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Swarthmore College

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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Howard Malcolm Jenkins Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-074
Overview Howard Malcolm Jenkins (1842-1902), a birthright Quaker, was a scholar of Pennsylvania history and genealogy and published many books and articles based on his research. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, editor of the Friends Intelligencer, and served on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College. The collection contains family papers and genealogical material on the Jenkins and Foulke families, correspondence of Howard M. Jenkins, and his publications and writings....
Dates: 1724-1904

Kaltenbach Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-291
Overview

The collection consists primarily of letters written by John E. Kaltenbach to his parents, Edward C. and Ethel Kaltenbach, from Wesleyan University, Yale Divinity School, and while working as the acting director for the Scattergood Hostel for European Refugees in Iowa. Also a small number of letters from his sister, Linda Kaltenbach, while a student at Swarthmore College.

Dates: 1933-1941

Swarthmore Alumni Association records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-R1
Overview

The Swarthmore Alumni Association, founded in 1882 and still active, engages Swarthmore graduates in activities that support current students, alumni, and Swarthmore College. The Swarthmore Alumni Association records, 1882-1990, include meeting minutes, correspondence, publications, brochures, mailings, and directories for a variety of organizations of Swarthmore College Alumni, both in the Philadelphia area and elsewhere.

Dates: 1882 - 1990

Swarthmore College Board of Managers Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-C
Overview Includes the records that document the work of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College beginning in 1862, together with the records of the Board of Managers of the Friends Educational Association (1862). Also included are the records of committees appointed by the Board to oversee the operation of the College from its founding to the present. Records consist of minutes, committees of the Board, lists of members, resolutions, reports, papers of individual members of the Board, and...
Dates: 1862 - 2018

Swarthmore College Corporation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-B
Overview

Collection contains the records that document the founding of Swarthmore College, its preceding bodies and founding committees, Charter and amendments, records of stockholders and stockholders’ associations, the Incorporators and the first Board of Managers. Records consist of minutes of the Corporation, letters, books of stock certificates and ledgers.

Dates: 1854-1964 (bulk 1854-1911)

Swarthmore College financial records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-G
Overview

The Swarthmore College financial records include materials from the college's Treasurer, Development Office, Finance Office, committees of the Board of Managers, and other entities of the college. Included are bookkeeping records for college finances, student tuition records, both printed and handwritten fundraising materials, and more.

Dates: 1864-1999

Swarthmore College property records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-F
Overview

The Swarthmore College property records include real estate and building appraisals; deeds, mortgages, and leases; reports by Swarthmore committees and external consultants; administrative documents such as budgets and correspondence; blueprints, maps, and plans; and other records pertaining to college buildings and grounds, construction and maintenance, and utilities and resource use.

Dates: 1687-1993

Somerville Literary Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q001
Overview The Somerville Literary Society was a women students' literary organization founded at Swarthmore College in 1871. The purposes of the organization were to discuss literature, strengthen the friendship between its members, and prepare them for the wider field of action and influence opening to women, according to the group's constitution. The collection contains the records of the Somerville Literary Society, including constitution, minutes, financial papers,...
Dates: 1871-1978

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

Travilla-Speakman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-352
Overview The collection is composed largely of correspondence and related papers of Anna Travilla Speakman and her husband William Williams Speakman, Quakers of Swarthmore and Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. Also represented is Anna's mother, Martha Newport Travilla, a Quaker minister who corresponded regularly with Samuel Willets. The Speakmans had a wide circle of friends in the extended Quaker community, particularly in Swarthmore College. The collection contains family photographs, some...
Dates: ca 1850-1950

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Quakers -- Pennsylvania 8
Society of Friends -- Education 8
Quakers -- Social life and customs 7
Quaker authors 3
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Literature -- Societies, etc. 2
Quakers -- Social service 2
Society of Friends -- Charities 2
Society of Friends -- History -- Societies, etc. 2
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 2
Society of Friends -- Reunification 2
diaries 2
Adult education and state 1
Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
American periodicals -- Pennsylvania 1
American poetry 1
Arms control 1
Blue Route (Pa.) 1
Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 1
Conscientious objection -- World War, 1914-1918 1
Delaware County (Pa.) 1
Disarmament -- Netherlands 1
Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
Education -- Pennsylvania 1
Educational fund raising 1
Endowments 1
Environmental impact analysis 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- Diaries 1
Friesland (Netherlands) -- History 1
Fund raising 1
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania 1
Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 1
Historic sites -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 1
Horticulture 1
Horticulture -- Pennsylvania 1
Humanitarian assistance -- Quakers 1
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 1
International relief -- Europe 1
Labor union members 1
Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
Lucretia Mott Scholarship 1
Martha F. Tyson Scholarship 1
Media (Pa.) 1
Peace -- Religious aspects 1
Peace -- Study and teaching 1
Peace Movements -- Congresses 1
Pennsylvania -- Periodicals 1
Poetry 1
Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
Publishers and publishing 1
Quaker Physicians 1
Quaker businesspeople 1
Quaker church buildings -- Pennsylvania 1
Quaker social reformers 1
Quaker women ministers 1
Quakers 1
Quakers -- 18th century -- Diaries 1
Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 1
Quakers -- Austria 1
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Quakers -- Diaries 1
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Quakers -- History -- Societies, etc. 1
Quakers -- Indiana 1
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Quakers -- New Jersey -- Mercer County 1
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Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
Quakers -- Suffrage 1
Quakers -- Tortola 1
Quakers -- Vietnam 1
Real property -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
Real property -- Valuation -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Austria 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
Schools -- Quakers 1
Societies -- New Jersey -- Trenton 1
Societies -- Pennsylvania 1
Societies -- Pennsylvania -- Haverford 1
Society of Friends -- Doctrines 1
Society of Friends -- Doctrines -- History 1
Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
Society of Friends -- History -- Periodicals 1
Society of Friends -- Iowa 1
Society of Friends -- New Jersey -- Trenton 1
Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
Society of Friends -- Poetry 1
Society of Friends -- United States 1
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
Students -- Social life and customs 1
Swarthmore (Pa.) 1
United States -- History -- Colonial period -- ca. 1600-1775 1
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 1
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