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Friends Historical Library Quaker schools reference files
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PG2 Quaker Schools Reference Files consists primarily of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other materials (mostly secondary source), collected at various times from various sources, and organized by school. Most of the schools were established by Quakers or Quaker organizations.
Files are in alphabetical order.
Materials were collected at various times from various sources by Friends Historical Library staff.
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2022
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Collection Inventory
See also: SG1: The White and the Blue
See also: SG1: Cupola, SG3: Old Scholars Ass'n Annual Report
Also known as: Friends Bible College
See also: SG1 Progress
Also known as: Sharon Female Seminary, Attleboro, PA; Sharon Boarding School for Girls, Darby, PA; Sharon Female Boarding School, Darby, PA
Also known as: Old York Scholars' Association
Also known as: Chelten Hills Select School
Also known as: Heacock School, PA
Also known as: Cheyney State College; Cheyney Institute; Cheyney Training School for Teachers; Institute for Colored Youth of Philadelphia, Cheyney, PA; Institute for Colored Youth of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Also known as: Friends' Freedmen's Assoc., Philadelphia, PA
Also known as: Friends Boarding School, Richmond, IN
See also: SG1, The Earlhamite
Also known as: Friends' College Locust Valley, NY
Also known as: Friends Boarding School Mount Pleasant, OH; Olney Boarding School, Barnesville, OH
See also: SG1, Olney Current
See also: SG1: Friends Central News, The Blue and Gray, and RG4/022
See also: West Chester Friends School; Friends Graded School; Friends Hich School, West Chester, PA; Friends Junior High School, West Chester, PA; Friends School, West Chester, PA (Church St.); Friends' School, West Chester, PA (North High Street); Friends' Select School, West Chester, PA; Friends' Summer School for Religious and Social Study, West Chester, PA; West Chester Boarding School
Also known as: Darby Friends School
Also known as: Tokyo Friends School; Friends' School, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as: Ulster Provincial School
Also known as: Wigton Friends School
Also known as: Friends Select School for Boys and Girls, Medford, NJ
Also known as: Oxford Friends Select School
Also known as: Friends' Elementary and High School, Baltimore, MD; McCoy School, Baltimore, MD; Park Ave. Friends' Elementary and High School, Baltimore, MD
Also known as: Pennsdale Friends School
Also known as: Birmingham Summer School
Also known as: Friends World Institute
Also known as: Pacific Academy, Newberg, OR; Pacific College, Newberg OR
See also: SG1: George Fox Bulletin
See also: SG1: George School Ides
Also known as: Germantown Union School-house, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA; Public School at Germantown
Also known as: Mansion Square School
See also: SG1: The Herald
Also known as: New Garden Boarding School
See also: SG1: Haverford Bulletin, Haverford Review, Haverfordian
Also known as: Haverford Primary School
Also known as: French Creek Boarding School
Also known as: Maplewood Institute, Concordville, PA
Also known as: Wildcliff Junior College
See also: Swarthmore Borough Archives, series 4
Also known as: Friends' School, Media, PA; Friends' Select School, Media, PA; Media Friends School; Providence Friends School
Also known as: Miami Valley Institute, Springboro, OH
Also known as: Friends Academy Moorestown, NJ; Moorestown Friends Academy, Moorestown, NJ
Also known as: Friends Boarding School; Friends School, Portsmouth, RI; Friends School, Providence, RI
Also known as: York QM Girls' School
Also known as: Nebraska Church and Educational Association of Friends, Central City, NE
See also: SG1: Centralian.
Also known as: Friends' School, Wanganui, N.Z.; Wanganui Friends School
Also known as: Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro, ME
Also known as: Nine Partners Boarding School, Union Springs, NY; Friends Academy and Commercial College; Friends Academy, Union Springs, NY; Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs, NY
See also: RG4/066, SG1: Pendle Hill Bulletin.
Also known as: William Penn Charter School, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
Also known as: Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School, St. Helena Island, SC
Also known as: West Chester Boarding School for Girls
Also known as: Eli and Sybil Jones Mission; Friends Boys School, Ramallah, Jordan; Friends Girls School, Ramallah, Jordan; Friends' School, Ramallah Jordan
Also known as: Scattergood Boarding School, West Branch, Iowa
Also known as: Plymouth School, Plymouth, VT
Also known as: Friends School, Washington DC
Also known as: Swarthmore Grammar School
See also: Swarthmore Borough Archives, series 4
Also known as: Dalton Hall of Residence, Owens College, Victoria University; Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester, England; Friends' Hall, Owens College, Victoria University
See also: SG1: The Westonian
Also known as: Whittier Academy
Also known as: Iowa Union College Association of Friends, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Penn College Association, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Spring Creek Union College Association.. Spring Creek, Iowa; Spring Creek Union College, Spring Creek, Iowa
Also known as: High Point Normal and Industrial Institute
Also known as: Friends' School, Wilmington, DE