Philadelphia Area Archives

Start Over Subject Quakers -- Portraits

Jehu Newlin photograph album, Undated.

Extent:: 0.29 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: The photograph album of Jehu Newlin includes portraits of various Quakers, including Charles Wakefield, Foster Green, Jane Newson, Sarah Gibbons, and Theodore Harris.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Isaac Shoemaker scrapbook, 1841-1866 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (1 volume, 1 folder)
Abstract:: The scrapbook of Isaac Shoemaker includes portraits of Shoemaker's family, including Charles Shoemaker, Elizabeth Robeson, Susan Wood, Hannah Taylor, Abraham M. Taylor, George Washington, Daniel Wheeler, and Robert Morton. Also includes sketches of meeting houses, plants found on his travels, and landscapes, including landscapes of South Carolina, Louisiana, western prairies, Spanish Missions in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Yosemite.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Francis G. Allinson photograph album, 1833

Extent:: 0.31 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Francis G. Allinson's photograph album features photographs from his travels in Europe, particularly of landscapes, buildings, ruins, and mountains. According to some of the labels on the photos, a number of photos were taken in Germany, along the Rhine river. Also included are a number of Quaker portraits, including those of Charles S. Taylor, Abraham Taylor, Lizzie Rob, Belle Pugh, Amelia Gummere, Bessie Eyre, William Kimber, Howard Taylor, Samuel Alsop, Edward Allinson, and Samuel Gummere.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Thomson-Eyre Family Albums, 1860-1929 (inclusive)

Extent:: .51 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection consists of 5 photograph albums, dating from approximately 1860-1895, from Mary Sullivan Patterson, a Quaker historian and genealogist. The collection contains mostly of family member portaits.

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

Morrell Family Album, 1860-1875 (inclusive)

Extent:: .3 cubic ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: This collection consists of a large family album of tintypes, cabinet cards, and cartes de visite depicting members of the Morrell family. The Morrell family was a prominent land-holding family in Kittery and North Berwick, Maine. John Morrell settled the area circa 1676 and was a Quaker at a time when Friends were persecuted; nevertheless, he and his descendents continued their association with the Society of Friends.

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

Photographs from the E. Raymond Wilson Papers, 1930-1981 (inclusive)

Extent:: .1 cubic ft. (half box, stored with pa-066)
Abstract:: E. Raymond Wilson (1896-1987), a Quaker peace lobbyist, helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925. From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. He was the author of two books. This collection of photographs contains family photographs, greeting cards, and newspaper articles about his family and friends (all Quakers).

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

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting lantern slide collection, circa 1900-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8.75 linear ft. (10 boxes)
Abstract:: This is a collection of glass lantern slides, originally owned by Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (CPMM), and likely compiled by the Philadelphia Young Friends' Association. Most slides depict Quaker meetinghouses, portraits of Quakers, slides of Quaker conferences, or topics relating to Quakerism in the United Kingdom.

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

Anonymous scrapbooks, 1894

Extent:: 0.66 linear ft. (5 volumes)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of five volumes of anonymous scrapbooks from the Quaker Collection.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Koozma J. Tarasoff photographs of visit to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1983-03

Extent:: .1 cubic ft. (half a box, stored with pa-070)
Abstract:: Koozma J. Tarasoff (born 1932) is a scholar of the Doukhobors, a Spiritual Christian religious group of Russian origin with a sizeable community in Canada. This collection consists of black and white photographs taken by Tarasoff on a trip to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in March 1983. He photographed Quaker Meeting Houses and schools and prominent Quakers including E. Raymond Wilson and Laurama Pixton.

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

Anna Wharton Morris family photographs, 1823-1997 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.7 cubic ft. (13 boxes)
Abstract:: Anna Wharton Morris was the youngest daughter of Joseph Wharton, prominent Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist. She was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, active in prison reform and other social reform movements of her day, and was a profilic writer, primarily of short stories and essays. In 1896, she married Harrison S. Morris, Philadelphia author and arts administrator, and they had one child, Catharine Morris Wright. The photographs in this collection are related to the Anna Wharton Morris Papers, RG5/106. The photographs date from as early as 1796 but are mostly from the 1860s and onwards. The photographs are either bound in leather albums or loose. They depict the Wharton Morris family and friends.

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