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Shoemaker Family Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-138

Scope and Contents

Contains one folder of business papers from the Shoemaker family of Philadelphia and Pike County, Pennsylvania. Includes deeds, inventory, and appraisement papers.

Dates

  • Creation: 1831-1878

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Biographical / Historical

The Shoemaker family was a Quaker family of Philadelphia and Pikes Counties, Pennsylvania.

Extent

0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Contains one folder of business papers from the Shoemaker family, Quakers of Philadelphia and Pike County, Pennsylvania. Includes deeds, inventory, and appraisement papers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donor: Unknown

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source is unknown, but papers appear to be related to Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers, daughter of Franklin Shoemaker whose estate is inventoried in these papers.

Related Materials

See also:

  1. RG 5/139, Mary William Shoemaker Papers
Title
An Inventory of the Shoemaker Family Family Papers, 1831-1878
Author
FHL staff
Date
Before 1967
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries

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