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William Webb Price Papers

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
RG5.126
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], William Webb Price Papers, RG 5/126, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1917-1923 (inclusive)
Creator:
Price, William Webb, 1892-1961
Abstract:
William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.

William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania.

The collection contains chiefly letters written by William Webb Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.

The collection is divided into six series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Writings
  3. Business papers
  4. Pictorial material
  5. Memorabilia
  6. Reference material

Donor: Margaret Price, 1970

The collection was given by Margaret Price, sister of William Webb Price.

Processed by FHL staff, 1971

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Subject
Place

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1971
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

William Webb Price to his family, 1917-1919.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Sent while he was working in France with the Mission de la Société des Amis (Friends War Victims Relief Committee).

Letters received by William Webb Price, 1917-1923, and n.d.
Box 1

Outlines of talks to school children, 1920-1922.
Box 2

Business papers concerning his équipés in France, 1917-1919.
Box 2
Ser. 4. Pictorial material.
Box 2

Miscellaneous memorabilia, dated and undated.
Box 2

Pamphlets, etc., concerning reconstruction work.
Reconstruction, issues of the magazine published monthly for the Relief Missions of the Society of Friends in Europe, 1917-1920.
Box 2
Friends Intelligencer, issues containing articles on the reconstruction work, 1919.
Box 2

Print, Suggest