Anonymous scrapbooks MC.975.04.002 Kara Flynn.

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Anonymous scrapbooks

Table of Contents

Summary Information...... 3 Biography/History...... 3 Scope and Contents...... 4 Administrative Information...... 4 Controlled Access Headings...... 4 Collection Inventory...... 6

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Summary Information

Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Title Anonymous scrapbooks

Call number MC.975.04.002

Date 1894

Extent 0.66 linear feet (5 volumes)

Language English .

Abstract This collection is comprised of five volumes of anonymous scrapbooks from the Quaker Collection.

Cite as:

Anonymous scrapbooks (HC.MC.975.04.002), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Biography/History

Unknown.

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Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of five volumes of anonymous scrapbooks from the Quaker Collection, including a scrapbook of philanthropic societies in and two scrapbooks of Quaker related materials, generally including illustrations of Quaker leaders and Meeting Houses.

Administrative Information

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Kara Flynn.

Access Restrictions The collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Acquisition Unknown.

Processing Information Processed by Kara Flynn; completed September, 2015.

Controlled Access Headings

Form/Genre(s)

• clippings (information artifacts)

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Subject(s)

• • Quakers -- History • Scrapbooks

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Collection Inventory

Vol. 1, 1894. 0.23 Linear Feet.

Scope and Content note

This volume is a scrapbook of various Philadelphia Societies. Materials from the following organizations are included: Western Soup Society, the Children's Aid Society, the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty, Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, Whosoever Gospel Mission and Rescue Home, The Home Missionary Society of the City of Philadelphia, Woman's Sanitary League of Philadelphia, the Christian League of Philadelphia, The Volunteers of America, Negro Educational League, and the Octavia Hill Association.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

• Western Soup Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Subject(s)

• Humanitarianism • Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Vol. 2, Undated. 0.16 Linear Feet.

Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the single volume scrapbook of photos, and illustrations of the following Quakers: , James Naylor, , Richard Reynolds, James Pemberton, Nicholas Waln, Lindley Murray, George Dillwyn, Jonathon Dymond, Moses Brown, Bernard Barton, Anna

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Braithwaite, Dan Wheeler, , Samuel Gurney, Josiah Forster, Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck, Elisha Tyson, John Bright, Stephen Grellet, Enoch Lewis, George Fox, and Hannah Lloyd Neall. Clippings include poetry, Christian ballads, the life of Thomas Elwood, Discipline of the Society of Friends, the life of Richard Reynolds, obituary for James Pemberton, the Vision of Joseph Hoag, Dr. John Dalton- the Atomic Theory, an article on Mrs. Opie, a biography of Moses Brown, a biography of Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck, and excerpts from memoirs of .

Index included in the volume.

Controlled Access Headings

Form/Genre(s)

• clippings (information artifacts)

Personal Name(s)

• Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 • Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813 • Penn, William, 1644-1718 • Nayler, James • Hoag, Joseph, 1762-1846 • Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 • Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938 • Fox, George

Subject(s)

• Scrapbooks • Quakers

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Vol. 3, 1886-1941. 04 Linear Feet.

Scope and Content note

This volume includes pamphlets and invitations to events hosted by the Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia for the Western District, such as invitations to lawn parties, "tea meetings," pamphlets with information about twelfth street day school, and pamphlets about proposed new buildings.

Controlled Access Headings

Form/Genre(s)

• Pamphlets • clippings (information artifacts)

Subject(s)

• Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Vol. 4, 1957. 0.1 Linear Feet.

Scope and content note

This volume includes correspondence related to the 150th anniversary of John G. Whittier's birth, discussion of publication of a volume of his poetry, information on the Whittier Anniversary committee, including a list of the committee members, as well as clippings of printed poems by J.G. Whittier and hymns. The majority of correspondence is addressed to Marshall Taylor, and it is likely that it is his scrapbook, though the owner of the volume is unclear.

Controlled Access Headings

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Form/Genre(s)

• Correspondence

Personal Name(s)

• Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

Subject(s)

• Poetry • American Poetry

Vol. 5, Undated. 0.27 Linear Feet.

Scope and Content note

This volume, entitled the "Quaker Pictures Scrapbook" is comprised of the single volume anonymous scrapbook of Quaker images and includes portraits of Quakers, locations where Quakers lived or preached, Quakers schools in the U.S. and Britiain, meeting houses in the U.S. and Britain, and facsimilies of Quaker autographs.

Includes portraits of the following Quakers: George Fox, John Bright, Joseph Pease, Jane Sandwith Wakefield, Theodore Neild, Joseph Storrs Fry, Jonathon Dymond, Dr. James E. Rhoads, John Dalton, Rich Reynolds, James Nayler, Thomas Christy Wakefield, John Conan, Amelia Opie, John Opie, Bernard Barton, John Lilburne, Edward Wharton, Christine M. Alsop, Thomas Hodgkin, Isaac Sharp, Dr. James Carey Thomas, John T. Dorland, William Cookworthy, J. Rendel Harris, William Ball, Thomas Puplett, Elizabeth Rous. Samuel Gurney, Francis T. King, Rufus P. King, James & Lucretia Mott, William & Lucy S. Johnson, Francis William Fox, Edmund Wright Brooks, , Elizabeth Hanbury, John Thirnbeck Grace, , William Allen, Hannah Middleton, Eliza Barclay, Caroline Fox, , Joseph Sturgge, Allen Jay, Elkanah Beard, Barnanbas Coffin Hobbs, Rebecca Tatum

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Hobbs, John Dalton, Dr. John Fothergill, Anna Braithwaite, John Grubb Richardson, Thomas Christy Wakefield Jr., James E. Rhoads, James Whitall, John Hodgkin, Edward Backhouse, Sybil jones, Eli Jones, Daniel Gurney, Stafford Allen, John Tindall Harris, George Gillett, John G. Whittier, Hannah Chapman Backhouse, Richard Esterbrook, Joseph Gurney Barclay, Benjamin Seebohm, Robert Charleton, and Thomas Harvey.

Acquisition

The Quaker pictures scrapbook were donated to Special Collections, Haverford College, in 1950 by Eleanor W. Taylor.

Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

• Nayler, James • Barton, Bernard • Seebohm, Benjamin • Fox, George • Whitall, James • Jones, Sybil • Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938 • Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845 • Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 • Jones, Eli

Subject(s)

• Quakers -- Portraits • Quakers -- Great Britain • Quakers -- History • Scrapbooks

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