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Archives related to: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
| title | Benjamin West Society Records, 1922-1975 (RG6/S-002) | repository | Friends Historical Library |
| description | Includes minutes (1929-1942), financial records, and correspondence relating to membership, exhibits, lectures, Benjamin West House, and artwork the Society collected. Background The Benjamin West Society was an organization dedicated to promoting the arts at Swarthmore College. Formally inaugurated in 1931, it supported an annual lecture, acquired artwork for the College, and sponsored a variety of exhibits. Originally, it also focused on preserving the memory of Benjamin West whose traditional birthplace is on the campus of Swarthmore College. The group's activities were spearheaded by Frederic Newlin Price (1884-1963), a Quaker and New York City art dealer. The organization was disbanded in 1954, but the Benjamin West Memorial Lecture Series was continued, supported by the income from a donation made by Price. Cite as: RG6/S-002, Swarthmore College Archives, Benjamin West Society Records, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College |
| extent | 4 boxes ; 2 lin. ft |
| formats | Administrative Records Financial Records Correspondence Ephemera Artwork |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2665993 |
| record source | http://tripod.brynmawr.edu |
| acquisition information | Gift of Benjamin West Society |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:00 |
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| title | Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980 (bulk 1933-1954) | repository | Swarthmore College Peace Collection |
| description | Personal correspondence (1935-1953), travel journals, address books, notes, and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and related correspondence and research notes. Includes material about a trip to Europe in 1948 to secure endangered records of peace organizations, correspondence relating to Cuban-American relations (1935-1937), and her efforts to secure exit visas from Czechoslovakia for Rosa Kulka, a Jewish pacifist, and her family in the late 1930s. Topics of her research include Daughters of the American Revolution, Elihu Burritt, Benjamin West's peace treaty paintings, the Universal Peace Union, and Mexican-American relations, as well as notes for a biography of Jane Addams and a manuscript draft of Brinton's unpublished work on the American peace movement, Dreamers of Dreams. Correspondents include Emily Greene Balch, Heloise Brainerd, Benny Cederfeld, A. Ruth Fry, Rosa Kulka, Paul Vanorden Shaw, Phyllis M. Tiller, Herminio Portell-Vilá, Elizabeth Wheeler, and Lyra Trueblood Wolkins. Background Quaker, feminist, internationalist, and first curator (1935-1951) of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection |
| extent | 10 linear in |
| formats | Correspondence Journals Ephemera Notes Manuscript |
| access | None |
| record link | http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG051-099/dg051brinton.htm |
| record source | http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2142234 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the repository and on the Internet |
| acquisition information | Donated by Elizabeth Wheeler (cousin of Ellen Starr Brinton), 1954 (acc. 54-038) |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Benjamin West Papers, 1776-1817 | repository | Friends Historical Library |
| description | This collection contains typed copies, photocopies, and original papers of Benjamin West, regarding his painting, Penn's Treaty with the Indians, and relating to various business matters Background Benjamin West was a historical painter best known for his work, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. He was born in 1738 in Pennsylvania, the son of John and Sarah West who had been birthright members of the Society of Friends before their marriage. He spent most of his life in Europe before his death in 1820. Subject West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 Note of Swarthmore College, Benjamin West Papers, 1776-1817 |
| extent | 11 folders |
| formats | Typescript Photocopies |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2267490 |
| acquisition information | Purchased, Julia S. Newman, 1963 Loaned by Benjamnin West Society, 1941 Gift of Dr. Robert Walker, 1968 Gift of Alex McCready, 1972 Gift of Swarthmore College Library, 1963 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | William Wharton Manuscript, 5mo 10 1816 | repository | Friends Historical Library |
| description | William Wharton's notes on a conversation which he had with his uncle, Joseph Wharton, concerning the latter's reminiscences of his discussions with Benjamin West in England and Wharton's subsequent escape from England to France, following the interception by British authorities of correspondence between him and Benjamin Franklin. Also includes an account of a vision about America which came to West's father, John West, many years earlier. Background William Wharton, a birthright Quaker, was the son of Charles and Hannah (Redwood) Wharton of Philadelphia. In 1817 he married Deborah Fisher at Pine Street Meeting. Subject West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 West, John, 1690-1776 Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Wharton, Joseph, 1734-1816 |
| extent | Manuscript , 3 pages and Transcript: 9 pages (typescript) |
| formats | Manuscript Typescript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b1105561 |
| acquisition information | Gift of Smith, Sarah A.G., 1989/3/16 Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Artist: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 | repository | National Portrait Gallery Library |
| description | Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs. |
| extent | 1+ folders (check with repository) |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Folder(s) do not circulate. Folder(s) available for use only at the holding library |
| record source | http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/artandartistfiles/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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