Swarthmore College

This collection contains transcripts of some letters in the Hanbury-Aggs Family Papers. Some of the papers have low-resolution scans that accompany the transcripts. You must be logged in or on-campus to view this collection. Transcripts and images by William Ball '23

The Hannah J. Bailey collection includes personal papers, correspondence, diaries and journals, published and unpublished articles, biographical information and memorabilia. The collection also contains material on Bailey's work with the national and world Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Council of Women, financial and legal papers of the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, her work for social causes, her travels abroad, and her connection with the Society of Friends (Quakers). 

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.

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.

This collection consists of correspondence and associated papers written and received by Isaac T. Hopper. The letters and documents are gathered from various sources, but they mainly consist of letters from Isaac Hopper to his daughter Sarah, and which comprise part of the Sarah Hopper Palmer Family Papers. Also included are correspondence with prominent Quakers including Elias Hicks, Thomas M'Clintock and Elijah Pennypacker. The collection touches on an enormous variety of subjects, ranging from Friends doctrine, simplicity, and the Separation of 1827; social justice, abolitionism, and prison reform; and personal anecdotes, accounts of meetings with friends, and the 1832 Cholera Epidemic.

Jane Addams was a world-famous social reformer. She co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; and was a leading figure in the movement for international peace, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. The Swarthmore College Peace Collection first became the official repository for these papers in 1930, which comprise one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Addams material in the world. This collection contains digitized selections of papers and photographs from the Jane Addams Papers.

Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, social activist, and a radical pacifist. She was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national sorority for university women; a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923; and a perennial candidate for political office on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America in her home state of New York. This collection contains digitized selections of papers and photographs. 

Joel Bean (1835-1914) and his wife, Hannah Elliott Bean (1830-1909), were prominent Quaker ministers in Iowa Yearly Meeting in the mid-nineteenth century when Quaker settlements were expanding in Iowa. Friends Historical Library holds a collection of Joel and Hannah Bean Papers (SFHL-RG5-012). Select materials were transcribed by Tom M. King of San Jose, CA, in 1998. The original materials have not been digitized, but the transcripts are available for download.

John Hunt, a Quaker minister from Chester, New Jersey, was born in 1740, the son of Robert and Abigail (Wood) Hunt. He kept a journal for more than 40 years, recording Quaker concerns and daily events. This collection includes manuscript journals, 1770-1800; fragments of 1805, 1806 & 1808; and 1814-1824.

Correspondence of Dugdale and his wife, Ruth Dugdale, both of whom were active in reform efforts such as the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Garrett, William Lloyd Garrison, James Mott, Lucretia Mott, and Wendell Phillips.