Welcome to the Earlham Friends Collection, College Archives, and Permanent Art Collection. The Friends Collection includes the college's books, periodicals, and manuscripts on Quakerism. The College Archives is home to Earlham College historical materials. The Earlham College Permanent Art Collection (ECPAC) encompasses both a teaching collection for hands-on use and a permanent collection of art and artifacts for scholarly research and curated public exhibitions.
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The Friends Collection and College Archives has one of the four or five largest Quaker Collections in the world, with more than 14,000 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.
Search across our finding aids for manuscript collections both college related and Quaker related, as well as an index of Indiana Yearly Meeting Minutes.
The majority of our collections have not been digitized. Individual items -- documents, photographs, etc. -- usually cannot be viewed online. However, the collections and items that are available digitally can be found through the resources on our Digital Collections page.
