Audio-visual collection, [ca. 1940]-1983.

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Audio-visual collection, [ca. 1940]-1983.

Film entitled CLOSE HARMONY concerning an intergenerational chorus of senior citizens and fourth and fifth grade students from Brooklyn Friends School. Also, an unidentified film, ca. late 1940's; three video tapes of a promotional film made by students, 1983; one video tape of graduation exercises, 1980; and one audio tape of the address of Brooklyn Friends School staff to the City Council which concerns the selling of a game field to the City in order to move into present building, 1970's.

7 items. : (2 films, 4 video tapes, 1 audio tape)

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Brooklyn Friends School. Intergenerational Chorus.

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Brooklyn Friends School.

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...