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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.

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Photographs of the Andrews Family, a Quaker farm family from Hancock County Indiana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Correspondence, business records, deeds, and photographs documenting the Baxter and Sutton families, primarily 1855-1910.

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Her papers include letters that reflect communication and connections among the small group of Conservative Friends in New Jersey, New York, and Ohio for much of her life. Correspondence constitutes the most significant portion of this collection. Included are letters from Cyrus Cooper of Ohio and William C. Cowperthwaite of Philadelphia, as well as family letters, which illustrate the nature of Conservative docterine and theology in the first half of the twentieth century.

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The collection consists of various files concerning the Doudna/Bundy families.

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The Koontz Papers includes correspondence, photographs, miscellaneous documents, and diaries of Koontz and her father, Isaac H. Meredith.

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Esther Griffin White's papers include correspondence, copies of writing, files pertaining to the Little Paper, and clippings reflecting her varied interests and career.

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This collection, although small, contains invaluable material documenting the history of pastoral Friends, especially in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

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The collection consists of material relating to the life of Garaldine Cox Leatherock (1901-1989), Earlham College class of 1923 and and a Friend of Sand Creek-Aazalia Meeting in Batholomew County, Indiana.

Scope and Contents The Harlow Lindley Collection, although relatively small, is rich in material related to Quaker history and the history of Wayne County, Indiana, especially its educational history.The collection consists of historical materials collected by Lindley and of Lindley’s correspondence with such prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Friends as Charles F. Coffin, Joel Bean, Allen Jay, Timothy Nicholson, and Barnabas C. Hobbs. The materials in the collection reflect Lindley’s interest in...