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Martha Schofield Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Overview
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates:
1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)
Society for Home Culture records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-026
Scope and Contents
The Society for Home Culture records includes four volumes: three volumes of minutes, which include tipped in annual reports, and lists of students with the subject they studied, by year; and one volume of a list of books to be studied, which includes the name of items, sometimes a brief description of the item, and the date of publication.
Dates:
1880-1894
Swarthmore Alumni Association records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-R1
Overview
The Swarthmore Alumni Association, founded in 1882 and still active, engages Swarthmore graduates in activities that support current students, alumni, and Swarthmore College. The Swarthmore Alumni Association records, 1882-1990, include meeting minutes, correspondence, publications, brochures, mailings, and directories for a variety of organizations of Swarthmore College Alumni, both in the Philadelphia area and elsewhere.
Dates:
1882 - 1990
Swarthmore College Board of Managers Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-C
Overview
Includes the records that document the work of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College beginning in 1862, together with the records of the Board of Managers of the Friends Educational Association (1862). Also included are the records of committees appointed by the Board to oversee the operation of the College from its founding to the present. Records consist of minutes, committees of the Board, lists of members, resolutions, reports, papers of individual members of the Board, and...
Dates:
1862 - 2018
Swarthmore College Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-B
Overview
Collection contains the records that document the founding of Swarthmore College, its preceding bodies and founding committees, Charter and amendments, records of stockholders and stockholders’ associations, the Incorporators and the first Board of Managers. Records consist of minutes of the Corporation, letters, books of stock certificates and ledgers.
Dates:
1854-1964 (bulk 1854-1911)
Swarthmore College financial records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-G
Overview
The Swarthmore College financial records include materials from the college's Treasurer, Development Office, Finance Office, committees of the Board of Managers, and other entities of the college. Included are bookkeeping records for college finances, student tuition records, both printed and handwritten fundraising materials, and more.
Dates:
1864-1999
Swarthmore College property records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-F
Overview
The Swarthmore College property records include real estate and building appraisals; deeds, mortgages, and leases; reports by Swarthmore committees and external consultants; administrative documents such as budgets and correspondence; blueprints, maps, and plans; and other records pertaining to college buildings and grounds, construction and maintenance, and utilities and resource use.
Dates:
1687-1993
Somerville Literary Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q001
Overview
The Somerville Literary Society was a women students' literary organization founded at Swarthmore College in 1871. The purposes of the organization were to discuss literature, strengthen the friendship between its members, and prepare them for the wider field of action and influence opening to women, according to the group's constitution. The collection contains the records of the Somerville Literary Society, including constitution, minutes, financial papers,...
Dates:
1871-1978
Norman Walton Swayne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-144
Overview
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
Tallcot Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1015
Overview
Primarily the correspondence of Joseph Tallcot (ca. 1768-1853) and other Quakers on topics relating to religious education, the Hicksite-Orthodox schism of 1827-1828, the Wilburite separation, slavery, and the African American colony at Wilberforce, Canada.
Dates:
1724-1857
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- Gwynedd Boarding School (Gwynedd, Pa.) 2
- Holcombe, Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds), 1891-1878 2
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- Nine-Partners' Boarding School (Washington, N.Y.) 2
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- Penn, William, 1644-1718 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Education Committee (1872-1950) 2
- Richard Humphreys Foundation 2
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 2
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- Clothier, Isaac 1
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- Committee on Race Relations (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa. : 1929-1969) 1
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- Cox, Sallie (Sarah Jones), 1837-1930 1
- Cromwell, Caroline A., b. 1833 1
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- Croton Valley Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1804-1828 : Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 1
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- Crowley, Mary Catherine, 1834-1912 1
- Curtis, Barbara 1
- Davis, Bainbridge C., 1910-1993 1
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