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Box 2

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Life of Dr. Arthur Edward Bassett

 File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

Arthur Bassett was Virginia's father. Donald T. Little compiled additional biographical material which is included in Vol. 2. Arthur was a descendent of Benjamin Hallowell, and his father was a graduate of Swarthmore College. In 1893 the family moved to Swarthmore, first to a house on N. Chester Rd and 1893 to a new house at 513 Walnut Lane.

Frank Rose photo album

 File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

Note from Donor that he removed the pages in 2005 from a bound album. Photographs mounted on black paper. Frank Rose was a sister of May Vernon Rose Waddell (Virginia's mother).

Ralph Vinton Little album, 1980

 File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

Contains a brief autobiorgraphy of Ralph Little who grew up at 133 Park Avenue. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he worked for RCA and was in early days of television and Theater Television.

Dates: 1980

Remembrance of the family of Edward Townsend, 1994

 File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

An album created for the occasion of Eastern State Penitentiary tour and picnic hosted by the Worth-Spackman families. Typed Ms. The original photographs removed to PA 154. Cartes de visite returned to their slots in the Townsend family album. This manuscript includes the memoirs of Edward Townsend (1806-1896) who served as warden of Eastern State 1870-1881. A photocopy of the album was placed in PG7, Townsend family.

Dates: 1994