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Bryn Mawr College - Library & Information Technology Services

Canadian Quaker Library and Archives (CQLA)

Maintained by the Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Includes the Canadian Yearly Meeting Archives and the Arthur Garratt Dorland Reference Library.

Digital Quaker Collection - Earlham School of Religion

DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries.

FamilySearch Catalog

From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other keywords.

Friends Collection and College Archives - Libraries Home at Earlham College

The Arthur and Kathleen Postle Archives and Friends Collection is one of the four or five largest in the world, with more than 12,000 books and nearly as many pamphlets, some going back to the 17th Century when the Society of Friends was founded. These works are supplemented with an extensive collection of Quaker genealogical materials. Personal diaries, letters, and detailed records of monthly and yearly meetings reveal the lives of thousands of Quaker men and women. The Friends Collection draws hundreds of scholars and genealogists to Lilly Library annually. In addition to assisting these visitors, College Archivist and Curator, Thomas D. Hamm, answers nearly 400 inquiring letters each year.

Friends University - Edmund Stanley Library

Wichita, Kansas.

Haverford College Libraries

Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Hege Library at Guilford College

Greensboro, North Carolina

Malone University - Cattell Library - Special Collections

Mary L. Cook Public Library

Waynesville, Ohio.

Quaker Research Center, West Milton Ohio

Quakers in Britain - The Library

Friends House, London. Holds the central archives of Britain Yearly Meeting of Quakers as well as one of the largest collections of Quaker material in the world.

Religious Archives at the University of Hull - Quakerism

The library holds extensive Quaker records from the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Swarthmore College Libraries

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Wardman Library - Whittier College

Whittier, California.

Wilmington College: Watson Library Special Collections Department

Wilmington, Ohio. The Quaker Collection contains approximately 7,000 volumes, ca. 1800-present.The collection includes bound periodicals, several hundred pamphlets, tracts, and rare books, and a small collection of books for children and young adults. About 4,000 volumes comprise the circulating collection, covering all aspects of Quaker history, philosophy, thought, and practice. Most titles may circulate for three weeks. The Quaker Collection also holds current subscriptions to 40 Quaker periodicals and newsletters and retains the published minutes of various Yearly Meetings throughout the United States. Generally, these items do not circulate. Selected resources may be available in the college's digital archive.