Society of Friends -- Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Abingdon Friends Meeting Records
Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-A200
Abstract
Digital records for Abingdon Friends Meeting, 2010-2017.
Dates:
2010 - 2017
Augusta Friends Worship Group Records
Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-A900
Scope and Contents
Augusta Friends Worship Group digital records include Spiritual State of the Meeting reports (2011-2019) and a 2017 directory.
Dates:
2011 - 2019
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-By
Scope and Contents
This collection, jointly housed at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, contains the records of the Pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox, and United Baltimore Yearly Meetings.The Hicksite BYM (commonly known as Stony Run) records date from 1677-1967 and the Orthodox BYM (commonly known as Homewood) records date from 1671-1948. When the Separation schismed the Pre-Separation Baltimore Yearly Meeting, older records were maintained by one or the other branch, and only much later made...
Dates:
1677-2020
Emlen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Abstract
Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates:
1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849
Fauquier Friends Worship Group Records
Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-F380
Scope and Contents
Digital records for Fauquier Friends Worship Group include Spiritual State of the Meeting reports to Baltimore Yearly Meeting (2015-2019), and occasional minutes (2016-2020).
Dates:
2015 - 2019
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG1
Abstract
A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...
Dates:
1933-2010
Herndon Friends Meeting Records
Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-H470
Abstract
Digital records for Herndon Friends Meeting, 2009-2019.
Dates:
2009 - 2019
Mattaponi Friends Meeting Records
Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-M380
Abstract
Digital records for Mattaponi Friends Meeting, 2011-2019.
Dates:
2011 - 2019
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-123
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) was born into an extended Quaker family who lived for generations in Clarke and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage (1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). During her retirement years, Pidgeon became...
Dates:
1769-1979[bulk 1905-1979]
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Schlesinger Library Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-124
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) was born into an extended Quaker family who lived for generations in Clarke and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage (1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). During her retirement years, Pidgeon became...
Dates:
1906-1979
