Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Temperance Association (1880-1949)
Scope and Contents
Records of the Friends Temperence Association of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1883-1943, include those of its Main Committee (1925-1939) and Executive Committee (1881-1925), as well as other Miscellaneous Papers (1893-1921) and its publication, "The Outlook" (1892-1898). Additional materials in the QM-Phy-750 collection which includes the successor temperance and alcohol problem committees.
Dates
- Creation: 1881-1943
Creator
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs (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
According to their constitution, the Friends Temperance Association of PYM is concerned with the promotion of total abstinence from the use of intoxicating drinks as beverages.
Extent
1.25 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs (Organization)
- Friends Temperance Association of Philadelphia (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) (Organization)
- Title
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Temperance Association (1880-1949)
- Author
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends: 1676- : Delaware County, Pa.).
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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