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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

Call Number:
MC.901
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
7.5 linear ft. (18 hollinger boxes.)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Friends Historical Association records (HC.MC.901), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Date:
1873-2012 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bronner, Edward, Curtis, Barbara, Robinson, Jo Ann, Cherry, Charles L., Brown, Elizabeth Potts, Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974, Riley, Lyman W., Jones, Mary Hoxie, Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975, and Walker, E. Virginia
Abstract:
The collection contains records of 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 of the Friends Historical Association.

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

The collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Minute book, Friends Historical Association, 1873-1934.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

The Friends Historical Society was founded in 1904 and merged with the Friends Historical Association in 1923.

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, Friends Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1909-1919.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Minutes and related materials, Friends Historical Society and Friends Historical Association, 1919-1937.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Memorial and appreciation minutes, 1933-1957.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1937-1950.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1950-1955.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1951-1959.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1959-1963.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1956-1963.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Distributed minutes, 1946-1959.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Distributed minutes, 1959-1964.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1964-1980.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1964-1969.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1969-1972.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1965-1975.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1965-1981.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1972-1978.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1978-1980.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1980-1986.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1984.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1985.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1986.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1987.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1988.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1989.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1989-1992.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1990.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1991.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1992.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1993.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1994.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1994-1998.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1995-1997.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1995.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1996.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1997.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1998.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1999.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1999-2002.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2000.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2001.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2002.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2003.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2004.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2005.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2007.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2008.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2009.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2010.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2011.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2012.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2013.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2014.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2015.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2016.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2017.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2018.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2019.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2020.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2022.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Friends Historical Society Minutes, London, 1923-1958.
Box 18

Archival Resource Key. Henry J. Cadbury, chair, 1953-1955.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Arthur James, chair, 1966-1969.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Henry J. Cadbury, chair, 1965-1967.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Mary Hoxie Jones, president, 1972-1974.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Mary Hoxie Jones, president, 1977-1979.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Regarding donated materials, 1987.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Barbara Curtis, Margaret Hope Bacon, presidents, 1986-1990.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Margaret Hope Bacon, 1988-1991.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Curator's Correspondence, 1954-1965.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Curator's Correspondence, 1966-1968.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Curator's Correspondence, 1969-1973.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Regarding Silhouettes, 1940.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Friends Historical Commission, 1968-1972.
Box 10

Archival Resource Key. Treasurer's reports, 1947-1968.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Treasurer's reports, 1954-1986.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Reports to Treasurer, 1962-1969.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Budget and Finances, 1965-1971.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Ledger Sheets, 1971-1978.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Annual financial reports and ledger, 1977-1982.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Treasurer's reports, 1983-1989.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Atwater-Kent gift information, 1987.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. Budgets, reports, audits, 1988-1997.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. Budgets, reports, audits, 1998-2010.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. Budgets, reports, audits, 2011-2016.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. Balance book, 1945-1951.
Box 18
Archival Resource Key. Bequest letters, 1942-1959.
Box 18
Archival Resource Key. Budgets, including drafts, 1942-1963.
Box 18
Archival Resource Key. Tax Exemption history, 1955-1986.
Box 18

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence and related information, 1978-1988.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1978 Conference program letter, 1978.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1980 Conference correspondence, program and registration information, 1979-1989.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1982 Conference program and registration information, 1982.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1984 Conference program and registration information, 1984.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1986 Conference program and registration information, 1986.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1988 Conference program and registration information, 1987-1988.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1990 Conference program and registration information, 1990.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 1992 Conference program and registration information, 1992.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1994 Conference program and registration information, 1994.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1996 Conference program and registration information, 1996.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1998 Conference program and registration information, 1998.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 2000 Conference program and registration information, 2000.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 2002 Conference program and registration information, 2002.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 2004 Conference program and registration information, 2004.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 2006 Conference program and registration information, 2006.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 2008 Conference program and registration information, 2008.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 2010 Conference program and registration information, 2010.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 2014 Conference program and registration information, 2014.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1996 conference papers; selected 1 of 2, 1996.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1996 conference papers; selected 2 of 2, 1996.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1998 conference papers; selected 1 of 2, 1998.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1998 conference papers; selected 2 of 2, 1998.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 1998 responses to conference papers, 1998.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2000 conference papers; selected 1 of 2, 2000.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2000 conference papers; selected 2 of 2, 2000.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2000 responses to conference papers, 2000.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2002 conference papers; selected 1 of 2, 2002.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2002 conference papers; selected 2 of 2, 2002.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2010 conference papers; selected, 2010.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2012 conference papers; selected, 2012.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 2014 conference papers; selected, 2014.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. 2016 conference papers; selected, 2016.
Box 14

Archival Resource Key. Membership lists, 1874-1964.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Membership drive letters, 1946-1991, undated.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Reports for annual meeting, 1950-1993.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Reports for directors, 1958-1994.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Committee reports, 1964-1976.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Appeals, 1986-1991.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Office manual and membership materials, 1982.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Long range planning, 1988.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Membership records, 1994-1997.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Membership office manual, undated.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Nominating Committee reports, 1929-1958.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Committee reports, 1950.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Ad hoc Committee on the Use of Reserve Funds, 1987-1988.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Entertainment Committee, 1959-1961.
Box 14
Archival Resource Key. Development Committee project, 2004-2008.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Committee lists, 1929-1961.
Box 18

Archival Resource Key. Form letters, 1929-1937.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Exhibition in Old City Hall, 1937.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Exhibition at Atwater Kent Museum, 1941-1954.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Publicity, 1965.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and notices of dues, 1995-1997.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Mailings, 1995-1997.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Legacy of George Fox Conference, 2002.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Publication annoucements, 1925,1927, 1941, 1986.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. List of cuts used in Bulletin, 1908-1944.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Copyright information for. Bulletin/ Quaker History, 1975-1992.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Project Muse agreements for Bulletin/ Quaker History, 2007.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. Assignment of copyright for Friends in the Delaware Valley, 1980-1981.
Box 16

Archival Resource Key. Annual meeting book lists, circa 1970s.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Drafts of mateirals, 1990-1995.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2000.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2001.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2002.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2003.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2004.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2005.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2006.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2007.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2008.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2009.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2010.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Annual and spring meeting information, 2011.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Programs, 1906-1922.
Box 18
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1923-1929.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1930-1939.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1940-1949.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1950-1959.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1956.
Box 18
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1960-1966.
Box 16
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1970-1979.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1971-1981.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1983-1988.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1980-1989.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 1990-1999.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 2000-2009.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 2010-2012.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, 2013-2016.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Invitations and programs, undated.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Certification of Incorporation, 1875.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Sharples Memorial Marker, 1930.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous reports, 1946-1951.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Manuscript collection, 1947-1950.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Lydia F. Gummere Memorial Fund, 1956.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Decision to handle Firneds Historical Association due and records at Haverford College, 1961-1962.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Copy of Charpter, 1965.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. By-laws, 1980.
Box 17
Archival Resource Key. Friends Historical Association seal, undated.
Box 18

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