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The TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections include unique and rare archival collections, manuscripts, publications, ephemera, maps, photographs, and audiovisual content, including oral histories, from Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. The materials available reflect the strengths and collecting priorities of each institution. To browse the collections of an individual institution, use the "All Institutions" drop down menu below.
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Pennsylvania Hall Association Records

This collection contains minutes of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Hall Association, 1838-1847, financial and legal papers, and other related materials concerning the financing and opening of the Hall and the events and litigation which followed. The destruction of Pennsylvania Hall marked the extreme of anti-abolition violence in the City of Philadelphia.

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Engraving showing the Capitol building and above it some flowers and the text "The Property of Samuel Webb"

Philadelphia African-American Census 1847

In 1847, a committee of Philadelphia Quakers conducted a census of the city’s African American population. Their intent was to document the existence of an “industrious and thriving” portion of that population, and also to discover what sectors of the community may have been in need of attention and assistance. The manuscript volumes they produced contained forty-three elements of information for each of more than four thousand households in Philadelphia. Their survey was distilled into a forty-four-page report titled A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour of the City and Districts of Philadelphia (1849). 

The census volumes have been transcribed, and the raw data is available on GitHub. For more information on the census, as well as visualizations of the occupation data, see the Philadelphia African-American Census 1847 website.

Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by a 2021-2022 Pennsylvania Abolition Society grant.

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Map of Philadelphia divided into four color-coded regions

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting publications

This collection consists of materials published by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Most of the publications are rules of discipline and advices produced by both the Orthodox and Hicksite Meetings.

Haverford

36 items

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting publications

Photographs of Indigenous Communities in the Philippines

These photographs are of the people of the northern Cordillera region of the Philippines, as well as from the Muslim southern region of Lanao in Mindanao. The photographs are arranged within HC.MC-1189 Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton papers

Haverford

82 items

Photographs of Indigenous Communities in the Philippines

Publications of the Bible Association of Friends

The Bible Association of Friends in America was founded in 1829 to increase the number of Bibles in the homes of Friends and to provide a well-designed, affordable, and easy to read edition of the Bible. This collection consists of their published annual reports from 1830 to 1909.

Haverford

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Publications of the Bible Association of Friends

Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets

The Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets collection consists of over 800 titles from the collections of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. It includes works from 1657 to the present. Some of the items in the collection are composed of a single, unfolded sheet with printing on only one side. Many others, however, are multiple pages and smaller sizes. Topics of the broadsides include: exhortations by Quakers against the slave trade; testimonials regarding deceased Friends; petitions to government authorities for recognition of various Quaker testimonies, including conscientious objection to war and refusal to take oaths; advice and caution to Quakers regarding their conduct of life; and theological arguments both within the Society of Friends and regarding other religions.

Haverford

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Close up of the printed beginning of "William Penn's Answer to John Faldo's Printed Challenge"

Quaker Broadsides Collection

The Quaker Broadside Collection consists of over 800 titles from the collections of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Haverford College Quaker Collection. It includes works from 1657 to the present. Some of the items in the collection are composed of a single, unfolded sheet with printing on only one side. Many others, however, are multiple pages and smaller sizes. Topics of the broadsides include: exhortations by Quakers against the slave trade; testimonials regarding deceased Friends; petitions to government authorities for recognition of various Quaker testimonies, including conscientious objection to war and refusal to take oaths; advice and caution to Quakers regarding their conduct of life; and theological arguments both within the Society of Friends and regarding other religions.

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Close up of an 1833 British act allowing Quakers and Moravians to make affirmations rather than oaths

Quaker Meeting Houses

Thousands of images of Friends’ meeting houses have been brought together digitally in this online collection. Photographs, drawings, and postcards from both Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College are included. The majority of these images come from within Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings, but also include pictures from across the United States and abroad.

Haverford

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Black and white photograph of a Quaker meeting house and some trees in the winter

Quaker Meeting Records

The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Haverford College Quaker Collection serve as official depositories for the records of a number of North American yearly meetings of the Society of Friends. Joint holdings include over 5000 linear feet of paper-based archives. In 2011 the two Libraries began to accept digital records as well. Quaker meetings that are interested in more information about digital records should contact their depository.

Haverford

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Engraving showing quakers riding carriages, walking, and riding horses along a path to a meetinghouse in the summer

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