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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

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 Committee on National Legislation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract

A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.

Dates: 1943-

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936)

 Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/759
Identifier: QM-Phy-759
Abstract The Committee on Philanthropic Labor was appointed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) in 1892, merging the existing committees of Indian Concerns, Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages, and Colored People of the South. The Committee coordinated Philadelphia Hicksite Quaker activity in a number of social concerns, including race relations, Indian affairs, temperance and peace. In 1892, Subcommittees included Peace and Arbitration, Improper Publications, the Colored People,...
Dates: 1892-1937

Smiley family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1113
Abstract In 1883, Quakers Albert Keith Smiley and his brother Daniel Smiley organized the first annual conference to discuss assistance to Native Americans at their estate at Lake Mohonk in New York state. These conferences were widely attended by specialists in various fields, as well as important officials. Only later were Native Americans represented. The concern to "uplift" was also directed at Filipino, Hawaiian, African American and Puerto Rican peoples, though attention at the conferences was...
Dates: 1885-1983; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1930

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 2
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
Swarthmore College Peace Collection 1
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Subject
African Americans -- Education 2
Indians of North America -- Education 2
African Americans 1
African Americans -- Charities 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
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African Americans -- History 1
California -- Politics and government 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
Civil rights -- United States 1
Conscientious objection -- United States 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Corporate minutes 1
Disarmament 1
Draft -- United States 1
Epistles 1
Filipinos 1
Food supply 1
Fresh-air charity 1
Gambling 1
Hawaiians 1
Illinois -- Politics and government 1
Indians of North America 1
Indians of North America -- Charities 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Indians of North America -- Congresses 1
Indians of North America -- Government relations 1
Indians of North America -- History 1
Lobbying -- California 1
Lobbying -- Illinois 1
Lobbying -- United States 1
Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
Maternal and infant welfare 1
National service -- United States 1
Nonviolence -- United States 1
Pacifism -- United States 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Peace movements -- United States 1
Puerto Ricans 1
Quakers 1
Quakers -- Correspondence 1
Quakers -- Maryland 1
Quakers -- Political activity 1
Quakers -- United States 1
Society of Friends -- Charities 1
Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
Society of Friends -- United States 1
Substance abuse 1
Temperance -- Pennsylvania 1
Unemployment 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
War -- Religious aspects 1
Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1
business records 1
correspondence 1
minutes (administrative records) 1
receipts (financial records) 1
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Names
American Friends Service Committee 1
Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
Ashford, Bailey K. (Bailey Kelly) 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Benoit, Emile 1
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Bliss, George I. 1
Brent, Charles Henry 1
Cadman, S. Parkes (Samuel Parkes) 1
Cloud , Henry Roe 1
Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert) 1
Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
Davis, George W. (George Whitefield ) 1
Dewey, George 1
Dole, Sanford B. (Sanford Ballard) 1
Eastman, Charles Alexander 1
Eliot, Charles William 1
Emlen Institution for the Benefit of Children of African and Indian Descent (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Emlen, Samuel 1
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) 1
Foulke, Thomas Albert, 1893-1962 1
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California 1
Friends Committee on Legislation. Southern California Section 1
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
Gulick, Luther Halsey 1
Hadley, Jeanette 1
Harker, Charles H. 1
Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee on Legislation 1
Innerst, J. Stuart, 1894-1975 1
Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
Kalanianaole, Jonah Kuhio 1
La Flesche, Francis 1
Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples 1
Lake Mohonk Conference on the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples 1
Lake Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question 1
Levering, Samuel R. 1
Mabie, Hamilton Wright 1
Montezuma, Carlos 1
Mooney, James 1
Neely, Frances E. 1
Niles, Mary Cushing Howard 1
Noel-Baker, Philip, 1889-1982 1
Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Child Welfare Sub Committee 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936). Indian Committee 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Committee on Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages (1881-1892) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Committee on the Education of the Colored People of the South (1887-1892) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Social Service Committee 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee of Mission Work Among Women & Children 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Books of the Temperance branch 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Improper Publications 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Purity 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Civilian Public Service Fund Committee 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Scott, Hugh Lenox 1
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
Smiley, Albert K. (Albert Keith), 1828-1912 1
Smiley, Daniel, 1855-1930 1
Snyder, Edward F. 1
Society of Friends 1
Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 1
United States. Board of Indian Commissioners 1
Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 1
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