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Webb and Price family papers
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
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Philip Price (1764-1837) married Rachel Kirk (1763-1847) in 1784. They had 11 children (six daughters and five sons). The family were members of Birmingham Monthly Meeting (Pennsylvania). From 1818 to 1830, they served as superintendent and matron at Westtown Boarding School. With their daughter Hannah, the couple founded Price's Boarding School in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1830.
The collection contains photos (albumen, tintype, cyanotype, and daguerreotype images) as well as genealogical information on the Webb and Price families. Photographs include images of Thomas and Rachel Ann Levering, Margaret Lightfoot, James M. Price, Rebecca Sinclair Turner, Swarthmore Preparatory School, a preparatory department of Swarthmore College which was abolished in 1893, and others. Many of the photographs are of unidentified individuals. There is also a typed genealogical history of Philip and Rachel Price compiled by their grandson, James Martin Price, and a highly inscribed copy of Robert Barclay's An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, London: T. Sowle, 1703, with numerous indications of births in the Price family.
The Webb and Price family papers were donated to Special Collections, Haverford College in 1998 by Philip Price through George Thomas. Accession # 6295.
Processed by Mary A. Crauderueff; completed March, 2016.
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Mary A. Crauderueff
- Finding Aid Date
- March, 2016
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The collection is open for research use.
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Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Collection Inventory
Includes The American Ancestry of Philip and Rachel Price, 1683-1894 made by James Martin Price" a grandson of Philip & Rachel Price, and Barclay's Apology, 1703. Contains ownership inscriptions and records of birth of the Price family. Dates include 1713-1961.
Physical Description1 folders
Photographs include: [Horses on the coast], Albumen print (?), Note on the back, "Prize Picture Taken by S. Noguchi" Levering, Thomas and Rachel Ann, 1845, Albumen print Lightfoot, Margaret (died 1893). Taken by F. Gutekunst in Philadelphia. Albumen print Price, James M. holding a child, Cyanotype, Note on the back, "James M. Price with MLP" (Possibly Mary Louisa Price born October 20, 1871.) Summit House from Lizzie Bourne Monument, Mt. Washington, N.H. Albumen print. Note on the back, "C.P. Hibbard, Photographer, Lisbon, N.H. Swarthmore Preparatory School. May, 1905. 22 students posed on steps. Photograph. Photo in mat badly torn and bent. Turner, Rebecca Sinclair (1787-1877), Photograph of a print Unidentified Couple, Tintype Unidentified family, One photographic print of 7 individual portraits; a baby, four children, man, and woman. Print is mounted on mat board. Unidentified group. Four women, one girl, and one man sitting at a table outside. Albumen print. Note on front "C.R." Unidentified group. Man and woman with two young boys sitting on a porch. Platinotype (?) Unidentified group. 12 people in two cars posed in front of "Balanced Rock" at Mushroom Park (The Garden of the Gods) in Manitou Springs Colorado, taken by Paul Goerke & Son. Woodburytype (?), mounted on mat board. Unidentified man. Daguerreotype Unidentified man – possibly William Webb. Albumen print. Note on the back, "Wm. Webb" Unidentified man. Albumen print Unidentified man. Albumen print Unidentified woman. Albumen print Unidentified woman. Tintype Unidentified woman in dark dress. Photograph Unidentified woman wearing glasses, (2 copies). Photograph Unidentified woman wearing glasses. Photograph. (Stored in a brown envelope from Gilbert & Bacon Studios, 1859-1934) Unidentified young child. Photograph with hand coloring in a daguerreotype case (possibly a tintype) Unidentified young child. Photograph with hand coloring in a daguerreotype case (possibly a tintype) Unidentified young girl. Photograph with hand coloring in a daguerreotype case (possibly a tintype)
Physical Description2 folders
Swarthmore Preparatory School. May, 1905. 22 students posed on steps. Photograph. Photo in mat badly torn and bent.
Unidentified family, One photographic print of 7 individual portraits; a baby, four children, man, and woman. Print is mounted on mat board.
General Physical DescriptionSee Oversize Box 1, Folder 6.