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Friends Historical Library collected miscellaneous lantern slides, glass negatives, and other formats

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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

Call Number:
PA.199
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1.1 cubic ft. (11 boxes)
Language:
English
Date:
1890-1930 (inclusive)
Creator:
Hoadley, George A. (George Arthur), 1848-1936, Schmoe, Joseph, and Walton, Joseph S. (Joseph Shoemaker), 1792-1876
Form:
Lantern slides
Abstract:
This collection contains assorted lantern slides from various sources and places. These include: Joseph Schmoe Collection; Spence Etchings; National Parks; George A. Hoadley Travel Collection; Flowers and Gardens; Unidentified and uncategorized Swarthmore Borough Gardens

This collection includes the following categories of lantern slides: Joseph Schmoe Collection; Spence Etchings; National Parks; George A. Hoadley Collection; Flowers and Gardens; Unidentified and uncategorized Swarthmore Borough Gardens

This collection is arranged in boxes by provenance.

People
Organization
Subject
Place

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Staff
Finding Aid Date
2018
Access Restrictions

This collection is available for research use.

Use Restrictions

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

Colleges and boarding schools (includes Haverford).
Box 1
Portraits (of individuals and groups); History (Quaker, US, Misc); Uncategorized.
Box 2

Relating to George Fox.
Box 3

Yosemite and Redwoods.
Box 4
Yosemite and Redwoods.
Box 5

Yellowstone Park and Indians; uncategorized.
Box 6

America and Europe.
Box 7
America and Europe.
Box 8

Quaker history; Peace work and workers; uncategorized.
Box 9
Trip to Cairo.
Box 10
Scope and Contents

Includes slides of pyramids, interiors and exteriors of mosques, street scenes, and an unidentified woman.

Menke, William. Swarthmore Borough Gardens lantern slides, 1920-1930. 1 boxes.
Box 11
Scope and Contents

Includes images of gardens on Cedar Lane, Chester Road, Ogden Avenue, Swarthmore Avenue, and the Woman's Club Flower Show, circa 1930

Physical Description

1 boxes29 slides

Alice P. Allens meeting house collection (glass plate negatives).
Scope and Contents

Chester Meeting House (Orthodox), Chester Meeting House (Hicksite), Chester Meeting House (Hicksite), Chichester Meeting (Hicksite) , Chichester Meeting (Hicksite) , Concord Meeting (Orthodox) , Haverford Meeting House - (Orthodox), Haverford Meeting House - (Hicksite), Haverford Meeting House - (Hicksite), Hockessin Meeting House , Hockessin Meeting House , Hockessin Meeting House , Hockessin Meeting House , Merion Meeting House, Merion Meeting House, Middletown Meeting House, Middletown Meeting House, Newtown Square Meeting House, Newtown Square Meeting House, Radnor Meeting House, Radnor Meeting House, Radnor Meeting House, Springfield Meeting House, Springfield Meeting House

Buzby family glass plate negatives.
Scope and Contents

6 plates

Friends General Conference at Swarthmore College glass plate negatives, 1896.
Scope and Contents

5 plates

Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of miscellaneous Jenkins-Magill glass negatives, tintypes, etc., found in a photograph backlog and housed in 2013. All pictures depect Jenkins-Magill family members or extended family.

Thomas Atkinson Jenkins with daughter Beatrice, age about 18 mo., 1897.
Scope and Contents

glass negative

Beatrice Magill Jenkins, about age 2 with her grandfather, Edward Hicks Magill, 1897.
Scope and Contents

glass negative

Beatrice Magill Jenkins, about age 2 with her grandmother, Sarah W.B. Magill, 1897.
Scope and Contents

glass negative

Beatrice Magill Jenkins, about age 2 with her mother, Marian Magill Jenkins, 1897.
Scope and Contents

glass negative

Eudora Magill (1855-1948), class of 1878, daughter of Edward Hicks Magill, and classmate Mary A. Webster.
Scope and Contents

Tintype; identification scratched on back.

Helen Magill (1853-1944), daughter of Edward Hicks Magill, with parasol.
Scope and Contents

Tintype; identification scratched on back of plate.

Beatrice Magill Jenkins, about age 2 with her mother, Marian Magill Jenkins, 1897.
Scope and Contents

print

Walton, Joseph S. (Joseph Shoemaker), 1792-1876. Joseph S. Walton meeting house collection (glass plate negatives), 1907 - approximately 1920.
Scope and Contents

Seven glass plate negatives, plus film negatives. Not all of these negatives have been identified as Joseph S. Walton's, but probably all are. Identified meeting houses are Ercildoun, Manasquan, Abington, and Byberry.

Collection of glass plate negatives of John Greenleaf Whittier sites, 1911-09.
Scope and Contents

Amesbury Meeting House, Amesbury Meeting House, Barn at Whittier Homestead. Amesbury, Mass., Pilgrims at Amesbury Meetinghouse , Pilgrims at Whittier's Homestead, Rear yard of Whitter's home at Amesbury. Mass. , Whittier Pilgrims down the Merrimach, Whittier Pilgrims on Merrimac Ricer, Whittier's Home, Amesbury Mass., Whittier's Homestead, Whittier's Homestead

Concord (Hicksite) Meeting House, 1895-09-12.
Scope and Contents

Front of Concord (Hicksite) Meeting House (Built 1728) at Concordville Delaware County PA looking NE

Concord (Hicksite) Meeting House, 1895-09-12.
Scope and Contents

Front of Concord (Hicksite) Meeting House (Built 1728) at Concordville Delaware County PA looking NE

Concord Meeting House (Hicksite) Pa.
Concord Meeting House (Hicksite) Pa.
Concord Meeting House (Hicksite) Pa.
Concord Meeting House (Hicksite) Pa.
East Nottingham, Md. Meeting house.
Physical Description

Oversize

Fallsington Meeting House.
Scope and Contents

Photographer: Joseph Walton. Source: George School.

Fallsington Meeting House.
Scope and Contents

Photographer: Joseph Walton. Source: George School.

Haddon Hall, 1922-02-18.
Providence Metting House.
Swarthmore Meeting House.
West Nottingham, Md. Meeting house.
Physical Description

Oversize

Willistown Meeting (Hicksite) .
Unidentified and uncategorized glass plate negatives.
Scope and Contents

Emmor Roberts, George Fox , George Fox Birthplace, Louisa Stabler, Middletown School, Smith Residence , Thomas Chalkley's Residence

Print, Suggest