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A. Keith and Ruth Smiley slides
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-161
Overview
A. Keith and Ruth Smiley were Quakers active in the Mohonk area. This collection consists of slides they took on their travels to England, Africa, and other sites.
Dates:
1952 - 1976
A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present order,...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Abington monthly meeting manumissions
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-001
Scope and Content note
This volume records the manumissions of slaves for various members of Abington Monthly meeting. The Manumissions include a statement describing who the slave holder is freeing, and why, and includes the signatures of the slave holders and their witnesses. Individuals whose manumission of slaves is recorded in the volume include: Thomas Walton, David Parry, Thomas Fletcher, Susannah and Thomas Walmsley, Sarah Bolton, Margaret Bolton, Rachel Bolton, and Isaac Bolton, Silar Walmsey, Thomas...
Dates:
1775
Abington Friends School (Abington, Pa.) Account book
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-001
Overview
Abington Friends School was established by Abington Monthly Meeting in the latter part of the eighteenth century as a day school. The account book covers the period 1828-1842. Pupil's names are given with the status of their payments, etc.
Dates:
1828-1842
Abington Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-A200
Scope and Contents
Records of Abington Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, the pre-Separation and Hicksite monthly meetings, since 1670. Included are: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women; minutes of the women's meeting; registers of births and deaths; marriage and membership records; certificates of removal, disownments, etc.; epistles received and other miscellaneous papers. Records of the Orthodox Abington Monthly Meeting include: membership, 1827-1886; removals, 1828-1921;...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1670-2017
Abington Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-A220
Scope and Contents
The original records of Abington Preparative Meeting -- pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox -- include minutes of men's, women's and joint business meetings as well as other records. Records of Abington Preparative Meeting include: men's minutes, 1786-1897 (H), 1827-1868 (O); women's minutes, 1787-1893 (H); women's account books, 1834-1874; school fund account books, 1773-1900 (H).
Dates:
1773-1943
Abington Quarterly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-A250
Scope and Contents
Records of Abington Quarterly Meetings, 1786, include: Hicksite and United men’s minutes; Orthodox men’s minutes; Hicksite women's minutes; Orthodox women’s minutes; First-day School Union records; minutes of the Hicksite Meeting on Worship and Ministry, the Ministry and Counsel Committee, and of the Meeting of Ministers and Elders, Orthodox; Orthodox meeting financial records; minutes of the Abington Visitation Committee; minutes of the Gwynned Visitation Committee; minutes of the Visitation...
Dates:
1786-2018
Abortion Study Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-710
Overview
The Abortion Study Group was formed by the Family Relations Committee to discuss the Yearly Meeting's position on abortion issues. It met monthly for two years, and wrote position papers supporting the pro-life and pro-choice points of view. Records include minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1981-82
Irwin Abrams Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abrams, Irwin
Abstract
Includes biographical and bibliographical information and photocopies of a small portion of Abrams published writings, including material about the Nobel Peace Prize, women Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize, Henri La Fontaine, and Carl von Ossietzky.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
"Account of Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless & John Pierce's Visits to the Indian Reservation in Western New York"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-130
Overview
This copy of an account from 1798 and 1799 was written in an unknown hand likely in the latter half of the 19th century. The volume describes Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless, and John Pierce's travel to Native American reservations on behalf of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee, and the work they did while there.
Dates:
Undated.
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- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 8
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- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 6
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- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 6
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 6
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 6
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- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.) 5
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- Poole, William, 1764-1829 5
- Schofield, Martha 5
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 5
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- Walton, George A. (George Arthur), 1883- 5
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- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 5
- Wood, Carolena Morris, 1871-1936 5
- Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 5
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- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 4
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 4
- Brinton family 4
- Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 4
- Earlham College 4
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- Foulke family 4
- Foulke, Joseph, 1786-1863 4
- Friends Ambulance Unit 4
- Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology 4
- Friends Housing, Inc. 4
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 4
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 4
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