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The Temperance Association of Friends of Media (Media, Pa.) Records

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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.

Overview and metadata sections

The Temperance Association of Friends of Media was a Quaker temperance association in Media, Pennsylvania, established in 1883.

The records include the constitution, minutes, financial records, correspondence, and related papers.

The collection is divided into ten series:

  1. Constitution and structure
  2. Annual reports
  3. Minutes
  4. Correspondence (1895-1903)
  5. Financial papers
  6. Committee papers
  7. Resolutions (Includes resolutions by the Media and Providence Prohibition Society, 1897)
  8. Manuscripts
  9. Papers of the Temperance Association of Friends of Philadelphia Y.M.
  10. Reference material (Printed)

Donor: Alice Pennell Allen, 1964

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1964
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Constitution and structure.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Annual reports, 1896.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Annual reports, 1897.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Annual reports, 1898.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1895-1910.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 4-4-1900.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Executive committee minutes, 1895-1908.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1895-1903.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Account Book (loose papers in back), 1895-1912.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial papers, including treasurer's and auditor's reports, 1897-1909, n.d.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Annual reports, 1896-1900.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 11-9-1896.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Annual, and other reports, 1896-1902.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 6-27, 7-15-1885.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Committee on Finance: Annual reports, 1897, n.d.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Committee on Politics and Legislation: Annual reports, 1896-1904.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Committee on Interest of Peace: Annual report, 1899.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Resolutions, 1897, other dates.
Scope and Contents

(Includes resolutions by the Media and Providence Prohibition Society, 1897

Archival Resource Key. "Questions Regarding a Licensed Saloon on the Border of Media.", 12-7-1897.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Article, signed by Stanley R. Yarnall, Joseph Rhoads. Walter Smedley, on behalf of Friends Temperance Association, Media, Pa.

Physical Description

mss, typewritten

Archival Resource Key. "Temperance Literature." Author unknown., n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

mss

Archival Resource Key. Constitution.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Extract from minutes, 3-17-1897.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union pamphlet, No. 1, Methods of Work with Temperance Literature, by Julia Colman. ., 1883.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published by The National Temperance Society an Publication House, N.Y

Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet: Report of the Executive Committee of the Temperance Association of Friends of Philadelphia Y.M., 1887.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Friends' Printing House, Philadelphia.

Archival Resource Key. Newspaper: The Issue, Chester, Pa., 12-3-1895.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Flyer: A Study in Figures, 2-7-1896.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

re. Alcohol consumption per capita. Reprint from The Kennett Square, Pa. New American

Archival Resource Key. The New Voice Leaflets, Vol. 1.1 No. 5, Chicago, 3-24-1900.
Box 1
Physical Description

3 copies

Archival Resource Key. Penny Papers No. 25, "Effective Use of Temperance Literature," by Julia Colman, n.d.
Box 1

Print, Suggest