%eadnotat; ]> 4054orhi An Inventory of the Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1980 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1980 Descriptive Summary Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979 RG 4/054 4 boxes; 2 linear feet Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Audio cassettes and some transcripts of interviews with 55 Quakers, chiefly born in Chester County between 1889-1910. Interviews contain largely autobiographical data, as well as information about Quaker life and Chester County in general.

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

Phone: (610) 328-8496 FAX: (610) 690-5728

 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

Audio cassettes and some transcripts of interviews with 55 Quakers, chiefly born in Chester County between 1889-1910. Interviews contain largely autobiographical data, as well as information about Quaker life in general, recollections of Chester County, and descriptions of farm life and histories of Friends meetings in Chester County. The project was conducted by the Chester County Library District, funded by Chester County Manpower Programs and the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

 SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

The collection contains 76 audio cassettes and some transcripts.

 Arrangement

The collection is divided into two series:

Transcriptions Cassette Tapes (76) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1979

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979, RG 4/054, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

 Processing information

Material arranged and placed in 4 documents boxes, stored with RG 4 in basement of Friends Historical Library. Includes 76 audio cassette tapes, not all transcribed.

 SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Quakers - Chester County (Pa.) Chester County (Pa.) - Quakers Farm life - Pennsylvania - Chester County Pennsylvania - History Quakers - Social life and customs Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County Oral history - Quakers Oral history - Pennsylvania - Chester County DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Ser. 1 Transcriptions, 1978-1979 Transcriptions of taped interviews with Friends of Chester County, Pa. 2/17/1978-7/13-1979

Includes pamphlet, “Oral History among Friends in Chester County,” which explains the oral history project and contains capsule summaries of the individual interviews. The interviewers were Robert Carlson, Nicolette Murray, and Judy Perego. The following interviews are contained in this series:

 Baily, Dorothy and William 1 Balderston, Lloyd and Lydia 1 Baldwin, Esther 1 Baldwin, Julian T. 1 Bittle, Alta Baily 1 Brinton, Elizabeth 1 Brosius, Dorothy N. 1 Chandler, John 1 Cooper, Edith 1 Cooper, Eleanor D.H. 1 Cope, Ellen 1 Darlington, Mary Louise 1 Dewees, Louise Rhoads 1 Eastburn, Edna and Oliver W. 1 Ford, Elizabeth Webster 1 James, Arthur 1 Lapp, Dorothy 2 Moore, Naomi and Pusey 2 Oliver, Mary Satterthwaite 2 Passmore, Edith C. 2 Spencer, Caroline and Laurence 2 Sproat, Charles W. 2 Steele, George 2 Trescott, Hannah Darlington 2 Trimble, Ruth Marshall 2 Walton, Frank 2 Warner, Margaret 2 Wickersham, Edith Pierce 2 Wollaston, Emma M. 2 Ser. 2 Cassette Tapes, 1978-1979 Cassette t of interviews with Friends of Chester County 2/17/1978-7/13/1979 76 tapes

Tapes containing which have not been transcribed, in addition to tapes of the transcribed interviews. The following interviews are contained in the series:

 Baily, Dorothy and William 3 Balderston, Lloyd and Lydia 3 Baldwin, Esther 3 Baldwin, Julian T. 3 Bittle, Alta Baily 3 Brinton, Elizabeth 3 Brosius, Dorothy N. 3 Chandler, John 3 Coates, Alta P. 3 Cooper, Edith 3 Cooper, Eleanor D.H. 3 Cope, Ellen 3 Cope, Esther 3 Darlington, Mary Louise 3 Darlington, Pauline 3 Dewees, Louise Rhoads 3 Dewees, Thomas 3 Eastburn, Edna and Oliver W. 3 Ford, Elizabeth Webster 3 Graves, Ethel W.M. 3 Hannum, Martha R. 3 Heald, Helen and Howard 3 Hood, Ralph 3 Jackson, Mabel and Milo 3 James, Arthur 3 Jones, Gordon Pownall 3 Kendig, Lida Webster 3 Kirk, Bertha and Thomas G. 3 Lapp, Dorothy 3 McCord, M. Elizabeth 3 Martin, Emma Walton 3 Mason, Catherine 3 Moore, Naomi and Pusey 3 Oliver, Mary Satterthwaite 3 Passmore, Edith C. 3 Pratt, Carl C. 3 Ramsay, Edith Wood 3 Shoemaker, Grace Taylor 3 Spencer, Caroline and Laurence 3 Sproat, Anna W. 3 Sproat, Charles W. 3 Steele, George 3 Swayne, Clarence M. 3 Thomas, J. Smedley 3 Trescott, Hannah Darlington 3 Trimble, Ruth Marshall 3 Walton, Frank 3 Walton, Helen S. 3 Warner, Margaret 3 Webb, Ann Passmore 3 Wickersham, Edith Pierce 3 Wilson, Sara T. 3 Wollaston, Emma M. 3 Yeatman, Marjorie Brosius 3