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Friends Historical Library collection of Quaker organizations' annual reports
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This collection consists of annual reports (and some other publications) issued by philanthropic groups, schools and other organizations that were either started by Quakers, included many Quakers in their administration, and/or appealed to Quakers. The reports were collected at various times from various sources, and are sorted by organization.
The annual reports are sorted alphabetically by organization name, and then chronologically by date of issue.
Materials were collected at various times from various sources by Friends Historical Library staff.
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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- FHL staff and student workers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2022
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This collection is available for research use.
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Collection Inventory
Tracts.
Also known as: Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies, New England Anti-Slavery Society
Minutes.
See also Wide Ministries Commission for after 1969. Also known as: Friends, Society of. American Friends Board of Missions; American Friends Board of Foreign Missions; Friends United Meeting, Wider Ministeries Commission
Bulletin.
Also known as: Friends, Society of. Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. INDIAN PROGRESS; Friends on Indian Affairs
Also known as: Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children; Friends Shelter for Girls; Shelter for Colored Children
Proceedings.
Program.
Headmaster's Report to the Trustees.
Programme.
Also known as: Institute for Colored Youth; Richard Humphreys Foundation
. SA RG 4 Friends Freedmen's Association.
Full name: Colored Orphan Asylum and Association for the Benefit of colored Children in the City of New York
Actuarial Report.
Proceedings; Lists of Members.
Proceedings.
See also: "The Earlhamite" (SG-1 Periodicals).
Annual reports of the Dean.
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Also known as: Philadelphia Center for Older People
Tracts.
Forum announcements. 2 copies of each, 1942 missing, additional copies in PG 1.
Quaker list. Also known as: Quakeriana
Also known as: Friends Home for Children
Catalog.
Tract (Miscellaneous). Also known as: Tract Association of Friends, New York
Camp Dark Waters, Medford, NJ Season. Also known as: At beginning (1892), Charater, Constitution, & By-laws
Camp Onas, Rushland, PA Season.
Conference of Teachers and Delegates Report.
General Conference Proceedings.
Also known as: Friends Asylum for the Insane; Friends Hospital.
Official annual reports of the Library are included in the printed minutes of London Yearly Meeting (see SG 2). Reprints appeared until about 1923. After 1923 the separate reprint was dropped and an annual short leaflet of information issued. This included a selected list of books added since the previous issue, and the first page of general information changed little from year to year. Also the interval became a little irregular: see corresponding file: Friends House Library: Dec. 18, 1956 (letter signed by John Nickalls). Also known as: Friends' Reference Library or Library of the Society of Friends
Also known as: Penketh Old Scholars' Association
Friends Service Council joined with Friends Peace and International Relations Committee in Nov. 1978 to become Quaker Peace and Service. After 1972 annual reports published in the Spring issue of Quaker Service, a periodical. Also known as: Quaker Peace and Service; Friends, Society of. Quaker Peace and Service, Friends House, London
Pamphlet.
Wayfarer Leaflet.
Wayfarer Series.
Also known as: Friends Allotments Committee
Also known as: Friends, Society of. London Yearly Meeting. Friends Service Council
Young Friends Central Committee Minutes and Report of the youn.
Program.
Book Committee Report.
Agenda.
Japan Committee Report.
Tracts for Mothers and Fathers. Also known as: Tract Association of Friends, New York
Proceedings.
Also includes 1864 Statistics of the Operations of the Executive Board.
Report of the Proceedings of the Annual Conference.
Also known as: Friendly Acres
Also known as: Friends Institute for Young Men
A 1886 history of the (defunct) Goose Creek School and its teachers and pupils, circa 1815-1825.
Annual reports of the Librarian and Curator of the Quaker Collection. SA Haverford College Bulletin- Report of the President.
Annual reports of the President and the Treasurer.
Program.
Library has Mrs. Bowden, My Mother, My sick friends. (Philadelphia, Longstreth, 1862).
Program.
Annual Conference.
Tracts.
edited by Martin G. Brumbaugh and Joseph S. Walton.
Handbook. Also known as: Quaker Report
Program.
Report.
Brieflett no. 1- London: Social Responsibility Council, 19- v. irregular 21 cm. library has nos. 2, 3, 5.
Also known as: Buck Hill Falls, Lot and cottage owners' Association
Tracts.
Tracts.
Friends Bible Class Lessons.
Annual reports and Proceedings of the Alumni Association.
Annual reports of Secretary and Treasurer, 1892-1896. Constitution and by-laws, 1871, 1873. Handbook, 1901-1906..
Proceedings.
Annual reports, incorporated 1903, founded 1902.
Program.
Program.
Also known as: Association for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women
by members of the Society of Friends.
published by the Directors of the Old South Work, Old South Meeting-house.
Tracts.
Annual reports to the Board of Managers. See also Pendle Hill Bulletins.
Annaul reports published by the Five Years Meeting of Friends Board on Christian Education.
published by Friends Book Store.
Programme. Also known as: Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends
Also known as: Apprentices' Library Company of Philadelphia
Program. Also known as: Philadelphia General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Agenda.
Opening exercises, 1880-1900. Closing exercises, 1892-1896. Program, 1872-1900..
Bulletin.
Annual reports, Comm. Of Management, 1922-1979. Annual reports, Med. Supt., 1872-1996..
See also PG 4, Schofield School and RG 5, Mary S. Patterson Papers.
Proceedings.
compiled by Leonard S. Kenworthy and others. Also known as: Quaker leaders speak series (L. Kenworthy); Kenworthy, Leonard, comp. Quaker leaders speak series
Report.
Tracts, Leaflets for Letters (Gospel, no. 33). Also known as: Dublin Tract Association
Envelope tracts.
Annual reports of the Publisher.
Blueprints.
Merged with Women's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1939.
Order of Business.
of the Committee who have charge of the Boarding School.
of the School Committee.
Also known as: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center, One of the Selly Oak Colleges
published by American Press, Beirut.
obtainable from Friends Book Store, Philadelphia.
Foundations series.
Leaflets.
Journal.