Haverford CollegeLibraries

Searching for materials from Quaker & Special Collections can require using different systems depending on the type of material you are looking for. This list provides information on what you can find in each system.

Tripod

Tripod, the Libraries' online catalog, contains the records for rare books, ephemera, and manuscripts held by Quaker & Special Collections. Records for manuscripts contain links to full descriptions in collection guides. Tripod also includes circulating Quaker materials, such as scholarly monographs.

Archives & Manuscripts

Archives and Manuscripts includes collection guides for manuscript collections held in Quaker & Special Collections. This includes Quaker Meeting records; personal, family, and organizational papers; and records documenting the history of Haverford College.

TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections

Collections in TriCo Libraries Digital Collections include a variety of materials from across our manuscript and archival collections. These include Quaker journals and diaries, Quaker broadsides, images of Quaker meeting houses, materials related to Quakers and slavery, records of the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures, the Cope-Evans family papers, and more. College Archives materials include historic photographs of Haverford College, student newspapers, audiovisual recordings, yearbooks, course catalogs, alumni oral histories, and Haverford student group materials. Only a small portion of our collections is available digitally.

TriArte Database

The TriArte database includes records for the art held in Quaker & Special Collections. In almost all cases, records in Triarte include an image of the art as well as descriptive information.

Institutional Repository

Materials in the Institutional Repository include digital versions of Quaker serials, Haverford senior theses, issues of the alumni magazine, and the minutes of various faculty, administration, and student committees. Some materials may be accessible only to those on campus.

Quaker Meeting Guides

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections are the co-depository for Quaker Meeting records from Philadelphia and Baltimore Yearly Meetings, and the repository for the Intermountain Yearly Meeting records.

Accessing Ancestry.com

Over 8.5 Quaker meeting records are digitized and available on Ancesry.com, which is available to anyone on-site at Haverford, Haverford researchers using their login or VPN when off-campus, and often available through your local public or academic library. See our guide to using Ancestry.com for more information.

Web Archives

Quaker & Special Collections also captures various parts of the Haverford College website as well as websites of Quaker organizations for historical purposes.