Repository: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1861">1861</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

George Selleck papers, 1801-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: A collection of some papers of Quaker author George Selleck, inlcuding essays relating to his book Quakers in Boston, 1656-1964: three centuries of Friends in Boston and Cambridge.

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Smith Family papers, 1821-1893 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (2 boxes, 2 volumes)
Abstract:: The papers of two 19th century Smith family members, Seth Smith and Edward Smith, the former a teacher and astronomer, the latter a medical doctor. Seth Smith was likely a Quaker.

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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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Taylor Family papers, 1754-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:: .75 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Includes letters of Elihu Burritt (1810-1879) and others on Quakers, African Americans, and slavery; papers of Francis R. Taylor (1884-1947) on Quakers, African Americans, and peace; and George Washington Taylor (1803-1891) papers and Free Produce Association records relating to Taylor's work for the use and sale of goods not attached to the slavery economy.

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Thompson Family papers, 1751-1876 (inclusive)

Extent:: .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: Correspondence, genealogy, silhouette, printed material, certificate, testimony, and accounts. Includes letters from Jonah Thompson (written 1756-1758) and son John Thompson to family in England (written 1773-1805). Letters (written 1840-1874) of John's grandson, John James Thompson, to cousin John Thompson (Hitchin, England) discuss family news, national and political questions, slavery, business, and financial conditions.

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Welsh Society of Philadelphia records, 1798-1978 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8 linear ft. (19 hollinger boxes and 3 volumes)
Abstract:: Records of the Welsh Society of Philadelphia, a benevolent society founded in 1729 to guide and assist people of Welsh descent.

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Wheeler - Smith Family papers, 1814-1936 (inclusive) 1864-1865 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: The collection consists primarily of letters to and from Woodbury C. Smith, his father, Samuel Smith, and his wife, Helen Wheeler Smith and principally relates to the Civil War.

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Josiah White papers, 1797-1949 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 linear ft. (6 boxes and 9 volumes)
Abstract:: Josiah White was a 19th-century engineer and the inventor of a method to bring coal down the Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. He was also heavily involved in the education of many among America's less privileged, establishing a number of manual labor schools in the Midwest. The collection includes White's business and personal papers, as well as the papers of Hannah White Richardson and Rebecca White, his daughters, whose interests included religious and community affairs.

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Julia Wilbur papers, 1843-1908 (inclusive) 1843-1895 (bulk)

Extent:: 2.5 linear ft. (6 boxes)
Abstract:: Civil War era diaries of Julia Wilbur, a teacher and Contraband relief worker.

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Collins Family papers, 1780-1965 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.25 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Abstract:: Though much of the contents of the journals contain commentary that is mundane and seemingly trivial, this set of works offers broad social history and insight into the imagination and perceptions of primarily 20th-century middle-class American women, probably Quaker, as they perceive the world beyond their own spheres of reference. (Written by Emma Lapsansky-Werner)

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