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London Grove Friends Meeting photographs

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
PA.176
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
.27 cubic ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], London Grove Friends Meeting photographs, PA 176, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1914-1959 (inclusive)
Creator:
London Grove Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
Abstract:
Photographs of London Grove Friends Meeting in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

London Grove Monthly Meeting was established in 1792 by Western Quarterly Meeting out of New Garden Monthly Meeting. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the monthly meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches.

London Grove Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1944, and its members were attached to New Garden Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) in West Grove, Pa.

London Grove Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) was the forerunner of the current monthly meeting.

This collection contains a variety of black and white photographs of life in the meeting in the 1950s. There is also a folder from the 200th Anniversary in 1914.

Accession title: London Grove Friends Meeting. Photographs, 1914, 1950s. Accession number: PYM.London G.2014.

London Grove Monthly Meeting Records, QM-Ph-L600

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Zoe Peyton Jones
Finding Aid Date
2018
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Taken at London Grove, May 4, 1952 and appeared in Life on September 29, 1952, pp. 94-104.

Meetinghouse exterior.
Outdoor scene of oak, meetinghouse and people.
First day class seated near fence near burial ground.
Seated meeting indoors with woman standing at facing benches.
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left-middle: George Baldwin, Mary Baldwin, assistant clerk Dorothy N. Brosius, clerk Anna Webb

Seated children inside.
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big eyes with dress up: Sally Hemingway; 2nd to left: Eddie Paschall; teacher in light jacket: Ena Hood

Young men in library.
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from the left: Bobby Sharpless, Peter Walton, Edward Walton, Howard Brosius, Bill Moore, Bobby Yeatman, Bob Hoffman, Sam Moore, (teacher) Mildred Walton

Meeting interior from balcony.
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from left: Bertha Kirk, Dorothy BrXXX, Richmond Miller, (superintendent) Elwood Stabley, Tom Baker, Kathy Larimore (child), Margaret Thomford, Edwin Buffington, William Moore, XXXX, Helen Carron

Meeting from interior balcony--man facing meeting.
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Maurice Michener

Three older ladies in hats and a gentleman.
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left to right: Amy Buffington, Mamie Fell, Mary Wood, Walter Wood, Ruth Webb, Arthur Yeatman, Abby Larimore (back)

Woman standing back to camera.
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Walter Wood, Meg Carson, Hayes Tyler, Maurice Michener

Man and woman with glasses in black.
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Walter Wood, Meg Carson, Hayes Tyler, Maurice Michener

Women with hats.
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Clarence Fell, Florence Baker, Mary Fell, Mary Wood

Women seated.
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Emma Passmore, Florence Baker, Mary Fell, Mary Wood, Clarence Fell, Will Moore, Ed Webb, Ruth Ann Webb, Dorothy Heald, Clarence Yeatman by steps

Older man, woman and children with hand near mouth.
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Kathy Larimore, Margaret Thomforde, Ed Buffington

Older man, woman and children with hand near mouth.
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Kathy Larimore, Margaret Thomforde, Ed Buffington

Woman in flowered hat.
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Horace Hemingway, Ellen Pyle Groft (?), Barbie Pusey

Young men and boy.
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Bobby Yeatman, SJ Pusey, Bill Moore, Norman Pusey

Couple at burial ground.
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Norman S. Pusey, Lena Pusey

Children outside Meetinghouse.
Young men and boy.
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Bobby Yeatman, SJ Pusey, Bill Moore, Norman Pusey

Woman with glasses and black clothing.
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Meg Carson (Mrs. Henry), on left Maurice Michener, behind Ed Buffington

Ladies in hats.
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Emma Passmore, Clarence Fell, Amy Buffington

Young Men.
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Marian Walters, Peter Walton, Pownell Jones, Ashley Larimore, Howard Brosius

Seated People.
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Ruthie Webb Harrison, Artie Yeatman, Ray McKay, Bob Yeatman, Bill Moore. 2nd row Leona Pusey, Norman Pusey, Dick Walter, Ritchie Walter, Peggy B. Jones

Young men and boy.
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Bobby Yeatman, SJ Pusey, Bill Moore, Norman Pusey

Woman with eyes closed.
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Ellen Pyle Graff, Mildred Walton

Group of children sitting under Penn Oak.
Group of children at Penn Oak, arms raised--Margaret Thomford.
Children bending under Penn Oak--with Margaret Thomford.
Children outside constructing something.
Children with Mary Thomford.
Young children sitting at table.
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Left to right: XXX, Peggy Thomford, Johnny Thompson, XXX, XXX, Ed Paschall, Jr, Cary Kirk?, Judy Pasehall

Outside class--one adult is Dottie Hall.
Girls near tombstones.
Girls measuring Penn Oak (2 Phoebe Lamar).
Two girls at tombstone.
Girls inside at table.
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left to right #4 is Winnie Thomford

Girls outside on bench.
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left to right #1 is Winnie Thomford

Outside mixed boys and girls.
Outside class with globe.
Penn Oak with group of children and adults.
Children seated outside.
Quaker doll.
Seated children outside.
Boys with tools.
Girl with straw hat.
Children at Penn Oak.
Ring around the rosie.
Woman and child walking down pathway.
Girl making jig saw map.
Children at doorway.
200th Anniversary photos, 1914.

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