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Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting Records

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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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.

Overview and metadata sections

Lehigh Valley Meeting began informal meetings about 1930 in Easton, Bethlehem, and Allentown. A First Day school was organized in 1948. After meeting in several locations, Lehigh Valley Friends built a meetinghouse on Bath Pike north of Bethlehem in 1961.

Records of Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting, 1948-ongoing. Includes digital newsletters and media files.

Deposit

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2018
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Use Restrictions

Each meeting's records have been placed on deposit, so copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

Collection Inventory

RG2/Ph/L450 1.1. Minutes, 1949-1959.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 1.12. Minutes [rough], 1948-1951.
Scope and Contents

Handwritten minute book, which begins with "copy of the minutes written by Margaret Pickett in 1948..." and other re-copied minutes before officially beginning on page 13 in 1mo 16, 1949.

Physical Description

1 volume

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/L450 1.13. Minutes [rough] and duplicate minutes, 1954-1963.
Scope and Contents

Minute book is labeled "Duplicate Records" but includes rough minutes and annotations for 1955 before switching to mostly carbons for 1956-1963.

Physical Description

1 volume

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/L450 1.2. Minutes, 1959-1966.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 1.3. Minutes, 1966-1976.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 1.4. Minutes, 1976-1982.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 1.5. Minutes, 1983-1988.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 1.6. Minutes, 1989-1994.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L45 1.8-1.11. Minutes, 1994-2001.
Box 1
Physical Description

4 folders

Material Specific Details

United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/L450 1.7. Agendae and Minutes [gaps], 1978-1997.
Box 1
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 2.1. Mailing lists, 1949-1969.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 2.2. Mailing lists, 1970-1980.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 2.3. Meeting directories, 1983-2000.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450. Member directory (digital), 2021.
Physical Description

1 PDF file

RG2/Ph/L450 3.1. Newsletters and address lists, 1948-1968.
Volume 3.1
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 3.2. Newsletters and address lists, 1968-1980.
Volume 3.2
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 3.3-3.9. Newsletters, 1983-2005, 2009-2013.
Box 2
Physical Description

7 folders

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 3.10-3.12. Newsletters, 2005-2022.
Box 3
Physical Description

3 folders

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 3.13. Newsletters (digital), 2018-2022.
Physical Description

45 files

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/Ph/L450 4.1. Financial records, 1953-1998.
Box 4
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 4.2. Burial ground, 1987-1993.
Box 4
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 4.3. "For Bryn" [newsletter records], 1962-1989.
Box 4
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 4.4. Capital Campaign Steering Committee records, 1989-1997.
Box 4
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 5.1. Religious Education, 1952-1961.
Box 3
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 5.2. Social Order Committee, 1955-1974.
Box 3
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 6.1. Quaker Archivist, 1991.
Box 3
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 6.2. Corresponding Secretary, 1975-1985.
Box 3
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 6.3. Library, 1978, 1996.
Box 3
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/Ph/L450 6.4 (and digital). Interview of Louise Young (digital and paper), 2022-01-19.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Interview with Louise Young, clerk, is a digital video file with PDF transcript and a printed copy of the interview questions and transcripts

Physical Description

1 video file, 2 pdfs, 1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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