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Quakers -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 180 Collections and/or Records:

Anne E. Sheppard correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-118
Identifier: SFHL-SC-118
Abstract This collection includes letters received by Anne E. Sheppard from members of her family, including her mother, Margaret G. Sheppard, and her cousins John W. Biddle, Martha H. Garrett, Rebecca C. Sheppard, and Mary M. Sheppard. Of these the most extensive are those of Martha H. Garrett, describing the daily life, education, and concerns of a young Quaker woman in Philadelphia in the 1860's. Especially interesting are her accounts of Freedmen's relief work and of her unorthodox practice of...
Dates: 1856-1869
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Moses Sheppard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-137
Abstract Moses Sheppard (1775-1857) was a Quaker humanitarian and businessman of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Nathan and Sarah Shoemaker Sheppard, born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After their property was confiscated during the Revolutionary War, the family settled in Maryland. Sheppard never married and devoted most of his life to a number of social reforms, including the treatment of the insane and the colonization movement. As a member of Baltimore Monthly Meeting, he was...
Dates: 1794-1927
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends Historical Library collected silhouettes

 Collection — Othertype SAFE
Identifier: SFHL-PA-033
Abstract

This collection combines various silhouette albums and images acquired by Friends Hitorical Library into a single finding aid.

Dates: Circa 1803-1845
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Smith family correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-133
Identifier: SFHL-SC-133
Abstract

The collection contains family correspondence, most received by Ebenezer R. Smith, a Quaker of New York State and Iowa. Of interest is an unsent letter to Orson Squire Fowler, phrenologist and radical author, in which Ebenezer Smith expresses interest in taking Fowler's courses in order to pursue a career as lecturer and phrenologist. Letters from his parents, Barak and Mary Smith, of Springdale, Iowa, and other relations mention farm life and family concerns.

Dates: 1852-1878
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Philip W. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-224
Abstract Philip W. Smith (1889-1981) was a Quaker dairyman from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who was active in Russian concerns and a prominent peace activist. In 1925-1926, he spent two years on a collective farm in Russia, and in later life he traveled extensively for peace causes. He was a member of Buckingham Monthly Meeting. This collection contains his correspondence, several journals and day books, photographs, writings on Russia, dairy farm records, and information on various groups he was...
Dates: 1906-1981
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stabler Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-234
Abstract Contains the papers of the Stabler family of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Greenwich, Ct., and their collateral lines. The collection spans six generations of a Quaker family and includes diaries, daybooks, albums, pictures, and voluminous correspondence concerned primarily with family issues. Louisa Merritt Field (1826-1914) married Edward Hartshorne Stabler (1813-1877) in 1859. He was the son of Edward Stabler (1769-1831), an Alexandria, Virginia, druggist, by his second wife, Mary Hartshorne. They...
Dates: 1835-1955(bulk)
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stabler-Lea Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-140
Abstract

The Stabler and Lea families were Quakers of Sandy Spring, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia. The collections contains chiefly correspondence of Mary Lea Stabler (1822-1888), with her mother, Elizabeth Ellicott Lea (1793-1858), her sister, Martha Lea (1819-1900), her brother, James Lea (1816-1857), and Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795-1873).

Dates: 1835-1932
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Isaac Stephenson diary

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-076
Abstract

Isaac Stephenson was a British Quaker minister who went on religious visits throughout Great Britain and the United States. His diary entries describe Stephenson's travels in the Quaker ministry in New England, including descriptions of towns he visited, Friends who hosted him or with whom he visited, and Meetings attended.

Dates: 1823-1824
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Anna W. Stout correspondence received

 Collection — Othertype SC-272
Identifier: SFHL-SC-272
Abstract The collection contains correspondence received by Anna W. Stout who attended the Preparative Department at Swarthmore College from 1884 to 1886 and then moved to Grand Meadow, Minn. Five letters are from Albert M. Johnson; four from Arabella Carter; and a single letter (1886) is from Alice Bowman Comly at Swarthmore which mentions improvements at the College made on the observatory and a new track and grandstand. The bulk of the letters (18) are from her cousin Frank W. Hibbs, a student at...
Dates: 1864-1891 (-1886-1891)
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Joseph Swain Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-D06
Abstract

This collection contains the official and personal correspondences and related papers of Joseph Swain, sixth president of Swarthmore College (1891-1921). He was notable for presiding over the development of the college into a top-ranked academic institution.

Dates: 1891-1921
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections