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Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa)

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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:
RG4.054
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
  • 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)
  • 35 gb
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979, RG 4/054, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1978-1979 (inclusive)
Form:
Oral histories
Abstract:
Audio cassettes and some transcripts of interviews with 55 Quakers, chiefly born in Chester County between 1889-1910. Interviews contain largely autobiographical data, as well as information about Quaker life and Chester County in general.

Audio cassettes and some transcripts of interviews with 55 Quakers, chiefly born in Chester County between 1889-1910. Interviews contain largely autobiographical data, as well as information about Quaker life in general, recollections of Chester County, and descriptions of farm life and histories of Friends meetings in Chester County. The project was conducted by the Chester County Library District, funded by Chester County Manpower Programs and the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

The collection contains 76 audio cassettes and some transcripts, plus 17 digitized mp3 surrogates of selected audiocassettes.

The collection is divided into two series:

  1. Transcriptions
  2. Cassette Tapes (76)

Chester County Public Library in Exton digitized the audio from this collection and has made them available at their listening stations within the library (except for five, which they have classified as restricted: Ann Passmore Webb, J. Smedley Thomas, Milo and Mabel Jackson, Ellen Cope, and Julian Baldwin.

Donor: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1979

Material arranged and placed in 4 documents boxes, stored with RG 4 in basement of Friends Historical Library. Includes 76 audio cassette tapes, not all transcribed.

In 2023, London Grove Monthly Meeting arranged for vendor digitization of 17 of the audiocassettes. Digitized files (.wav preservation and .mp3 derivatives, with associated metadata) were shared with FHL and .mp3 files were published online in Digital Collections.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1980
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Includes pamphlet, "Oral History among Friends in Chester County," which explains the oral history project and contains capsule summaries of the individual interviews. The interviewers were Robert Carlson, Nicolette Murray, and Judy Perego. The following interviews are contained in this series:

Baily, Dorothy and William.
Box 1
Balderston, Lloyd and Lydia.
Box 1
Baldwin, Esther.
Box 1
Baldwin, Julian T.
Box 1
Bittle, Alta Baily.
Box 1
Brinton, Elizabeth.
Box 1
Brosius, Dorothy N.
Box 1
Chandler, John.
Box 1
Cooper, Edith.
Box 1
Cooper, Eleanor D.H.
Box 1
Cope, Ellen.
Box 1
Darlington, Mary Louise.
Box 1
Dewees, Louise Rhoads.
Box 1
Eastburn, Edna and Oliver W.
Box 1
Ford, Elizabeth Webster.
Box 1
James, Arthur.
Box 1
Lapp, Dorothy.
Box 2
Moore, Naomi and Pusey.
Box 2
Oliver, Mary Satterthwaite.
Box 2
Passmore, Edith C.
Box 2
Spencer, Caroline and Laurence.
Box 2
Sproat, Charles W.
Box 2
Steele, George.
Box 2
Trescott, Hannah Darlington.
Box 2
Trimble, Ruth Marshall.
Box 2
Walton, Frank.
Box 2
Warner, Margaret.
Box 2
Wickersham, Edith Pierce.
Box 2
Wollaston, Emma M.
Box 2

Scope and Contents

Tapes containing which have not been transcribed, in addition to tapes of the transcribed interviews. The following interviews are contained in the series:

Physical Description

76 tapes

Baily, Dorothy and William.
Box 3
Balderston, Lloyd and Lydia.
Box 3
Baldwin, Esther.
Box 3
Baldwin, Julian T.
Box 3
Bittle, Alta Baily.
Box 3
Brinton, Elizabeth.
Box 3
Brosius, Dorothy N.
Box 3
Chandler, John.
Box 3
Coates, Alta P.
Box 3
Cooper, Edith.
Box 3
Cooper, Eleanor D.H.
Box 3
Cope, Ellen.
Box 3
Cope, Esther.
Box 3
Darlington, Mary Louise.
Box 3
Darlington, Pauline.
Box 3
Dewees, Louise Rhoads.
Box 3
Dewees, Thomas.
Box 3
Eastburn, Edna and Oliver W.
Box 3
Ford, Elizabeth Webster.
Box 3
Graves, Ethel W.M.
Box 3
Hannum, Martha R.
Box 3
Heald, Helen and Howard.
Box 3
Hood, Ralph.
Box 3
Jackson, Mabel and Milo.
Box 3
James, Arthur.
Box 3
Jones, Gordon Pownall.
Box 3
Kendig, Lida Webster.
Box 3
Kirk, Bertha and Thomas G.
Box 3
Lapp, Dorothy.
Box 3
McCord, M. Elizabeth.
Box 3
Martin, Emma Walton.
Box 3
Mason, Catherine.
Box 3
Moore, Naomi and Pusey.
Box 3
Oliver, Mary Satterthwaite.
Box 3
Passmore, Edith C.
Box 3
Pratt, Carl C.
Box 3
Ramsay, Edith Wood.
Box 3
Shoemaker, Grace Taylor.
Box 3
Spencer, Caroline and Laurence.
Box 3
Sproat, Anna W.
Box 3
Sproat, Charles W.
Box 3
Steele, George.
Box 3
Swayne, Clarence M.
Box 3
Thomas, J. Smedley.
Box 3
Trescott, Hannah Darlington.
Box 3
Trimble, Ruth Marshall.
Box 3
Walton, Frank.
Box 3
Walton, Helen S.
Box 3
Warner, Margaret.
Box 3
Webb, Ann Passmore.
Box 3
Wickersham, Edith Pierce.
Box 3
Wilson, Sara T.
Box 3
Wollaston, Emma M.
Box 3
Yeatman, Marjorie Brosius.
Box 3

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