Friends Reading Circle of Media
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the minutes, 1877-1891, of Friends Reading Circle of Media (Media, Pa.) Also included are minutes of the Friends Reading Circle for the Northern District, 1875-1876, whose secretary, Elton B. Gifford, moved to the Media area in 1877.
Dates
- Creation: 1877-1891
Creator
- Friends Reading Circle of Media (Pa.) (Organization)
- Friends Reading Circle for the Northern District (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Contributor, Organization)
- Friends Reading Circle of Media (Pa.) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Friends Reading Circle of Media was a Quaker book group established in 1877 in Media, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of discussing Quaker and other religious writings and as a social gathering for Friends.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Friends Reading Circle of Media was a Quaker book group established in 1877 in Media, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of discussing Quaker and other religious writings and as a social gathering for Friends. This collection contains its minutes, 1877-1891. Also included are minutes of the Friends Reading Circle for the Northern District, 1875-1876, whose secretary, Elton B. Gifford, moved to the Media area in 1877.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Unknown
- Title
- An Inventory of the Friends Reading Circle of Media Minutes, 1877-1891
- Author
- SKM
- Date
- 1999
- 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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