%eadnotat; ]> 4028frin Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records, 1855-1956 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. ca. 1982 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records, 1855-1956 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. ca. 1982 Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records1855-1956 RG 4/043 Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) 4 boxes (1.75 linear feet) Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys was founded in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Home for Destitute Colored Children, a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children (generally boys) and then placed them with private families. The Home built a new facility in Cheyney, Pa, in 1922, and the name was changed to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys in 1945. The collection contains minutes, financial and legal records, and reports.

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

The Home for Destitute Children was founded in 1855 by Mary Jeanes in Philadelphia, PA. It was incorporated on April 11, 1856, as a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children and then placed them with private families (at one point as apprentices). First located in West Philadelphia, it accepted both sexes until 1919. The Home moved to Cheyney, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1922. The name was changed in 1945 to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys.

 Organization SERIES SUMMARY Board of Trustees Committee on Management Financial Records Miscellaneous ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Gift

Date: 1982 and earlier.

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records, RG 4/043, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

 Processing information

Previously cited as Home for Destitute Colored Children. For better access annual reports transferred in 2004 to Friends Historical Library, SG3, Annual Reports.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Afro-Americans--Services for--Pennsylvania Afro-Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Afro-American children--Education--Pennsylvania Afro-American children--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Apprentices--Pennsylvania Boys--Education--Pennsylvania Children--Institutional care--Pennsylvania Education--Pennsylvania Quakers--Charities--Records Quakers--Pennsylvania--Education Quakers--Societies, etc. Quakers--Charitable and social work Poor--Services for Nonprofit corporations--Quakers Women, Quaker--Pennsylvania Women, Quaker--Societies and clubs Women in charitable work--Pennsylvania Youth--Employment--Pennsylvania Cheyney (Pa.)--Charitable and social work Cheyney (Pa.)--Education--Schools Cheyney (Pa.)--Population elements--Afro-Americans Philadelphia (Pa.)--Charitable and social work Philadelphia (Pa.)--Education--Schools Philadelphia (Pa.)--Population Elements--Afro-Americans Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Ser. 1 Board of Trustees Minutes 1856-1932 1 Minutes 1932-19471 Annual Meeting Minutes 1933-19561 Ser. 2 Committee on Management Minutes 1855-1879 2 Minutes 1880-18912 Minutes 1904-19162 Minutes 1916-1944 3 Ser. 3 Financial Records Cash book 1922-19313 Receipts and disbursements 1925-19373 Ser. 4 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1905-19394 Brochures, agreements, copies of bequests, lists of investments and securities, reports of special committees, etc. 1856-19324 Blueprints for Cheyney building 19224