CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Quakers and Slavery
- The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) were the first corporate body in Britain and North America to fully condemn slavery as both ethically and religiously wrong in all circumstances. It is in Quaker records that we have some of the earliest...
- Slavery, Society of Friends, Quakers, Anti-slavery, Abolition, Britain, United States, America, History
- Cope Evans Family Papers, 1732-1911
- One of the many large collections of family, personal, and institutional papers housed in the Haverford College Library Special Collections Department, the Cope-Evans collection contains correspondence of several prominent Philadelphia Quaker...
- Philadelphia; Quaker; Family life; Women's history; African American history; Reconstruction
- Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College
- The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College is devoted to the history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and its concerns. The Library includes printed works dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the present, as well as archives,...
- Quaker history; Education; Schools; War relief; World War I; Vietnam War; Quaker colleges; Friends' centers; Quaker church buildings; Philadelphia; Society of Friends;
- Thomas Pim Cope Diaries
- Thomas P. Cope was a successful Philadelphia merchant and Quaker who involved himself in a wide range of civic projects during the first half of the nineteenth century. He kept a regular diary between 1800 and 1851, with a gap between 1820 and...
- Banks and banking, American--History--19th century; Pennsylvania--History; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--1775-1865; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century; Quakers--Business; Quakers--Diaries--19th century; Quakers--United States--Biography;...