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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Quaker & Special Collections contains Haverford College’s rare books, manuscripts, and the college archives. We seek to collect, preserve, and make available materials which serve the research and teaching needs of the Haverford community as well as the wider scholarly community.

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Haverford College Republicans Collection

Haverford College Republicans aim to provide a conservative voice and promote informed and productive discourse on campus. They host the “Get The Vote Out” initiative along with the Haverford College Democrats which connects Haverford students to voter registration information and information about voting polls on and off campus. The Haverford College Republicans also co-founded a national initiative called “Students for Carbon Dividends” which aims to solve climate change.

5 items

Haverford College Republicans Collection

Haverford LGBTQ History Collection

The materials in this collection were digitized and cataloged by Chris Bechen (Haverford Class of 2018) and formed the core of Bechen's Summer 2016 project "That Which is Renamed, but Always Remains: An Archival Representation of Queer History at Haverford College." It is drawn from a wide variety of materials from the Haverford College Archives in order to highlight LGBTQ history at Haverford. Materials from the Gay People's Alliance records; Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Alliance records; and Sexuality and Gender Alliance records are especially well-represented in this collection.

349 items

Haverford Student Organizations Collection

This collection contains materials from Haverford College student organizations, groups, and committees.

130 items

Haverford Student Organizations Collection

Helen Calder Robertson Letters

Helen Calder Robertson (1894-1982) was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College class of 1916. She lived all four years in Rockefeller Hall and was an active member of the Christian Association. After graduation, she was a volunteer manager at the Eye Clinic at Rhode Island Hospital from 1916-18. She later worked for the Red Cross Home Service, from 1918-19. She was the author of Three Histories of the First Unitarian Church of Providence, Rhode Island 1722-1956. This collection primarily contains letters Robertson wrote to her family from 1913 to 1916, during her time at Bryn Mawr. The letters were written to Robertson’s family and are detailed and informative, providing valuable insight on a range of topics: student life; faculty rapport; descriptions of faculty members and coursework; dorm life; Christian Association; Self-Government; visiting lecturers; traditions, etc.

118 items

Helen Griffith Papers

This collection includes the diary and scrapbook of Helen Griffith, Bryn Mawr College class of 1905. The diary primarily documents her time at the college. She describes her day to day schedule, including classes she did and did not attend, gossip about friends, and her meal schedule. There are occasional time lapses in the latter part of the diary documenting her post graduate life. The scrapbook contains photographs and ephemera from Griffith's time at Bryn Mawr.

1 item

Helen S. Judson Collected Sherwood Select School Papers

This collection contains the papers of Helen S. Judson, including correspondence while at the Sherwood Select School and from Emily Howland. It also contains typed transcripts of writings by Emily Howland, 1836-1929, and Sherwood Select School memorabilia.

8 items

Photograph of teachers from the Sherwood Select School standing in front of its porch

Historical Catalogs of Quaker Books

This collection consists of catalogs of books written by Quakers and held in Quaker libraries. It includes catalogs published in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

13 items

In Her Own Right

In Her Own Right is a project executed by members of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), with funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). This collection contains digitized items from the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections that illuminate women's efforts to assert their rights and work for the rights of others in a variety of spheres in the century leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Visit http://inherownright.org to view additional collections from other PACSCL libraries.

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Photograph of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati's head and shoulders

In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

In Her Own Right is a project executed by members of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), with funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). This collection contains digitized items from the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Swarthmore College Peace Collection that illuminate women's efforts to assert their rights and work for the rights of others in a variety of spheres in the century leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Visit http://inherownright.org to view additional collections from other PACSCL libraries, and visit the full TriCo In Her Own Right collection to see all contributions from Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr special collections.

5706 items

Aged photograph of a parade of women in academic caps and gowns marching along a raised roadway in front of a streetcar. A busy street and a billiard academy are visible in the background.

Ira De Augustine Reid Collection

The materials in this collection pertain to Dr. Ira De Augustine Reid (1901-1968), a prominent sociologist and Haverford College’s first Black tenured professor. Most of the items in this collection relate to the U.S. State Department’s suspension of Reid’s passport from 1952 to 1954 due to suspicion of “communist sympathies” and Reid’s successful campaign to have his passport returned.

44 items

J. Rendel Harris Collection

The J. Rendel Harris collection is composed primarily of manuscripts in Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Latin, that date from the 12th through 19th centuries. These materials were purchased in Egypt, Palestine, and Lebanon by J. Rendel Harris, a Haverford faculty member and collector of ecclesiastical manuscripts, in the first half of the twentieth century.

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