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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
A Trip to Europe photo album
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-06-005
Overview
This photo album documents a trip to Europe in 1891. The album begins on the S.S. Waesland with many images of the passangers and crew. In Europe, Hemmenway visits Antwerp, Brussles, Cologne, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, Pisa, Paris, London, Stratford, Chester, and Liverpool, as well as traveling down the Rhine by boat.
Dates:
1891
"John Greenleaf Whittier: Some General Characteristics of his Poetry"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-001
Overview
Wilhelm Aarek's thesis, entitled "John Greenleaf Whittier: Some General Characteristics of his Poetry," provides a brief history of early American literature and the influence of religion, chiefly providing a literary analysis of John Greenleaf Whittier's poetry, including various influences on his poetry, as well as its themes and subjects.
Dates:
Undated.
"An Account of the Death of a Prussian Nobleman"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-002
Overview
The manuscript, "An Account of the Death of a Prussian Nobleman," written by Ruth S. Abbott, describes the death of a Prussian nobleman in 1749, as an example of the ideal, peaceful death of a faithful Christian.
Dates:
1924
Abby Hopper Gibbons Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-069
Overview
Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893) was an important figure in many of the reform movements in the middle and late nineteenth century. Like her father, Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), "Abby" Gibbons was an ardent abolitionist and dedicated to prison reform. This collection includes: a carte de visite album compiled by Abby Hopper Gibbons; a daguerreotype of Abby with her husband James and children; and photographs of her descendents, the Dunning family.
Dates:
1854 - 1935
Jayma Abdoo Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abdoo, Jayma
Abstract
Abdoo was actively involved with the Vietnam War draft resistance group, the Camden 28, which this small collection of papers helps to document.
Dates:
1971-1977
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
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- Penn, William, 1644-1718 19
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 18
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- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 15
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 15
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 14
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 14
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- Lloyd family 12
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- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 12
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Geneva, Switzerland (International Office) 12
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- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 11
- Friends World Committee for Consultation 11
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 11
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 11
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 11
- Jones, Mary Hoxie 11
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 11
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 10
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 10
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 10
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 10
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 10
- Morris family 10
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 10
- Newton, Ray 10
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 10
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 10
- Baer, Gertrude 9
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 9
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 9
- Brown family 9
- Cadbury family 9
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 9
- Cooper family 9
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 9
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 9
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 9
- Fothergill, Samuel 9
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 9
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 9
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 9
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- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 9
- Sharpless family 9
- Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920 9
- Smith family 9
- Smith, Daniel B. 9
- Society of Friends 9
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