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Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason collected records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-218
Abstract
This collection contains information sent to Tyler Williams, agent for Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, N.J., concerning the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason. It includes the proposal for the Asylum, announcement of its opening, an admission certificate, and other circulars that were sent to meetings under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Dates:
1812-1831
Biddle family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates:
1793-1951
Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Overview
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
Friends Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-031
Overview
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia was an organization of Hicksite Quakers in Philadelphia founded in 1869 to solicit donations of money and goods to distribute to the Indian tribes in Nebraska assigned to the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) during the period of Grant's peace policy. The collection includes reports and minutes, financial reports, correspondence, and lists of goods.
Dates:
1869-1875
Grandom Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-040
Overview
The Grandom Institution was a charity established in 1841 through the will of Hartt Grandom, a Philadelphia Quaker, to provide fuel, clothing, and financial assistance to poor Philadelphians. The collection contains minutes, reports, legal, and financial records, as well as similar records of two affiliated but independent organizations, the Fuel Savings Society of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Soup House and records pertaining to the William Keinath Fund, an...
Dates:
1765-1971
Zebedee Haines Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-056
Overview
Zebedee Haines (1843-1923) was a Quaker who was active in the work of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends and of its Indian Committee in the late 19th century. Zebedee was also a student, teacher, administrator, and school committee member at Westtown School. The Haines family ran a dairy farm in West Grove, Pennsylvania. The collection contains family correspondence and diaries. Also includes letters of Zebedee Haines to his wife, describing his visits to Tunesassa and to native...
Dates:
1857-1922
Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds) Holcombe Diaries
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-063
Overview
Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978) was a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference. Hadassah Holcombe taught mathematics at the Germantown Friends School for ten years, and, in addition to her other activities, served on the Boards of Swarthmore College, Antioch, George School, Sidwell Friends, and Haverford College. The...
Dates:
1904-1937
Jesse Herman Holmes Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-064
Overview
Jesse Herman Holmes (1864-1942), was a Quaker philosophy professor at Swarthmore College, 1900-1937. Holmes was an active participant in AFSC relief after World War I, travelling to oversee work in reconstruction throughout Europe. Holmes was the president of the National Federation of Religious Liberals and an active member of the Socialist party. Collection contains correspondence, biographical data, writings, and sermons. Also audio cassettes of reminiscences of friends, former students,...
Dates:
1905-1973
Holmes-Webb Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-065
Overview
William B. Webb was a druggist and member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite). He married Rebecca Turner in 1853. Their youngest daughter, Rebecca St. Claire Webb, married Jessie Herman Holmes in 1892. Holmes was a prominent Quaker, taught philosophy and religion at Swarthmore College, and was active in AFSC relief in Europe after World War I. He also served as President of the National Federation of Religious Liberals and was an active member of the Socialist Party. The...
Dates:
1839-1972
Elmore Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-202
Overview
Writings, correspondence, and other papers of Elmore Jackson (1910-1989), a noted Quaker author and former U.S. State Department official. Jackson was particularly involved in using Quaker principles in the realm of international relations. This collection also includes the papers of his wife, Elisabeth Rose Averill Jackson (1909-).
Dates:
1927-1985
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- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 2
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- Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
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- Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
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- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
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- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Grandom Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Grandom, Hartt, 1778-1840 1
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- Haines, Anna P. (Anna Philips), 1849-1924 1
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- Haines, T. Harvey (Thomas Harvey), b. 1871 1
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- Hoag, Huldah, 1762-1850 1
- Holcombe, Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds), 1891-1878 1
- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- Holmes family 1
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- Philadelphia Society for Supplying the Poor with Soup 1
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- Sharma, Shirpad Rama, -1879 1
- Smith, Rebecca Smith, 1795-1846 1
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