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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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Swarthmore College Halcyons

The first Swarthmore College annual was published in 1883 by the Eunomian Literary Society. Aptly named "The Eunomian," the volume contained 112 pages of poetry, silly prose, lists of classes, teams, clubs, results of sporting events, statistics, and a history of the Class of 1883. It also included 28 additional pages of advertisements which contributed to a substantial profit the first year. The second attempt in putting out a yearbook was postponed until 1887, when The Halcyon was published by the junior class in a similar format to its predecessor. The 1891 Halcyon was the first to contain photographs, but only of the faculty and of the 1889 football team. An image of the Swarthmore Mandolin, Guitar, and Banjo Club as well as some pictures of College buildings were added the following year. It wasn't until the next issue that there was a group photograph of the Class of 1893. The Halcyon has been published annually since that time. The Halcyon was originally published by the Junior Class, and the covers were printed accordingly with the Junior Class year until 1955.

126 items

Front cover of The Halcyon consisting of "The Halcyon" in a stylized font, a seal, and two symbols

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

The Peace Collection is a research library and archives documenting non-governmental efforts for and peace, non-violent social change, and conflict resolution around the world. It holds a wide variety of materials and formats on secular and religious pacifism, disarmament, women and peace, conscientious objection, nonviolence, civil disobedience, progressivism, the Vietnam War era, African-American protest and civil rights, feminism, civil liberties, the history of social work, and other reform movements.

7198 items

Jane Addams sitting with her hand on the side of her head

Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums

This collection contains scrapbooks, autograph books, and albums compiled by Swarthmore College students, 1870-1960. Only a small number of scrapbooks from the original collection have been scanned. For a full listing of other albums available on-site at the Friends Historical Library, please see the online inventory.

22 items

Scrapbook containing a cut out painting of a woman, a picture of Parrish Hall, and various notes

Swarthmore College Special Collections

Swarthmore College Special Collections include the Friends Historical Library, the Peace Collection, Rare Books and the Swarthmore College Archives.

The Friends Historical Library was established in 1871 to collect, preserve, and make available archival, manuscript, printed, and visual records concerning the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) from their origins in the mid-seventeenth century to the present.

Established over 80 years ago, the Swarthmore College Peace Collection is one of the most extensive research libraries and archive collections in the country that focuses solely on movements for peace. The Peace Collection gathers, preserves, and makes accessible material that documents non-governmental efforts for nonviolent social change, disarmament, and conflict resolutions between peoples and nations.

The Rare Book Room on the 3rd Level of McCabe Library is home to a vibrant and continually growing collection of contemporary artists' books. Additionally, with over 6,000 items dating back to 1540, Rare Books also includes the W.H. Auden Collection, the Bathe Collection, the Wells Collections on James Thomson and William Wordsworth, and the David H. Keller Collection of science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines.

The College Archives include records of the College as a corporation, its Board of Managers, key administrative offices and academic units, materials related to student life on campus, personal papers of faculty, staff and alumni, college publications, and other materials related to the history of Swarthmore College.

21228 items

Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society

Swarthmore Student Publications

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The Swarthmore College Student Publications collection features publications printed by students and student groups from 1887 until 2013. It primarily comprises literary journals, though it also includes academic journals, newsletters and bulletins, art and photography publications, satire and parodies, musical scores and ephemera. Titles range from perfect-bound volumes published continuously for decades to hand lettered ephemera that never persisted past the first issue. In addition to documenting events in the history of the college, the collection traces the diversity, aesthetic affinities and political engagements of Swarthmore's students since the college's founding.

766 items

Cover of some student publication, featuring a cartoon Dr. Seuss-esque bird with a white burst on a red background

The Aretha Williams Collection at Haverford College

The Aretha Williams collection consists of materials created and collected by Aretha Williams, Haverford College Class of 1996 with Honors, including materials pertaining to her time at Haverford.

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The Aretha Williams Collection at Haverford College

The Journal

The Journal, a Quaker periodical, was established in 1873 in Philadelphia by Joseph Gibbons (1818-1883) who had trained as a physician. He was assisted and then suceeded in this endeavor by his daughter, Marianna Gibbons. In 1885 The Journal merged with Friends Intelligencer, the major Hicksite Quaker weekly.

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The front page of The Journal Vol. III No. 28

The Swarthmorean and the Swarthmore News, 1914-2013

Unlike most communities its size, the Swarthmore has boasted a number of newspapers covering both College and Borough news. The Swarthmore Phoenix, published on campus, was bugun in December of 1881. The first community paper was the Swarthmore, published by the indefatigable John A. Cass. In 1929, the Swarthmorean appeared and continues as a weekly publication. Other newspapers such as the Borough, the Independent, and a 1905-1906 College Press periodical called the Swarthmorean were short-lived.

Surviving issues of the Swarthmorean and the Swarthmore News have been microfilmed. Digitization of the of this collection was funded by the Swarthmore Historical Society.

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The front page of The Swarthmorean Vol. 1 No. 4

Theresa Helburn Theater Photography

American playwright and theatrical producer Theresa Helburn (1887-1959) was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College class of 1908. Helburn had a long and distinguished career on Broadway and was a co-founder and producer of the New York Theatre Guild from 1919 to the 1950s. This collection includes over 1100 photographs related to Helburn's work on behalf of the Theatre Guild. Due to copyright restrictions, some images are restricted to the TriCollege community.

1131 items

Thomas Garrett letters from the Thomas P. Cope Family papers

Thomas Garrett (1789-1871) was a Quaker abolitionist who established an iron and hardware business in Wilmington, Delaware. These letters from 1854-1857 discuss how he assisted individuals fleeing slavery as a Station Master on the last stop of the Underground Railroad in Delaware.

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Thomas Garrett letters from the Thomas P. Cope Family papers

Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection

The Trumans and Underhills were prominent Philadelphia-area Quaker families with close ties to Swarthmore College and active in social concerns. The collection includes six albums and other miscellaneous photographs and silhouettes.

840 items

Portrait of three women wearing nice clothes and hats, one of whom is sitting

Westbury Monthly Meeting Records

Although the earliest records have been lost, Westbury Monthly Meeting may have been established as early as 1682. In 1828 it divided into Orthodox and Hicksite branches. The Orthodox branch was laid down in 1938; the Hicksite branch continues to the present day.

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