Repository: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1909">1909</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Friends' Institute records, 1876-1970 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear ft. (1 box and 14 volumes)
Abstract:: The Friends' Institute in Philadelphia was established in the late 19th century to afford a reading room for Quakers coming from surrounding areas into the city. Records include correspondence, minutes, financial accoutns, membership records, annual reports and building plans.

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Friends School Haverford records, 1885-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:: 28 linear ft. (36 horizontal document boxes, 15 volumes, 12 vertical document boxes.)
Abstract:: The records include minutes, reports, newsletters, correspondence, photographs, lists, financial records, curriculum records, notes, printed material, school publications, book manuscript and drafts, clippings, and other papers of Friends School, Haverford. Many of the records originated during the tenure of Miriam Brown as principal, 1950-1980, and include her notes, drafts, etc. for "Friends School Haverford, 1885-1985," a centennial history of the school.

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Stephen Grellet papers, 1796-1955 (inclusive) 1796-1833 (bulk)

Extent:: .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: Letters, diary fragments and other miscellaneous papers. Primarily related to Grellet's travels in Europe, Russia and Haiti as Quaker missionary. Topics include his spiritual life, meeting leaders of religious denominations in Europe, with Friends and other religious sects (Saints), visits to schools, prisons, poorhouses and hospitals during travels, visits with members of European aristocracy, Russian nobility and Pope Pius VII (1819), social and religious situation in Haiti (1816).

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Morris Evans Leeds papers, 1862-1944 (inclusive) 1862; 1942 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: A collection that focuses on two dates: 1862 & 1942. In the former, Lewis W. Leeds' invention of the window envelope is detailed with contracts, bills, correspondence and samples of the envelope. In 1942, his descendant, Morris E. Leeds corresponds with E. Tudor Gross who has become interested in the invention and ends with the article entitled "The Window Envelope," which appeared in the Collector's Club Philatelist in April of that year.

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Dean Putnam Lockwood papers, 1899-1960 (inclusive) 1899-1960 (bulk)

Extent:: 11 linear ft. (21 boxes)
Abstract:: The papers of Latin scholar and professor of Latin at Haverford College, Dean Putnam Lockwood, primarily include textual materials on topics relating to Greek literature and the history of Haverford College, but also a collection of his art and artifacts.

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Willard E. Mead collection, circa 1852-1914 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: Letters written by Western cultural and social leaders of the 19th century to Sir Francis Joseph Campbell, a notable educator of the blind.

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Edward Wanton Smith papers, 1681-1971 (inclusive)

Extent:: 12.5 linear ft. (26 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection includes letters, biographical accounts of Friends, genealogical material, legal and financial papers, business accounts, minutes, accounts of dreams and visions of Friends, essays, notebooks, epistles of Friends' Meetings, marriage certificates, maps, pictures, deeds, and other material of the Smith and Atwater families.

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Whitall Family papers, 1836-1912 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Legal and business papers of members of the 19th century Quaker Whitall family in Philadelphia and New Jersey.

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William Penn Charter School archives, 1611-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:: 17 linear ft. (24 boxes, 1 oversized drawer, 150+ books, 24 microfilm reels, 1 box of 3-dimensional objects, 1 box of stereopticon photographs)
Abstract:: The William Penn Charter School archives contain the financial, historical, business, and social records of the school, dating back as far as 1611. Documents signed by William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, and former Philadelphia mayors William Hudson and Edward Shippen, are included as well as a variety of school texts and memorabilia, which illuminate the traditions and history of the William Penn Charter School.

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Stephen Shipley Wilson collection, 1850-1918 (inclusive) 1860s-1890s (bulk)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: Correspondence primarily between Liberal members or activists in the British government and Henry Joseph Wilson or Alexander Cowan Wilson; mostly the period when Gladstone and Disraeli led the Whig and Tory parties (1860s to 1890s).

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