Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence from 1942 to 1956, administrative papers, and printed reports and history.
Dates
- Creation: 1857-1956
Creator
- Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The Howard Institution was a Quaker women's charity founded in Philadelphia in 1853 to provide shelter to discharged female prisoners. Its scope was later broadened to assist more generally troubled women and girls. It ceased activity in 1956.
Extent
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Howard Institution was a Quaker women's charity founded in Philadelphia in 1853 to provide shelter to discharged female prisoners. Its scope was later broadened to assist more generally troubled women and girls. It ceased activity in 1956. The collection contains correspondence from 1942 to 1956, administrative papers, and printed reports and history.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series. The series are:
- Administrative and other papers
- Correspondence
- Publications
- Pictures
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Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Board of the Howard Institution, ca. 1956
Subject
- Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History (Organization)
Topical
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Ex-convicts -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Girls -- Pennsylvania
- Girls -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Quaker women -- Societies and clubs
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Social work
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- 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 -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Women prisoners -- Pennsylvania
- Title
- An Inventory of the Howard Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records, 1857-1956
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2001
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- 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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