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Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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The Home for Destitute Children was founded in 1855 by Mary Jeanes in Philadelphia, PA. It was incorporated on April 11, 1856, as a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children and then placed them with private families (at one point as apprentices). First located in West Philadelphia, it accepted both sexes until 1919. The Home moved to Cheyney, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1922. The name was changed in 1945 to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys.
- Board of Trustees
- Committee on Management
- Financial Records
- Miscellaneous
Donor: Gift
Date: 1982 and earlier.
Previously cited as Home for Destitute Colored Children. For better access annual reports transferred in 2004 to Friends Historical Library, SG3, Annual Reports.
Subject
- African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania
- African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Apprentices -- Pennsylvania
- Boys -- Education -- Pennsylvania
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
- Education -- Pennsylvania
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education
- Quakers -- Societies, etc
- Poor -- Services for
- Nonprofit Organizations -- Pennsylvania
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Quaker women -- Societies and clubs
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania
- Youth -- Employment -- Pennsylvania
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- ca. 1982
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
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