Swarthmore College
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles F. (Charles Francis) Jenkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-073
Overview
Charles F. Jenkins (1864-1951) was a prominent Quaker who was involved with Green Street Monthly Meeting, the American Friends Service Committee, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1919-1934), and Friends Intelligencer. He was also a Manager of Swarthmore College for 40 years and President of the Board from 1933 to 1944. Includes correspondence about "Signers' Walk" at Far Country, 1939-46, and general correspondence, 1897-1947, relating to Swarthmore College, Quaker Meetings, William Penn,...
Dates:
1865-1950
Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College slide collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-111
Overview
The Arthur Hoyt Scott Horticultural Foundation was established at Swarthmore College in 1929 as a memorial to Arthur Hoyt Scott (1874-1927). The intention of the Foundation was to focus on plantings appropriate to Eastern Pennsylvania, creating a practical "garden of ideas" for amateur gardeners while at the same time improving the campus. The name changed to Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College in 1986. This collection consists of slides of plants, the Scott Arboretum, Arboretum employees,...
Dates:
1925 - 2005
Swarthmore College. Scott Arboretum Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-S001
Overview
The Arthur Hoyt Scott Horticultural Foundation was established at Swarthmore College in 1929 as a memorial to Arthur Hoyt Scott (1874-1927). The intention of the Foundation was to focus on plantings appropriate to Eastern Pennsylvania, creating a practical "garden of ideas" for amateur gardeners while at the same time improving the campus. The name changed to Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College in 1986. The collection contains records of the Scott Arboretum from the proposal for its...
Dates:
1925-2017
Norman Walton Swayne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-144
Overview
The Swayne family were Quakers of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Caleb Swayne was a farmer and tanner, and his son, Benjamin, also operated a tan yard and conducted a school for boys, the London Grove Boarding School. Evan Thomas Swayne also taught at London Grove, but moved to the Eaton Institute, a boarding school for girls in Kennett, after 1865. His son, Edward Swayne, had a greenhouse business and wrote poetry. Edward's sister, Anna Belle, was a photographer before her marriage...
Dates:
1733-1987
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- Horticulture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
- Plants -- Pennsylvania 1
- Plants -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
- Quakers -- Ireland 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- Tortola 1
- Schools -- Quakers 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Reunification 1
- Tree planting -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- United States Declaration of Independence -- Signers 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Universities and colleges -- Landscape architeture -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
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