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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

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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

Martha Schofield Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Abstract Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates: 1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)

L. Hollingsworth Wood papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1175
Abstract Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, African American education, and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; and a member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus...
Dates: 1903-1953

Yearly and Monthly Meeting minute extracts

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-033
Scope and Contents

This collection contains typed research notes by an unknown person. Previously they were referred to as extracts, however they are not formal printed extracts. The notes are from Yearly and Monthly Meetings, including Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Indiana Yearly Meeting, and Ohio Yearly Meeting. Many of the notes either are categorized by topic, or include topical indices.

Dates: 1759-1887

Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) records

 Collection — othertype: SC-189
Identifier: SFHL-SC-189
Abstract

Collection includes material on Young Friends' Movement seminars and conferences, financial records and statistics, Executive Committee minutes and correspondence, and photographs from seminars. Also includes some correspondence of Elizabeth and Ross Wilbur.

Dates: 1931-1939

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Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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American School Citizenship League 2
American School Peace League 2
Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 2
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) 2
American Civil Liberties Union 1
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American Commission on Conditions in Ireland 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American League against War and Fascism 1
American League for Peace and Democracy 1
American Peace Society 1
Association for World Education 1
Association of World Colleges and Universities 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968) 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Baumgardt, David, 1890-1963 1
Brinton, Anna Cox 1
Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 1
Broomell, Anna Pettit 1
Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 1
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
Fager, Charles (Charles Eugene), -1942 1
Fahnestock, Zephine 1
Fellowship House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
First Day School General Conference 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Fisk University 1
Friends Ambulance Unit 1
Friends General Conference (U.S.) 1
Friends General Conference (U.S.). Publications Committee 1
Friends General Conference (U.S.). Religious Education Committee 1
Friends World Conference 1
Friends' Union for Philanthropic Labor (U.S.) 1
General Conference of Young Friends Associations (U.S.) 1
Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
Happy Grove School (Hectors River, Jamaica) 1
Haverford College 1
Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 1
Illinois Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1975) 1
Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox: 1828- ) 1
Los Angeles Committee to Postpone Action on Peacetime Conscription 1
Manhattan College. Pacem in Terris Institute 1
Massachusetts Federation of Churches 1
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
National Urban League 1
New York Colored Mission 1
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 1
Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921) 1
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
Philadelphia Young Friends' Association 1
Platt, Edith Stratton, 1888-1986 1
Platt, Joseph Eyre, 1886-1980 1
Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 1
Schofield, Martha 1
Singing City 1
Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 1
Swarthmore Conferences (1896 : Swarthmore, Pa.) 1
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
Wilbur, Elizabeth Reynolds 1
Wilbur, Henry Watson, 1851-1914 1
Wilbur, Ross Taylor 1
Wilson, Dan, -1913 1
Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956 1
Woolman School (Swarthmore, Pa.) 1
Yarnall, D. Robert (David Robert), 1878-1967 1
Yarnall, Elizabeth Biddle, 1897-1975 1
Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
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