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Start Over Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Organization Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) Language English Year 1890 to 1894

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Friends Hospital records, 1812-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:
17.6 linear ft. (25 boxes, 229 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Friends Hospital from before its founding in 1813 through the late 20th century. Records include administrative, financial, hospital, published, and visual information.

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Taylor Family papers, 1755-1930 (inclusive)

Extent:
3.3 linear ft. (8 boxes)
Abstract:
Papers realted to the 19th-century Quaker Shoemaker and Taylor families of Burlington, NJ and Philadelphia and their westward movement to begin a business in Ohio. They deal also with such varied topics as surveying, sheep raising, the Contraband Relief Commission, the establishment of Bryn Mawr College and the mental hospital Friends' Asylum. Prominent correspondents are Abraham Merritt Taylor, Joseph Wright Taylor, Isaac Shoemaker, Charles Shoemaker and Thomas Wistar Jr.

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