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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Environmental Working Group and its predecessors (1975-1998)

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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

Call Number:
Phy.740
Repository:
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Date:
1975-1994 (inclusive)
Creator:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends Working Group on the Environment
Abstract:
Records of various Philadelphia Yearly Meeting groups concerned with energy and the environment, 1975-1994.

The Friend's Working Group on the Environment of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was originally formed at the 1975 Yearly Meeting as the Working Group on Nuclear Energy to address a concern on nuclear power plant legislation. At the 1977 Yearly Meeting, the group recommended that it be continued under the name of Working Group on Energy, and its focus shifted from the debate on nuclear power to conservation and consciousness of energy among Friends. In 1980 the group reported irresolvable differences amongst its members on the issue of nuclear power, and seems to have stopped meeting from 1981 to 1983, at which point the concern of nuclear power was taken up by both the Special Peace Project and the New Call to Peacemaking. The Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment was created in 1984 and presented its mission to the 1985 Yearly Meeting as preserving God's Creation through education and conservation. The group continued its work under various names, eventually becoming the Friend's Environmental Working Group, through 1992.

Records of the Working Group on Nuclear Energy, the Working Group on Energy, the Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment, and the Friend's Environmental Working Group, all of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1977-1992.

Organization:

  1. Series 1. Predecessor Committee Records
  2. Series 2. Minutes
  3. Series 3. Correspondence
  4. Series 4. Clerks' Files
  5. Series 5. Financial Papers
  6. Series 6. Events
  7. Series 7. Publicity
  8. Series 8. Other groups
  9. Series 9. Photographs
  10. Series 10. Miscellaneous

Deposit, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Organization
Subject

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2004
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/Phy/740/Box 1. Working Group on Nuclear Energy, 1975.
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Working Group on Energy, 1977-80.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Minutes, 1984-1990.
Scope and Contents

Includes Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment.

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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Minutes, 1991-94.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740. Minutes, 1994 9mo-1998 3mo.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Correspondence, 1985-94 & n.d.
Scope and Contents

Chronologically arranged.

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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Letters to Senators, Presidents, Political Candidates, 1985-92 & n.d.
Scope and Contents

Chronological.

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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Condolence Letters re Environmental Disasters, 1985-86.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Correspondence with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1985.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Letters to Corporations, 1985-92.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. Assorted Papers Compiled by K. Geist, Clerk, 1984-90 & n.d.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 1. K. Geist's "Quaker Record File", 1988-90 & n.d.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 2. Miscellaneous budget slips, bills, etc., 1984-93.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 2. Yearly Meeting, Conference, and Workshop Materials, 1985-1993.
Scope and Contents

Folders by year.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

10 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 2. Articles Statements Written by the Committee, 1985-1992.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 2. Committee to Plan Yearly Meeting Day on the Environment, 1973.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 2. Media Friends of Planet Earth, 1991-93.
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 2. Events, 1989-93.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Phy/740/Box 2. Flyers, Publications, and Relevant Background Information, 1988-93 & n.d.
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: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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