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Watson W. Dewees Meeting House Photographs, 1905

Extent:: .3 cubic ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: This collection consists of Friends' meeting house photographs taken circa 1905 by Watson Wood Dewees. The meeting houses depicted are located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Southeastern Ohio, Maryland and Delaware.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

New York Yearly Meeting collection of militia regulations, 1812, 1821 (inclusive)

Extent:: .01 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: The collection contains Quaker correspondence concerning various states' regulations on military conscription and conscientious objection in the early 19th century.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Amy Grace Mekeel papers concerning Conservative Friends, New York Yearly Meeting, 1946-1968 (inclusive)

Extent:: .02 linear ft. (5 folders)
Abstract:: The collectionn contains Mekeel's notes and abstracts concerning Quaker meetings in the Scipio and Farmington Quarterly Meetings of New York Yearly Meeting, particularly concerning the various nineteenth century Orthodox separations. There is also a small group of correspondence focused on Quaker meeting records.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Louise K. Clement Photographs, 1914-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: .5 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Louise K. Clement was an avid photographer who captured foreign landscapes and peoples, urban and idllyic settings, and portraits of people of all ages from approximately 1914-1946.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Swayne Family Photographs, 1867-1966 (inclusive)

Extent:: .9 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: The Swayne family were Quakers of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Swayne family picture collection contains, albums, framed photographs, and loose photographs that date from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries and which contain a variety of different photograph types (tintypes, cabinet cards, color prints, etc.).

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Friends Boarding Home of Concord Quarterly Meeting (The Hickman) Photographs, 1896-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: .13 cubic ft. (half box, stored with pa-079)
Abstract:: The Hickman is a senior living community located in the heart of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and which is guided by Quaker principles and tradition. This collection depicts the life of those in the Hickman, providing color and black and white photographs of guests, staff, and the boarding home, from 1896 to 1991.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Swarthmore College War Years Photographs, 1943-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: .5 cubic ft. (1 box and 1 binder)
Abstract:: This collection consists of 2 boxes of black and white photographs, postcards, loose prints, contact sheets, and negative slides, dating from approximately 1943-1946. Items were donated by alumni for the College's War Years Reunion in 1993.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Friends Historical Library account book collection, 1729-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7 linear ft.
Abstract:: Account books are ledgers in which commercial and personal financial accounts are recorded. This collection consists of individual account books that were given to the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College as single accessions.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence, 1780-1811 (bulk) 1780-1941 (inclusive)

Extent:: 6 linear ft.
Abstract:: Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and the conditions of free blacks, as well as Quaker religious and social concerns and visits from traveling ministers. A second group of letters contains primarily letters from Joseph Bringhurst, the brother of James, to his niece, Elizabeth Foulke while she was traveling in the ministry.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Smedley Family Scrapbook, 1700-1833 (inclusive)

Extent:: .25 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: These manuscripts of the Smedley family, Quakers of Chester County, Pennsylvania, were collected by Mary (Green) Smedley in the early 20th century. The scrapbook contains primarily 18th century legal and property documents concerning Thomas Smedley (1688?-1758) of Willistown, Chester County, a member of Goshen Monthly Meeting, and his descendants, particularly George Smedley (d. 1783) and family. The scrapbook includes records relating to a property dispute between George Smedley and George Albridg(e) which was taken up by Goshen Monthly Meeting and led to Smedley's disownment by the Meeting on 1766 12 month 5. His appeal to the Yearly Meeting was rejected the following year. Of particular interest is a 1759 manumission document for James Thompson, signed by George, Francis, John, and Thomas Smedley, as willed by their father Thomas Smedley. The collection also includes family wills, distribution of the estate of George Smedley by the executor, his wife Patience (1731-1812), and...(see more)

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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