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Friends Historical Library meetinghouse picture file
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the 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.
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Most Quakers use the term "meetinghouse" or "meeting house" to describe the building where they meet for worship. Most meetinghouses are plain, without steeples or adornment, and none are consecrated. Some 20th and 21st century Quakers, especially in the Evangelical Quaker tradition, prefer the term "church."
This collection consists of images of various Quaker meetinghouses across the world, collected at various times from various sources, by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. The bulk of the collection is photographs of meetinghouses in the United States. There are also a large number of photographs of meetinghouses in Canada and Great Britain, and a small number of "foreign" meetinghouses outside these areas. The vast bulk of the collection is photographs but there are also some artworks on paper.
This collection is arranged in three groups. Within each group, the photographs are arranged by meeting name, alphabetically.
- PA 110
- North American meetinghouses (includes U.S. and Canada but not Mexico)
- PA 131
- Great Britain meeting houses (includes England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland)
- PA 130
- Foreign meetinghouses (outside U.S., Canada, and Great Britain)
Many of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available in our digital collections platform. Clicking the red box at the top of the page labeled "Friends Historical Library meetinghouse picture file (digitized selections)" will take you there.
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- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is available for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Some of the items in this collection may be protected by copyright. The user is solely responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns to reuse, publish, or reproduce relevant items beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to the law. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/.
Collection Inventory
21.6 cubic ft.70 boxes and 1 oversized box
4.3 cubic ft.12 boxes