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Swarthmore College employee 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.
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When Swarthmore College opened in 1869, it only had a couple dozen employees. At the time of the 150th anniversary of its incorporation, in 2014, the College employed around 1,000 faculty and staff.
This collection consists of photographs of Swarthmore College faculty, staff, administrators, and Board Members, from the time of the College's founding into the 21st century. Photographs collected by the Friends Historical Library from various sources internal and external to the College.
The collection is organized into several subseries: SPA 207/A Administrators, SPA 207/B Members of the Board of Managers, SPA 207/E Employee events, SPA 207/F Faculty and Academic Department Staff, and SPA 207/S Staff. There are also some unidentified, miscellaneous, and group photographs filed under SPA 207. An index of individuals represented in the collection is available below. Oversized (+) and double-oversized (++) photographs are stored separately, as indicated below.
SPA 207/A Administrators contains photographs of College Presidents, Deans, and other members of the senior administration. It is organized alphabetically by the name of the individual, stored in standard-size and over-sized housing.
SPA 207/B Board of Managers contains photographs of members of the Board of Managers. They are organized alphabetically by the name of the individual, stored in standard-size and over-sized housing.
SPA 207/E Employee events contains photographs of all-staff events, such as the annual Spring Fling, annual Ice Cream Social, and seasonal Gatherings. They are organized chronologically by year and event, and stored in standard-size housing.
SPA 207/F Faculty and Academic Department Staff contains photographs of members of the faculty, support staff of academic departments, and the college libraries. This series is organized by department name, stored in standard-size and over-sized housing.
Call Number Academic Department SPA 207/F/Art/Art-Hist Art - Art History SPA 207/F/Art/Stu-Art Art - Studio Art SPA 207/F/Bio Biology SPA 207/F/Chem Chemistry SPA 207/F/Clas Classics SPA 207/F/CS Computer Science SPA 207/F/Dance Dance SPA 207/F/Econ Economics SPA 207/F/Educ Education SPA 207/F/Engl English SPA 207/F/Engn Engineering SPA 207/F/FHL Friends Historical Library SPA 207/F/FSD Faculty-Staff Dramatic Productions SPA 207/F/Hist History SPA 207/F/Lang Lang Visiting Professorship SPA 207/F/Lib Library SPA 207/F/Ling Linguistics SPA 207/F/Math Mathematics SPA 207/F/Modl Modern Languages and Literature SPA 207/F/Modl/Fren Modern Languages and Literature/French SPA 207/F/Modl/Ger Modern Languages and Literature/German SPA 207/F/Modl/Rus Modern Languages and Literature/Russian SPA 207/F/Modl/Span Modern Languages and Literature/Spanish SPA 207/F/Music Music SPA 207/F/PE Physical Education and Athletics SPA 207/F/Phil Philosophy SPA 207/F/Phys-Astr Physics and Astronomy SPA 207/F/Phys-Astr/Astro Astronomy SPA 207/F/Phys-Astr/Phys Physics SPA 207/F/Pols Political Science SPA 207/F/Psych Psychology SPA 207/F/Quakers Faculty Quakers SPA 207/F/Relg Religion SPA 207/F/Soc-Anth Sociology and Anthropology SPA 207/F/Thea Theater SPA 207/S Staff contains photographs of members of staff in non-academic departments.
Call Number Staff Department SPA 207/S/Admis Admissions SPA 207/S/Book Bookstore SPA 207/S/Bus+Fin Business Office and Finance SPA 207/S/Career Career Services SPA 207/S/Comm Communications SPA 207/A/Dean Dean's Office SPA 207/S/Dev+Alum Development and Alumni Relations SPA 207/S/Dining Dining Services SPA 207/S/Fac Facilities SPA 207/S/Fac/EVS Facilities/Environmental Services SPA 207/S/Fac/Grn Facilities/Grounds SPA 207/S/Fac/Heat Facilities/Heating Plant and Tunnel SPA 207/S/FinAid Financial Aid SPA 207/S/Health Health SPA 207/S/HR Human Resources SPA 207/S/ITS Information Technology Services SPA 207/S/Misc Miscellaneous (Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, Chester Children's Chorus, Writing Center, Swarthmore Chester Coalition, List Gallery, unidentified staff) SPA 207/S/Office Office Services SPA 207/S/PO Post Office SPA 207/S/PubSafe Public Safety SPA 207/S/Reg Registrar's Office SPA 207/A/Res Office of Institutional Research SPA 207/S/SAC Staff Advisory Committee SPA 207/S/Scott Scott Arboretum (see also SFHL-PA-111, Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College slide collection) SPA 207/S/StuAcct Student Accounts Office
Photographs collected by the Friends Historical Library from various sources internal and external to the College.
Organization
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL Staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2017 September
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This collection is open for research.
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Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.