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Swarthmore Schools Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG7-022
Abstract
The Swarthmore School District, Delaware County, Pa., was created in 1893 with the incorporation of the Borough of Swarthmore. This is an artificial collection, composed of records and memorabilia from various sources and organized by the staff of Friends Historical Library.
Dates:
1896-2011
Barbara Bernhardt Swarthmore Schools Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG7-023
Abstract
Barbara Bernhardt was raised in the Borough of Swarthmore, Pa., and attended the local public schools from elementary through high school. She saved many of her workbooks and papers. They provide a perspective into the coursework and standards of mid-twentieth century public education in Pennsylvania.
Dates:
Circa 1950-1960
Swarthmore Students for Disarmament Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Swarthmore Students for Disarmament
Dates:
1957-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Swarthmore Tree Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG7-021
Abstract
The Swarthmore Tree Committee was mandated by the borough of Swarthmore to fulfill the responsibilities of a Shade Tree Commission. The Tree Committee was created in 1971. The records include the mandate from the Borough of Swarthmore, minutes, and miscellaneoous papers.
Dates:
1977-2004
Swarthmore Village Business and Professional Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG7-011
Abstract
Records of the Swarthmore Village Business and Professional Association, a group organized to encourage a healthy business district. The Association sponsored a sidewalk sale, Christmas Carol sing, and other activities in an effort to promote the local businesses. It dissolved in January 1994 due to lack of participation of its membership.
Dates:
1983-1994
Swayne Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-065
Abstract
The Swayne family were Quakers of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Swayne family picture collection contains, albums, framed photographs, and loose photographs that date from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries and which contain a variety of different photograph types (tintypes, cabinet cards, color prints, etc.).
Dates:
1867 - 1966
Joel Swayne diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-078
Abstract
Joel Swayne's diary entries describe his journey to the Seneca nation and the two years he spent there. Swayne provides detailed descriptions of Cornplanter (Gaiänt'wakê), the chief, his family, the village and villagers, cultural differences between the Quakers and the Senecas, the difficulty of the language barrier, and discussions between Quaker missionaries and Seneca members.
Dates:
1798-1800
Mary King Swayne letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1346
Abstract
The collection contains handwritten letters from and to Mary King Swayne, the wife of Joel Swayne, a Quaker missionary to the Onondaga Tribe of Upstate New York. The letters cover family life and discussions on religion, including the Hicksite Schism.
Dates:
1807 - 1864
Norman Walton Swayne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-144
Abstract
The Swayne family were Quakers of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Caleb Swayne was a farmer and tanner, and his son, Benjamin, also operated a tan yard and conducted a school for boys, the London Grove Boarding School. Evan Thomas Swayne also taught at London Grove, but moved to the Eaton Institute, a boarding school for girls in Kennett, after 1865. His son, Edward Swayne, had a greenhouse business and wrote poetry. Edward's sister, Anna Belle, was a photographer before her marriage...
Dates:
1733-1987
Benjamin Swett letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-021
Abstract
The first half of the volume contains business correspondence concerning merchant's orders and the status of shipments. The second half of the volume contains personal correspondence, chiefly letters from Benjamin Swett to Mary Howell Swett, his wife. Letters are addressed to William Johnson, Isaac Milnor, Harper & Hartshorne, John Wickman & Sons, Barclay & Sons, Richard Mayhew, Joseph Brown, Jonathon Cowpland, David Symour, Arnoll & Mayhew, Thomas Letchworth, George Dillwyn,...
Dates:
1765-1806
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 18
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