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Mary Williams Shoemaker 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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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.139
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/139, Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1860-1957 (inclusive)
Creator:
Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 and Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936
Form:
Deeds and Diaries
Abstract:
Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds and business papers relating to Shoemaker family properties in Philadelphia and Pike County.

Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936) was her brother.

The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds and business papers relating to Shoemaker family properties in Philadelphia and Pike County.

The collection is divided into four series:

  1. Journals
  2. Correspondence
  3. Deeds for burial ground lots
  4. Pictures

Donor: Anna Griscom Elkinton, 1962

Cased photograph removed to FHL Cased Pictures Collection. Related family business papers were catalogued separately as RG 5/138, Shoemaker Family Papers.

See also:

  1. Shoemaker Family Papers, RG 5/138

A cased photograph of Thomas H. Shoemaker, age 3 and a half years was removed from the collection and recatalogued in Cased Pictures.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1962
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

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1934-1945.

Archival Resource Key. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Germantown Historical Society.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Haverford College Quaker Collection.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Historical Society of Montgomery County.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. New York Historical Society.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. American Friends Service Committee.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Bedford Center.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Frankford Meeting House Building Fund.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Friends Free Library.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Germantown Friends School.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Germantown Boys' Club.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Germantown Dispensary Hospital.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Jeanes Hospital.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pendle Hill.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. United Negro College Fund.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

With related correspondence.

Archival Resource Key. Fair Hill Burial Ground lot, certificate to Nathan Shoemaker from the Committee on Interments, Green St. Monthly Meeting, 7/30/1860.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Also, receipt for $100. for care of above lot, to Thos. H. Shoemaker from Green St. Meeting, 9/16/1901

Archival Resource Key. Laurel Hill Cemetery deed, to Howard W. Lloyd, 7/31/1895.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letter from Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. to Thos. H. Shoemaker on care of lot., 4/4/1918.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letter from the executor of the estate of Mary E. Williams to Superintendent of Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. on care of lot., 4/13/1918/.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letter from treasurer of Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. to Thos. H. Shoemaker acknowledging receipt of $225, and $8., 4-22-1918.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letter from Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. to Thos. H. Shoemaker on cost of perpetual care, 8-24-1924.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Laurel Hill Cemetery lot, to Thos. H. Shoemaker,, 9-9-1924.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Also includes receipt for $300 for perpetual care of lot, 9/9/1924, and original deed of this lot to Franklin Shoemaker, 7/9/1867

Archival Resource Key. 2 Laurel Hill Cemetery lots, to Miss Mary W. Shoemaker, 5/8/1939.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letter, unsigned, to Laurel Hill Cemetery Co., 4-19-1939.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Complaining of neglect of lot. Enclosed, cancelled check for $200. signed by Mary W. Shoemaker.

Archival Resource Key. Chart of plot and instructions for care, n.d.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Photograph in case, of Thos. H. Shoemaker at 3.5 yrs., removed to Cased Pictures.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. 5 photographs of Thos. H. Shoemaker,, 1866, 1868 1878, 1881, 1882.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Envelope of pictures of Mary W. Shoemaker,, 1875, 1886, 1890, & 2 n.d.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Envelope of pictures of Mary W. and Thos. H. Shoemaker and mother, Mary W. Shoemaker., 1882-1912, n.d.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. photograph of Mary W. Shoemaker, mother of Mary W. Thos. H. Shoemaker.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. photograph of Franklin Shoemaker, father of M.W.S. T.H.S., ca. 1877.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. photograph of Frances M. Shoemaker, wife of Nathan Shoemaker and grandmother of Mary W. and Thos. H. Shoemaker.
Box 1

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