Adopted Collections 2009-2012

Thank you to all our generous donors to the Adopt a Collection program. Thanks to their support, these collections are in the process of or have now been preserved and made more accessible to researchers. Click on the collection name to visit the finding aid that was created during collection processing. This list includes all donors to the Adopt a Collection program from 2009 through 2012.

If you have a question about a finding aid or the Adopt a Collection program, please contact Matthew Lyons, Director of Archives and Collections Management at 215-732-6200 ext. 301 or mlyons@hsp.org. If you believe this list is incomplete, please contact Mallory Burgan, Development Associate, at 215-732-6200 ext. 300 or mburgan@hsp.org.

Adopt a Collection Donors 2013

• Randall M. Miller - F. Furman Betts Papers (finding aid in progress)
• Robert DeCoursey and Wayne and Carol Strasbaugh - "Plan de la Retraite de Barrenhil on Pensilvanie" manuscript map 

Adopt a Collection Donors 2012

• Philip Price Jr. - Woodlands Documents
• Carol Ingald - Women's PSPCA Records (finding aid in progress)
• Dorothy J. del Bueno - Violet Oakley Collection (finding aid in progress)
• Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation - Lewis & Clark Heritage Foundation Records
• Susan and Steven Raab - George Parry papers
• Barbara Deas - Lois Dare Family History Collection (finding aid in progress)
• The Young Friends of HSP- Trade Card Collection
• Ms. Lori Cohen - The American Negro Historical Society Collection (finding aid in progress)
• Abington Junior High History Club - The Frank Gordon Bradley Papers
• Henry L. and Suzanne Collins III - The New Constitution of the United States, 1787
• Daniel and Donnamarie Dailey - Palmer Cemetery Records 
• Howard H. Lewis - John Neagle Papers, Mrs. Howard Lewis Collection, and James Gibson Papers
• Randall M. Miller - Leon Gardiner Collection and the Brake and Wineman Families Papers 
• Saunders House - Saunders House Records

Adopt a Collection Donors 2011

• Abington Junior High History Club - Abraham Barker Collection
• Ms. Lori Cohen - The Arthur C. Bining Collection; Charles A Tracy Collection of Hardie Family Papers; George Wolf Papers
• Clarence Faulcon - Viri Viginti Club of Philadelphia Records
• Carol Ingald - Women's PSPCA Records (Partially adopted)
• Maxine Lewis - Jasper Yeates Papers
• Randall M. Miller - World War II Propaganda Collection
• Philip Price Jr. - Woodlands Documents (Partially adopted)
• Theodore Wood - R.D Wood volumes
• Woodlands Cemetery - Woodlands Documents (Partially adopted)
• The Young Friends of HSP - HSP's Trade Card Collection (Partially adopted)
• Elliott Zayon - Michael and Elliott Zayon Collection

Adopt a Collection Donors 2010

• Abington Junior High History Club - Edward Hand Papers
• George J. Ahern - Pennsylvania Revolutionary Manuscripts
• W. Graham Arader - Logan Family Papers
• Susan Bell - Hartshorne Memorabilia
• Sheila Bodine - Cox-Parrish-Wharton Papers
• The Buckman Family Fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey - The Buckman Collection
• Lori E. Cohen - Stephen H. Noyes Papers, Shee Family Papers
• Henry L. and Suzanne Collins III - 1st Newport Printing of the Declaration of Independence, The John Galt Collection of Benjamin West Drawings
• Mary L. Dugan and the Kennett Underground Railroad Center - Cox-Parrish-Wharton Papers
• Bruce K. Fenton - Fenton and Remak Families Papers
• Melissa Hozik - William Strahan Letters
• Carol Ingald - Women's PSPCA Records (Partially adopted)
• Charles J. Ingersoll - Charles Jared Ingersoll Papers
• Howard H. Lewis - Benjamin West Drawings
• Morris Lloyd Jr. - Mrs. Stacy B. Lloyd Papers
• Charles and Mary Mather III - The John Galt Collection of Benjamin West Drawings
• Donna Meidt - Pisano and Siciliano Family Papers 
• Thomas and Cynthia Moran - Felton Family Papers, Joseph Boggs Beale Papers
• Kevin Passerini - Cartoons and Caricatures Collection
• The Raab Collection - The James Wilson Papers
• Donna Rilling - Cox-Parrish Wharton Papers 
• The Young Friends of HSP - Cartoons and Caricatures Collection, The James Wilson Papers, The Minstrel Scrapbook

Adopt a Collection Donors 2009

• Frank Chew - Digitization of the Chew Family Papers
• Lori E. Cohen - Thomas Hutchins Papers, WPA Poster Collection
• Clarissa F. Dillon - Thomas Hutchins Papers
• Holt Chew Family Management Company - Maintenance of the Chew Family Papers
• Carol Ingald - Carl P. Berger Collection, John MacCarley Collection of Willow Grove Concert Programs, Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker Diaries
• Karen Kashary - Jonathan Potts Papers
• Kensington Soup Society - Kensington Soup Society Records
• Howard H. Lewis - HSP Collection of Academy of Music Programs, Playbills, and Scrapbooks
• Randall M. Miller - Jonathan Potts Papers, Davis, Brown and Yale Families Correspondence
• David Othmer - Engineers' Club of Philadelphia Records
• Penn Towne Chapter, The Links, Inc. - William Still Diary