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.

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Grace Brosius Biddle, Class of 1897, scrapbook
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Grace Brosius Biddle, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Grace Anna Brosius Biddle, Class of 1897. Married Clement M. Biddle, Class of 1896. Scrapbook includes: Rules for students, from Matron Elizabeth Powell Bond; Pictures: Swarthmore College campus; Programs and invitations: Alumni Day Dinner, Dartmouth vs. Amherst rugby; Newspaper clippings: Chestnut St. Opera House; Other: A piece of porcelain, pressed flowers (broken pieces discarded 2012).
Date:
1893 - 1897
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Andrew Eastwick, Class of 1906, scrapbook
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Andrew Eastwick, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Andrew Eastwick, Class of 1906. Scrapbook includes: Pictures: Swarthmore College bowling and lacrosse teams, Johns Hopkins lacrosse team, New York City pictures, Coney Island pictures, friends, Seventy Fourth Convention of Delta Upsilon Swarthmore Chapter, woman playing tennis on court in front of Trotter Hall, reunions, classmates; Invitations and postcards; Newspaper clippings: Swarthmore Club, yacht race, his golden wedding anniversary party in Wallingford, Pa.; Programs: wedding anniversary; Other: Certificate to join United States Power Squadrons, Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Baltimore Automobile Trade Association, Inc. Gift of Mrs. Marshall Sullivan, 1989
Date:
1902 - 1932
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Gertrude Paxson Seibert, Class of 1929, scrapbook
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Gertrude Paxson Seibert, scrapbook
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Scrapbook, largely College memorabilia. Gertrude Kervey Paxson married Walter R. Seibert, both of Class of 1929. This and Gertrude's mother's scrapbook with other memorabilia gift of Edward P. Seibert.
Date:
1924 - 1929
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Anita Hickman Paxson, Class of 1897, scrapbook
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Anita Hickman Paxson, scrapbook
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Assembled by Anita Kervey Hickman, Class of 1897. Scrapbook includes largely College memorabilia.
Date:
1893 - 1894
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Emily Janney De Armond, Class of 1904, scrapbook
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Emily Janney De Armond, scrapbook
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Scrapbook of Emily Janney, Class of 1904. Scrapbook includes: Programs, including Class Days, Theta events, games; Sports clippings, etc. She was a Kappa Alpha Theta. Gift of Anna Janney De Armond, Class of 1932.
Date:
1901 - 1908
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Howard Cooper Johnson, Class of 1896, scrapbook (2 of 3)
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Howard Cooper Johnson, scrapbook (2 of 3)
Description:
Assembled by Howard Cooper Johnson, Class of 1896. Scrapbook includes graduation and post-graduation activities, especially fraternity: pictures: S.C. buildings, students; invitations: Rutgers College (for a Junior Promenade), Colgate University, Delta Upsilon, Initiation Banquet; programs: Shakespeare Evening (1896), Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1896), Riverton Yacht Club, Commencement of 1896, Fourth of July celebration in N.J.; newspaper clippings: fraternity news; Other: ribbons, University of Pennsylvania Law School report card (Class of 1899.)
Date:
1896 - 1899
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Howard Cooper Johnson, Class of 1896, scrapbook (1 of 3)
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Howard Cooper Johnson, scrapbook (1 of 3)
Description:
Assembled by Howard Cooper Johnson, Class of 1896. Scrapbook includes: photos: cyanotypes of friends, International Congress, Swarthmore campus, Crum creek (scanned FHL); invitations: to join Delphic Literary Society, Delta Upsilon; Programs: Shakespeare evening; Newspaper clippings: "Hazers Confess."; Other: scarves with writing, ribbons, flower petals. Note from Elizabeth Powell Bond advising him to "limit the intercourse with the girls, to our social hours in the parlor."
Date:
1891 - 1895
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Chauncey J. Shortlidge, Class of 1896, scrapbook
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Chauncey J. Shortlidge, scrapbook
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Assembled by Chauncey J. Shortlidge, Class of 1896. Scrapbook includes: invitations: Pi Kappa Omicron; programs : Class Supper (1883), Philadelphia Alumni Club, Shakespeare Evening (1889), Delphic literary society, Inter-collegiate Athletic Association; newspaper clippings : “College Boys’ Punishment” (hazing); Other: Delta Upsilon song lyrics, autographs of peers.
Date:
(approximate)1900
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Verdenal Hoag Johnson, Class of 1945, scrapbook
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Verdenal Hoag Johnson, scrapbook
Description:
Five scrapbooks assembled by Verdenal Hoag (Mrs. Edward Johnson), Class of 1945. Scrapbook includes: Pictures: Football games, Swarthmore campus taken by Lt. Peter Chivers of the English Navy, including interior of Bond, friends in dorm and outside, Babe Fussell with telegrams, Navy soldiers, snapshots of Third East Open House for Navy sailors; Programs: 1943 Modern Dance Recital, Class day; Invitations: Dance; Other: Acceptance to Swarthmore College, Sadie Hawkins rules, hand-made ‘quarantine’ signs, Valentine's cards; Clippings: Navy V-12
Date:
1942 - 1943
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Edith Wilson Jackson, Class of 1900, scrapbook (2 of 2)
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Edith Wilson Jackson, scrapbook (2 of 2)
Description:
Assembled by Edith Marion Wilson Jackson, Class of 1900. Married Arthur Conard Jackson. Scrapbook includes: Programs : Fifth, 6th Annual Lantern Slide Exhibition, Alpha Beta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, mandolin and glee club, theater, D.U., Class Supper; Pictures: cyanotype of friends on railing, track team, football players, lacrosse players, gymnastic team, Phoenix staff, women students on steps of Parrish, small images of fellow students, sophomore, junior, senior tables, wedding 1898, Yardley home and meeting, house, house party in May's Landing, dorm room; Other: football game tickets, flowers. Gift of Ruth Boone, Caroline Rushmore, Edith Nelson, Elizabeth Kamp, 1976.
Date:
1897 - 1900
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Caroline Clothier, Class of 1903, scrapbook
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Caroline Clothier, scrapbook
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Assembled by Caroline Clothier, Class of 1903. A scrapbook about her college life. Photographs of Caroline, her friends and the Swarthmore College campus; drawings, diary entries. Member Kappa Alpha Theta.
Date:
1900 - 1903
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Maybell P. Foster, Class of 1878, scrapbook
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Maybell P. Foster, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Maybell P. Davis (later Foster), Class of 1878. Scrapbook includes election to Somerville Literary Society; newspaper clippings: Swarthmore College news; Programs: Sunday School anniversary, Swarthmore College Class Day, Commencements, piano concerts, Harvard Musical Association; Correspondence: Notes and letter from Edward M. Magill, 6mo 6 1889, referring to a trip she planned and his year-long European trip. Proposes that she accompany Eudora; other: dried flowers
Date:
1871 - 1894
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Dora Anne Gilbert, 1893, scrapbook
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Dora Anne Gilbert, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Dora Anne Gilbert, Class of 1893. Scrapbook includes: Photographs: printed and cyanotype views of Swarthmore College: view from a distance, Strath Haven quarry, Crum Creek, Strath Haven Lake, Harvard Avenue, surrounding fields, College tennis courts, general view of property, two people covered in sand on the beach; Programs and invitations: Shakespeare evening, Republican National Convention; Notices: Goodwin brothers (artistic, pottery, lamps), The fifth annual Gymnasium Exhibition, twenty third Field Meeting of the S.C. Athletic Association; Other memorabilia includes Swarthmore Phoenix receipt, metallic fish, absence records.
Date:
1889 - 1893
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Edith Wilson Jackson, Class of 1900, scrapbook (1 of 2)
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Edith Wilson Jackson, scrapbook (1 of 2)
Description:
Assembled by Edith Marion Wilson Jackson, Class of 1900. Married Arthur Conard Jackson. Scrapbook includes: Programs : Fifth, 6th Annual Lantern Slide Exhibition, Alpha Beta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, mandolin and glee club, theater, D.U., Class Supper; Pictures: cyanotype of friends on railing, track team, football players, lacrosse players, gymnastic team, Phoenix staff, women students on steps of Parrish, small images of fellow students, sophomore, junior, senior tables, wedding 1898, Yardley home and meeting, house, house party in May's Landing, dorm room; Other: football game tickets, flowers. Gift of Ruth Boone, Caroline Rushmore, Edith Nelson, Elizabeth Kamp, 1976.
Date:
1897 - 1900
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Hannah S.C. Seaman, autograph book
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Hannah S.C. Seaman, autograph book
Description:
Hannah Willets of Jericho, Long Island. Non-graduate. Married Robert Seaman. A small book of autographs and brief notes.
Date:
1875 - 1876
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Clara Piggott Robinson, Class of 1897, scrapbook
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Clara Piggott Robinson, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Clara Elma Piggott (Mrs. J. William Robinson), Class of 1897. Scrapbook includes: Signed application to the YWCJ Union; Pressed plants, dated; Swarthmore College photos (including machine room, science building inside and out); Strath Haven Inn photos; Cyanotype photographs with captions of the stage of International Congress held by Delphic Literary Society (1894) and identified delegates to the International Congress (dressed in traditional garb of various countries); Lyrics of Swarthmore songs; Photographs (identified students) of Oak Dale School in Lincoln, Va; Program of the Swarthmore College Athletic Association; newspaper clippings, dance invitations.
Date:
(approximate)1900
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Nellie Davidson Mearns, Class of 1907, scrapbook
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Nellie Davidson Mearns, scrapbook
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Assembled by Nellie Gray Davidson (later Nellie Davidson Mearns), Class of 1907. Scrapbook includes photos of Folk Dancing, Somerville Day, 1907. Nellie was president of the Somerville Literary Society in 1907. Three photos of Benj. West House, interior and exterior, from Ethel Brewster who then lived there. Also poem written for Class's 50th Reunion, 1937. Gift of Barbara A. Mearns, Acc. SCA 2000-012
Date:
1901 - 1907
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
William M. Maule, Class of 1901, scrapbook
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William M. Maule, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Swarthmore College Alumni William M. Maule, Class of 1901. Scrapbook includes: Programs: 6th Annual Lantern Slide Ex., Delphic Literary Society; Other: ribbons, napkins, a crab claw.
Date:
1898 - 1899
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Elizabeth Atkinson Gardy, Class of 1919, scrapbook
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Elizabeth Atkinson Gardy, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Elizabeth Atkinson Watson Gardy, Class of 1919. Scrapbook includes: Invitations: Eating Club, sorority teas; Pictures: Commencement; Programs: Founders’ Day, Prunella (theater), Commencement, Sesquicentennial in Philadelphia; Newspaper clippings; Memorabilia: Junior-Freshman Hall Party spoon, Sophomore hazing ribbon, Favors at Freshman-Junior Reception, Class Day ribbon, pressed flowers, sight-seeing, souvenirs from parties, etc., post graduation.
Date:
1915 - 1926
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums
Robert Pyle, Class of 1897, scrapbook
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Robert Pyle, scrapbook
Description:
Assembled by Robert Pyle, Class of 1897. Scrapbook includes: Programs: The Phoenix, The Halcyon, Delta Upsilon, Delphic, and class events; Photographs, including members of Pi Kappa Omicron, staff of the Halcyon for 1897 for which Pyle served as Editor-in-Chief, two informal cyanotypes of students, girl in tree with boy (1893) and two female students under tree (scanned 2012); Clipping Dr. W. B. Cummings, athletic director and all around athlete and record of Sargent Strength Test; Notices, including his election as co-Commencement speaker.
Date:
1894
Collection:
Swarthmore College Scrapbooks and Albums