Call Number:

MC.1106

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

1.0 linear ft. (1 box, 2 volumes)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

T. Chalkley Matlack notebooks (HC.MC.1106), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

circa 1930s (inclusive)

Creator:

Matlack, T. Chalkley (Thomas Chalkley), 1858-1945

Form:

Photographs

Abstract:

Histories and some photographs of Quaker Meetings and Meetinghouses located primarily in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland prepared by T. Chalkely Matlack.

T. Chalkley Matlack (1858-1945) was a genealogist, artist, and photographer. He taught at Friends Central School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1938, he published "Brief historical sketches concerning Friends Meetings of the past and present ... "

Histories, photographs, and other data written and gathered by T. Chalkley Matlack on "Friends Meeting Houses, and the Boarding Homes, Schools, and Burial Grounds associated with them," located in various sections of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, Long Island, New York City, and other scattered localities; also his biographical sketches of prominent ministers and Friends, associated with American Friends meetings.

Twenty-one notebooks compiled by Matlack containing historical sketches and photographs of Friends Meeting Houses. Volume 18 is on prominent Quakers associated with Meetings in America (includes portraits). Volumes 20 and 21 are primarily photograph albums. Volumes are individually indexed and there is a separate, all name index [typed booklet] to volumes 1-19.

Original arrangement from creator preserved. Notebooks organized by geographic location.