Showing Collections: 1 - 6 of 6
Allen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-001
Overview
Contains the papers of the Allen Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which traced its ancestry back to one of William Penn's commissioners. Includes papers relating to the Allen and related Breidenhart, Casdorp, Gibbons, Hubley, Jacobs, Matlack, and Samuel families. The Allen family papers contain extensive genealogical material, family correspondence, journals and memorials which provide excellent source material on Quaker family life in the 19th...
Dates:
1700-1954
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Overview
This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates:
1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859
Elizabeth Shinn Haines Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-054
Overview
Elizabeth Shinn Haines (1823-1883) was a Philadelphia Orthodox Quaker. She married Henry Haines in 1845. The collection contains diaries, commonplace books, and albums.
Dates:
1836-1882
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-070
Overview
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn (1818-1911) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Quaker. The collection contains diaries (1881-1908), reminiscences (1893), and other family papers.
Dates:
1881-1908
Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-139
Overview
Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds...
Dates:
1860-1957
Florence E. Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-145
Overview
Florence E. Taylor was the descendant of a Quaker family whose roots went back to the settlement of Pennsylvania. Her parents were Frederick W. Taylor (1848-1919) and Emily Hunt Taylor (d. 1942). Fred Taylor, a wealthy Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist to the Society of Friends, was the son of Charles Maus Taylor and Anna E. W. Sterling Taylor. His grandfather was Israel Taylor (1782-1850). The collection includes correspondence of Israel Taylor (1782-1850) and Charles M. Taylor...
Dates:
1806-1995
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Library
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 5
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 1
- Subject
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 5
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 5
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 4
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 4
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 3
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Genealogy 2
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Diaries 2
- deeds 2
- diaries 2
- Burial -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
- Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Civic leaders -- Pennsylvania 1
- Conservative Quakers 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
- Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Housewives -- Pennsylvania 1
- Land use -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History 1
- Philadelphia County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker deeds 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker publishers 1
- Quaker women -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
- Quaker women -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women ministers -- 19th century 1
- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Real property -- Pennsylvania 1
- Real property -- Pennsylvania -- Pike County 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia County 1
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 1
- Women civic leaders -- Pennsylvania 1
- Women philanthropists -- Pennsylvania 1
- albums (books) 1
- biographies (documents) 1
- genealogies (histories) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Westtown Boarding School 2
- Allen family 1
- Allen, Charles, 1776-1843 1
- Allen, George Briedenhart, 1804-1869 1
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
- Breidenhart family 1
- Casdorp family 1
- Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 1
- Florence E. Taylor 1
- Gibbons family 1
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
- Haines family 1
- Haines, Elizabeth Shinn, 1823-1883 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hubley family 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Jacobs family 1
- Matlack family 1
- Samuel family 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Shinn family 1
- Shoemaker family 1
- Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 1
- Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936 1
- Sterling family 1
- Taylor family 1
- Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1817-1893 1
- Taylor, Emily H. (Emily Hunt) 1
- Taylor, Israel, 1782-1850 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
