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Architecture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Pictures of Meetinghouses - City of Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-911
Abstract

A collection of photographs, drawings, postcards, and news articles on meetinghouses around Philadelphia. Photographs feature both the building and meeting members. Drawings are both printed and originals.

Dates: undated

Pictures of Meetinghouses - Outside of the United States

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-924
Abstract

A collection of photographs, drawings, postcards, and news articles on meetinghouses located outside of the United States. Photographs feature both the building and meeting members. Drawings are both printed and originals.

Dates: Undated

Taylor and Nicholson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1215
Abstract The Taylor and Nicholson family papers contain the records of these two families from the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The two focal points of this collection are William Nicholson Taylor (1882-1945), and his mother, Rebecca Morgan Nicholson Taylor (1857-1944). William graduated from Harvard in 1903 and afterwards spent considerable time abroad studying architecture. He also served as an officer in the United States Military from 1916 to 1917, and worked in diplomacy after the...
Dates: Bulk, 1869-1944 1810-1999; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1944

The collection of Beulah Hurley Waring and Alston Waring, New Hope, PA

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1225
Abstract

The collection, primarily of correspondence of Quaker Beulah Hurley (1886-) relating principally to her relief work after World War I in Europe and Russia under the auspices of several Friends' groups and the photographs of Quaker P. Alston Waring (1895-1978) taken in Europe, East Asia, California, Central America and mainly in India between 1915 and 1954.

Dates: 1917-1954

"Simplicity. An Analysis of the role of simplicity in architecture and its development by the Religious Society of Friends"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-091
Abstract Frederick Charles Thum's M.F.A. thesis., entitled "Simplicity. An Analysis of the role of simplicity in architecture and its development by the Religious Society of Friends," explores the architectural evolution of the Quaker meeting house, and includes the following chapters: The Problem-Proper Relationship of the Needs of Man, The Key-simplicity, History of the Quakers, Quaker Simplicity, Meeting House Development in England, Plans for the Holy Experiment, James Portius and the Carpenters...
Dates: 1948

United States Quaker School Images

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-922
Abstract

Images and photographs of Quaker schools and colleges located in the United States.

Dates: 1820 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1930