Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer Records
Scope and Contents
The collection contains minutes, 1818-1854 (gap 1819-1821) and other records, including acting committee minutes and workbook, 1843-1851.
Dates
- Creation: 1818-1862
Creator
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Biographical / Historical
The Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer was a Quaker women's organization founded in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to provide relief for impoverished sick children and their mothers from the crowding and oppressive heat during the summer months. The Association was proposed by Casper Wister, M.D., (1801-1867) and was originally housed in a wing of the City Hospital.
Extent
0.4 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer was a Quaker women's organization founded in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to provide relief for impoverished sick children and their mothers from the crowding and oppressive heat during the summer months. The collection contains minutes, 1818-1854 (gap 1819-1821) and other records, including acting committee minutes and workbook, 1843-1851.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into two series. The series are:
- Minutes
- Miscellaneous
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposited by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1975.
Existence and Location of Copies
Minutes, 1818-1854 (gap 1819-1821) available on microfilm: Film Org.-H (film on roll with Home for Moral Reform)
Topical
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Records and correspondence
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
- Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Sick -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Social service -- Pennsylvania
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Society of Friends -- Charities
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc.
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania
- Title
- An Inventory of the Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer Records, 1818-1862
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1975
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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