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Description: In this article, writer Christine Greene describes the experience of attending a virtual meeting for worhsip via Zoom. She notes that some Friends sat quietly in front of the screen with eyes closed, others looked at their screen, and some others sat in with their families and family pets. The writer notes that this virtual meeting was coordinated by a Friends Meetinghouse that was present during the cholera epidemic in 1910 and comments on the resilience of Friends and the power of crisis to bring the Quaker community together.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Christine Green
Publisher: Medium
Language: English
Coverage: New York.
Date: 2020
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: COVID-19 (Disease)
Identifier: 2171820
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description: Tweet made by Alice Wood in response to the impact COVID-19 has had on Quaker gatherings. Wood comments that Quakers stopped shaking hands and were enouraged to bow or nod at the end of meetings.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Wood, Alice (DrAliceWood)
Publisher: Twitter
Language: English
Date: 2020
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Society of Friends
Subject3: COVID-19 (Disease)
Identifier: 2160514
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description: This tweet by Inez Newton quotes the Shakers, an offshoot of Quakers, when they proclaimed, "Hands to Works, Hearts to God," in reponse to the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1783. Inez Newton invokes this quote in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantining of families.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Newton, Luisa Inez (InezTexas)
Publisher: Twitter
Language: English
Date: 2020
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793
Subject3: Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
Identifier: 2160519
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description: This tweet by NYC Quakers announces the suspension of all committee meetings, events, and programs for health and safety reasons. Meetings for worship, however, are announced to remain open.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: NYCQuakers
Publisher: Twitter
Language: English
Coverage: New York (City)
Date: 2020
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject4: COVID-19 (Disease)
Identifier: 2171818
Description: This tweet by NYC Quakers announces that worship meetings will be done remotely. The tweet includes an image of a sign on Fifteenth Street Quaker Meeting annoucing virtual worship and the closure of Rutherford Place as well.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: NYCQuakers
Publisher: Twitter
Language: English
Date: 2020
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject3: Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject4: COVID-19 (Disease)
Identifier: 2170697
Description: This tweet by the Quaker Society of Friends group in Florence confirms that Friends are quarantined but adds that meetings for worship are conducted virtually in collaboration with the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center based in Birmingham, UK.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Quakers in Florence
Publisher: Twitter
Language: English
Date: 2020
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Society of Friends -- Italy
Subject3: COVID-19 (Disease)
Identifier: 2160515
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description: This tweet by the Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital thanks the New Philadelphia Quaker Club for deliverying $2,500 worth of gift cards from restaurants to hospital staff caregivers working during the pandemic. The tweet includes images of the Quaker Club envelopes holding the gift cards.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital (Union_Hospital)
Publisher: Twitter
Language: English
Date: 202020
Type2: Archived website.
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Subject3: Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends
Subject4: COVID-19 (Disease)
Identifier: 2198027
Description: This tweet by Martin Kelly includes an image of two teenagers in an 1808 meetinghouse elbow-bumping instead of hand-shaking as a safe measure to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Kelly, Martin (martin_kelly)
Publisher: Twitter
Language: English
Date: 2020
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Society of Friends
Subject3: COVID-19 (Disease)
Identifier: 2160517
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description: This article by Andre Gobbo details the ways in which communities of color are disporportionately affected by the pandemic. From reduced access to healthcare to higher employment in sectors where public exposure is required, communities of color are experiencing higher death rates as well as general difficulties. The article also includes the ways in which Congress should respond to the crisis to protect communities of color.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Andre Gobbo
Publisher: Friends Committee on National Legislation
Language: English
Date: 2020
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends
Subject3: Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.)
Subject4: COVID-19 (Disease)
Subject5: Racism
Identifier: 2232220
Description: The Woodbroke Quaker Study Center announces the suspension of on-site courses and acitivity due to the threat of COVID-19. The announcements also state that staff will be working remotely. Woodbrooke's online worship is also announced to be in the process of being expanding due to new Quaker community interest in virtual Meetings given the pandemic. A link to information on online Meeting for Worship is included in the announcements.
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Subject: Quakers -- Social conditions
Group: Quaker
Creator: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center
Language: English
Coverage: Birmingham (England)
Date: 2020
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Subject2: Quakers -- Education -- England -- Birmingham
Subject3: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
Identifier: 2171821
Collector: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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