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Arch Street Meeting House renovations photographs

 Collection — othertype: PA-132
Identifier: SFHL-PA-132
Overview

The Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was designed by Owen Biddle Jr. in 1803 in the Georgian style. It was completed in 1811. This collection contains photographs and negatives from renovations undertaken in 1990-1992 of the roof of the meetinghouse.

Dates: 1990 - 1992

Burlington Monthly Meeting 300th Anniversary

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-298
Overview

This collection contains various materials including photocopies, newspaper clippings, deeds, and maps about the Burlington Meeting House, with an emphasis on the tercentenary celebration.

Dates: 1964 - 1982

George H. Burr Collected Papers on the Quaker Separation

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-313
Overview

The Burr Collection includes manuscripts which document the Hicksite position during the Separation of 1827/28 in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the trial over the Crosswicks School Fund. It is directly related to the Southard Papers/RG5/312, which contain a more complete description of the controversy. It also includes Burr's manuscript on the History of the Society of Friends which he compiled for Southard as background in preparing his case representing the Hicksite position.

Dates: 1822 - 1836

Quaker Disciplines

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-976
Dates: 1675 - 1935

Friends Historical Library manuscript epistles collection

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-006
Overview

The term "epistle" is used to refer to letters exchanged between Quaker organizations, especially from one yearly meeting to another. Epistles are often used to articulate Quaker doctrine and discipline. This collection of various manuscript (handwritten) epistles was compiled from the Friends Historical Library from different sources.

Dates: 1688 - 1973

Friends Fiduciary Corporation Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-200
Overview

Records of the Quaker investment company Friends Fiduciary Corporation (2001- ) and its predecessor organizations, the Trustees of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1898-1975), the Friends Fiduciary Corporation (1920-1975), and the Fiduciary Corporation of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1975-2001).

Dates: 1889-2005

George School Collection of Meeting House and George School Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-070
Overview

This collection of photographs was assembled by the George School Archives and transferred to the Friends Historical Library. It consists primarily of photographs of Philadelphia-area Quaker Meeting Houses taken by Gilbert Cope and A.A. Buzby from the 18070s to 1930s. There are also a few photographs by other photographers, photographs of Meeting Houses beyond Philadelphia, and George School graduating classes. George School is a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1870 - 1936

Lippincott Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-251
Overview Horace Mather Lippincott (1877-1967) was a Quaker editor and historian. The collection contains his speeches and writings on topics primarily concerning the Society of Friends and the history of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of particular interest is the scrapbook he compiled in 1946 of papers and photographs of the 1913-1914 Joint Group which met weekly to study the Separation in the Society of Friends, along with other papers on the topic and on the first joint meeting of the two...
Dates: 1752 - 2010

Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa)

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-054
Overview

Audio cassettes and some transcripts of interviews with 55 Quakers, chiefly born in Chester County between 1889-1910. Interviews contain largely autobiographical data, as well as information about Quaker life and Chester County in general.

Dates: 1978-1979

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: John Pemberton Fund

 Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/375
Identifier: QM-Phy-375
Scope and Contents

These records include Pemberton Fund reports, 1990-1992, and completed applications, 1988-1992.

Dates: 1988-1992

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Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 26
Society of Friends -- Delaware 22
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Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 2
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Visitations (Church work) -- Society of Friends 2
Youth -- Religious life 2
African American churches -- Mississippi -- History 1
Anniversaries 1
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Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History 1
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Epistles 1
Evangelical Quakers 1
Family counseling -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
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Indians of North America -- New York (State) 1
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Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
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Quakers -- United States -- Civil War, 1861–1865 1
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Real property -- Pennsylvania 1
Religious education -- Pennsylvania 1
Religious institutions -- Investments 1
Religious newspapers and periodicals -- United States 1
Social ethics 1
Social justice -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
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Woolman Series of Friendly Papers 1
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 23
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 10
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. International Outreach Committee (1974-) 4
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Religious Education Committee 4
Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 4
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New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 3
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Japan Committee 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Mission Board 3
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadelphia 2
Germantown Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Haverford Monthly Meeting of Friends (1904-) 2
London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 2
Moorestown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1951- ) 2
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends (1698- ) 2
Ohio Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1813-1828) 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Young Friends Movement (1916-1930) 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Young Friends Committee (1925-1930) 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. First Day School Association 2
Religious Society of Friends in Ireland 2
Social Order Committee (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Women’s Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadelphia 2
Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Virginia 2
Alaska Yearly Meeting 1
American Young Friends Fellowship 1
Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 1
Bansen, Richard P. 1
Black Economic Development Conference 1
Bolivian Friends Church 1
Britain Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
Brown, Francis G., 1917-2012 1
Burlington Meeting House, Inc (Organization) 1
Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends (1827-1991 : Burlington, N.J.) 1
Burlington Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1685) 1
Burr, George H. (George Harris), born 1791 1
Buzby , A. Austin 1
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
Caldwell, Samuel D. 1
California Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1
Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Central Yearly Meeting 1
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends. Union Quarterly Meeting 1
Clark, Arthur W., 1916-2008 1
Congenies Two Months Meeting (Society of Friends : Congenies, France) 1
Cope, Gilbert 1
Crosswicks Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1919-1958) 1
Cunningham, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne), 1934-2020 1
Elkinton family 1
Eves, William 1
Fiduciary Corporation of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
Freedom Friends Church (Salem, Or.) 1
Friends Center Corporation (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends Church Southwest Yearly Meeting 1
Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction 1
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends Fiduciary Corporation (1920-1975 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends Fiduciary Corporation (2001- : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends General Conference (U.S.) 1
Friends Insurance Group 1
Friends Meeting of Washington (Washington, D.C.) 1
Friends Temperance Association of Philadelphia 1
Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 1
Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Horne, Wright 1
Illinois Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1975) 1
Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1
Japan Friends Service Committee 1
Japan Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
Jeavons, Thomas 1
Kansas Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1
Leonard, Rowland K. 1
Lippincott family 1
Lippincott, H. Mather, Jr. (Horace Mather), 1921-2010 1
Lippincott, Horace Mather, 1877-1967 1
Lippincott, Margaret Walker 1
Mather family 1
McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
Media-Providence Friends School (Media, Pa.) 1
Metropolitan Council of Churches (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Middleton, Nancy 1
Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972 1
Nebraska Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
New Zealand Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1
North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1
Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1975- ) 1
Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 1
Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1854) 1
Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1
Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Budget Committee 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Central Bureau 1
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