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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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Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 18
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 16
Society of Friends -- Charities 16
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 13
Quakers -- Societies, etc. 12
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Charities -- Pennsylvania 11
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 11
Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 10
Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 9
Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 7
African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 6
Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 6
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 6
Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania 5
Education -- Pennsylvania 5
Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 5
Quakers -- Social service 5
Social service -- Pennsylvania 5
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 5
African Americans -- Pennsylvania 4
Church work with older people -- Society of Friends 4
Quakers -- Social life and customs 4
Schools -- Pennsylvania 4
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Societies, etc. 4
African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania 3
African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania 3
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population 3
Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 3
Quaker women -- Charities 3
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 3
Society of Friends -- Education 3
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 3
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc. 3
African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
Byberry (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Church work with immigrants -- Pennsylvania 2
Endowments -- Pennsylvania 2
Immigrants -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 2
Old age homes -- Pennsylvania 2
Poor -- Pennsylvania 2
Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
Poor -- Services for 2
Quaker philanthropists 2
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 2
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs 2
Quaker women -- Societies and clubs 2
Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
Quakers -- Education 2
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 2
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 2
Sewing schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
Sick -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 2
Society of Friends -- Charities -- Pennsylvania 2
Youth -- Services for 2
account books 2
African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
African Americans -- Education -- Southern States 1
African Americans -- Education -- Virginia 1
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population 1
African Americans -- Services for -- Southern States 1
American periodicals 1
Apprentices -- Pennsylvania 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Societies, etc. 1
Boys -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
Burial -- Pennsylvania 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney 1
Charities -- United States 1
Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Church work 1
Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 1
Church work with older people -- Pennsylvania 1
Church work with older people -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Church work with refugees -- Society of Friends 1
Church work with the poor -- Pennsylvania 1
Civic leaders -- Pennsylvania 1
Clothing and dress 1
Community centers -- Pennsylvania 1
Education -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 1
Education -- Southern States 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- Diaries 1
Ex-convicts -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 1
Food relief -- Pennsylvania 1
Food relief -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States 1
Freed persons -- Services for -- Southern States 1
Freed persons -- Southern States 1
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
Girls -- Pennsylvania 1
Girls -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 1
Home missions -- Pennsylvania 1
Housing -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 1
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 1
Indians of North America -- Missions 1
International relief -- Europe 1
Land use -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
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Names
American Friends Service Committee 2
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 2
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing 2
Friends Instruction Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
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Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Swarthmore College 2
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons 1
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Colored Women 1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
Beehive School for Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Benezet House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Biddle family 1
Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
Biddle, Robert, 1867-1935 1
Biddle, William C. 1
Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends (Bucks County, Pa.) 1
Byberry Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Byberry Library Company 1
Byberry Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
Byberry School Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Central Employment Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Central Soup Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Cheyney Training School for Teachers 1
Christiansburg Industrial Institute 1
Cooper, Stanley B. 1
Earlham College 1
Evans, Charles, 1802-1879 1
Freedmen's Friend (Cambria, Va.) 1
Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.) 1
Friendly Acres Community Services (Secane, Pa.) 1
Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children (West Chester, Pa.) 1
Friends Boarding Home of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Newtown, Pa.) 1
Friends Freedmen's Association 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 Shelter for Girls 1
Friends Village (Newtown, Pa.) 1
Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freedmen 1
Friends' Boarding Home of the Concord Quarterly Meeting 1
Friends' Home for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
Fuel Saving Society of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia 1
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
Grandom Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Grandom, Hartt, 1778-1840 1
Guilford College 1
Haverford College 1
Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
Holmes family 1
Holmes, Jesse Herman, 1864-1942 1
Holmes, Rebecca W. (Rebecca Webb), 1868-1957 1
Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Humphreys, Richard, 1750-1832 1
Ingram, William S. 1
Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Institute for Colored Youth at Cheyney 1
James, Dorothy Biddle 1
Jeanes, Joseph 1
Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 1
Joseph Sturge Mission School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Leidy, Joseph 1
Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
Locust Street Mission Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
McInnes, Robert K. 1
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 1
Moon family 1
National Federation of Religious Liberals (U.S.) 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
Parke, Thomas, 1749-1835 1
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
Perot, T. Morris 1
Philadelphia First Day School Union 1
Philadelphia Society for Supplying the Poor with Soup 1
Philadelphia Soup House 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Concord Quarterly Meeting of Friends 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. Concord Quarterly Meeting of Friends 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Social Concerns 1
Relief Missions of the Society of Friends 1
Richard Humphreys Foundation 1
Richardson, Thomas, 1816-1867 1
Rickman, Lydia Cooper Lewis, -1885 1
Robins, George 1
Sharma, Shirpad Rama, -1879 1
Shoemaker family 1
Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 1
Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936 1
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