topic:"Society of Friends" found 11 records - Research Collections

Guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

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Corporate Author: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee.

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 289.6 E19

Responsibility: compiled by Jack Eckert.

Corporate Author: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: xix, 288 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Haverford College, Records Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Swarthmore College."; "This guide to the records in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Quaker Collection of Haverford College lists the minutes ... and other types of records"--P. v.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-268) and index.

Summary: Guide to the records of the Society of Friends from the beginings of the Quaker settlement in the Delaware River Valley in 1676 to present held in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Quaker Collection of Haverford College.

Subjects: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. - Records Committee - Manuscripts - Microform catalogs.; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. - Records Committee - History - Sources - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.; Haverford College. - Quaker Collection - Microform catalogs.; Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College - Microform catalogs.; Manuscripts - Pennsylvania; Manuscripts on microfilm; Catalogs, Union - Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Eckert, Jack,

Additional Corporate Author: Haverford College. Quaker Collection.; Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.6 E19

Archive

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Object ID: MG0846

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

Society of Friends Westtown Boarding School Search Terms: Business records Correspondence Deeds Diaries Lampeter Twp. Leacock Twp. Letters Mills Philadelphia Quakers Society of Friends Westtown Boarding School �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Description: This collection contains letters, family papers, deeds, diaries, and mill records from three generations of the Gibbons family. The collection starts with documents focused on James Gibbons, then contains papers central to Daniel Gibbons, and finally end with the third generation papers surrounding Joseph Gibbons. The letters in this collection span from 1783 until 1865. The contents within the letters describe the daily happenings within the family and on their property which was located in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The family deeds in the collection detail the exchanging of property to and from the Gibbons family mostly within Lampeter Township and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County. The deeds span from 1727 to 1879. Also included are some miscellaneous family papers that span from 1799 to 1871. The content of these family papers ranges from anonymous stories about the Gibbons family, an independent order of Good Templars of Joseph Gibbons, to a land draft of James Gibbons' Land. This collection also contains diaries from various members of the Gibbons family, spanning the three generations. These diaries detail the day to day lives of the Gibbons family and also include historical anniversaries of important events or detail the passing of members within the Gibbons family and the surrounding community. The Mill Records in the collection contain information about [ ]. Overall, the Gibbons Family collection includes the regular happenings over the family's three generations in both business and secular life.

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

Creator: Gibbons family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Bonsall, Daniel; Bonsall, Edward Horne; Bonsall, Rachel; Brinton, William; Brown, Ellen; Brubaker, Marianna Gibbons; Conrad, Abraham; Dunbar, Andrew; Dunbar, Mary; Eaby, Christian; Eaby, Samuel; Earle, Mary Hussey; Evans, Thomas; Evans, Rebecca; Evans, William; Gibbons, Abraham; Gibbons, Caroline; Gibbons, Daniel; Gibbons, Deborah; Gibbons, Joseph; Gibbons, Phebe Hussey Earle; Gibbons, Rachel; Gibbons, Samuel; Gibbons, William; Grigs, Joseph; Hamilton, James; Hertzkey, John; Kendall, John; Kirk, Jeremiah; Lightfoot, Jepthat; Miller, Eliza; Miller, John; Reynolds, Margaret; Stauffer, Christian; Steer, Joseph; Stevens, Thaddeus; Thomas, William B.; Wartnaby, Elizabeth

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Letters; Mills and mill-work; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Diaries; Finding aids; Lampeter Twp.; Leacock Twp.; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mill Creek; Mills; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0846

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.008

Other Numbers: MG-846

Other Number: MG-846

Classification: MG0846

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Folders 1-30 processed and finding aid prepared from the donor's notes by MB, 8 July 2021. Added to database 12 July 2021.

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Friends in the Delaware Valley : Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1681-1981

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo110

Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 289.6 F911

Responsibility: edited by John M. Moore.

Place of Publication: Haverford, Pa

Publisher: Friends Historical Association,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - History.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania.; Quakers - Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Moore, John Morrison,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.6 F911

Of color, humanitas and statehood: the black experience in Pennsylvania over three centuries 1681-1981

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Corporate Author: Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 326 O31

Corporate Author: Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: The Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: 142 p. : ill., maps, plates, ports., 22 cm. x 28 cm.

Notes: Contains half-title page.; Includes index.; Selected bibliography: p. 127-138.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, - 1793-1880.; Benezet, Anthony, - 1713-1784.; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Society of Friends; Pennsylvania - Race relations - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 O31

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7b73ed12-7ad0-46b1-ade4-413260052727

Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-07-02-21

Date Range: 1924

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Sadsbury Meeting, 200th Anniversary 1724 - 1924

Date Range: 1924

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Sadsbury Friends Meetinghouse; Churches; Quakers; Society of Friends; Anniversaries

Place: Sadsbury Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 5.5 x 3.125 inches

Object ID: 2-07-02-21

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Scrapbook

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Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Scrapbook of Grace Anna Brosius Biddle

Object ID: MG0434_Box097_It02

Date Range: 1926-1937

Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Scrapbook of Grace Anna Brosius Biddle

Description: Scrapbook of Grace Anna Brosius Biddle, 1926-1937. This scrapbook highlights Grace and Clement's involvement in the community and their international travel. Newspaper clippings describe Swarthmore College events, the Clement M. Biddle Historical Library, Boys Club Federation, Rotary Club, Community Chest campaign, Red Cross campaigns, Daylight Savings Bill, and an article from a Warsaw newspaper. The volume also contains ephemera, correspondence, telegrams, invitations, programs, and announcements regarding births, marriages, and deaths in the Biddle family.

Admin/Biographical History: Grace Anna Brosius was the daughter of Hon. Marriott Henry Brosius and Elizabeth Jackson Coates Brosius of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She attended Swarthmore College from 1895-1897. She married Clement Miller Biddle (1876-1959) on 28 November 1900 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; https://www.geni.com/people/Hon-Marriott-Brosius/6000000006598453470; https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/agents/people/16142; https://archive.org/stream/biddlefamilygene00gayp/biddlefamilygene00gayp_djvu.txt

Date Range: 1926-1937

Creation Date: 1926-1937

Year Range From: 1926

Year Range To: 1937

Creator: Biddle, Grace Anna Brosius, 1877-1960

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 22

People: Biddle, Caroline Cooper; Biddle, Clement Miller; Biddle, Grace Anna Brosius; Biddle, Lydia M.; Hoover, Herbert

Subjects: American Red Cross; American Red Cross. Disaster Services; Boys’ Clubs of America; Depressions--1929; Ephemera; International Court of Justice; National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain); Quakers; Scrapbooks; Society of Friends; White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; World War, 1914-1918

Search Terms: American National Bank; American Red Cross; Boys' Club Federation; Business and Professional Womens' Club of Mount Vernon, New York; City Hall, Mount Vernon, New York; Clement M. Biddle Historical Library; Conference on Child Health and Protection; Daylight Savings Bill; Ephemera; Friends' WWI Altar, Swarthmore College; Girls' Club, Mount Vernon, New York; Great Depression; League of Nations; Liberty Calendar (13-month calendar); National Council for Prevention of War; Phi Kappa Psi; Primrose Club; Quakers; Red Cross Disaster Relief Committee; Red Cross, Chester County Chapter; Red Cross, International Conference, Japan; Rotary International; Scrapbooks; Swarthmore College; Woman's Christian Temperance Union; World Court; World War I; WWI

Extent: 1 volume

Object Name: Scrapbook

Language: English

Object ID: MG0434_Box097_It02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College:; Swarthmore College Photograph Albums (SFHL-PA-010); Biddle Family Papers (SFHL-RG5-177)

Related Item Notes: Scrapbooks:; 1898-1900 (MG0434_Box096); 1911-1926 (MG0434_Box097_It01); 1935-1959 (MG0434_Box098); Photograph albums and loose photographs (Grace Anna Brosius Biddle Collection); Album 1, 1900s-1940s (GB-01-01-001 to GB-01-01-111); Album 2, 1900-1907 (GB-01-02-01 to GB-01-02-41)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Scrapbook Collection (MG0434), Box #, Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org for permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2011.Malin

Other Numbers: MG-434

Other Number: MG-434, Box 97

Classification: MG0434

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Added to database 13 April 2022.

Centennial of Penn Hill Meetinghouse, Fulton township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : seventh day, tenth month, (October) 1923

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3815

Date of Publication: 1924.

Call Number: 289.6 P413

Place of Publication: Quarryville, Pa

Publisher: Sun Printing House,

Date of Publication: 1924.

Physical Description: 27, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Penn Hill Meeting house (Fulton Township, Pa.).; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Fulton (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.6 P413

Guide to the manuscript collections of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3275

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 016.2896 G946

Place of Publication: Swarthmore, Pa

Publisher: Swarthmore College ,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: unp. 23 cm.

Notes: African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Society of Friends; Quakers

Additional Corporate Author: Friends Historical Library

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.2896 G946

An account of the people called Quakers in Germantown, Philadelphia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6319

Author: Lippincott, Horace Mather,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 974.811 L765

Responsibility: by Horace Mather Lippincott.

Author: Lippincott, Horace Mather,

Place of Publication: Burlington, N.J

Publisher: Enterprise Publishing Company,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 43 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 L765

A history of the Lancaster Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19104

Author: Whitely, Paul L.

Date of Publication: [1981]

Call Number: 289.6 W594

Responsibility: [by the committee: Henrietta Ober, Henry N. Williams, Paul L. Whitely, Convener].

Author: Whitely, Paul L.

Date of Publication: [1981]

Physical Description: [13] leaves ; 28 cm.

Notes: Photocopy of typescript.

Subjects: Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Additional Author: Ober, Henrietta.; Williams, Henry N.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.6 W594

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