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Alice Shaffer Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: FMS-88
Scope and Contents
The Alice Shaffer papers document the life and work of a Quaker social worker and humanitarian who was one of Earlham College's most distinguished alumni. They include correspondence, notebooks, photographs, and reports from her work in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Dates:
1918-1996; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1999
Deborah (Misty) Gerner Papers
Collection — Box: 13a
Identifier: FMS-161
Abstract
Misty Gerner, political science professor at University of Kansas, Earlham College graduate 1977. Active in studying the Arab-Israeli conflict and in Quaker organizations including the Quaker Working Party. Active in Palestinian Human Rights Campaign. Papers primarily consist of publications and research on Middle East and some records of organizations with which she as involved.
Dates:
1980-2004
Eli and Mahalah Jay Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-13
Scope and Contents
The Eli and Mahalah Jay collection contains material regarding their lives and families from roughly the 1840s to the early 1900s. The major strength of the collection is its correspondence section including Jay family correspondence, Ballard correspondence, and Mahalah Jay's Missionary correspondence. The collection also includes journals, addresses, compositions, and essays that express the Jays opinions on many topics. This is a rich collection for nineteenth century Quakerism.
Dates:
1840-1910
Esther Griffin White Papers
Collection — Box: 8
Identifier: FMS-9
Scope and Contents
Esther Griffin White's papers include correspondence, copies of writing, files pertaining to the Little Paper, and clippings reflecting her varied interests and career.
Dates:
1867-1954
Herbert and Beatrice Kimball Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-134
Abstract
Beatrice and Herbert R. Kimball papers, relating to missionary work in Kenya, Uganda, and other countries. Includes correspondence, biographical information, reports, meeting minutes, and other items.
Dates:
1902-2000
Mildred White Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-140
Scope and Contents
Mildred White (1894-1988) was a Quaker teacher and missionary. Her papers illustrate the history of the Quaker schools at Ramallah, Palestine, life at Earlham College, and the history of Friends in Indiana. It includes not only family correspondence and photographs, but some genealogical material the Mildred White gathered and research material from Lois Jordan's biography of aunt, Ramallah Teacher, published in 1995.
Dates:
1824-1995
National Extension Homemakers Council Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-79
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of transcripts of oral history interviews done in 1982 with long-time members of Extension Homemakers Clubs across the United States as part of the "Voices of American Homemakers" project. The collection documents numerous facets of American women's lives in the twentieth century.
Attached is a listing of interviewees with places. The transcripts include releases and biographical questionnaires.
Dates:
1982
Rachel Osborn Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-165
Scope and Contents
The collection includes journals of her sermons (primarily from the 1960s and 1970s), personal diaries, scrapbooks from her travels to Colorado and England, family photographs, travel journals from missionary work, correspondence primarily pertaining to her work as a minister, and several original holiday plays written by Osborn. Also included in the collection is a subsection of material gathered by Jody Richmond who planned to write a biography of Osborn that never came to fruition.
Dates:
1930-1999
Ruthanna Simms Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-139
Scope and Contents
Ruthanna Mary Simms was a lifelong Friend who spent most of her life as an employee of Quaker organizations. This small collection consists of materials relating to civil rights and peace that she preserved in the last decade of her life.
Dates:
1964-1970
Special Programs and Projects: Earlham Women Scientists Files
Collection
Identifier: EC-19.59 (XIX)
Scope and Contents
Mainly concerned with science conferences in 1991 and 1995
Dates:
1981-1995; Other: Date acquired: 06/21/2013
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