Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Promotion Committee (1950-1952)
Scope and Contents
Records of the Promotion Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), 1950-1953. Includes applications, financial records, literature relating to the Conference, and other records.
Dates
- Creation: 1950-1953
Creator
- Friends World Conference, 3rd (1952) (Oxford, England) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
The Promotion Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was appointed to coordinate PYM's representation at the 1952 Friends World Conference in Oxford, England. Its purpose was threefold, viz. to distribute Vocation of Friends in the Modern World, to select 50 representatives to the Conference, and to collect donations to defray budget expenses of the Friends World Committee and to supplement travelling expenses of the representatives.
Extent
1 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Promotion Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was appointed to coordinate PYM's representation at the 1952 Friends World Conference in Oxford, England. Records include applications, financial records, literature relating to the Conference, and other materials.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Title
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Promotion Committee (1950-1952)
- Date
- 2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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