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Swarthmore Refugee Resource House
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-088
Abstract
The Swarthmore Refugee Resource House, Swarthmore, Pa., was founded in 1979 by members of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting as a place of temporary assistance and shelter for legal refugees in gaining independence by providing them with shelter, counseling and tutoring in English. The Swarthmore Refugee House was incorporated in 1988 as a non-profit corporation. However, the House was laid down in 1994 when Swarthmore College reclaimed its building and the Board was unable to find either sufficient...
Dates:
1979-1994
The Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-053
Abstract
This Hicksite Quaker women's charity was organized in 1844 and incorporated in 1856. Its mission was to provide employment in sewing for poor women. Lucretia Mott served as president until 1866. The Association went out of existence in 1926. The collection contains legal documents, financial records, membership list (1849-1872), reports, correspondence, and related papers.
Dates:
1841-1929
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- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 9
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- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 7
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 7
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 5
- Society of Friends -- Charities 5
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 5
- African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 4
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 4
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 4
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 3
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 3
- Education -- Pennsylvania 3
- Poor -- Services for 3
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 3
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 3
- Sick -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 3
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Societies, etc. 3
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 3
- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania 2
- African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 2
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population 2
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania 2
- Church work with immigrants -- Pennsylvania 2
- Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 2
- Clothing and dress 2
- Immigrants -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 2
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Patients -- Clothing 2
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- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 2
- Quakers -- Social service 2
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc. 2
- African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population 1
- Apprentices -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Charities -- United States 1
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 1
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- Church work with refugees -- Society of Friends 1
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- Community centers -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Food relief -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Home missions -- Pennsylvania 1
- Indians, treatment of 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
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- Poor -- Employment -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
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- Prison reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- Charities 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quaker women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Quakers -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- New Brighton 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Poor -- Services for 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Quakers -- Poor -- Services for 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Refugees -- Pennsylvania 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Social settlements -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Soup kitchens -- Pennsylvania 1
- Soup kitchens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Urban poor -- Pennsylvania 1
- Women -- Employment -- Pennsylvania 1
- Women -- Pennsylvania 1
- Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Youth -- Employment -- Pennsylvania 1
- Youth -- Services for 1
- account books 1 + ∧ less
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- Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing 2
- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
- Beaver Valley General Hospital (New Brighton, Pa.) 1
- Beehive School for Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Benezet House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Biddle, Robert, 1867-1935 1
- Biddle, William C. 1
- Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Central Employment Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Central Soup Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Cooper, Stanley B. 1
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
- District Nurse Association of New Brighton (Pa.) 1
- Evans, Charles, 1802-1879 1
- Foulke, Elizabeth, 1758-1820 1
- Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Mission No.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Neighborhood Guild 1
- Fuel Saving Society of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia 1
- Grandom Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Grandom, Hartt, 1778-1840 1
- Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Ingram, William S. 1
- Jeanes, Joseph 1
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 1
- Joseph Sturge Mission School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Ladies Benevolent Association of New Brighton (Pa.) 1
- Leidy, Joseph 1
- Locust Street Mission Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- McInnes, Robert K. 1
- Murray, John, 1758-1819 1
- Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 1
- Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women 1
- Northern Female Association for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 1
- Perot, T. Morris 1
- Philadelphia First Day School Union 1
- Philadelphia Society for Supplying the Poor with Soup 1
- Philadelphia Soup House 1
- Robins, George 1
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 1
- Spring Street Mission (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Spring Street Settlement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
- Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends). Refugee Committee 1
- Swarthmore Refugee Resource House 1
- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 1
- William Keinath Fund 1 + ∧ less
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