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Ash-Schofield Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Abstract Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah Jane Schofield Ash, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of...
Dates: 1796 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1912

Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons Records

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Identifier: SFHL-RG4-009
Abstract The Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons was a Quaker organization organized in 1789 in Philadelphia to operate a charity school for black adults. The Association provided free adult education to African-Americans until 1904 when it was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the Institute for Colored Youth. This collection contains minutes, financial records, and some correspondence of the Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult...
Dates: 1789-1905

Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection

 Collection — othertype: SC-269
Identifier: SFHL-SC-269
Abstract

Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.

Dates: 1776-1815

Benezet House Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-010
Abstract The Benezet House Association, Philadelphia, Pa., was formed in 1917 to assist and educate the City's poor African American and immigrant residents. It was created by the merger of the Joseph Sturge Mission School, a First Day school for African Americans founded in 1865; Anthony Benezet School, founded in 1795 as the School for Black People and their Descendants (also known as the Raspberry Street School); and Western District Colored School, founded 1848 under the care of Twelfth Street...
Dates: 1846-1945

"Bethany Mission for Colored People" records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1133
Abstract

Records of the Philadelphia-based "Bethany Mission for Colored People", 1862-1936, a non-sectarian institution established to provide literacy and "moral and religious education" for African Americans.

Dates: 1862-1936

Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1190
Abstract

Letters relating to the emigration of free Blacks to the West African colony of Liberia and establishment of Liberian institutions written to American Quaker reformer, Benjamin Coates (1808-1887) whose work toward the abolition of slavery led to a relationship with many well-known people connected to Liberia, a colony established to offer a new home and a fresh start away from slavery to free Blacks in the mid-19th century.

Dates: 1848-1880; Majority of material found within 1858 - 1869

Emlen Institution for the Benefit of Children of African and Indian Descent records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-999
Abstract

This collection includes various documents relating to the The Emlen Institution for the Benefit of Children of African and Indian descent, including business correspondence (chiefly on financial matters), treasurer's accounts and reports, receipts, bills, inventories, trustees minutes. Also a printed copy of will of Samuel Emlen and deed to land in Warminster, Bucks Co., 1765 (recorded 17[8]7).

Dates: 1765 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1838 - 1956

Friends Freedmen's Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-024
Abstract Friends' Freedmen's Association was an organization of Philadelphia Quakers founded in 1863 as Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freemen. Its purpose was to provide relief and education to formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War. The name was changed circa 1873. From 1947-1955 the Association supported black students in schools and summer work camps. From 1955-1970 the income from investments was used to provide grants for...
Dates: 1863-1982

Cornelia Hancock Correspondence

 Collection — othertype: RG5-308
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-308
Abstract Cornelia Hancock (1840-1927) was a Civil War nurse, Reconstruction-era teacher in South Carolina, and, later, Philadelphia social worker. The papers consist primarily of her letters written in the post-Civil War years, 1865-1879, when she was teaching the children of formerly enslaved people in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The collection includes reference material used by the donor, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, in preparation for her book South after Gettysburg which was based on...
Dates: 1861 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1865-1880

Emily Howland Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-066
Abstract Emily Howland (1827-1929) was a Quaker humanitarian and educator who is particularly known for her work with formerly-enslaved African Americans in Virginia during and after the American Civil War. A birthright Friend, Emily Howland was the only daughter of Slocum and Hannah (Tallcot) Howland of Sherwood, N.Y. She was educated locally and for a brief period in Philadelphia, and then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1857 to teach at the Miner School for Freedmen. During the war she worked at a...
Dates: 1763-1929

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Schofield, Martha 5
Howland, Emily, 1827-1929 4
Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 3
Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956 3
Haverford College 2
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Howland family 2
New York Colored Mission 2
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Alsop, John , b.1813 1
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Colonization Society 1
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
Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911 1
Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912 1
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons 1
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Colored Women 1
Balderston, Marcellus 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Barton, Joshua L., 1849-1926 1
Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833-1908 1
Beehive School for Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Benezet House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Bethany Mission for Colored People 1
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 1
Blyden, Edward 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Carter, John, 1800-1877 1
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd 1
Chase, Thomas 1
Cheyney Training School for Teachers 1
Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874 1
Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 1
Christiansburg Industrial Institute 1
Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887 1
Coppinger, William 1
Crummell, Alex 1
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 1
Drummond, Richard C. S. 1
Earlham College 1
Emlen Institution for the Benefit of Children of African and Indian Descent (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Emlen, Samuel 1
Evans, William, 1787-1867 1
Fisk University 1
Foster School for Girls (Clifton Springs, N.Y.) 1
Foulke family 1
Freedmen's Friend (Cambria, Va.) 1
Freeman, Martin, 1826?-1889 1
Friends Ambulance Unit 1
Friends Freedmen's Association 1
Friends World Conference 1
Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freedmen 1
Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Fussell, Henry B. (Henry Bartholomew), 1815-1890 1
Fussell, Henry M. (Henry Moore), d.1917 1
Fussell, Linnaeus, 1842-1907 1
Fussell, Rebecca L. (Rebecca Lewis), 1820-1893 1
Garnet, Henry Highland 1
Guilford College 1
Gutekunst, Frederick 1
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 1
Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927 1
Happy Grove School (Hectors River, Jamaica) 1
Hilles, William Samuel, 1825-1876 1
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
Howland, Benjamin, 1837-1882 1
Howland, Hannah T. (Hannah Tallcot), 1796-1867 1
Howland, Isabel 1
Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881 1
Howland, William, 1823-1905 1
Humphreys, Richard, 1750-1832 1
Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Institute for Colored Youth at Cheyney 1
Jenkins, Mary Ash, 1875-1948 1
Jones, Richard A. (Richard Argustia), 1945- 1
Joseph Sturge Mission School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Kimberton Boarding School 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Esther, 1782-1848 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
Locust Street Mission Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Martha Schofield Scholarship Fund (Committee) 1
National Urban League 1
New York Association for Educating Colored Male Adults. Committee on Ways and Means 1
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated 1
Philadelphia Young Friends' Association 1
Pinney, John Brooke 1
Putnam, Caroline F., 1826-1917 1
Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
Richard Humphreys Foundation 1
Roberts, Joseph Jenkins 1
Scattergood, J. Henry (Joseph Henry), 1877-1953 1
Schofield, Lydia A. (Lydia Ann), 1835-1909 1
Schofield, Oliver W. (Oliver Wilson), 1806-1852 1
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