Showing Collections: 1 - 2 of 2
Joseph Sturge Mission School Opening and Friends' Freedmen's Relief Association Funds Request
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-280
Abstract
This collection contains a leaflet regarding the opening of Joseph Sturge's First Day School at the Friends Locust St. Mission House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1st, 1865. The school was established as First Day school for poor African Americans and immigrants. The school later merged and formed the Benezet House Association to provide education and relief to African Americans. Lack of demanding and funding led to the school's demolishment in 1945. There is also a letter from...
Dates:
December 1862 and September 1874
Douglas V. and Dorothy M. Steere papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1174
Abstract
Douglas and Dorothy Steere were prominent figures of the Quaker movement in the twentieth century, and deeply committed to the causes of peace and spiritual enrichment. This commitment is evident in their involvement with Quaker-led relief work after World War II, Quaker spiritual retreats, international diplomacy, and Dorothy’s work with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Douglas taught philosophy at several institutions including Haverford College, and published extensively on topics...
Dates:
1896-2003
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities 1
- Finland 1
- Haverford (Pa.) 1
- International relief -- Africa 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philosophy -- Study and teaching 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Religion -- Study and teaching 1
- Rhodes Scholarships 1
- Sermons 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Civilian relief 1
- Virginia 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- autobiographies (documents) 1
- correspondence 1
- diaries 1
- lecture notes 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- pamphlets 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Association of Friends for the Relief of Freedmen (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Brown, Thomas Kite, 1851-1929 1
- Cripps, Arthur Shearly, 1869-1952 1
- Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality 1
- Harvard University 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1852-1925 1
- Joseph Sturge Mission School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Michigan Agricultural College 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
- Society of Friends 1
- Steere, Dorothy M., 1908-2003 1
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 1
- University of Oxford 1
- Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
