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State College Friends 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
An independent meeting for worship and monthly meeting were organized at State College, Pa. in 1925, under the care of the two Philadelphia Quarterly Meetings and The American Friends' Fellowship Council. In 1949, State College became affiliated with the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings as a united meeting under Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox), Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) and Centre Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. In 1977, the meeting was transferred to Milville-Muncy [Upper Susquehanna] Quarterly Meeting. This meeting is currently active and retains its affiliation to Philadelphia and Baltimore Yearly Meetings.
Records include: Minutes of the Independent and United Monthly Meeting for Business since 1925; Membership records, 1932-1994; Visitors' Register, 1927-1966; Newsletters, 1953-2008.
Deposit
Organization
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- State College Friends Meeting.
- Finding Aid Date
- 2003
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
- Use Restrictions
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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
Minutes of the monthly meeting for business of the united meeting and of its predecessor, the independent meeting, as follows: 1925-1930, 1925-1936, 1930-1936, 1936-1948, 1948-1956, 1956-1962, 1962-1965, 1965-1967, 1967-1971, 1971-1974, 1974-1977, 1977-1981, 1981-1984, 1984-1985, 1986-1987, 1988-1989, 1990-1991, 1992-2003, 2004, 2005, 2006. 1992-2003 includes inventory. Vol.13, 1925-36, includes correspondence from 1924, press clippings, etc., as collected by Hanna J. Maule.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
11 v. + 2 boxes (6 linear feet).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
This volume, along with the two volumes 2.2-2.3 below, contains alphabetized, primarily hand-written and typescript membership forms which constituted the membership record of each member until Mae Smith Bixby created a computer data base of such records in 1992/93 to succeed these records. The forms have been hand-updated, with some entries as recent as 1993, and represent the primary source of member information up until that time. This binder contains the forms for all Friends who were recorded by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1993 as members of State College Friends Meeting. The Meeting retains photocopies of these forms in a binder kept by the Membership Recorder.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
See content note for volume 2.1 above. This volume contains membership forms for members of Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
This volume contains the alphabetized membership forms for transferred, discontinued, and deceased members of State College Friends Meeting, members of both Yearly Meetings. At the front of the volume may be found about 20 loose forms of inactive members from the early 1990s. Most of the latter, and some of the bound forms, do not include the information regarding date and manner of termination; this information is contained within the minutes of the relevant period. An additional set of photocopies of this volume was not made.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Two groups of files, arranged alphabetically: Current Members (Active) and Past Members (Inactive). Files contain letters of application, transfer, marriage, birth for current members, obituary/memorials, and other records as relevant.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
(6) folders with Yearly Meeting Annual Reports, 1932-45 and 1948, 1951-55, and membership statistics reports, primarily from 1950-1963.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (107 p.) ; 25 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description based on: November 1953 issue; title from caption.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
28 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: I/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College