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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Economic Problems (1937-1948)
The Committee on Economic Problems was appointed in 1937 to cooperate with the Social Order Committee of the Arch Street Yearly Meeting. Clair Wilcox, a Quaker professor of Economics at Swarthmore College was the first Chair. The Committee was interested in a variety of related issues, including industrial relations, unemployment, and economic and social research.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs and its predecessors (1881-1978)
Records of the Committee on Alcohol Problems of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and its predecessors, Friends Temperance Committee and the Friends Temperance Association of Philadelphia. Includes minutes, financial records, copies of literature, clippings, and other materials.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Social Service Committee (1936-1964)
The Social Service Committee was appointed in 1936, continuing the work of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Primarily educational in nature, its work included providing information to local Quaker meetings on social service issues. The Committee was renamed the Committee on Social Welfare in 1964.
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Committee on the Education of the Colored People of the South (1887-1892) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Social Service Committee 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee of Mission Work Among Women & Children 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Books of the Temperance branch 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Improper Publications 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Purity 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Social Order Committee 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs 1
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Social Welfare Committee (1964-1969) 1
- Richie, David S., 1908- 1
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- Wilcox, Clair, 1898-1970 1 ∧ less
