Dorothy G. (Dorothy Gladden) Harris Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, articles, scientific drawings, and course, research, and reference notes relating to Dorothy Harris's activities as librarian and archivist at Friends Historical Library and as a Quaker researcher. Includes correspondence relating to her work in London, England, as part of an exchange of Quaker librarians in 1947.
Dates
- Creation: 1927-1959
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Dorothy Harris (1902-1972), Quaker librarian, archivist, scientific illustrator, was a librarian and archivist at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and a researcher in Quaker history.
Extent
2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Dorothy Gladden Harris (1902-1972), Quaker librarian, archivist, scientific illustrator, was a librarian and archivist at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and a researcher in Quaker history. This collection contains correspondence, articles, scientific drawings, and course, research, and reference notes relating to Dorothy Harris's activities as librarian and archivist at Friends Historical Library and as a Quaker researcher. Includes correspondence relating to her work in London, England, as part of an exchange of Quaker librarians in 1947.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series. The series are:
- Correspondence
- Writings
- Scientific Illustrations
- Notes
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Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dorothy Harris, 1971
Processing Information
Placed in document boxes as part of the records of Friends Historical Library and catalogued as a separate Record Group 4, Harris papers.
Subject
Genre / Form
Topical
- Archivists -- Pennsylvania
- Illustrators -- United States
- Librarian exchange programs
- Librarians -- Pennsylvania
- Libraries -- England -- London
- Libraries -- Great Britain
- Libraries -- Great Britain
- Libraries -- Pennsylvania
- Libraries -- Pennsylvania
- Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore
- Quaker women -- Great Britain
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Great Britain
- Quakers -- History
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Scientific illustrators -- United States
- Women archivists -- Pennsylvania
- Women librarians -- Pennsylvania
- Title
- An Inventory of the Dorothy G.Harris Papers, 1927-1959
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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