951, supported by tbe two...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949 - 1951

Hicks Family Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-282
Overview

The Hicks family was a Long Island, New York, Quaker family with extensive connections to prominent members of the Society of Friends. The collection contains correspondence, mostly relating to Quaker concerns, received by Isaac Hicks (1815-1900) and others; genealogical research of Benjamin D. Hicks, and miscellaneous collected papers concerning the Society of Friends and Swarthmore College.

Dates: 1784-1940

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Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Antislavery movements 1
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Authors and publishers -- United States 1
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Bookstores -- New York (State) -- New York 1
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Flushing (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Sources 1
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Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
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Indians, treatment of 1
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New York (N.Y.) 1
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New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 6
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 4
New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 4
Friends World College 3
Jackson, Anna M. (Anna Margaret), 1848-1920 3
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Jackson, William M. (William Morris), 1837-1919 3
Long Island University 3
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on a Friends World College 3
Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 3
Swarthmore College 3
Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861 2
Bogardus, Joseph A., 1851-1896 2
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 2
Cox, John, 1860-1951 2
Friends' Employment Society (New York, N.Y.) 2
Gibbons family 2
Hopper family 2
Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 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 Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
Nicklin, George L. 2
Nine-Partners' Boarding School (Washington, N.Y.) 2
Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Scott, Job, 1751-1793 2
Underhill, Rachel W., 1844-1923 2
Wood, M. S. (Mary Sutton), 1805-1894 2
Young Friends Aid Association (New York, N.Y.) 2
American Friends Service Committee 1
Arnold family 1
Association of Friends for the Relief of Freedmen (New York, N.Y.) 1
Barrows, Samuel J. (Samuel June), 1845-1909 1
Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 1
Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921 1
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940 1
Boardman, Anna Florence, 1913-1978 1
Bowery Savings Bank of New York 1
Bowne, Amy, 1795- 1
Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
Branson family 1
Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
Capron, George T. (George Truman), b. 1858 1
Capron, Jacob, d. 1891 1
Carpenter family 1
Chaffee, Edmund B. (Edmund Bigelow), 1887-1936 1
Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907 1
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917. 1
Circle of the King's Daughters (New York, N.Y.) 1
Collins, Ellen, 1828-1927 1
Collins, Sarah, b. 1795 1
Committee of Correspondence (New York, N.Y. : 1960-1962) 1
Committee on U.S.-U.S.S.R. Peace Leadership Exchange 1
Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964 1
Cousins, Norman 1
Cromwell, Caroline A., b. 1833 1
Crozer Theological Seminary 1
Davis, Mary E., d. 1879 1
DeRosa, Ulysses, 1892- 1
Densmore, Christopher 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dodge, Grace H. (Grace Hoadley) 1
Downing family 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Emerson family 1
Emerson, Sarah Hopper, 1835- 1
Eyre, Isaac, 1819-1904 1
Foulk, Mabel P. 1
Foulk, Theodore 1
Foulke, Elizabeth, 1758-1820 1
Free Produce Association of Friends, of New-York Yearly Meeting 1
Free-School Society of New-York 1
Friends Ambulance Unit 1
Friends Equal Rights Association (New York, N.Y.) 1
Friends Literary and Library Association of New York 1
Friends Temperance Union (New York, N.Y.) 1
Friends' Social Union (New York, N.Y.) 1
Frost, Gideon, 1798-1880 1
Frost, Mary W. (Mary Willets), 1803-1847 1
Garvan, Theresa 1
Gaskell family 1
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 1
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 1
Gillingham family 1
Gillingham, Anna, 1878-1964 1
Gillingham, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Hancock), 1837-1929 1
Gillingham, Theodore T. (Theodore Tyson), 1836-1923 1
Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 1
Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Haines family 1
Haines, Samuel B. (Samuel Bowne), 1834-1913 1
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 1
Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921 1
Hancock, Charles Thomas "Tom", II, 1914-1997 1
Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927 1
Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
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