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Title: Annual catalogue of Swarthmore College
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Swarthmore College
Subjects: Swarthmore College -- Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott
Contributing Library: Swarthmore College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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In connection with this latterinstrument, there is a micrometer and a spectroscope. The transitand equatorial were constructed by Warner & Swasey, of Cleveland,and the spectroscope by Brashear, of Allegheny. The equipmentis ample for class-work. Connected with the observatory is the SignalService Station of the State Weather Bureau, fully provided with thenecessary meteorological and other apparatus. Other Buildings are a meeting-house, the Presidents house, theWest house (birthplace of Benjamin West, now used as a professorsresidence), the house of the Professor of Astronomy, the Farmershouse and commodious farm-buildings, the laundry and bakery, andthe boiler-house, containing the sectional boilers for heating and cook-ing purposes. All these buildings are constructed of stone. Libraries and Reading-Room. The Libraries of the College collectively contain 13,914 boundvolumes, as follows : The General Library 9,445 Literary Societies Library 3,261 Friends Historical Library 1,208
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SIVARTHMORE COLLEGE. 21 Members of the Senior Class are permitted, under proper regula-tions, to consult the Philadelphia Library, containing 145,000 vol-umes, and the Mercantile Library, containing 150,000 volumes, aswell as the valuable special and technical Libraries in the city ofPhiladelphia. The General Library is at all times accessible tostudents. The Librarian will aid students in consulting the Libraryand in arranging courses of reading. Friends Historical Lih-ary, founded by the late Anson Lapham,of Skaneateles, N. Y., consists of Friends books, photographs ofrepresentative Friends, and manuscripts relating to the Society andits history, and is, upon application to the Librarian, accessible toteachers, students, and members of the household. This collection isstored in a fire-proof apartment, and it is hoped that Friends andothers will deem it a secure place to deposit books and other materialin their possession which may be of interest in connection with thehistory of the

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