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Friends Historical Association records
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
The Friends Historical Association was founded in 1873 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the mission of studying, preserving, and publishing material related to the history and legacy of Quakerism. In addition to meeting annually in Philadelphia, the Friends Historical Association produces a semi-annual publication containing articles on historical Quaker events as well as contemporary Quaker contributions to matters such as social justice, education, and diplomacy.
Information from the Friends Historical Association.
Founded in 1873, incorporated in 1975.
One legal sized box for all legal sized materials (box 18).
The Friends Historical Association records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, information concerning the Conference for Quaker Historians and Archivists, details about various committes within the association, publications and publicity, events, and miscellaneous materials. The collection spans from 1873, the year that the Friends Historical Association was founded, and 2016.
Records are arranged chronologically within its series. Box 18 contains all legal sized materials.
This collection is on permanent loan by Friends Historical Association. It includes materials that organically grew at Haverford College as well as combined from materials at Friends Historical Library. Those materials include: - Gift of E. Virginia Walker, 1948 - Minutes of Friends Historical Commission gift of Eleanore Price Mather, 1972 - Correspondence of Friends Historical Commission gift of George Vaux, 2/1/1973
Processed by Mary Crauderueff; completed April, 2012. Revised by Allison Hall; completed May, 2020.
Organization
Subject
- Publisher
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Mary A. Crauderueff
- Finding Aid Date
- April, 2012
- Sponsor
- This collection was processed by an outside contractor sponsored by the Friends Historical Association
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Collection Inventory
The Friends Historical Society was founded in 1904 and merged with the Friends Historical Association in 1923.