Research Guides: History and Haverford College (HC): Manuscripts

Special Collections Manuscripts

Daniel B. Smith papers, 1834-1845
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Papers include his manuscript class lectures on the history of Christianity and geography and his manuscripts for books on geography, ethics and the history of the United States.

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 910: Includes letters, journals, notebooks, and other manuscript material relating to College life. Information about this collection is available partially through the college’s online catalog and partially through a card catalog located in Special Collections. See especially the Annals of Haverford College, written pseudonomously by students in 1834-1835.

Abraham Lincoln and Haverford students
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Author: Bronner, Edwin B., 1920-
Lincoln travelled to Harrisburg stopping at the Haverford station where Haverford College students greeted him. He passed through Haverford on his return east, but for security reasons, his second journey was unannounced. Photocopies from three articles documenting these trips are included.
Haverford College scrapbook
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Author: Morris, Elliston Perot, 1899-
Morris' Haverford College scrapbook contains photographs of classmates and professors and campus scenes; announcements of activities at Haverford; newspaper clippings of local and world events; drawings; commonplace selections; extracts in Ts and holograph of Rufus Jones' commencement address laid in.
Scrapbooks
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Author: Comfort, Howard, 1904-
Publisher: [Haverford Pa. : 1933]
Contains memorabilia connected with Haverford's centenary celebrations in 1933.
Vignettes of Haverford, 1932-1934
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Author: Parry, Edward Owen.
Publisher: 1984.
Consists of eight anecdotes concerning life at Haverford College.
Reports
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Author: Haverford College.
Publisher: Haverford, Pa. : June 29, 1977.
Address of the college committee on women at Haverford to Pres. John Coleman describing issues affecting women at Haverford and making recommendations.
Notes ... used to convince the B[oar]d to admit women
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Author: Stevens, Robert Bocking.
Publisher: [Haverford, Pa., 1979?]
Haverford College
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Author: Kibel, Charles.
Publisher: 1990.
The work centers on the design of what would be called the Whitehead Campus Center on Haverford College's campus, but also refers to the college's history, 19th century landscape architects William Carvill and Humphry Repton, landscape design and buildings and grounds on the college's campus.
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