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manuscripts (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 247 Collections and/or Records:

Tables for the risings and settings of the moon and planets, 1861 C.E.; 1277 A.H.

 Item
Identifier: BV 72
Abstract

Book of astronomical tables to mark the rising and setting of the moon and planets for 1277 (1860-1861) and horoscope.

Dates: 1861 C.E.; 1277 A.H.

"Civilization's Next Step"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-105
Abstract

Charles Fremont Taylor's manuscript, entitled "Civilization's Next Step, Columbia, America's Goddess of Liberty, Appeals to the Nations," discusses European politics and potential solutions for peaceful international political interaction. This copy was produced for Haverford College president Isaac Sharpless.

Dates: Undated.

"Recollections of my Life Time"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-104
Abstract

In the volume, George W. Taylor describes his family genealogy, his early education, his experiences growing up as a Quaker and a conversation he had with Elias Hicks, his career as a teacher in New York and Pennsylvania, and his business selling slave-free labor dry goods during the Civil War.

Dates: 1887

Opal Thornburg collection on Marcus Mote

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-133
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the clippings, illustrations, and correspondence of Opal Thornburg, related to her research on Marcus Mote. The collection includes biographical sketch of Marcus Mote.

Dates: 1947

"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

Philip Tidyman manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-120
Abstract

This collection is comprised of two volumes of the manuscripts of the letters of Philip Tidyman's travel throughout New England and Canada from his home in Charleston, South Carolina. The collection also includes correspondence, transcribed letters, and typed notes related to the manuscripts.

Dates: 1810

Margaret Tinkcom collection on Friends Select School

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-076
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the correspondence, manuscripts, and research notes concerning Tinkcom's research on the Friends Select School.

Dates: 1961

Khalil A. Totah and Eva Marshall Totah papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1210
Abstract The papers revolve around three topics and provide a picture of Quakers in Palestine in the 20th century: Khalil A. Totah, his second wife, Eva Marshall Totah and his first wife, Ermina Jones Totah. Khalil Totah discusses the situation in Palestine, primarily in the 1930s, and speaks of his own life and aspirations, as when he became a Quaker minister. His diaries expand the picture, adding information about Friends Boys School in Ramallah (Palestine) and his understanding of the political...
Dates: 1896-1955

"Service with the War Relocation Authority"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-092
Abstract

George L. Townsend's memoir, entitled "Service of the War Relocation Authority," describes his recruitment by and work with the War Relocation Authority, a civilian agency established to provide care and services for Japanese Americans moved to Army Relocation Centers. Included is a map of Relocation Centers in the Western United States.

Dates: 1942-1946

"The Children of Light"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-093
Abstract

Elizabeth Stanley Trotter's "The Children of Light: Being the story of George Fox, the Quaker, and of Oliver Cromwell, the Soldier, and of William Penn, the Settler, and some of those who followed them" is entirely written in verse, and is split into four "books."

Dates: 1941, undated