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The Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women records
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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 7
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- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Friends Instruction Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Biddle, Robert, 1867-1935 1
- Biddle, William C. 1
- Byberry Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Central Soup Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Cooper, Stanley B. 1
- Evans, Charles, 1802-1879 1
- Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.) 1
- Friendly Acres Community Services (Secane, Pa.) 1
- Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Housing, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Mission No.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Neighborhood Guild 1
- Friends Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends' Home for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
- Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Ingram, William S. 1
- Jeanes, Joseph 1
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 1
- Leidy, Joseph 1
- McInnes, Robert K. 1
- Northern Association of the City and County of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Perot, T. Morris 1
- Philadelphia First Day School Union 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955).Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting of Friends 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Social Concerns 1
- Robins, George 1
- Spring Street Mission (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
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