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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 140 Collections and/or Records:

Swarthmore College Camera Club Records

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q028
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q028
Abstract

The Swarthmore Camera Club was student organization devoted to the study of photography. It sponsored an annual Lantern Slide Exhibition beginning in 1894 for which the participants took the photographs and manufactured the slides for presentation. This small collection contains a volume of minutes, 1896-1902, with some financial records and program..

Dates: 1896-1902
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College Race Relations Club surveys

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q029
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q029
Abstract In response to an incident in which an African-American resident of the town of Swarthmore was denied service at a local barber shop, the Swarthmore College Race Relations Club conducted a race relations survey in the community and on campus in the 1950-1951 school year. The Swarthmore College Race Relations Club surveys, 1950-1951, is a small collection that contains the code and response of the community questionnaire, and several interviews and a card record of responses to the student...
Dates: 1950-1951
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Intercultural Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q030
Abstract The Intercultural Center (IC) at Swarthmore College was founded in 1992 to promote systemic change toward a multicultural perspective across the institution and to foster community-building and collaboration among diverse groups within and outside of the college. The collection contains records relating to the founding of the IC and its activiites, as well as records that detail the activities of groups within the IC, specfically HOLA (Hispanics Organized for Latino Awareness/Hispanic...
Dates: 1988 - 2017
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Women's Resource Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q031
Abstract

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

Swarthmore Halcyon financial records

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q034
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q034
Abstract

The first Swarthmore College yearbook, Halcyon was published in 1883. It has appeared annually nearly every year since. This small collection contains an advertising accounts book, receipt and expenditures journal, and banking records, 1924-1925.

Dates: 1924-1925
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pi Beta Phi, Pennsylvania Alpha Chapter (Swarthmore College) song books

 Collection — Othertype RG6-Q035
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q035
Abstract

This collection consists of two song books used by Pi Beta Phi, Pennsylvania Alpha Chapter. Pi Beta Phi was the second sorority to maintain a chapter at Swarthmore College (est. 1892) and the largest sorority on campus in 1932, just before the college abolished sororities in 1933.

Dates: 1923 and 1929
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Phyllis Nelson Yuhas Papers

 Collection — Othertype RG6-R3-003
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-R3-003
Abstract Phyllis Nelson Yuhas (1922-2006) was an emeritus professor of history and one of the founders of international education at Ball State University, Indiana. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1944 and received a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.. The collection contains letters, 1940-1944, from Phyllis Ann Nelson, a student at Swarthmore College, to her family in Iowa. She wrote weekly letters, detailing her daily...
Dates: 1940-1944
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College Alumni Records and Surveys

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-R6
Abstract This series contains Alumni Records Office procedures documents as well as alumni surveys conducted by the College and various committees. Arthur Beardsley’s 1894 survey of alumni was used as the basis for The Alumni Historical Catalogue, 1873-1892. A survey conducted by an alumni group, The Garnet Band, was used gain support for the resumption of Swarthmore-Haverford football and the weekly publication of the Phoenix. After...
Dates: 1894-1980
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gertrude Weaver Refugee Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-R3-004
Abstract 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

James H. Scheuer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-R3-001
Abstract This collection contains the papers of Representative James H. Scheuer (1920-2005), Democrat from New York, Swarthmore College Class of 1942. It documents his long career as a politician and public servant. His early interests in housing and urban planning soon broadened to encompass the diverse needs of his constituents in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Both in the House and in external committee work, Scheuer was actively involved in issues relating to the environment and the quality of...
Dates: 1957-1995
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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