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The White Papers consist of correspondence, legal papers, and photographs as well as genealogical materials. Of special interest are photographs and letters of slaves liberated by the Whites in North Carolina.

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The collection includes an early c.v., clippings, photographs, programs, biographical material, and letters of congratulation on his receipt of an honorary degree from Earlham College in 1968.

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The Pike family were Orthodox Friends in the Jericho Quaker community in Randolph County, Indiana. This collection, consisting of correspondence, business papers, and photographs, documents the lives of the Pikes and their relatives in Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Kansas, mainly between 1860 and 1900.

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Correspondence, essays, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, publications, and ephemera of the family of Jonah M. Davis (1824-1899) and his wife Ella (Jenkins) Davis (1848-1900) and their children Royal J. Davis (1878-1934), Ruby (1880-1975), and Ellen (Nellie) Davis (1883-1974) of Richmond, Indiana, and New York.

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The collection consists of records on the Earlham Wilderness program from the 1970s through the late 1990s. Much of the material is administrative including student forms, records, and accounts of medical problems and emergencies during August Wilderness or other programs. There is also information on the planning of the trips and hiring of instructors.

Scope and Contents The Sumner A. Mills Papers is a small but important collection of materials relating to a leading Indiana Friend of the twentieth century. It is especially useful for the reconstruction work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in France in 1918-1919. The Mills Collection includes two diaries of Sumner Mills, one at Earlham College for 1917-1918, the other, much more detailed, of his work in France in 1918-1919. Also included is a large album of photographs taken in France, and...

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The Swain-Stanton-Logue Collection reflects the lives of three generations of Quaker families connectedf with the Salem Friends Meeting  in Union County, Indiana, between 1848 and 1927: their business and financial dealings, farm life, and their interests in spiritualism.

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The Thomas E. and Esther B. Jones Collection consists of personal papers of Thomas E. Jones, the president of Fisk University from 1926 to 1946 and Earlham College from 1946 to 1958, and his wife Esther (Balderston) Jones, a missionary teacher in Japan.  It contains significant material on Quaker work in Japan, race relations, Earlham College, and Quaker affairs in the twentieth century.

Scope and Contents The Warner-Winder-Calvert Papers consist of account books, diaries, letters, photographs, and other manuscripts of six generations of Quaker families in Ross and Clark counties, Ohio. The most significant materials reflect farm life in the Midwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest document in the collection is the account book of John Winder (1736-1819), a Friend born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who married Margaret Briggs (1740-1812). In 1795 he led a party...

Scope and Contents The Waynesville Friends Home Collection consists of approximately 150 photographs and images formerly kept in photograph albums in the Friends Home in Waynesville, Ohio. About two-thirds of the photographs are identified. The Friends Home in Waynesville opened in 1905 as a residence for elderly Friends. Indiana Yearly Meeting (Hicksite/Friends General Conference) built and still owns the facility. Most of the identified photographs are of Friends who were members of the Hicksite Indiana...