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Friends' Boarding Home of the Concord Quarterly Meeting
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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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On Oct. 28, 1890, at the Meeting of Women Friends of Concord Quarterly Meeting, "Lydia H. Hall laid before the meeting a concern...in regard to establishing a Home for friends of limited circumstances, where they might have the comforts which they could not have unaided." A Committee met at Race Street Meeting House in 1890, and at another meeting held 2mo. 1891, the name was decided upon and an Executive Committee was chosen. The Friends' Boarding Home of Concord Quarterly Meeting was established in 1891 for women only. The first male guest was admitted in 1894, and over the following decade the admission of men became more frequent.
The Home first was located in rented building. In 1893, the Old Main building was erected, which was followed in 1898 by Lydia Hall. In 1928 Nathaniel G. Hickman bequeathed a sum of money to the West Chester Meeting for the purpose of building a home for the elderly. A building was completed in June 1936 adjacent to the earlier buildings as a memorial to Nathaniel Hickman and his brother, Samuel G. Hickman. The Home has been variously known as the West Chester Friends Home, the Friends' Home in West Chester, and, most recently, The Hickman.
The Home was licensed as a nursing facility and in 1975, the Executive Committee was made aware of this fact and realized that they did not meet the federal and state requirements to operate nursing care facilities. Therefore, a phase-out of the infirmary was planned to take place before October 1976, and the minutes reflect a discussion as to whether the Home should consolidate with the Barclay and Friends Hall or replace its facilities with residential buildings and return its status to residential. As part of the phase-out process, some infirmary guests were transferred to the Friends Hall, a nursing care facility also in West Chester, and a fund was established to offer financial assistance to infirmary guests in order to pay the difference between prices at Friends Hall and the Friends Boarding Home.
Records of the Friends Boarding Home of Concord Quarterly Meeting. Also includes information regarding guests, historical material and correspondence.
The collection is divided into seven series:
- Historical material
- Minutes
- Reports
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Admission information and Guest records
- Miscellaneous documents
Donor: Friends' Boarding Home of Concord Quarterly Meeting
Dates: 3/1994, 2/1998
Material added to the collection in 1998 was entered on the inventory in the appropriate place, housed in boxes 12-15. Photos were removed and filed PA 072. Parts of the collection are restricted.
Pictures removed to PA 072 for appropriate storage.
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- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 1995
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
- Access Restrictions
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Parts of the collection are restricted.
- Use Restrictions
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Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Collection Inventory
Many include handwritten notes. Incomplete.
Many include handwritten notes. Incomplete. See folders 11 and 91.
See folders 22-22, folder 91.
copy
Includes newspaper clippings, handwritten poem and speech. (bound) Loose papers regarding the anniversary committee and the celebration as well as photocopies of the news clippings were removed (see Folder 7).
36 pp. (bound)
Documents commemorating the Boarding Home's 75th anniversary. Also includes early history of the Hickman (see Folder 64).
Physical Description16 pp. bound
Probably intended as an exhibit. Photos have been photocopied and the originals are filed in the Picture Collection, PA 072.
Also includes photos, which were removed and filed in the Picture Collection.
See PA 072
original, bound
photocopy
Includes a variety of memorabilia, including reports, financial records, by-laws, etc. Loose materials have been placed within a folder in the scrapbook.
Physical Description1 volume
Almost daily record of the Matron of the Friends' Boarding Home, Ann P. Sharples: 1908-10, 1910-13, 1913-16, & 1916-18. Contain detail on the health and subsequent deaths of residents and other events at the Hickman.
Physical Description4 volumes
Includes a roll sheet for members.
Physical Descriptionbound
Includes a roll sheet for members.
Physical Descriptionbound
2 folders
folder 2 of 2
2 folders
folder 2 of 2
Also includes Annual Reports, 10/1962-1/1964
List of Officers and Committees and Board of Managers, 1961-1965; miscellaneous information about the Home, 1961-1962; Executive Committee minutes, 12/1961-10/1966; Notes and correspondence regarding the "Suggested Method of Appointing Members to the Board of Managers," 11/1961-2/1963; Miscellaneous papers, 1962-1963 and n.d.. Noted as "Property of Arthur Linvill." (2 folders, 9/1965-6/1966) Restricted. (See folder 49)
Also including Treasurer's reports, Director's reports, and various other reports filed to the Board of Managers, 10/1966-8/1968. See folder 35.
Also including The Reports of the Superintendent and Executive Committee, 1936-1938.
bound
bound
bound
bound
6/1936-10/1940, incomplete: See folder 55. 1936-1938, See folder 25.
2 folders
folder 2 of 2
12/1961-10/1966, See folders 21-22. 9/1965-9/1966, 1/1972, See folder 49
Also includes Board Meeting Minutes of the same date.
Includes two newspaper clippings attached to back cover, 1902-1903.
Physical Descriptionbound
bound
bound
bound
Also includes newspaper clippings and miscellaneous papers.
bound
Also includes a checklist of members of the Admissions Committee between 1957 1959.
Also including information regarding other Boarding Homes in the area.
4/1955, copy. See folder 69.
Includes letter of J.E. Jackson to Emma C. Bancroft, attached to the minutes.
Includes minutes of the Executive Committee, 9/1965-8/1966; Board of Managers, 9/1965-6/1966; Treasurer, 9/1965-8/1966, and other reports.
3 copies
10/1962-1/1964, See folders 21-22
1 folder
See folder 23
Also includes reports from the Executive Committee. Restricted. 1936-1938, See folder 25.
14 ALsS
ALS
ALS
ALS
4 LsS
bound
bound, oversize
bound
See folder 92
See folder 23
See folder 49
bound
Indexed. Includes early history of the Hickman, admission records and guest's financial accounts.
Physical Descriptionbound
bound
Loose papers were removed. See folder 67.
Physical Descriptionbound
Also includes Employee and Guest Financial Accounts. See folder 87.
Guest financial accounts. See folder 86.
Includes financial information regarding guests, specifically: list of contents of a safe deposit box, correspondence, and a list of funds received by the Endowment Committee. Also includes Concord Quarterly Meeting Minutes from 4/1955.
Includes documents regarding guests' estates, Income Accounts, Bonds, Mortgages, Tax returns, etc.
Includes Jeanes Fund accounts [belonging to Anna J.F. Hallowell?]. See folder 92.
Arranged alphabetically.
Corresponding loose documents and correspondence were removed, see folders 74-75.
Physical Descriptionbound
bound
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Boarder list for 1933, see folder 92.
Physical Descriptionbound
Also includes miscellaneous information on guests. Arranged roughly alphabetically. Incomplete.
Removed items, see folder 85.
Physical Descriptionbound
Also includes information regarding other Boarding Homes in the area--see folder 45
bound
1 folder
1 folder
Also includes miscellaneous information about the Home, 1961-1962, see folders 21-22.
Includes a handwritten poem entitled, "Friends Boarding Home, West Chester" by John Russell Hayes, obituary of Mr. Haines, news clippings from "The Friend" and "The Friends Intelligencer," untitled poem and invitation.
Includes poem, employment agreement, lists of officers and committee members, and 1937-1938 Charter Constitution.
Includes book of Jeanes Fund accounts [belonging to Anna J.F. Hallowell?] (1930-1946), Treasurer's report (1935-1936), tribute to Susan Bunting (1935), Boarder lists (1933), Rules and regulations, and other financial and administrative notes (1936-1937). Restricted. Also includes Miscellaneous papers (1962-63, see folders 21-22), and notes and correspondence regarding the "Suggested Method of Appointing Members to the Board of Managers (11/1961-2/1963, see folders 21-22).
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Building blueprint