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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on the Religious Life of Our Society (1944-1950)

 Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/507
Identifier: QM-Phy-507
Abstract

In 3mo 1944, Rufus Jones published an article, "Are We Ready," in Friends Intelligencer. In response to his concern for deepening the spiritual life of the Religious Society of Friends, members of both the Race Street and Arch Street Philadelphia Yearly Meetings gathered six months later in the meeting house at 15th and Race Streets. Records include minutes, correspondence, and publications.

Dates: 1944-1950

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Young Friends Movement (1912-1975)

 Collection — othertype: HV/Phy/584
Identifier: QM-Phy-584
Scope and Contents Records of the Joint Young Friends Movement at Haverford include the organization's General and Annual Meeting Minutes (1929-1933), Annual Reports (1931-1947), Conference and Seminar Papers (1931-1971), Correspondence (1933-1971), Financial Records (1931-1960) Photographs (1919-1925), records of its Advisory Committee (1963-1966), its Business Committee (1931-1961), its Executive Committee (1921-1964), its Committee on Young Friends (1931-1951) and other miscellaneous committee or general...
Dates: 1912-1971

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Library Services Group

 Collection — othertype: HV/Phy/558
Identifier: QM-Phy-558
Scope and Contents The records of PYM's Library Services Group at Haverford include the body's extensive collection of Minutes, as well as the records of its Bookmobile Program, its International Book Project, its Soviet Project, and those of the related Book Service Committee and Lending Sub-committee. At the time of this recording, some materials remain outside of the two boxes in Lockwood Annex, bound among 9 folders. Their locations below will read "1250/Lockwood/Library Services Group/Un-Boxed...
Dates: 1971-2002

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting for Social Concerns (1969-1974)

 Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/758
Identifier: QM-Phy-758
Abstract

The Meeting for Social Concerns began as the Committee for Social Concerns with a deliberately loose structure and open membership. It assumed direction of numerous social action committees within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. After the Meeting for Social Concerns was laid down in 1974, these committees were placed under Coordinating Committee for Testimonies and Concerns (CCII).

Dates: 1958-1980

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting for Sufferings (1756-1910), Representative Committee (1828-1995), Interim Meeting (1996-2014), and Continuing Sessions (2015- )

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-040
Scope and Contents Records of Meeting for Sufferings, the Representative Committee, Representative Meeting and Interim Committee include minutes of proceedings, a large collection of supporting reports, and financial information for each session. Its annual reports may be found in the records of the Yearly Meeting as well as in the printed proceedings of each session. Records of smaller committees reporting to these bodies are also described in this finding aid. Larger subcommittees like the Meeting House...
Dates: 1719 - 2022

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ministry & Care and its predecessors

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-400
Abstract

The Meeting on Worship and Ministry is a gathering of Friends in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting concerned with the spiritual life of the Society, which nurtures and assists Monthly Meetings and individuals with their spiritual and worship concerns.

Dates: 1827-1998

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Miscellaneous Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-120
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Delaware County, PA), 1662-1968, including the records of a great number of its subcommittees.

Dates: 1662-1968

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Mississippi Project (1964-1966)

 Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/826
Identifier: QM-Phy-826
Abstract In response to the 1964 bombing of 44 black churches in Mississippi, Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings coordinated a joint effort to rebuild the destroyed churches and to attempt to foster racial reconciliation in the area. The project sent Lawrence and Viola Scott to Jackson, Mississippi as Quaker representatives. By 1966, the group had rebuilt 33 of the 44 churches, and built a community center in rural Canton, Mississippi. This collection is primarily composed of financial...
Dates: 1949-1967

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Nonviolence and Children Committee (1970-2015)

 Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/771
Identifier: QM-Phy-771
Abstract Since its inception in 1973, the Non-Violence and Children Committee (NVC) has explored the values, skills, and supports which enable children to develop powerful, nonviolent responses to violence. They work with Monthly Meetings, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Friends' and non-Quaker schools, the wider community and within their own committee, to support nonviolent approaches to conflict and differences, and to nurture children in the ways of peacemaking. The committee organizes and often...
Dates: 1970-1997

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Peace and Concerns Standing Committee (1998-2015)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-706
Scope and Contents

Records of the Peace and Concerns Standing Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1998-2003.

Dates: 1998-2003

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 26
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 25
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 11
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 9
American Friends Service Committee 5
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Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 5
Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology 4
Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 4
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1936) 4
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. International Outreach Committee (1974-) 4
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Religious Education Committee 4
Westtown Boarding School 4
Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 4
Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 3
American Young Friends Fellowship 3
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 3
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 3
Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends 3
Davis, Bainbridge C., 1910-1993 3
Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
Germantown Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
Haverford College 3
Haverford Monthly Meeting of Friends (1904-) 3
Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972 3
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia held at Spruce Street (Hicksite : 1833-1903) 3
Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Japan Committee 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Mission Board 3
Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 3
Woolman School (Swarthmore, Pa.) 3
Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1944) 2
Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
American Friends Fellowship Council 2
American Friends Service Committee. Message Committee 2
Ann Arbor Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Ann Arbor, Mich.) 2
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 2
Black Economic Development Conference 2
Brinton family 2
Brinton, Anna Cox 2
Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 2
Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 2
Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 2
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 2
Byberry Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Cheltenham Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 2
Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1934) 2
Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Media, Pa.) 2
Clark, Rebecca Timbres, 1896- 2
Cleveland Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Cleveland, Ohio) 2
Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 2
Cunningham, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne), 1934-2020 2
Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends 2
Earlham College 2
Elfreth, Jacob R. Jr., 1837-1924 2
Elfreth, Jacob R., Sr., 1789-1870 2
Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 2
Emlen family 2
Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadelphia 2
Frankford Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1805-1827) 2
Frankford Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) 2
Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.) 2
Friends Center Corporation (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Friends Temperance Association of Philadelphia 2
General Meeting of Men and Women Primitive Friends of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey 2
Germantown Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1877-1914) 2
Goodenow, Leanore 2
Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 2
Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.). Fair Hill Friends' Meeting 2
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1714-1827) 2
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1936) 2
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1936- ) 2
Haverford Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite 1827-1950) 2
Heacock, Walter G. 2
Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 2
Howland, David P., 1809-1852 2
Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 2
Kennett Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) 2
Kennett Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1904) 2
Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 2
Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 2
Little Elk Meeting (Society of Friends : Hickory Hill, Pa.) 2
London Grove Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 2
Marlborough Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Media Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia 2
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Moorestown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1951- ) 2
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 2
Norristown Preparative Meeting of Friends (1860-1936) 2
Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 2
Oxford Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Oxford, Pa.) 2
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