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Friends Historical Library collection of miscellaneous photographs
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
This collection contains miscellaneous photographs, engravings, illustrations, and other images, acquired over time from various sources by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Most depict Quaker schools or the the homes of Quaker families. There are also historically Quaker senior homes, conference and retreat centers, colleges and universities, and social service agencies (hospitals, orphanages, etc.). There are images of additional miscellaneous organizations and topics related to the Society of Friends, as well as some subjects and locales with no direct or obvious connection to Quakerism.
Photographs are arranged to the file level in binders, alphabetically by topic within the following series. Oversized photographs are stored at the end of the collection, in flat boxes, mirroring the order of the binders.
- (PA 100/B6) Senior Homes
- (PA 100/C4) Conference and Retreat Centers
- (PA 100/C6) Colleges and universities
- (PA 100/R4) Homes
- (PA 100/J3) Jails
- (PA 100/L6) Localities (Scenery)
- (PA 100/M5) Miscellaneous
- (PA 100/P7) Individual Portraits
- (PA 100/PG) Group Portraits
- (PA 100/S3) Schools
- (PA 100/S6) Social Service
- (PA 101) Oversize
PA 100/P Friends Historical Library Miscellaneous Portraits Collection, including individual and group photographs, are not included in this inventory. An inventory is available on-site.
In 2018-2019, the collection was inventoried and some of the series names were changed. The PA 100/R3 Race Relations series was removed, and the photographs it contained were distributed into other series within the collection as appropriate. AFSC photographs were removed to a new collection, PA 211 American Friends Service Committee Miscellaneous Photographs.
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2019
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is available for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Some of the items in this collection may be protected by copyright. The user is solely responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns to reuse, publish, or reproduce relevant items beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to the law. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/.
Collection Inventory
Photographs are only partially identified, but include: John Wooden Legs (tribal president of the Northern Cheyenne, 1955-1968); U.S. Representative John P. Saylor (Republican of Pennsylvania) and Robert L. Haines (chairman of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Indian Committee) participating in a dance, presumably with the Iroquois and Seneca as part of their activism to preserve the Cornplanter Tract as assured in the Treaty of Canandaigua by opposing the Kinzua Dam project (Pennsylvania); people of the Crownpoint Chapter of the Navajo Nation (New Mexico); and more.
Also known as: Amigos Grade School, Honduras School
Also known as: Friends School of Baltimore
Also known as: Olney Friends School; Friends Boarding School at Barnesville
Also known as: Olney Friends School; Friends Boarding School at Barnesville
Also known as: Brimstone Castle
Also known as: Old Friends School
Also known as: Friends Agricultural School
Also known as: Friends Agricultural School
Also known as: Alloways Creek Friends
Also known as: United States Indian School
Also known as: Classical Institute
Also known as: Friends' Free School, Buttonwood Hall
Also known as: Ercildoun Seminary for Young Ladies, Darlington Seminary
Also known as: Friends' Girls' School
Also known as: West Philadelphia Friends School
Also known as: North of England Agricultural School
Also known as: North of England Agricultural School
Also known as: Friends Boarding School, Foulkes Boarding School
Also known as: The Old Schoolhouse, Old Camp School House
Also known as: Lyndale Home for Girls, Lyndale Girls School
Also known as: Media-Providence Friends School
Also known as: Media-Providence Friends School
Also known as: Moorestown Friends Academy
Also known as: Moorestown Friends Academy
Also known as: Goose Creek Monthly Meeting
Also known as: The Friends School at Pennsdale
Also known as: Plymouth Meeting Friends School
Also known as: Adrian Valley Friends Boarding School
Also known as: Old Sadsbury Friends
Also known as: Quaker School for Rural Girls, Quaker Domestic Training School
Also known as: Scattergood Boarding School, Scattergood School
Also known as: Schofield Normal and Industrial School
Also known as: Schofield Normal and Industrial School
Also known as: Bellevue Female Institute
Also known as: Tunesassa School, Friends Indian School at Tunesassa
Also known as: Friends' School Lisburn
Also known as: Friends Academy, Old Quaker Academy
Also known as: Friends Community School
Also known as: Friends Community School
Also known as: Westtown Boarding School
Also known as: Westtown Boarding School
Also known as: Westtown Boarding School