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Bartram Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-008
Abstract
This collection includes correspondence, autograph albums, photographs, and other memorabilia of the Bartram and related families of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1843-1874
Carl Barus Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-L8-002
Abstract
Carl Barus was a professor of engineering and social activist. He taught in the Engineering Department at Swarthmore College from 1952 to 1985. He was active in negotiating a resolution to the 1969 admissions office sit-in by SASS and subsequently served on the Black Concerns Committee. Contains papers on African American student concerns at Swarthmore from the SASS sit-in in 1969 to minutes and papers of the Black Concerns Committee in the 1980s.
Dates:
1968-1985
Florence Bascom papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1980-01
Abstract
Florence Bascom (1862-1945) was a noted American geologist, specializing in petrography. She attended the University of Wisconsin, receiving her BA degree in 1882 and her MA degree in 1884, and was the first woman to be granted a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. From 1895 to 1928, Bascom taught at Bryn Mawr College, where she established the Geology Department. In 1896, she became the first woman appointed to the United States Geological Survey.The Florence Bascom...
Dates:
1883 - 1938
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Bassett Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-009
Abstract
This collection contains deeds, will, land and other property documents of the Bassett, Wright, and other families of Salem County, NJ, many of whom were Quakers.
Dates:
1676-1846
Bassett-Little Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-277
Abstract
The collection contain papers of the Bassett and Little families who resided in Swarthmore, Pa., in the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1980s, May Virginia Bassett Little (1913-1994) created a series of family scrapbooks accompanied by short memoirs and excerpts from her diaries. Her father was a birthright Quaker, and the family had deep roots in Swarthmore College and the Borough of Swarthmore. Her husband, Ralph V. Little, Jr., (1909-2001), also was raised in Swarthmore. Their...
Dates:
ca. 1923-2015
Batavia Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/NY/B335
Identifier: QM-NY-B335
Abstract
Records of Batavia Monthly Meeting, 1915-1969. Includes: minutes, 1915-1969; Register: Births and Deaths, 1916-1969; deed, mortgage, etc.; account book, 1935-1951; treasurer's book, property and financial correspondence 1940, 1968-70; Miscellaneous: correspondence 1927-30, 1910-16, meeting notes.
Dates:
1915-1969
Isaac Battin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-010
Abstract
The collection contains the papers of the Battin family, Quakers from Albany, New York, Omaha, Nebraska, and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Includes Letter books (8 v.) of Isaac Battin (ca. 1835-1912), containing chiefly family and personal letters, but also business correspondence relating to his employment by a gas company in Omaha; together with correspondence of other family members.
Dates:
1865-1912
Battle Creek Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/G/B355
Identifier: QM-G-B355
Scope and Contents
Records of Battle Creek Monthly Meeting, 1803-1903. Includes minutes 1838-86, women's minutes 1838-69, births and deaths 1803-1903, and Removal certificates 1838-68.
Dates:
1803-1903
William Baxter Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-011
Abstract
William Baxter (1824-1886) was a Quaker businessman who lived in Wayne County, Indiana, and was active in social reform, particularly in the temperance movement. The collection includes correspondence of William and his wife, Mary Baxter (1830-1918), business papers, essays and speeches on temperance and other social reforms, family memorabilia, and miscellaneous materials.
Dates:
1840-1942
William Baxter family photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-144
Abstract
William Baxter (1824-1886) was a Philadelphia Quaker wool merchant who later settled in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. He was active in social reform, particularly in the temperance movement. This collection contains Baxter family pictures, in the form of albums and loose photographs.
Dates:
1840 - 1942
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