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Box 19

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Contains 18 Results:

Childhood card for mother, 1940s

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

From Esther

Dates: 1940s
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS during summer vacations in Vermont, etc., 1949-1951

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

Esther's correspondence - friends and family

Dates: 1949-1951
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS to parents, George School, 1951-1952

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

Student at George School and attending work camps. Wants to study in Germany for her senior year

Dates: 1951-1952
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS to parents from Cherokee Work Camp, North Carolina, 1952 6-8 month

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

AFSC- sponsored summer work camp project when Esther was 16 years old. Also Philadelphia Inquirer article with photographs of the students, 1952, 8 mo 17.

Dates: 1952 6-8 month
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

Letters from Native Americans after 1952 Cherokee Work Camp, 1952-1953

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

Esther and friends from Cherokee corresponded after her work camp summer.

Dates: 1952-1953
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS to parents, 1953-1954

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

Also ALsS from students who attended the AFSC workcamp the previous summer, holding a reunion and friends. Esther was an exchange student in Berlin, Germany, for her senior year at George School after attending George School Work Camp near Bad Godesberg the previous summer. Photo album of 1953 Workcamp in Bad Godesberg which was given to Esther transferred to PA 81.

Dates: 1953-1954
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS from German friend Gunther Arnold, 1953

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

Addressed to Esther studying in Berlin, most in German

Dates: 1953
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS from German friends, 1954-1958

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

Most in German, Esther is a student at Swarthmore College and in 1958 married and living in Moorestown, NJ

Dates: 1954-1958
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS to parents from Swarthmore College, 1954

 File — Box: 19
Dates: 1954
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence

ALsS to parents from Swarthmore College, 1955

 File — Box: 19
Scope and Contents

Describes coursework and activities. January letter describes murder of Holmes Strozier. A fire in the Chemistry Building in October

Dates: 1955
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-A: Correspondence
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