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SFHL/SCA. Swarthmore College Archives

 Record Group
Identifier: SFHL/SCA
The Friends Historical Library collects, preserves, and provides access to the institutional archives of Swarthmore College.
Creator: Swarthmore College

Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:

Swarthmore Warders of Imaginative Literature (SWIL) records

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q007
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q007
Overview

The Swarthmore Warders of Imaginative Literature, Swarthmore College's science fiction & fantasy club, was formed in 1979. The club regularly organizes showings of science fiction and fantasy movies, short story readings, and occasionally brings writers to speak at Swarthmore.

Dates: 1980-1988
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Tau Alpha Omicron Records

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q018
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q018
Overview Tau Alpha Omicron, a men's Greek fraternity, was founded at Swarthmore College in 1907. It became part of the national fraternity Phi Delta Theta before 1923, designated Pennsylvania Kappa Chapter. Its charter was revoked in 1958 when its members protested the national organization's racial, ethnic, and religious restrictions on membership. It then became a local fraternity, resuming its original name. The collection contains primarily the original building bonds retired by the College and...
Dates: 1926-1974
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College War Years Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-062
Overview

This collection consists of 2 boxes of black and white photographs, postcards, loose prints, contact sheets, and negative slides, dating from approximately 1943-1946. Items were donated by alumni for the College's War Years Reunion in 1993.

Dates: 1943 - 1946
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Women's Resource Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q031
Overview

The Swarthmore College Women's Resource Center was founded in 1974. It was named the Alice Paul Women's Center until the name was changed in the early 1990s to the Women's Resource Center. This collection includes records relating to the founding of Swarthmore’s Women’s Center, minutes, logbooks, and other papers.

Dates: 1974-2013
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Ye Monks of the Black Cowl Records

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q024
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q024
Overview

Ye Monks of the Black Cowl was a secret society composed of ten male students chose from even year classes at Swarthmore College. The file contains the initiation rite, constitution, a scavenger hunt, and other papers.

Dates: 1912-1919 ,n.d.
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Trotter Hall Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-063
Overview

This collection consists of 15 mounted black and white photographs of scenes in Trotter Hall prior to renovation. Trotter Hall is an academic building on Swarthmore College's campus. It was renovated approximately in 1993.

Dates: 1993
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gertrude Weaver Refugee Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-R3-004
Overview Gertrude Weaver graduated from Swarthmore College in 1938 with degrees on German and History, and spent her junior year (1936-1937) in Munich. After graduation, she taught German at Chester High School where she and her students corresponded sent relief packages to families in Western Europe struggling to survive in impoverished post-World War II Europe. This collection contains Weaver’s correspondence with the recipients of her aid, as well as records of the logistics of the operation. The...
Dates: 1946-1949
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Women's Athletic Association of Swarthmore College records

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q036
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q036
Overview

This collection contains meeting minutes, handbooks, and other records of the Women's Athletic Association of Swarthmore College (WAA), a student organization that held various administrative responsibilities relating to women's athletics. It was founded in 1898 as the Girls' Athletic Club of Swarthmore College. The Women's Athletic Association existed in some form into the 1980s at least.

Dates: 1902-1963
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Harrison M. Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-L8-010
Overview Harrison M. Wright taught history at Swarthmore College from 1957 to 1979 and from 1984 until his retirement in 1993. He was college provost from 1979 to 1984 and served as acting president during the 1980-81 academic year. This collection contains papers from the committees on which Wright served, as well as from faculty meetings and bulletins. Topics include renovations of college buildings, revisions of college rules, increasing radicalism/student activism on campus, disciplinary issues,...
Dates: 1960-1992
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College WSRN (Radio Station) records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q011
Overview The Swarthmore College Radio Club, founded before 1933, was reorganized in 1939. It was open to all students interested in short wave radio communication. The club had its own transmitter and operated station W3YJ, affiliated with the American Radio Relay League. In 1940, the Radio Club began to sponsor the Swarthmore Network, a wired wireless station on the commercial broadcast band. The station acquired its current call letters, WSRN, sometime before 1952; it was a member of the...
Dates: 1957-1997
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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