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About the Triptych Collections
Triptych, a digital initiative of the Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College Libraries, builds on the cooperative model set by TRIPOD, the online catalog that merges the collections of three colleges founded on the Quaker traditions of social conscience and thoughtful citizenship. Originating with a generous grant from the SNAVE Foundation, the collections continue to grow, with new items added on a regular basis. Triptych draws from four repositories — Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections; the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which focuses on social reform and issues of peace; and the Haverford College Library Special Collections, which shares with the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College the stewardship of the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. The four have joined in this project with materials that illustrate not only a tiny window into the richness and eclecticism of their collections, but also demonstrate, in various ways, how the textual and graphic images of the past help shape the ideas and ideals of coming generations.
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Photographs, documents, and letters detail the Sproul Observatory Eclipse Expedition to Yerbanis, Mexico, to record the solar eclipse on September 10, 1923. Astronomers from Swarthmore College, the University of Kansas, Marshall College, and Allegheny Observatory collaborated on the project.
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A companion to the online student newspaper, The Bi-College News Photograph Collection contains images captured by Haverford and Bryn Mawr student journalists since 2005.
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The button, pin and ribbon collection contains over 1,700 items, dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, documenting movements for peace and social justice around the world.
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The collection consists of representative images from more than 150 botanical and ornithological books, printed between 1499 and 1920, and including many of the landmark works in each field. The books are from the Ethelinda Schaefer Castle Collection. (Illustration of Aethopyga flavostriata (Sunbird), from
Monograph of the Cinnyridae, by George Ernest Shelley, London, 1876-1880.)
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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an internationally recognized suffragist, feminist and political activist. The Catt photograph collection consists of over 800 photographs of suffrage leaders and events, dating primarily from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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During World War II, conscientious objectors (C.O.s) to war were offered an alternative option to military service. C.O.s who selected alternative service were assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS).camps or units across the United States. In over 150 camps these men engaged in such work as forestry, farming, the building of sanitary facilities for hook-worm ridden communities, fighting fires, serving as human guinea pigs for medical and scientific research, and taking care of the mentally ill. In many of the camps/units, magazines or newsletters were published describing the work and activities of the C.O.s who lived in them. These periodicals were written and illustrated by the CPS men themselves. Bibliographic records herein document SCPC holdings of these publications but do not include digitized versions of the periodicals.
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One of the many large collections of family, personal, and institutional papers housed in Haverford College Library's Special Collections Department, the Cope-Evans collection contains correspondence of several prominent Philadelphia Quaker families, including Cope, Evans, Hartshorne, Haines, Drinker, Rhoads, and Biddle.
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The Early Advertising Collection contains European and American printed advertisements dating from 1790 to 1910. The majority of the collection are trade cards of the late nineteenth century.
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The Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Photograph Collection consists of over 800 photographs by freelance
photographer Katrina Thomas, who from 1965-2001 documented the ways in which immigrant groups maintain and adapt
wedding practices in the United States. The database is searchable by ethnic group, location, year, and subject
categories, as well as various phases of wedding ceremonies and preparations.
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The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College is devoted to the history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and its concerns. The Library includes printed
works dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the present, as well as archives, manuscripts and other materials. This digital database is a small sample of its
approximately 60,000 visual resources holdings.
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The lantern
slides in this collection were gathered by E. Raymond Wilson while he was
in Japan from Sept. 1926 to Sept. 1927, having been awarded the Japanese
Brotherhood Scholarship for study and the building of friendships.
Wilson's fascination with the people and places of Japan led to detailed
letters home to America, in which he included observations about his
trips around the country and to Formosa. The 257 lantern slides that he
brought back with him reflect his interests, having to do with beautiful
sites and scenery, daily life, agricultural practices, schools and
universities, and the tribes of Formosa. Most of the slides were created
by professional photographers (including T. Takagi and Futaba) and were
hand-tinted by artists; a few of the slides were made from photographs
taken by Wilson himself.
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The collections digitized under the rubric of Haverford College History currently have two facets. These include a growing number of photographic images of all aspects of life at Haverford across time from classes and individuals representing a variety of constituent groups to campus life and from sports to buildings and grounds -- and texts of the four major published histories of the college, the first published in 1890, then 1917 and 1933 and the last in 1983.
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Machteld Mellink taught in the department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College for five decades. The images in this collection were digitized from her collection of slides taken during archaeological fieldwork in Turkey, and during her travels through Turkey, Greece, Syria, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran between the 1950s and the 1990s.
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Palmer Collection
Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College
Samuel C. Palmer, Swarthmore College Botany professor from 1909 to 1942, documented the flora of Delaware County in Pennsylvania.
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This collection of material constitutes primarily oversize items too large to be stored with the manuscript collections from which they came. Included are documents, graphics, newspaper advertisements, and cloth items (mostly banners). These items are often important for the peace propaganda they conveyed and/or for the biographical information they contain about peace leaders. It should be noted that the numbering starts over within each sub-category (or type of item), as noted above.
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Two of the oldest and most frequently used photograph collections at the SCPC come from the Jane Addams Collection (DG 001) and from the Universal Peace Union Records (DG 038). In the former, only those images that showed Jane Addams, members of her family, or Hull-House were scanned for this project. Additional images reside in the SCPC, including those of Addams' classmates at Rockford Seminary [now College] and Addams' later colleagues in the international peace movement. All images from the UPU Records owned by the SCPC have been scanned and are included in this database.
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Quaker Broadsides Collection
Haverford College & Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
The Quaker Broadside Collection consists of about 400 titles from the collections of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Haverford College Quaker Collection. It includes works from 1662 to the present. Some of the items in the collection are composed of a single, unfolded sheet with printing on only one side. Many others, however, are multiple pages and smaller sizes. Topics of the broadsides include: exhortations by Quakers against the slave trade; testimonials regarding deceased Friends; petitions to government authorities for recognition of various Quaker testimonies, including conscientious objection to war and refusal to take oaths; advice and caution to Quakers regarding their conduct of life; and theological arguments both within the Society of Friends and regarding other religions.
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Quakers and Slavery
Haverford College & Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) were 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. The earliest anti-slavery organizations in America and
Britain consisted primarily of members of the the Society of Friends.
Thus much of the record of the development of anti-slavery thought and
actions is embedded in Quaker-produced records and documents. Friends
Historical Library at Swarthmore College and the Quaker Collection at
Haverford College are jointly the custodian of most of the Quaker
records from colonial America and these records illuminate the origins
of the anti-slavery movement as well as the continued Quaker
involvement, often behind the scenes, in the leadership and direction
of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the abolition of
slavery in the United States in 1865 and beyond.
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This diary is a remarkable document of a 1926 trip to China, Japan, India and other parts of East Asia, taken at the invitation of the YMCA Foreign Committee.
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This collection contains over one hundred rare propaganda posters from the first decades of the Soviet Union (1920s-1930s) covering health, women, alcoholism, collectivization, and industrialization.
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There are more than 1,400 stamps, seals, stickers, and imprinted envelopes in this collection. The majority of these contain images and/or messages that propagate peace and social justice. A smaller portion promote war or recommend neutrality during times of war. Of particular note are rare nineteenth century anti-slavery stickers and the dozens of stamps created from peace posters drawn or painted by high school students, 1939–1940.
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The Theresa Helburn Collection includes photographs, playscripts
and theatrical ephemera donated to Bryn Mawr College by alumna
and Broadway producer Theresa Helburn (B.A. 1908). This image
database contains records of over 1100 photographs related
to Helburn's work on behalf of the Theatre Guild. Due to copyright
restrictions, some images are only available to local users.
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Thomas P. Cope was a successful Philadelphia merchant and Quaker who involved himself in a wide range of civic projects during the first half of the nineteenth century. He kept a regular diary between 1800 and 1851, with a gap between 1820 and 1843. In his diary, Cope records his own numerous activities, events taking place in Philadelphia and the wider world, and reflections on Quakerism, business, and many other topics.
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The WILPF was founded in 1915, with Jane Addams as one of its first leaders. An attempt was made in the 1990s to provide a complete listing of all the organization's staff and officers from its formation through to the the middle of that decade (and this was updated sporadically since then). Photographs have been added herein when available in SCPC holdings. It should be noted that records and/or photographs for many recent staff and officers are unlikely to be included in this database.
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