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manuscripts (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 247 Collections and/or Records:

Elizabeth Gray Vining papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1141
Abstract

Elizabeth Gray Vining (1902-1999) was an author of children’s books and served as the tutor to the crown prince of Japan, Akihito, from 1946 to 1950. The collection consists of correspondence, materials regarding books authored by Vining, articles, lectures and addresses, photographs, and information documenting her and her family's lives.

Dates: 1897-1989
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

"The Congregational or Progressive Friends in the Pre-Civil War Reform Movement"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-140
Abstract

This typed manuscript, entitled "The Congregational or Progressive Friends in the Pre-Civil War Reform Movement," was written by Albert J. Wahl as his dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Education at the Teachers College at Temple University.

Dates: 1951
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

"Education of the Freedmen By Philadelphia and Baltimore Quakers During the Civil War and Reconstruction Period"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-094
Abstract Frank O. Wargny's 1947 master's thesis at John Hopkins University, entitled "Education of the Freedmen by Baltimore Quakers during the Civil War and Reconstruction Period," describes the efforts of Philadelphia and Baltimore area Quakers to provide education to freed slaves during and after the Civil War. It provides a brief history of Philadelphia area Quakers' abolition efforts prior to the Civil War, including the work of Benezet and Woolman, but the majority of the manuscript focuses on...
Dates: 1947
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

"Hegel's Theory of Positivity: An Application to Two Quaker Sects"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-096
Abstract Mark Webster's academic paper applies Hegel's theory of positivist Christian religions to two sects of Quakers, which Webster calls the Evangelical Friends and the Liberal Friends, and which Webster sees as the two least positivist Quaker groups. In the paper, Webster describes Hegel's theory of positivity, examines the history of Quakers through this theory, applies the theory to the two Quaker sects, and examines how different degrees of positivity in the two groups affected their...
Dates: 1984
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

James Whitall manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-095
Abstract

This collection is comprised of two manuscripts collected by James Whitall. The collection includes the manuscript of a memoir or autobiography by Honah Landis, entitled "How Literature Came to Texas," and a French play by Edmond See, translated by Whitall, entitled "A Friend of His Youth."

Dates: Undated.
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

"From the Wabash to the Delaware"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-098
Abstract Thomas Raeburn White wrote this manuscript for his children and their descendants. The volume begins with a brief genealogical history of White's ancestors, who came from England or Scotland, and initially settled in the Carolinas. White describes how the family migrated to Indiana when his father was a child, in search of a more religiously tolerant community, and provides brief family history for his mother and father. White also describes his childhood, early education, Quaker...
Dates: Undated.
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

"Moll Pitcher: A Poem"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-099
Abstract

John Greenleaf Whittier's "Moll Pitcher: A Poem" describes the clairvoyant and fortune-teller Moll Pitcher, born Mary Diamond (ca. 1736-1813), of Massachusetts, as a witch engaged in sinful work.

Dates: Undated.
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Thomas Willis papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-207
Abstract

This collection contains a letter by Thomas Willis and a transcribed account of an earlier event.

Dates: 1792-1859
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

William M. Wills notes for History of Haverford College

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-077
Abstract

Notes for the History of Haverford College written by William M. Wills.

Dates: undated
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Norman Wilson articles

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-179
Abstract

This collection is comprised of a single folder of the articles of Norman H. Wilson, typed and xeroxed, many of which focus on education in the United States and abroad. Also includes brochures for the First and Second Annual Normal Wilson Memorial Conferences. The collection also includes an itemized index of each article.

Dates: 1956-1974
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections