Browse All Collections

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.
Browsing as Anonymous (not verified)

Pages

Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922

English and American Quakers were engaged in relief and reconstruction work in Europe during and following World War I involving civilians in Russia, Serbia, Austria, and Poland. In 1919 Friends extended their efforts to include a program of child-feeding in Germany. This collection of almost 1000 glass lantern slides assembled by the AFSC shows the damage caused by war, rebuilding efforts, hospitals and orphanages, and other projects.

501 items

A line of poor children headed by an adult on the sidewalk in front of a rundown building

Quakers and Black History Exhibit Slides

Color slides by the Swarthmore College Library Media Department of items from the exhibit mounted by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Swarthmore College Peace Collection in McCabe LIbrary of Swarthmore College in honor of Black History Month, Feburary 1990. Slides are individually numbered and there is an inventory with the collection. There are a few 8x10 photographic prints.

4 items

Button depicting a slave in chains on their knees with the text "Remember the Slave"

Quakers and Slavery

The Religious Society of Friends was the first corporate body in Britain and North America to fully condemn slavery as both ethically and religiously wrong in all circumstances. It is in Quaker records that we have some of the earliest manifestations of anti-slavery sentiment, dating from the 1600s. After the 1750s, some Quakers actively engaged in attempting to sway public opinion in Britain and America against the slave trade and slavery in general. At the same time, some Quakers became actively involved in the economic, educational and political well being of the formerly enslaved.

 Quakers and Slavery was a consortial project of Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Funding was provided by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, through a program stipulated by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). This program is administered in Pennsylvania through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries for assisting libraries in providing all users access to information, developing partnerships, and increasing information access for persons who have difficulty gaining it.

Haverford

1149 items

Newspaper engraving of emancipated slaves and their fair skinned children in an attempt to depict former slaves sympathetically as white

Rainbow Fords Collection

Rainbow Fords is a new name and iteration of a group that has existed on Haverford College’s campus for a number of years called the Queer Discussion Group (QDG). The Queer Discussion Group was created  as a safe, confidential space for queer students to meet up and discuss topics related to gender, sexuality, community, and life. In fall 2019, QDG surveyed the community and found that people wanted the group to shift towards being more involved on campus. As part of this, QDG decided to change their name to Rainbow Fords after input and a vote from the community. Rainbow Fords now exists a safe space for questioning, gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans* and other queer Haverford students. The membership and meetings are kept confidential to maintain a supportive environment and open conversation.

Haverford

2 items

Rainbow Fords Collection

Rebecca Singer Collins Papers

Rebecca Singer Collins (1804–1892) was the daughter of German Lutherans John and Anna Maria Singer, but became a Quaker as a young woman. She was the second wife of Isaac Collins, Jr. (1787-1863), who served on the Board of Managers of Haverford College from 1830 to 1842. Rebecca and Isaac had three children together, Anna (1835), Stephen Grellet (1836), and Mary Forster (1843). Rebecca was a minister of Twelfth Street Meeting in Philadelphia, and author of Parent’s Gift; or, reading book for little children, as well as editor of a book of quotations entitled Treasured Gems. She traveled extensively to speak to Friends’ Meetings in Europe, and late in life was well known for her philanthropic work in New York City.

The collection contains many letters between Rebecca and Isaac Collins during his extended business trip to London in 1845. Rebecca passes along news from friends and family, and from the Philadelphia Quakers. Isaac writes about the English Quakers, news from friends, and describes the gifts he is sending to Rebecca and the children. There are also many letters to Rebecca from Mary Anna Longstreth, during Rebecca’s visit to English and Irish Meetings in 1842-1843. There are also letters of John Pease to Rebecca and Isaac Collins. Rebecca’s diaries in the form of booklets and individual pages are dated 1824-1847. Most entries concern Rebecca’s religious feelings and her often-repeated desire to dedicate herself more and more fully to her faith. Some later entries describe her charitable visits to prisoners, the poor, the sick, and the patients of an insane asylum. The collection also includes Quaker documents, paper currency, and genealogical materials.

Haverford

172 items

Rebecca Singer Collins Papers

Rebecca White papers

This collection is comprised of the papers of Rebecca White and relate primarily to religious and community affairs. Several of the included letters were written by Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882) to White. Douglass was an American educator and abolitionist who founded a school for African-American girls in Philadelphia and helped to found the Female Literary Association in the 1830s. The letters are part of HC.MC-1166, Josiah White papers. Josiah White (1781-1850) was Rebecca White's father.

Haverford

225 items

Rebecca White papers

Robert Louis Stevenson geometry notebook and book of verses

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) created this book of geometry exercises and poetic verses. The front section of the notebook contains geometry and other mathematical exercises. Turning the book the other way around reveals poetry and poetic compositions, along with some mathematical exercises. These are drafts, with many cross-outs and changes. The notebook has been digitized in both directions to capture both the mathematical exercises and poetic compositions.

Haverford

2 items

Robert Louis Stevenson geometry notebook and book of verses

Rufus M. Jones Papers

The Rufus M. Jones papers contain letters, papers, photos, and diaries of Rufus Jones and his family. Many of the materials come from the Philadelphia and Haverford area, with many contributions from New York state as well. Materials in the collection were created between 1870 and 1960. Letters discuss family, friends, and home life, as well as philosophy, international affairs, and business. Some topics of note found within the letters include Haverford history, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), World War II, illness and death, and Quakerism. They are a rich source of information on a large number of topics.

Haverford

5369 items

Rufus M. Jones Papers

Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends (Salem, N.J., 1827-)

Records of Salem Monthly Meeting, 1675-2015, include: men's and joint meeting minutes, vital records, women's minutes, Ministers and Elders' minutes, manuscript copies of men's minutes, miscellaneous papers, property records, and newsletters.

1 item

Close up of a petition signed by members of Salem Monthly Meeting calling for an end to slavery in New Jersey

Samuel M. Janney Papers

Largely correspondence of Samuel M. Janney with family and with friends such as John Comly, Joseph Dugdale, Benjamin Ferris, William Dudley Foulke, Isaac T. Hopper, Halliday Jackson, Horace W. Mann, James and Lucretia Mott, Edward Parrish, Moses Sheppard, and George M. Truman. The collection includes letters written during the period of the Civil War and during the period of Janney's Indian Superintendency, also letters of members of his family to one another, his manuscript journal (published 1881 as Memoirs), sermons and essays, manuscripts for his History of the Religious Society of Friends, vol. III, vol. IV , The Life of George Fox; with a Dissertation on the Views of George Fox concerning the Doctrines of the Christian Church, and The Life of William Penn. Also his Day Book, 1825-1856.

1 item

Old photograph of Samuel M Janney sitting

Sarah Hopper Palmer Papers

Sarah Hopper Palmer (1796-1885) was the eldest child of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), noted Hicksite Quaker abolitionist and social reformer. The collection was apparently compiled as a basis for Lydia Maria Child's Life of Isaac T. Hopper, which was first published in 1853. This collection includes the correspondence of Isaac T. Hopper which includes references to his work with Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the Anti-slavery Society of New York, and the New York Prison Association.

3 items

Neutral portrait of Isaac T Hopper standing

Pages