Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of the Friends Book Association of Philadelphia, a Quaker bookstore. It includes Minute Book, 1873-1097; Committee reports; Legal documents; Correspondence; and Financial papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1873-1909
Creator
- Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Some of the items in this collection may be protected by copyright. The user is solely responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns to reuse, publish, or reproduce relevant items beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to the law. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
The Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia was incorporated in 1873 by Hicksite Quakers to operate stores for the sale of Quaker books and to subsidize the publication and reprinting of important Quaker books. Its purpose was “to conduct an establishment for the purchase and sale of Books, publications and incidentals, and it shall have authority to print, publish and issue such books and publications as its Stockholders or Board of Managers may direct.”
It functioned until 1908 when the merchandise was disposed of. Walter H. Jenkins purchased the imprinted goods from the Association at inventory price.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia was incorporated in 1873 by Hicksite Quakers to operate stores for the sale of Quaker Books and to subsidize the publication and reprinting of important Quaker books. It ceased operation in 1908. The collection contains minutes, committee reports, correspondence, financial and legal papers.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into 9 series. The series are:
- Minute Book
- Act of Incorporation and By-Laws
- Minutes
- Committee Reports
- Legal Documents
- Correspondence
- List of Books
- Financial Papers
- Annual Report
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Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Mrs. George M. Taylor and Anne Blake, 1943
Subject
- Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia (Organization)
Topical
- Booksellers and Bookselling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Bookstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Publishers and publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Quakers -- Religious literature
- Religious literature -- Distribution -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Religious literature -- Publication and distribution -- Societies, etc.
- Religious literature -- Publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Religious literature -- Publishing -- Societies, etc.
- Societies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Title
- An Inventory of the Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia Records, 1873-1909
- 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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