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Elkinton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-037
Overview
Contains the papers of the Elkinton Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and its vicinity. Joseph Elkinton was born in Salem, New Jersey, in 1794 and settled in Philadelphia where he established a soap manufacturing business which eventually became the Philadelphia Quartz Company. He was involved with the Seneca Indians at the Quaker school at Tunesassa (Quaker Bridge), New York, where his oldest son, Joseph Scotton Elkinton, was born in 1830. The latter was a Quaker...
Dates:
ca. 1736-2002
Anna Bassett Griscom Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-053
Overview
Anna Bassett Griscom (Elkinton) (1889-1974) was a prominent American Quaker active in the peace movement. She served as Executive Secretary of the Friends General Conference, chairman of a committee to organize the Friends World Conference held at Swarthmore College in 1937, chairman of the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was a founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She married J. Passmore Elkinton in 1931. The collection includes correspondence, speeches...
Dates:
ca. 1914-1962
Inazo Nitobe Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-107
Overview
Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933) was a Japanese Quaker diplomat, agriculturist, and educator who sought to act as an emissary of understanding between Japan and Western nations. He was born in Morioka, Japan, in the waning days of feudal Japan and became a Christian during his studies in Sapporo. He was further educated at Tokyo University and in 1884 became one of the first Japanese students to study in the United States. He joined the Society of Friends in 1886, and in 1891, he married Mary...
Dates:
1890-1991
Koozma J. Tarasoff photographs of visit to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-068
Overview
Koozma J. Tarasoff (born 1932) is a scholar of the Doukhobors, a Spiritual Christian religious group of Russian origin with a sizeable community in Canada. This collection consists of black and white photographs taken by Tarasoff on a trip to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in March 1983. He photographed Quaker Meeting Houses and schools and prominent Quakers including E. Raymond Wilson and Laurama Pixton.
Dates:
1983-03
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- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 2
- Bassett family 1
- Elkinton, David Cope, 1915- 1
- Elkinton, Howard W. (Howard West), 1892-1955 1
- Elkinton, J. Russell 1
- Elkinton, Joseph, 1794-1868 1
- Elkinton, Katharine Wistar, 1892-1961 1
- Elkinton, Malinda Patterson, 1836-1920 1
- Elkinton, Marian Dunham, -1912 1
- Elkinton, Thomas, 1836-1901 1
- Friends World Conference 1
- Griscom family 1
- Griscom, Anna Bassett, 1889-1974 1
- Institute of Pacific Relations 1
- League of Nations 1
- Media-Providence Friends School (Media, Pa.) 1
- Nitobe, Inazō, 1862-1933 1
- Nitobe, Mary Patterson Elkinton, 1857-1938 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Tarasoff, Koozma J. 1
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