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Grace Contrino Abrams and Fran Contrino Schmidt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schmidt, Fran Contrino and Grace Contrino Abrams
Overview
This small collection of papers details especially the life of Grace Contrino Abrams and her strong interests in teaching and in working against injustice in whatever form. The clippings from newspapers of media coverage, as well as the many Letters to the Editor, show some of her public life, while letters, and reminiscences of sister Fran Contrino Schmidt, fill out her private life. It should be noted that though there were five siblings, Grace and Fran spent much of their time together in...
Dates:
1942-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Irwin Abrams Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
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
Abstracts from the Le Ray Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records
Collection — othertype: SW/NY/L453
Identifier: QM-NY-L453
Overview
Abstracted records of Le Ray Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1843, copied by Grace Moffett Lansing from the compilations of Minnie Ward Kellogg.
Dates:
1828-1843
Bella Abzug Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abzug, Bella
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1966-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Academic Computing Center records
Collection
Identifier: HCE-005-004
Overview
Newsletters, guides, and correspondence related to academic computing at Haverford College.
Dates:
1983-2001
ACCESS Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-216
Overview
Includes correspondence, annual reports, administrative files, financial records, literature and publications, manuscripts, minutes of meetings, periodicals, publicity materials, reference files, computer disks, and photographs. Correspondents include Paul J. Aicher, William Kincade, and Mary E. Lord.
Dates:
1984-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Historical Library account book collection
Collection — othertype: MSS-001
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-001
Overview
Account books are ledgers in which commercial and personal financial accounts are recorded. This collection consists of individual account books that were given to the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College as single accessions.
Dates:
1729 - 1946
"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.
Ackworth School, England records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-001
Overview
Ackworth School was founded in 1779 as a co-educational boarding school for Quaker children by Dr. John Fothergill and other Quakers. It is located in West Workshire, England. It was intended to be a board school for children whose parents were not rich. This collection is comprised of four volumes, one of which is a transcription of one of the other volumes. They all relate to the rules and regulations for the Ackworth School in England.
Dates:
1785-1786, undated
Dr. Mavis Kelsey Collection of Adams-Harris Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-M17
Overview
John Quincy Adams, later President of the United States, acted as Chief Plenipotentiary of the American delegation negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, and ending the War of 1812. Levett Harris was the American Consul (later the Charge d'Affaires) in Russia at this time. Adams's letters containing observations on the course of the negotiations, mediated by the Emperor Alexander, to Levett Harris are included in this collection. Harris, when later seeking appointment as Minister to Russia, was...
Dates:
1814 - 1820
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 37
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- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 28
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 26
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 26
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 25
- Fox, George 25
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- Penn, William, 1644-1718 22
- War Resisters League 21
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 21
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 19
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 19
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 19
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 18
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 18
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 18
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 17
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- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 15
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 15
- Haverford College. Office of the President 15
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 15
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 15
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 15
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 15
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 15
- Adelman, Seymour, 1906-1985 14
- Cope family 14
- Jones, Mary Hoxie 14
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 14
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 14
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 14
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 13
- Lloyd family 13
- Lyttle, Bradford 13
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 13
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 13
- Taylor family 13
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 12
- Friends World Committee for Consultation 12
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 12
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 12
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 12
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 12
- Kaufman, Abraham 12
- Morris family 12
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 12
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 11
- Evans family 11
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 11
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 11
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 11
- Sharpless family 11
- Smith family 11
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 11
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 11
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 10
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 10
- Earlham College 10
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 10
- George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 10
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 10
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 10
- Newton, Ray 10
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 10
- Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920 10
- Smith, Daniel B. 10
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 9
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 9
- Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 9
- Brown family 9
- Bryn Mawr College Library 9
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 9
- Cooper family 9
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 9
- Elkinton family 9
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 9
- Fothergill, Samuel 9
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 9
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 9
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 9
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 9
- Jones family 9
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