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Ms. Coll. 1023
ca. 85 items (1 box)
Table of contents
Background
The 1953 by-laws of the Germantown
Employment Society for Women state that the society had been in
existence uninterruptedly since 1863 with this purpose: "to
furnish needy women with sewing for hospitals or other institutions,
their wages for such work to be paid by the Germantown Employment
Society for Women with money obtained by contributions and from
interest on securities which the said society has obtained by
gifts and legacies."
The Society originated out of
a concern felt by a group of Quaker women associated with Germantown
Monthly Meeting to aid women with little or no income and no way
of earning money outside the home. In 1957 the Society was absorbed
into the Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment
of the Poor.
Links
to images
The following list brings together
all of the image links found throughout this finding aid.
 Letter requesting financial support
from the society which states the goals and progress of the organization
(approximately 78K).
Summary
of collection
Records include:
By-laws for 1953; correspondence
(1934-1941); treasurer's accounts (1871-1957, Hetty B. Garrett
was treasurer from 1874-1925); annual reports (1900-1956); minutes
(1872-1897).
Arrangement
and description of collection
Contents of box follows:
Folder 1:
By-laws, 1953. [4 p. TDS (signed
by 15 members)]
Folder 2:
Correspondence, n.d.-1941.
(8 items) includes:
- n.d., [TD] request for financial
support from the society (approximately 78K).
- n.d., [ALS] Sarah Logan Starr to Miss
Rhodes - thank you letter from the society for money
- n.d., [ALS] Dorothy Scott Webster to
Mrs. Garrett - thank you letter to the society
- 4/10/1934, [TLS] Bertha E. Whitacre
to Sarah Moore
- 10/1/1941, [TLS] Fidelity-Phila. Trust
Co. to GES re: estate of Morris R. Bockius, w/ 4 p. enclosures
Folder 3:
Treasurer's accounts and papers.
(8 items) includes:
- bankbook, 1934-1941
- bankbook, 1955-1957
- "Securities belonging to Gtm. Emp.
Soc. 4/18/1929" [list of securities, 1 p.]
- [list of securities] 1 p. typed list
for 3/21/1934
- notebook [kept by Mrs. Edward N. Smith]
listing women's names, addresses, names of collectors, amounts
donated for 1932-1956
- "Germantown Employment Society for
Women treasurer's account 1939-40" on p. 1 [42 loose
numbered pages, removed from a bound vol., contains accounts
for 1939-1957, treasurers were Lilly C. Hoell (1939-1951),
Sally A. Parker (1951-1954), Mary M. Haines (1954-1957)]
- "Germantown Employment Society for
Women annual report of Sally A. Parker, treasurer, June 5,
1952 to May 31, 1953" [1 p., TDS]
- same as above but for May 31, 1953 to
May 20, 1954 [1 p., TDS, (carbon)]
Folder 4:
Papers re: estate of Elizabeth
Warder Bacon (ca. 1852-1931), deceased, 1932-1940.
(8 items) includes:
- 4 TLS from Provident Trust Co., re:
estate, 1932-1933
- 2 check stubs
- TLS from Prov. Trust Co., 1932, with
accompanying schedule of distribution from the estate [out
of Orphans Court of Phila. Co.]
- TLS from Prov. Trust Co., 1940, with
accompanying statement of settlement from estate
Printed annual reports:
1900, 1903-1944, 1946-1951,
1955-1956.
(53 items, some duplicates)
- also TD of 3/1/1957 [telling contributors
that the society will lay down their work and join with the
Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment
of the Poor who established a settlement house for older people
who do sewing for hospitals]
6. "'Germantown Employment
Society for Women' Treasurer's account, 1904 to 1921."
(1 volume, treasurer is Hetty
B. Garrett)
7. "Germantown Employment
Society for Women Treasurer's account 1921-[1939]."
(1 volume, accounts are for
1921-1939: treasurers are Hetty B. Garrett 1921-1925, Sara C.
Ridley 1925-1928, Sara W.C. Heston 1928-1933 [same hand as Sara
C. Ridley- married now?], Lydia W. Rhoads 1933-1939)
8. Treasurer's accounts for
1871-1879.
(1 vol., treasurers are Jane
S. Comfort 1871-1874, Hetty B. Garrett 1874-1879)
9. Treasurer's accounts for
1894-1904.
(1 vol., treasurer is Hetty
B. Garrett)
10. Minutes of "Germantown
Employment Society 1886-[1897]."
(1 vol., includes names of
members, committees, treasurer's reports)
11. Minutes for 1872-1878.
(1 vol., includes names of
members, committees, treasurer's reports)
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Contact Diana Franzusoff Peterson (dfpeters@haverford.edu
or 610-896-1284) for more information about this collection. Please
include the manuscript collection number in your request.
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