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Yardley 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

Yardley Monthly Meeting was established in 1955 by Bucks Quarterly Meeting out of Makefield Monthly Meeting. This is currently an active monthly meeting.

Records of Yardley Monthly Meeting, 1955-1976, as follows: minutes, 1955-1961, 1961-1970, and 1970-1976, and newsletter. Digital scans of printed paper minutes from 1993-1996 and 1998-2012. Minutes 2013-2022 are born-digital (searchable) pdf files compiled by the meeting as one combined file per year.

Deposit

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2011
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

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/Y3 1.1-1.3. Minutes, 1955-1976.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 628
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

3 v.; 29 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/Y3. Minutes (digital), 1993-1996, 1998-2012.
Physical Description

19 digitized PDFs - scanned from paper originals not stewarded by FHL

RG2/Ph/Y3. Minutes (digital), 2013-2023.
Scope and Contents

Born-digital PDF/A files are combined meeting for business records, one file per year. The annual combined file includes monthly meeting for business minutes (including reports from committees to the monthly meeting) and any called meetings, plus sometimes related meeting records like committee lists or budget reports.

Physical Description

11 PDF/A files

RG2/Ph/Y3 2.1. Yardley Meeting newsletter.
Scope and Contents

Description based on: January, 1954; title from caption.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

v. ; 28-36 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/Y3 2.2. Minute to discuss establishing a "World Goverment under law", 1984.
Scope and Contents

Corrected draft of a minute from Yardley Meeting, likely designed for broader circulation across the Yearly Meeting.

Physical Description

1 folder

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