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Emlen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Abstract
Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates:
1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Abstract
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Abstract
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
Marshall Fell writings
Collection — othertype: SC-256
Identifier: SFHL-SC-256
Abstract
The collection contains drafts of poems, letters to the editor, and a few personal letters. 1880-1890. Most of the letters express support for prohibition; one letter mentions the school run by Bradford Preparative meeting.
Dates:
1880-1890
Feminists in Solidarity with the Central American and Caribbean People Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Feminists in Solidarity-Central American and Caribbean People
Abstract
Collection includes meeting notes, form letters, correspondence, flyers, publicity and media coverage, and one folder of information about Margaret Randall, feminist poet and writer.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1983-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Fisher-Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-332
Abstract
The Fisher-Brinton collection contains the papers of an Irish-American and Pennsylvania family with roots in the earliest years of the Society of Friends. It includes correspondence, diaries, memoirs, photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials that reflect family and Quaker concerns, and, in particular, the Conservative branch of the Society of Friends. Abraham Fisher (1823-1909) was a member of a prominent Quaker family of Youghal County, Ireland. In 1871, he assumed a position as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1846 - 2020; 1764 - 2020
Fisher-Whitson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-281
Abstract
This collection contains manuscripts and other materials relating to the Whitson, Smedley, Fisher and other Quaker families of southeastern Pennsylvania. Along with commonplace books, correspondence, and photographs are a series of thematically arranged genealogical binders assembled by the donors. Of particular interest are the battlefield correspondence of Sam Smedley who was killed in the American Civil War and the journal of Esther Whitson, later Cope, who served as a nurse with the AFSC...
Dates:
1778-2011
Ross Flanagan Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-064
Abstract
Ross Flanagan (1934- ), is Quaker pacifist and activist, has been involved in many Quaker-sponsored projects, peace, and civil rights activities. In the 1950s he served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee. He was an early protestor against the Vietnam war and worked with A Quaker Action Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s Flanagan was involved in neighborhood revitalization projects in West Philadelphia.
Dates:
1962-1993; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Francis Daniel Pastorius Frankfort Land Company papers
Collection — othertype: SC-151
Identifier: SFHL-SC-151
Abstract
This collection includes photocopies of papers relating to Francis Daniel Pastorius in his role as agent for the Frankfort Land Company. In particular they refer to the legal dispute over the ownership of the land in 1708.
Dates:
1683-1721
Joseph Scattergood (collector) An account of the Free Quakers
Collection — othertype: SC-113
Identifier: SFHL-SC-113
Abstract
This volume contains the collection of Joseph Scattergood of original and manuscript copies of documents relating to the Free Quakers, bound by his son George Scattergood. The Free Quakers disagreed with the strict disownment policy for members of the Society of Friends who fought in the Revolutionary War. Led by Samuel Wetherhill, this group wanted to practice Quakerism without the strict rules of discipline and disownment. The papers in Scattergood's collection include petitions, published...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1781-1885 [ 1781-1802]
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- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 2
- Allen family 2
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 2
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 2
- Brinton family 2
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- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 2
- Camp, Kay 2
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- Friend, Theodore 2
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- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 2
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- Lippincott, H. Mather, Jr. (Horace Mather), 1921-2010 2
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- Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin), 1871-1938 2
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
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- Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953 2
- Valentino, Carmen 2
- Walker family 2
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- War Resisters League 2
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- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 2
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
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- Bailey, Emma Harriet Doll 1
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- Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916 1
- Baily, Theodate Lang 1
- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
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