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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

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

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

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

Joel and Hannah Bean Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-012
Abstract Joel Bean (1835-1914) and his wife, Hannah Elliott Bean (1830-1909), were prominent Quaker ministers in Iowa Yearly Meeting in the mid-nineteenth century when Quaker settlements were expanding in Iowa. Joel Bean was born in Alton, New Hampshire, in 1825, the son of John and Elizabeth Hill Bean, and educated at Friends Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island. He migrated to Iowa in 1853, and taught school at West Branch, Iowa, from 1850 to 1861. In 1859, he married Hannah Elliott Shipley...
Dates: 1825-1914

Arthur Beardsley papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG6-L8-003
Abstract

Arthur Beardsley was a Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Swarthmore College from 1872-1889 and Librarian of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College from 1893-1917. The collection contains bound notebooks with handwritten math and science problems with solutions, diagrams, and proofs.

Dates: 1872

Helen Wood Bell papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-104
Identifier: SFHL-SC-104
Abstract

This collection includes a journal of Helen Wood Bell of her stay in New York State, and a series of letters written in the last years of her life, describing the progression of her illness. Also included are pictures of the Randolph and other related families.

Dates: 1847-1941

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Swarthmore College 168
American Friends Service Committee 45
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 35
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 23
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 18
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Westtown Boarding School 18
Friends General Conference (U.S.) 16
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 14
Comly, John, 1773-1850 12
Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 12
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 11
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 11
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 11
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 10
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 9
George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 9
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 9
Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 9
Penn, William, 1644-1718 9
Jackson, John, 1809-1855 8
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 8
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 8
Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 8
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 8
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 7
Cooper family 7
Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 7
Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 7
Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 7
Moore family 7
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 7
Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 7
Palmer family 7
Stabler family 7
Truman, George 7
Bassett family 6
Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 6
Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 6
Foulke family 6
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 6
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 6
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 6
Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 6
Lloyd family 6
McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 6
Mott, James, 1788-1868 6
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 6
Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 6
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 6
Poole, William, 1764-1829 6
Schofield, Martha 6
Scott, Job, 1751-1793 6
Smith family 6
Valentino, Carmen 6
Walker family 6
Wharton family 6
Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 6
Williams family 6
Woolman, John, 1720-1772 6
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 5
Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 5
Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 5
Elkinton family 5
Fisher family 5
Fothergill, Samuel 5
Friends World College 5
Friends World Committee for Consultation 5
Gibbons family 5
Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 5
Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 5
Hicks family 5
Howland, Emily, 1827-1929 5
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 5
Hunn family 5
Jackson family 5
Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 5
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 5
New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 5
Parrish family 5
Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 5
Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 5
Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 5
Price family 5
Roberts family 5
Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 5
Smedley family 5
Swarthmore Chautauqua Association 5
Swarthmore Historical Society 5
Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975 5
Walton family 5
Walton, J. Barnard (Joseph Barnard), 1885-1963 5
Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 5
Wilson family 5
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 4
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 4
Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 4
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 4
Civilian Public Service 4
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