Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of the Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing, 1829-1978. It contains correspondence, minutes, reports, membership lists, financial and legal documents.
Dates
- Creation: 1828-1978
Creator
- Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
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.
Extent
4 linear ft. (8 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
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.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into 9 series. The series are:
- History
- Legal Papers
- Minutes
- Annual Reports
- Financial Records
- Record of Relief Activities
- Correspondence
- Miscellaneous Papers
- Memorabilia
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dorothy Hallowell, 1974
Gift of Dorothy Hallowell, Hannah Trescott, June Hallowell, 1982
Gift of Eleanor Zendt, 1990
Separated Materials
FHL Relics, #381
Subject
Genre / Form
Topical
- Charities -- Pennsylvania
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Clothing and dress
- Patients -- Clothing
- Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Sick -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Society of Friends -- Charities
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Societies, etc.
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies and clubs
- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc.
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania
- Title
- An Inventory of the Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing Records, 1829-1978
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2000
- 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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