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Welsbach Gas Light Company photograph album, 1888-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear feet (1 album; 52 photographs)
Abstract:: Album containing 52 black and white photographs documenting various aspects of the production process at the Welsbach Gas Light Company site located along the Delaware River in Gloucester City, New Jersey.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Wyndham D. Miles Collection of Philatelic Cachets, 1946-1995 (inclusive) 1940s-1950s (bulk)

Extent:: 1 linear feet (1 box; consisting of 77 items)
Abstract:: 77 philatelic cachets (some duplicates) celebrating various milestones and notable individuals in the history of science collected by Wyndham D. Miles, author, editor, and past president of the American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

William A. Lester, Jr. Papers, 1950-2017 (inclusive) 1965-2013 (bulk)

Extent:: 70.0 linear feet (67 record boxes, 1 hollinger box, 2 half hollinger boxes, 1 oversized hollinger box, and 2 cd-rom boxes.)
Abstract:: Correspondence, professional files, manuscripts, printed materials, notebooks, electronic storage materials, audio-visual materials, and photographic materials of African American theoretical chemist and chemistry educator William A. Lester, Jr.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Robert Bryan Michener and Edith Riner Michener. Kenya correspondence, 1930-1970 (bulk) 1920-1984 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: The collection contains the correspondence of Robert Bryan Michener and Edith Riner Michener written while serving as Quaker missionaries in Kenya, East Africa, in the 1930s. Working under the auspices of the American Friends African Mission, a program of the Five Years Meeting, R. Bryan Michener served as a physician at the hospital in Kaimosi and then principal of the Boys' School. Edith Michener first taught English at the Boys' School and then organized the Girls' Boarding School. Their correspondence, photocopies and some originals, is mainly addressed to family members in Kansas and American Friends Board of Missions. It provides insight into their professional and personal lives in East Africa as well as the tensions within the mission system and colonial Africa of the period.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Parke Family journals, 1896-1927 (inclusive)

Extent:: .5 linear ft. (1box)
Abstract:: The collection contains diaries and daybooks of Dr. Thomas E. Parke and his wife, Mary Bacon Parke, of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Very rich in detail, they reflect the life and activities of 20th century Quakers, active in the Society of Friends, business, and philanthropic activities.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Frost family correspondence, 1831-1871 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7 items (1 folder)
Abstract:: The collection contains correspondence between members of the Gideon and Mary W. (Willets) Frost family, Hicksite Quakers of Westbury, Long Island, New York. Gideon Frost was a successful merchant, philanthropist, and founder of Friends Academy at Locust Valley. Family members were active in Quaker concerns, especially education and abolition. The letters mention prominent Friends, family, and anti-slavery concerns.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Swarthmore College classes records, 1869-2015 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7.5 linear ft.
Abstract:: Contains materials pertinent to each class, such as: class business records (constitution, accounts, meeting minutes); clippings; correspondence with Alumni Office; reunion planning materials; reunion yearbooks; class day materials (programs, speeches); commencement materials (press releases, information about honorary degree recipients, commencement speaker speeches/remarks); and more.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Swarthmore College faculty and staff files, 1869-2018 (inclusive)

Extent:: 15 linear ft.
Abstract:: Individual files on some past faculty and staff members containing newspaper clippings, obituaries, often a CV, and similar materials.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Swarthmore Historical Society General Reference Files, 1893-2016 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8 linear ft. (stored in file cabinet, fhl workroom)
Abstract:: The Swarthmore Historical Society was established in 1988 to document, preserve, and protect the historic resources of the Borough of Swarthmore, Pa. Its archives were deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. The collection contains general reference files concerning the history, organizations, and activities of the Borough, combining materials collected by Swarthmore Historical Society together with reference files and photographs compiled by Friends Historical Library. Of particular interest are the field surveys on historic structures compiled for the Swarthmore Historic Resources Survey.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Alzina Stone Dale Papers, 1939-2012 (inclusive) 1997-2008 (bulk)

Extent:: 3.5 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection primarily contains records related to the writing and publishing of Alzina Stone Dale's book, When the Postwar World was New. The book was based on her 1952 trip diary of her summer spent in Finland working at an AFSC work camp and the letters she wrote home.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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