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Thomas Family Papers

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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

Call Number:
RG5.156
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/156, Thomas Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
ca. 1867-ca. 1919 (inclusive)
Creator:
Thomas family, Montgomery County Suffrage Association (Pa.), and Thomas, Ellen L., 1853-1925
Abstract:
This small collection contains chiefly short manuscripts concerning women's issues, in particular suffrage and temperance. Most of the material, including essays on prominent Quakers and piece books, are by Ellen L. Thomas (1853-1925), a birthright member of Radnor Monthly Meeting and president of Montgomery County Suffrage Association

Ellen L. Thomas (1853-1925), was a birthright member of Radnor Monthly Meeting and president of Montgomery County Suffrage Association.

This small collection contains chiefly short manuscripts, authors unknown, concerning women's issues, in particular suffrage and temperance.

The collection is divided into three series:

  1. Business papers
  2. Manuscripts
  3. Memorabilia

Accession information

Donor: Unknown, date unknown

The source of these papers is unknown. At some date before 1967, the papers were catalogued and stored together with another group of papers from an identified source. In 2000, the papers were given separate cataloguing because they have no apparent connection.

Formerly cited as Walton and Thomas Families Papers, RG 5/160. The information concerning the source of these papers was lost, and sometime before 1967, the Thomas papers were catalogued and stored with a larger collection of papers concerning the Walton family, apparently unrelated. In October 2000, the two collections were catalogued as separate Record Groups.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
2000
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

Legacies of Hart Grandom for charitable papers.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Anthony, Susan B., "Childhood". Author unknown.
Box 1
Anthony, Susan B., "School Life". Author unknown.
Box 1
Anthony, Susan B., "Her Last Convention" A. unknown, 2/14/1919.
Box 1
Anthony, Susan B., 86th birthday celebration, last illness and death. Author unknown., 2/15/1906.
Box 1
Description of trip to Delaware Water Gap. Author unknown.
Box 1
"Do as you would be done by" Author unknown.
Box 1
Federation of Women's Clubs, report of annual meeting, Williamsport, 10/15/1912-10/18/1912.
Box 1
Friends, Society of, Conference, Cape May, notes on religious side of conference. Author unknown.
Box 1
Friends, Society of, topics of interest to. Author unknown.
Box 1
Madison, Dorothy (Dolly) Payne, life. Author unknown.
Box 1
New Year. Author unknown.
Box 1
Shaw, Dr. Anna Howard, sketch of her life. Author unknown.
Box 1
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Report of Supt. of Committee on Citizenship, Montgomery County W.C.T.U., Ellen L Thomas, at annual convention.

Women's Suffrage Movement, "President's Address", 5/15/1909.
Box 1
Incomplete manuscript regarding organization of Suffrage movement.
Box 1

Piece book, Ellie L. Thomas, ca. 1867.
Box 1
Copy book, Ellen L. Thomas, ca. 1890s.
Box 1
Scrapbook, M.E. Bartlett.
Box 1
Clipping, "Frank P Willits is Chosen as Secretary of Agriculture" Chambersburg, Pa., 2/1923.
Box 1

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