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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
Friends' Employment Society Record
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-098
Abstract
The Friends Employment Society was founded in 1862 in New York City by Hicksite women as the Women's Association of Friends for the Employment and Relief by Clothing of the Suffering Poor. Incorporated in 1902, it provided employment for the working poor by providing sewing projects. In 1948 it revised its charter to state its purpose of giving help to needy people, through contributions to other charitable organizations. This collection contains minutes and...
Dates:
1862-1948
Friends Neighborhood Guild
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-035
Abstract
Friends Neighborhood Guild is a social welfare agency established by Hicksite Quakers in 1879 to serve the Poplar section of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It began as a volunteer organization for immigrant children and evolved into a settlement house and community center. This collection primarily contains early records of Friends Neighborhood Guild, and also the records of two related Quaker societies, the Friendly Settlement Association and the Spring Street Mission.
Dates:
1880-1962
Sewing Society (New York, N.Y.) minutes
Collection — othertype: SC-182
Identifier: SFHL-SC-182
Abstract
The collection contains the minutes, 1833-1853, of the Sewing Society which was established in 1833 by a group of New York Orthodox Quaker women. Its mission was to prepare clothing for the poor.
Dates:
1833-1853
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- Society of Friends -- Charities 3
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 2
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- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
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- Immigrants -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 2
- Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 2
- African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
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- Church work with the poor -- New York (State) 1
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- Clothing and dress 1
- Community centers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Home missions -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Poor -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quaker women -- New York (State) -- New York 1
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- Association of Friends for the Relief of Freedmen (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Beehive School for Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Benezet House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friendly Settlement Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Mission No.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Friends Neighborhood Guild 1
- Friends' Employment Society (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Joseph Sturge Mission School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Locust Street Mission Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia First Day School Union 1
- Sewing Society (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Spring Street Mission (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Spring Street Settlement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Young Friends Aid Association (New York, N.Y.) 1 + ∧ less
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