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Media 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.

Overview and metadata sections

A meeting for worship and preparative meeting at Media were established in 1878 by Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Because its membership became identical with its parent monthly meeting, Media Preparative Meeting was discontinued in 1949 and its business assumed by Chester Monthly Meeting. From 1938 to 1948, this meeting was also known as "Media-Springfield Preparative Meeting".

Records of the Orthodox preparative meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1878-1949; women's minutes, 1878-1900; membership list, 1878; financial records, 1878-1908; minutes of the Juvenile Auxiliary Committee, 1912-1913; miscellaneous papers, 1913-1934.

Deposit

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2003
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.

Use Restrictions

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/M45 3.1. Membership list, 1878.
Scope and Contents

Membership list prepared by a committee appointed on 8mo 21, 1878.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M45 1.1-1.4. Minutes, 1878-1949.
Scope and Contents

Minute books as follows: 1.1 1878-1885, 1.2 1886-1905, 1.3 1905-1938, 1.4 1938-1949.

General

Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began circa 1900.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

4 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M45 2.1. Minutes, 1878-1900.
Scope and Contents

Minutes from 1878 3mo 20 to 1900 4mo 25.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M45 4.1. Account book, 1878-1908.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (ca. 100 p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M45 4.2-4.3. Financial Records, 1878-1908.
Scope and Contents

Receipt book, 1878-1884; and folder containing cancelled checks, tax bills, gas and water bills, miscellaneous bills, receipts, etc.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. + 109 items.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M45 4.4. Account book, 1885-1886.
Scope and Contents

Record of contributions for building an addition to Media meeting house; and record of building and materials costs.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M45 4.5. Miscellaneous papers, 1913-1934.
Scope and Contents

Treasurer's account book, 1878-1908; receipt book, 1878-1884; and folder containing cancelled checks, tax bills, gas and water bills, miscellaneous bills, receipts, etc.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M45 5.1. Minutes, 1912-1913.
Scope and Contents

Playground records.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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