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Rebecca Singer Collins papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1196
Overview
Letters and diaries of Rebecca Singer Collins (1804-1892), a nineteenth-century Quaker well known for her religious philanthropic work.
Dates:
1824-1886
Mary Davis letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-004
Overview
Correspondence is largely personal, but does include a number of letters addressed to Mary Davis's Meeting, including South Kingstown Monthly Meeting. Letters included in this volume are all written by Mary Davis, and are addressed to the following individuals: Lydia Gould, P. Dunham, J Walton, and her son, J.H Davis, among others. Letters are generally religious in nature, or are related to personal matters such as news of family and friends. A number of letters dated 1838 are related to...
Dates:
1838-1849
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Overview
This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates:
1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-018
Overview
The Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing was a Quaker charity founded in 1828 to distribute clothing and provide other assistance to the sick and poor of Philadelphia. It went out of existence in 1975.
Dates:
1828-1978
Fisher-Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-332
Overview
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
Sarah Logan Fisher letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-006
Overview
The letterbook of Sarah Logan Fisher includes personal correspondence. The majority of letters are written to Fisher's family members, including her brother, Charles Fisher, and her cousin, Mary Arch, as well as a number of unnamed cousins. Letters largely concern family and friends, and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community.
Dates:
1783-1788
Friends' Employment Society Record
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-098
Overview
The Friends Employment Society was founded in 1862 in New York City by Hicksite women as the Women's Association of Friends for the Employment and Relief by Clothing of the Suffering Poor. Incorporated in 1902, it provided employment for the working poor by providing sewing projects. In 1948 it revised its charter to state its purpose of giving help to needy people, through contributions to other charitable organizations. This collection contains minutes and...
Dates:
1862-1948
Friends Instruction Association records
Collection — othertype: RG4-028
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-028
Overview
Contains the records of the Friends Instruction Association including minutes and financial records, receipts from stores, and published bylaws. Friends Instruction Association was organized in 1873 by Philadelphia Quaker women as A Mothers Meeting. Originally part of the Penn Sewing School, the group incorporated in 1876 as Friends Instruction Association. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting provided a meeting space in the Race Street meeting house. Its purpose was...
Dates:
1843-1894
Friends Medical Society and Reproductive Rights
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-293
Overview
This collection contains various materials on the Friends Medical Society as they relate to reproductive rights and abortion rights between 1967 and 2017. It also contains corresponding letters, journal excerpts, and newspaper clippings relating to general reproductive rights and abortion rights by Quakers and non-Quakers.
Dates:
1967 - 2017
Sarah Cooper Tatum Hilles family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1213
Abstract
The Sarah Cooper Tatum Hilles family papers house the correspondence of a Quaker family who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Woodbury, New Jersey; Wilmington, Delaware; and other surrounding areas from approximately 1840 to 1882. A majority of the letters were written to or by Sarah Cooper Tatum Hilles; her husband, John Smith Hilles; and other Tatum or Hilles family members. There is a small sampling of assorted family papers, dating from 1825 to 1901. Included, among other items, are...
Dates:
Bulk, 1840-1882 1791-1930; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1882
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