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Walter F. Price papers
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Walter Ferris Price (1857-1951) was the son of James Martin Price and Sarah Lightfoot. Price graduated from Haverford College in 1881, and received an M.A. from Harvard in 1884. He taught classics at Haverford Grammar School from 1884-91. He studied architecture with Cope and Stewardson in Philadelphia then entered into partnership with his brother William and cousin William Walton in the architectural firm, Price & Walton. He was the architect for meetinghouses at Westtown, Atlantic City, and Florida Ave in Washington, D.C. among other contracts. Price was married to Felicia H. Thomas in 1906 and lived in Moylan, PA. (Information from Haverford College Matriculate Catalog and Dictionary of Quaker Biography)
Price's papers include three albums containing materials relating to Haverford College class of 1881 over time, such as class reports, photos of classmates and faculty, letters, programs and notes. In addition, there are letters of Walter Price, including to Mary Vaux Walcott, relating to the building of the Washington D.C. (Quaker) Meetinghouse and an article by Price on the Meetinghouse, as well as other correspondence relating to architectural work at Chester County Historical Society in West Chester Pa. Price's correspondents include: William A. Blair, J. Horace Cook, Isabel Darlington, Levi T. Edwards, Davis H. Forsythe, Edward Y. Hartshorne, Helen Hole, Isaac T. Johnson, Rayner Kelsey, Jesse H. Moore, James Price, Walter Penn Shipley, Albanus Smith, Wilbur K. Thomas, Pauline Trueblood, Thomas N. Winslow.
Gift of Morris Potter and Felicia Goodman, November 1997.
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- Chester County Historical Society (West Chester, Pa.)
- Friends Meeting of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Haverford College -- History
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
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This folder contains letters written by classmates of reporting on recent activities. Letter writers include William A. Blaire, J. Horace Cook, Levi T. Edwards, David H. Forsythe, Edward Y. Hartshorne, Isaac T. Johnson, Jesse H. Moore, Walter F. Price, Walter Penn Shipley, Albanus Smith, and Thomas N. Winslow.
This folder contains letters to Walter Price written by Roger Clark, Julia Cope Collins, Hope Downs, Caroline Gawk, Anne S. Hawk, Helen G. Hole, Solange Howard, Regina Iungerich, Ruth Moore, Elisha Mulford, James Price, L. Price, Anna Emlen Shipley, Margaret E. Sollenberger, James Sproll, Wilbur K. Thomas, and L. P. Winslow.
This folder contains letters written to Walter F. Price that discuss design specifications of the meetinghouse and surrounding property, the possibility of President Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover visiting the meetinghouse, and a visit to the White House. Many addressed to Mary Vaux Walcott.
This folder contains letters written to and from Walter F. Price that discuss a lack of funds for construction on a Chester County Historical Society building.
Reports from the class of 1881 prepared from 1938-45 with some miscellaneous items laid in.
Photographs of students and club members during their years at Haverford, as well as reunion photos and faculty taken at various times, programs, such as the commencement program in 1941 when ex-president Hoover spoke, some letters and clippings from the 1930s and 1940s. Pasted down on the end cover is a photo of the dining room for students in Founders Great Hall.