%eadnotat; ]> rg77ref.xml GENERAL REFERENCE FILES OF THE SWARTHMORE HISTORICAL SOCIETY A Finding Aid for Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 2009 XML finding aid encoded by JGW from an MSWord finding aid by SKM. 6/2004 Swarthmore Historical Society General Reference Files A Finding Aid for Reference Files Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Summary Swarthmore Historical Society General Reference Files 1878-[ongoing] Swarthmore Historical Society 8 linear feet, plus photographs & maps Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Libraries' online catalog: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu The Swarthmore Historical Society was established in 1988 to document, preserve, and protect the historic resources of the Borough of Swarthmore, Pa. Its archives are stored in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. The collection contains general reference files concerning the history, organizations, and activities of the Borough, combining materials collected by Swarthmore Historical Society together with reference files and photographs compiled by Friends Historical Library. Of particular interest are surveys on historic structures compiled for the Swarthmore Historic Resources Survey. BACKGROUND NOTE

The Borough of Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, was incorporated in 1893. Previous to establishment of the Borough, the area was part of Springfield Township. It was settled by Quaker farmers and is the traditional birthplace of Benjamin West, early American artist. The community, first known as Westdale, developed after Swarthmore College was founded by Hicksite Quakers in 1864 and the rail line was improved in the 1880s. The Swarthmore Historical Society (SHS) was established in 1988 to document, preserve and protect the historic resources of Swarthmore Borough, Delaware Co., Pa. It serves as an archives for the Borough of Swarthmore and an information resource on the history of the community.

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

This collection combines related reference resources of Friends Historical Library and Swarthmore Historical Society and is administered by Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

In 1996 the collection of the Swarthmore Historical Society was deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. The material was sorted, described and combined with the reference files on Swarthmore Borough (Pamphlet Group 6) in the collection of Friends Historical Library. Because the histories of the Borough and Swarthmore College are intertwined, the two reference collections were consolidated to make the local history resources more easily accessible. In 2004, the reference collection was assigned a new catalog number RG 7/004 as part of the Swarthmore Historical Society Archives. Records of organizations and family papers are cataloged separately and assigned their own Record Group call numbers. Other not part of a larger collection are added to RG7/004, Reference.

Swarthmore Historical Society General Reference Files, RG 7/004, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

 Access

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Collections in Record Group 7 of Friends Historical Library: RG7/001 Swarthmore Woman’s Club Records RG7/002 Swarthmore Garden Club Records RG7/003 Swarthmore Rotary Club Records RG7/004 Swarthmore Borough Reference (formerly PG 6, Swarthmore Borough) RG7/005 Lungren-Raiman Family Papers RG7/006 Swarthmore Chautauqua RG7/007 Friendly Open House Records RG7/008 League of Women Voters Records RG7/009 Swarthmore National Bank Records RG7/010 Girl Scout Troop #16 Records RG7/011 Swarthmore Village Business and Professional Association Records RG7/012 Swarthmore Nativity Pageant Records RG7/013 Poet's Corner (Club) Records RG7/014 Irma Zimmer Papers RG7/015 Swarthmore Recreation Association Records RG7/016 Swarthmore Historical Society Records

See also related collections in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, including the Paul M. Pearson Papers, Swarthmore College Archives, and Swarthmore Country Week Picnic Association (SC 177).

For photographs of Swarthmore, see the FHL Picture Collection PA 64. To search the collection of local maps, see manual card file in the Library.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in TRIPOD, the on-line catalog of Swarthmore College.

Swarthmore Historical Society Swarthmore (Pa.) -- History DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: These records may only be consulted at Swarthmore, and are not available through inter-Library loan. To request materials on-site, please make sure to use the correct call numbers for the Library in which you wish to use the records:

Series 1: Borough Government Borough Ordinances 1893,1976 File

Includes: Rules from public newspaper notices, 1893. Ordinances and Regulations, 3/1/1976.

 Rules 1910

Rules, adopted 1910.

 Record Books of Attendance, Council votes 3/1893-1/1935 File

Includes correspondence, standing committees, and a listing of Petitioners for the establishment of the Borough, copied by Mary Ann Jeavons.

Borough Tree Committee File Borough Street Committee File

Photographs of street paving project, 1930's-40's removed to PA.

 Borough Hall File Borough Parks File Centennial Park Little Crum Park Umoja Park Thatcher Park Report of Borough Council 1958-60 File

Published, with articles and photographs.

 Inventory of Swarthmore Borough Archives 1996 File

Inventory of Swarthmore Borough Archives stored in Borough Hall, including building permits and plans.

 Miscellaneous clippings, etc. File

Photocopies of items retained at Borough Hall.

 Swarthmore Borough, Planning Study 1964 File Comprehensive Plan 1965 2 Police Department File Town Center Revitalization 1999 File Series 2: Businesses Apartments File "College Inn" (proposed) File Eastlawn Cemetery File Harris and Company File Ingleneuk Tea House File Michael's College Pharmacy File Movie Theater (proposed) File Newspapers File Paulson's File Post Office File Railroad File Real Estate Development Companies File West Hill Swarthmore Improvement College Tract Baird and Bird Clarke and Harvey Emmons, Louis Cole Fischer, Charles E. Gillespie, George Thayer, Carroll Walton (Kent) Witham, William E. Development: Rutgers Ave. condos Sidetracks File

Gift of Sidetracks owners

 Strath Haven Inn File

Gift of Elizabeth Bassett and others.

 Swarthmore National Bank File

Gift of Elizabeth Bassett and the Estate of Aubrey Smith.

See also RG 7/009 for its records.

 Swarthmore Co-op File Trolley File Miscellaneous Swarthmore Businesses File

Includes lists of stores in 1909 and 1989.

 Series 3: Organizations American Legion Post File Churches File Christian Science Church File

Gift of Frames, Frances C.Y. Voigt, 1/28/1992

 Swarthmore Methodist Episcopal Church File

Gift of Ann Cochrane.

 Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) File

See also RG 2, Records of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting.

Gift of Ann Cochrane.

 Swarthmore Presbyterian File

Maintains its own archives.

 Trinity Episcopal Church File Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Church File Company H File Friendly Open House File

See RG 7/007.

 Girl Scout Troop #16 File

See RG7/010

 Players Club of Swarthmore File Swarthmore Camp and Hospital Committee File Swarthmore Chautauqua. File

See also RG7/006.

 Swarthmore Fire and Protective Association. File

Fire Company maintains its own archives.

 Swarthmore Garden Club. type="othertype">File

See RG7/002 for records.

 Swarthmore Historical Society File

Includes incorporation, Centennial projects, clippings, Historic House Tours, Historic Walking Tour brochure grant.

See RG7/016 for records which include incorporation, Centennial projects, clippings, Historic House Tours, Historic Walking Tour brochure grant, etc.

 Swarthmore Horticultural Society type="othertype">File

Swarthmore League of Women Voters. File

See also RG7/008 for records.

 Swarthmore Public Library File Swarthmore Lions File Swarthmore Nativity RG7/012 Swarthmore Recreation Association File Swarthmore Red Cross File Swarthmore Rotary RG7/003

See RG7/003 for records.

 Swarthmore Village Business and Professional Association RG7/011

See RG7/011.

 Swarthmore Woman's Club File

See RG 7/001 for records.

 Miscellaneous 1984 & n.d. File

Includes Caucus Notice, 1894, The Swarthmore Social Temperence Conference, n.d.

 Series 4: Schools Public Schools File "Union Room" for African American children and Nona Royster Bragg controversy File Swarthmore School District teachers' strike 1978 File Swarthmore High School File Swarthmore High School File

Includes history, articles, programs, etc. Of related interest is a collection of Swarthmore High School oversized class photographs, 1937, 1939, 1941-47, 1949, 1950-64, and 1968-69, stored with RG7 (basement).

 Swarthmore High School Sports File Swarthmore High School football programs File

Stored RG7/004/B

Salute to Swarthmore High School 1983 File

Includes other materials of its final year.

Commencement Programs File The Garnet Record: Swarthmore High School Yearbooks 1928-1967, with gaps 1975-1979, Gift of David Ffrench, Acc. 2012.003 File

Stored RG7/004/B

Class pictures 1924-1967, with gaps Oversize "Swarthmore as a Place to Live - Now and in the Future" 1998 File

Proposal for re-use of District properties for seniors. Revised 1998.

 Private Schools File Mary Lyons File

Includes yearbooks (with many gaps), stored in box, workroom.

 Swarthmore Academy File Swarthmore College File

See Swarthmore College Archives, RG6.

 Swarthmore Preparative School File

See also Swarthmore College Archives, RG6 for Preparative Department, Swarthmore College.

 Series 5: Buildings and Structures

Includes original field forms of site surveys. Organized by street address. Additional information and survey photographs compiled on individual addresses is filed with the surveys. Published survey with updated entries cataloged and available on reference, FHL Reading Room.

Architects active in Swarthmore File Academy File Amherst File Benjamin West File Bowdoin File Bryn Mawr File Business District File

See also Park, Dartmouth, and S. Chester.

 Cedar File Chester Road - North File Chester Road - South File Chestnut File Churches File College Avenue File College Buildings, campus File

See also street addresses.

 Cornell File Columbia File Cresson Lane File Crest Lane File Dartmouth File Dartmouth Circle File Dickinson File Dogwood File Drew File Drexel File Elm File Fairview File Field House Lane File Forest File Garrett File Gilpin Tract File Guernsey File Harvard File Haverford Ave. File Haverford Place File Hillborn File Juniata File Kenyon File Lafayette File Magill File Marietta File Maple File Michigan File Morganwood File Oberlin File Ogden File Park File

Includes Deed, 1 Park Avenue, 1892.

 Parrish File Princeton - North File Princeton - South File Riverview File Rutgers File Strath Haven File Swarthmore Avenue File Swarthmore Place File Thayer File Union File University File Walnut File Wellesley File Westdale File Westminster File Whittier File Woodbrook File Yale File Miscellaneous File Series 6: Writings and Reminiscences, Publications Illustrated Swarthmore circa 1895 File Swarthmore 1896 File The Swarthmore [newspaper] 1/1/1893 File

Lists residents of borough. Also photocopies of listings in 1897 and 1902 directories.

 Swarthmore Directories 1924, 1925-26, 1936 Julia R. Hazard, Publisher File Swarthmore Directory 1949-1950 File Peter E. Told, Publisher Anecdotes and Reminiscences: General File Correspondence, Lyn Jones on the attribute of the Borough 1984 File Delaware County Historical Society file on Swarthmore File Poetry File "Historical Sketch of Early Swarthmore by One of the Pioneers" by Susanna Gaskill-Mahan 1980 File

Originally published in 1924, Swarthmore Directory

 "A History of Swarthmore - circa 1880" by Richard Griffin 1981 File

Originally a student paper for Swarthmore High School

 "The True Age" by Margaret Detweiler 1993 File "Vignettes of Early Swarthmore" by May Brown Lloyd 1996 File

"A Reminiscence" by Eurdora Sproat Gerner 1994 File "The Swarthmore Area Before the College," by Regen Foster Bresnahan 1979 File

Student paper for American Civics course, University of Pennsylvania, 1979.

 "An American Landscape: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania" 1979 Becker, Barbara Ellen Stratton File

Thesis written for M.A. in Urban Studies.

 "A Brief History of Swarthmore from about 1680 to 1930." 1975, 1992 File

Revised text of David Narbeth's 1975 slide show. Video tape catalogued in Library AV collection. 1992.

 "The Borough of Swarthmore." 1999 Cochrane, Sue. File

Paper written for a course on historical landscape, 1999.

 Extracts from the Swarthmore News. 1977 File

Brief extracts from the Swarthmore News. Abstracted by Nancy Spears.

 Chester Times feature on Swarthmore College 1905 File "The Town I Like, Swarthmore, PA." March/April, 1951 File

Article by Jay J. Dugan in Lincoln-Mercury Times.

 "Quaker Quandary," Greater Philadelphia Magazine Feb. 1964 File Come Home to Swarthmore: A Town for All Seasons n.d. File Directory of Organizations in the Swarthmore Area. September, 1968. File Living in Swarthmore. League of Women Voters. 1962, 1974, 1985, 1993 File Swarthmore Illustrated: A Centennial History 1993 File Swarthmore College Calendars 1992, 1994 File

Issues with illustrations relating to the Borough and its history.

 Swarthmore Historic Walking Tour [2006] File Series 7: Miscellaneous Subject Files African American Community File Avondale Bridge File Bassett, Elizabeth: Family Memorabilia File Bird Family File Blacksmith shop on Baltimore Pike and Cedar Lane File Correspondence (Miscellaneous) File Country Week Picnic File

See also SC 177.

 Cresson family and Hedgleigh File

See also historic photographs, family genealogy

 Crum Creek File

See RG6/V/College Reference files

 Delaware County Historical Society file on Swarthmore File Delaware Indians. File

"History of Delaware Indians" by Lee Sultzman, website www.tolatsga.org/dela.

 Emmons Pool File Emmons, Louis Cole

See Real Estate Companies, Emmons

 Gardens

See also Cresson family and Swarthmore Horticultural Society files

 Garrett Family File Gillespie, George

See Development Companies, Gillespie

 Hill, Grace Livingston File Maddock Family File Menke & Menke File

"In Our Backyard: Swarthmore slides in the Menke & Menke collection." Images collected by William Menke from various sources including Irma Zimmer, Cresson family, and John and Dorothy Lawrence. Menke copy slides stored in PA 64.

 Nether Providence File Residents File

Clippings concerning residents.

 Ridley Township File Simons family File Springfield Township File Streets, roads, highways File Thayer, Carroll

See Real estate, Thayer

 Wartime File Water Company File

See also 540 Ogden Avenue survey

 Yale Avenue Bridge File Zimmer, Irma File Scrapbooks: Rosalie Peirsol Oversized box

Two scrapbooks compiled by Rosalie Peirsol on career and the death of her husband, Henry A. Peirsol (1912-1974)

 Scrapbooks: Edward Brattan 1922 Oversized box

Edward Brattan was a student at Swarthmore Preparative School.

Given to Swarthmore Public Library, 1999, for its book sale. Source unknown.

 Memorabilia: Swarthmore HS letter sweater, Centennial T-shirt, and music, varsity, and Boy Scout letter Relics Memorabilia: Hand drawn "Monopoly" board and cards, Joy A. Cline for Mrs. Sue Naughton's class in SRS n.d. Relics Memorabilia: Centennial "Monopoly" game Relics Series 8: Oral Histories A-G 1988 File H-Z 1988 File