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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Mission Board (1923-1956)
Collection — othertype: HV/Phy/836
Identifier: QM-Phy-836
Scope and Contents
Records of the Mission Board of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting at Haverford include the minutes, financial accounts and other records from the time of the groups inception in 1923 until 1956, as well as those of its branches at Germantown, Haverford and Moorestown Monthly Meetings and other miscellaneous documents, including the extensive diary collection of missionary Edith F. Sharpless, which begins in 1908 but provides a thorough chronicle of her experience with the Mission Board in...
Dates:
1923-1956
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Teas Committee (1896-1932)
Collection — othertype: HV/Phy/582
Identifier: QM-Phy-582
Scope and Contents
Records of the Yearly Meeting Teas Committee begin with the group's appointment in 1896 and consist chiefly of the financial records kept by Treasurer J. Henry Scattergood. Records pertaining to duties of the Committee following its discontinuation (1932- 1948) 1948) are among the Miscellaneous Papers.
Dates:
1896-1948
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Visitation Committee
Collection — othertype: HV/Phy/111
Identifier: QM-Phy-111
Scope and Contents
Records of the Visitation Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Delaware County, PA), 1922-1924.
Dates:
1922-1924
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ad Hoc Committee for Financing the Youth and Family Facility at Burlington Meetinghouse (1988-1995)
Collection — othertype: HV/Phy/255
Identifier: QM-Phy-255
Scope and Contents
Records of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Financing the Youth and Family Facility at Burlington Meetinghouse held at Haverford include the group's Minutes (1990-1995), Correspondence (1988-1993), Financial Records (1989-1992), records pertaining to Keast and Hood Engineers (1992-1993) and its Operations and Use Subcommittee (1993-1994).
Dates:
1987-1995
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ad Hoc Working Party on the Abolition of Torture (1976)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/792
Identifier: QM-Phy-792
Abstract
An Ad Hoc group to investigate the widespread use of torture around the world was appointed after Yearly Meeting in 1975. In 1976, Arthur W. Clark reported on its work and presented a program on Amnesty International. On the suggestion of Kay Camp, Yearly Meeting recommended that Representative Meeting establish a Working Party on the Abolition of Torture.
Dates:
1976
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Administrative Council and its predecessors (including General Secretary Offices)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/325
Identifier: QM-Phy-325
Abstract
The administrative structure of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has been re-worked a number of times. This finding aid describes administrative records and office files, primarily from the early 20th century to the present -- from the time when the Hicksite and Orthodox Yearly Meetings first began to employ paid staff to handle administrative matters. Today these functions are grouped under the auspices of General Services. This finding aid also describes the records of the General...
Dates:
1829-2005
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: AIDS Working Group (1992-2000)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/769
Identifier: QM-Phy-769
Abstract
The AIDS Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting began in 1992 as a response to the growing severity of the AIDS epidemic. The main focus of the group, organized under the title of "A Quaker Ministry to Persons With AIDS," was to visit those terminally ill with AIDS to provide solace, friendship, and spiritual counseling. The AIDS Working Group also organized the Quaker presence at the Philadelphia AIDS Walk and held retreats and seminars for caregivers of AIDS patients. The group...
Dates:
1991-2000
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Annual Sessions
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-001
Abstract
A general meeting for Friends in the Delaware Valley area was first convened at Burlington in 1681. The first general meeting held in Philadelphia was in 1683, and in 1685, it was agreed that the meetings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be combined into one yearly meeting with alternate sessions at Philadelphia and at Burlington. The great Separation among Philadelphia Friends into Orthodox and Hicksite branches occurred at the Yearly Meeting of 1827. Through the course of the early...
Dates:
1662 - 2022
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Bequests Committee (1976-2004)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/054
Identifier: QM-Phy-054
Abstract
The Committee on Bequests was established by Representative Meeting September 23, 1976 with instructions to review requests for financial aid from three bequests: The Longstreth Fund (given by Emily P. Longstreth), the Troemner Fund (given by S. Edna Troemner), and the Keeney Bequest (given by Virginia Drysdale Keeney), and to recommend such appropriations as seemed best in the Committee's judgment to the Representative Meeting for approval by that body. The committee continues to 2004 under...
Dates:
1979-1992
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Central America Working Group (1985-1996)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/772
Identifier: QM-Phy-772
Abstract
The Central America Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting began in 1985 under the name "Sanctuary Working Group." In 1986, the group was given over twenty one thousand dollars with which to send volunteers to the American southwestern border to aid refugees. In 1989, the name of the group was changed to the Central America Working Group, and its three main areas of activism became lobbying, education, and refugee assistance. The most recent minute of the group in this collection...
Dates:
1972-1993
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