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Rye Preparative Meeting Records

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Rye Preparative Meeting was established in 1959, and continued under the care of Purchase Monthly Meeting. It became a worship group about 1997.

Records of Rye Preparative Meeting, 1950-1997. Records include minutes and other papers arranged chronologically: 1989; 1950, 1957-65; 1966-84; 1985-97.

Divided into series: Miscellaneous : 1.1 1989; 1.2 1950, 1957-65; 1.3 1966-84; 1.4 1985-97 & n.d.

Vol. 1.1 ransferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997. Other records received from the Meeting in 2001.

Deposit,1997.

Most of the records are stained with mold due to a leak in the meeting house. The Repository did an initial cleaning.

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Inventory prepared by: FHL Staff
Finding Aid Date
2007
Access Restrictions

Where available, access is through microfilm.

Use Restrictions

Information on reproduction policies available in the library.

Collection Inventory

RG2/NY/R667 1.1. Miscellaneous Records, 1989.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY426
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/R667 1.2. Miscellaneous Records, 1950, 1957-1965.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-
Physical Description

13 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/R667 1.3. Miscellaneous Records, 1966-1984.
Box 2
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-
Physical Description

18 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/R667 1.4. Miscellaneous Records, 1985-1997 & n.d.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Vol.1.4 also includes an account book, 1959-67, directories, 1968-86, and other material.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-
Physical Description

19 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

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