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Friends Neighborhood Guild
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-035
Abstract
Friends Neighborhood Guild is a social welfare agency established by Hicksite Quakers in 1879 to serve the Poplar section of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It began as a volunteer organization for immigrant children and evolved into a settlement house and community center. This collection primarily contains early records of Friends Neighborhood Guild, and also the records of two related Quaker societies, the Friendly Settlement Association and the Spring Street Mission.
Dates:
1880-1962
The New York Colored Mission records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1123
Abstract
The records of a Quaker organization from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, with social and training offerings in New York, particularly to the African American community, and based on the principle of obtaining jobs and decent housing for African Americans.
Dates:
1865-1964
Filtered By
- Subject: Social work with African Americans X
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- Library
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 1
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
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- African Americans -- Education 1
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 1
- African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Church work 1
- Church work with immigrants -- Pennsylvania 1
- Church work with the poor -- Pennsylvania 1
- Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 1
- Community centers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Home missions -- Pennsylvania 1
- Immigrants -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 1
- Poor -- Pennsylvania 1
- Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Social settlements -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Urban poor -- Pennsylvania 1
- Youth -- Services for 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Barton, Joshua L., 1849-1926 1
- Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Mission No.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Neighborhood Guild 1
- New York Colored Mission 1
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