Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library
Organization
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
S. Francis Nicholson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-275
Overview
S. Francis Nicholson was a prominent Quaker investment banker, longtime officer of Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, and active in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, A.F.S.C., and Friends Fiduciary Corporation. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, memorabilia, and other papers reflecting his career and life with his wife, Evelyn Haworth Nicholson.
Dates:
1900-2005
Pemberton Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-039
Overview
The collection contains primarily family correspondence of the three Pemberton brothers -- Israel, James, and John, prominent members of the Society of Friends in Philadelphia who were exiled to Virginia during the Revolutionary War for their pacifism. It also includes a small number of correspondence from Edward Stabler and Alexander White, an account on the life of James Pemberton, and the will of his wife, Phebe Lewis Pemberton. Topics include the Pembertons' exile to Winchester, Va., with...
Dates:
1756-1812
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Northern District records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-030
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one volume of Mark Balderston's notes for the Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia for the Northern District during the year 1878. It includes a list of members at that time, an index, along with minutes (unknown whether the minutes are original or copied).
Dates:
1878
Philadelphia Quaker Women
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-057
Overview
Philadelphia Quaker Women was a organization, informal in structure and membership, which worked with the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends to address the concerns of women. It was laid down in 1970. This collection contains minutes, financial reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous material, 1961-1971.
Dates:
1961-1971
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting maps
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-029
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of two published maps of the locations of the meetings in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. One map is dated 1838, and the second map is dated 1897.
Dates:
1838-1897
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-148
Overview
This collection is comprised of a single folder of miscellaneous papers related to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The collection includes three handwritten pages of journal fragments, a handwritten interview with George Keith, as reported to PYM (1692), a photocopy and typed transcript of the PYM Declaration of Beliefs, three handwritten pages of minutes for the PYM Meeting for Suffering, and a typed informal report concerning Emergency Service Work (1917).
Dates:
1692, 1917
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-016
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three items of minutes and notes from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting annual meeting.
Dates:
1802-1854
Philadelphia Yearly Meetings, extracts from their Minutes
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-970
Overview
The collection contains copies of extracts of minutes of meetings within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1732-1799. Topics include church unity and discipline, the growth of Quakerism, slavery, Native Americans, temperance, education, and religious doctrines.
Dates:
1732-1799
Richard Price correspondence with John Watson
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-254
Abstract
Richard Price's letters to fellow Hicksite Quaker John Watson provide a rich account of the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation with references and comments on many of the personalities involved: Elias Hicks, William Wharton, Jonathan Evans, as well as visiting Quaker ministers including George Truman, Lucretia Mott, Ann Jones, Mary and Susan Cox, and Martha Smith. Price also wrote a detailed account of the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1848. The collection contains a small number of...
Dates:
1826-1867-1826-1848 (bulk)
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Overview
The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (evacuation and relocation). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts, pamphlets,...
Dates:
circa 1895-1979
