An Inventory of the Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979
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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
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collection
Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979
Biographical History for: Oral History Among Friends in Chester County (Pa), 1978-1979
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.
Quakers - Chester County (Pa.)
Farm life - Pennsylvania - Chester County
Pennsylvania - History
Quakers - Social life and customs
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County
Oral history - Quakers
Oral history - Pennsylvania - Chester County
series
Ser. 1 Transcriptions, 1978-1979
Transcriptions of taped interviews with Friends of Chester County, Pa.
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
Balderston, Lloyd and Lydia
Baldwin, Esther
Baldwin, Julian T.
Bittle, Alta Baily
Brinton, Elizabeth
Brosius, Dorothy N.
Chandler, John
Cooper, Edith
Cooper, Eleanor D.H.
Cope, Ellen
Darlington, Mary Louise
Dewees, Louise Rhoads
Eastburn, Edna and Oliver W.
Ford, Elizabeth Webster
James, Arthur
Lapp, Dorothy
Moore, Naomi and Pusey
Oliver, Mary Satterthwaite
Passmore, Edith C.
Spencer, Caroline and Laurence
Sproat, Charles W.
Steele, George
Trescott, Hannah Darlington
Trimble, Ruth Marshall
Walton, Frank
Warner, Margaret
Wickersham, Edith Pierce
Wollaston, Emma M.
Ser. 2 Cassette Tapes, 1978-1979
Cassette t of interviews with Friends of Chester County
Tapes containing which have not been transcribed, in addition to tapes of the transcribed interviews. The following interviews are contained in the series:
Coates, Alta P.
Cope, Esther
Darlington, Pauline
Dewees, Thomas
Graves, Ethel W.M.
Hannum, Martha R.
Heald, Helen and Howard
Hood, Ralph
Jackson, Mabel and Milo
Jones, Gordon Pownall
Kendig, Lida Webster
Kirk, Bertha and Thomas G.
McCord, M. Elizabeth
Martin, Emma Walton
Mason, Catherine
Pratt, Carl C.
Ramsay, Edith Wood
Shoemaker, Grace Taylor
Sproat, Anna W.
Swayne, Clarence M.
Thomas, J. Smedley
Walton, Helen S.
Webb, Ann Passmore
Wilson, Sara T.
Yeatman, Marjorie Brosius