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RG2.B1.F15 - Advertisements
This folder contains a collection of various advertising pieces for the Yellow Springs Spa. It describes the property, the housing facilities and testimonies to the healing power of the waters. Also included is a large collection of advertisements for various stage lines that will deliver people to the Springs. The coaches are described as well as the routes taken with departure times and costs. The COMET packet boat is also advertised with i...
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B1.F16 - Advertisements
This folder contains photocopies of various advertising pieces regarding the Yellow Springs Spa. The buildings and grounds are described with notice of additions and improvements. The mineral water is described. Various methods of transportation to the spa are described and advertised and the first mention of the railroad to Phoenixville is mentioned.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B1.F26 - Magazine article
This copy of an article written by HYS archivist Carol Shiels Roark details the Yellow Springs Spa from 1722 before the Revolutionary War and details ownership through the Civil War. She provides quotes that describe the beauty of the spot, gives information on the health treatments and entertainment here and the politics of the time. Roark gives a brief history of the spa beginning with Egypt, through Greece and Rome. It appeared in the P...
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B1.F27 - Journal article
This folder contains the article about the Yellow Springs Spa written by Carol Shiels Roark in 1974 for Pennsylvania Folklife as it appeared in the Picket Post, a journal issued by the Valley Forge Historical Society. Additional materials include photographs of the Rubicam painting of the building of the Revolutionary War Hospital, the Revolutionary War Hospital, the ruins of the hospital, the Inn at Yellow Springs, the gazebo and an interior o...
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B1.F29 - Excerpts
This folder contains a collection of photocopied pieces that mention the Yellow Springs Spa. Descriptions are given of the beauty of the landscape plus the qualities of the mineral waters found here. The buildings are described. A dash of romance and imagination give rise to the flowing details of this site. Quotes are from the 1810 Port Folio, Fanny Kemble's book, letters in the Argus of the 1850's, and John Bell's manual of Mineral Springs ...
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B1.F31 - Magazine articles
"Mineral Springs In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: A Field Study" discusses the field work done to locate the spas and springs in Pennsylvania. The Yellow Springs Spa is included. Using the survey, water samples, lab examinations and evaluations, Doctors Kornblueh and Piersol comment on the 29 spas identified over the past 200 years. Tables of these springs are shown and a lengthy reference list provides information for further research. ...
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B1.F33 - Magazine
This is a copy of PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE, Autumn 1974, which contains an article "Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an American Spa" by Historic Yellow Springs archivist Carol Shiels Roark. She details the Yellow Springs Spa from 1722 before the Revolutionary War and details ownership through the Civil War. She provides quotes that describe the beauty of the spot, gives information on the health treatments and entertainment here and ...
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B2.F30 - Report
This photocopy of a term paper gives the historic perspective by Yellow Springs including the Yellow Springs Spa.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B2.F41 - Calendar
This calendar was produced to highlight the Finch, Pruyn & Co., Inc., paper company and distributed by Wilcox Walter Furlong Paper Company in Philadelphia, PA. It shows resorts of the Adirondacks in the 1880's. The significance of these resorts is the similarity to the Yellow Springs Spa. The architecture is similar and the social life likewise. Ladies and gentlemen spent leisurely summer days on the verandas and lawns, breahing the fresh mou...
Record Type: Archive
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RG4.B21.C211 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of a pond with a rowboat floating in it. This picture was taken when the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School occupied Yellow Springs. They had damned the creek to create a souce of water for the pool they had installed in the former laundry facility creating a pond that students could use for recreational activity.
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B21.C214 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of the pond with a rowboat in it. This pond was created by a dam of the creek as a supply for the new pool that the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School installed in what used to be the old laundry facility. This pond provided much recreational activity for the students with boating in the summer and skating in the winter for those years that the school was open all year round.
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B21.C216 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of the pond that was created for a water source for the pool that the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School installed in the old laundry facility and the rowboat.
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B21.C217 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of a rower in the boat on the pond that was created as a water source for the pool that the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School installed in the old laundry facility.
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B21.C224 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of an outdoor art class at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School. The class is taking place by the pond that was formed by the dam that was made so there was a constant water supply for the pool that was installed in the former laundry room. In the photo there is a student sitting by a tree right on the bank to the pond on the ground.
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B21.C243 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of an outdoor painting class by the pond at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School. The pond was formed as a water source for the pool that was installed in the former orphan laundry facility. Students are also in the boat on the pond with numerous ducks off to their one side.
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B24.4 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photographs of snapshots donated by Betty (Marks) Titone of images around the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School. Most of the images, as can be seen, involve a very important aspect of the academy, recreational activity. The first photograph is of model Billie with a student on a boat in the swimming pool that was made in 1922 for the students attending the school out of the old orphan laundry facility. The following pictu...
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B25.35 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of two people standing on the upper deck of a boat. There is another man on a lower deck walking away from where the picture is being taken. This image was taken while the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School occupied Yellow Springs.
Record Type: Photo
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RG4.B25.36 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of two people standing on the upper deck of a boat that is out on the water. This image was taken when the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School occupied Yellow Springs.
Record Type: Photo
