Young Friends' Association (Purchase, N.Y.)
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one bound volume of minutes, 1892-1894.
Dates
- Creation: 1892-1894
Creator
- Young Friends' Association (Purchase, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Young Friends' Association (New York, N.Y.) (Contributor, Organization)
- Young Friends' Association (Purchase, N.Y.) (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
The Young Friends' Association (Purchase, N.Y.), a Quaker social and study group, was established in Purchase, New York, in 1892. The Association was modeled after a similar organization in Philadelphia; the representative from Purchase Monthly Meeting to a First Day School Conference held in Lincoln, Virginia, in the summer of 1892, had been introduced to the program and a similar program was proposed and adopted in Purchase. The Association met regularly to discuss topics of mutual interest.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Young Friends' Association, a Quaker social and study group, was established in Purchase, New York, in 1892. The Association was modeled after a similar organization in Philadelphia and met regularly to discuss topics of mutual interest. The collection contains one bound volume of minutes, 1892-1894.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Margaret S. Walton, 1977
The collection was given by Margaret S. Walton along with materials on the Haviland family.
Processing Information
Transferred from RG 5/059, Haviland Family Papers, in 1982 and catalogued individually as an RG 4.
Topical
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- Purchase
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Societies -- New York (State)
- Societies -- New York (State) -- Purchase
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- Purchase
- Youth -- New York (State)
- Youth -- Religious life
- Youth -- Societies and clubs
- Title
- An Inventory of the Young Friends' Association (Purchase, N.Y.) Minutes, 1892-1894
- 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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