Swarthmore College Camera Club Records
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains a volume of minutes, 1896-1902, with some financial records and a program of the 1896 Third Annual Lantern Slide Exhibition.
Dates
- Creation: 1896-1902
Creator
- Swarthmore College. Camera Club (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
The Swarthmore Camera Club was student organization devoted to the study of photography. It sponsored an annual Lantern Slide Exhibition beginning in 1894 for which the participants took the photographs and manufactured the slides for presentation. The Club was under the leadership of Professor George A. Hoadley and Professor Henry V. Gummere. Hoadley (1848-1936) was a professor of physics at the College from 1888-1914. Gummere taught mathematics 1893-1898.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (1 box (one folder))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Swarthmore Camera Club was student organization devoted to the study of photography. It sponsored an annual Lantern Slide Exhibition beginning in 1894 for which the participants took the photographs and manufactured the slides for presentation. This small collection contains a volume of minutes, 1896-1902, with some financial records and program..
Arrangement
The collection consists of 1 folder.
Physical Location
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Subject
- Swarthmore College (Organization)
- Title
- Swarthmore College Camera Club Records, 1896-1902
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2013
- 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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