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2007.500.035 - Pastel
Crystal Diamond Springhouse at Yellow Springs. Shows building off to left of paper with bridge leading to it. Water takes up lower half of the paper with reflctions and lilly pads.
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2007.500.101 - Painting
Jenny Lind sping. The inside of the springhouse. Bench in back of room with high ceiling. Very neutral colors used in painting.
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RG1.B7.F4 - Research materials
This folder contains a wealth of information about the women of Yellow Springs. Researched by archivist Priscilla A. Waggoner, Ph.D., Waggoner saw these women as visionaries and called them the "Women of Vision". Women from the Revolutionary War period, the spa period, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as the Good News era and the current HYS period. Included is a geneaology and a map of the Pikelands. The prospect of an exhib...
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RG2.B1.F12 - Advertisements
This folder contains three advertisements from the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE for the Yellow Springs Spa. Two give the stage waggon schedule to get to the spa and the other one promises good entertainment with good water. Other documents included give the landmark directions to the spa visited by Philadelphian David Rittenhouse in 1750-1754. It also gives information on license owner Alexander McCaraher.
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RG2.B1.F13 - Excerpts
This folder contains various advertisements and descriptions of the Yellow Springs Spa. An original piece is from PORT FOLIO, July 1810 and gives a description of the spa. It is an elegant and romantic dialogue comparing the spa to the charms of magic or enchantment. It includes the notice by James Bones of his acquisition of the Yellow Springs Spa with notice of sale from Thomas Ruston Kennedy in 1806. Robert Sutcliff mentions his bathing an...
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RG2.B1.F14 - Excerpts
This folder contains various notices, advertisements and descriptions of the Yellow Springs Spa. Col James Bones offers 100 lots for sale in his town of BATH in Yellow Springs. A plot plan is included as well as the names of some of the purchasers. Many copies of advertisements re the Yellow Springs Spa from the Chester County Historical Society are included. They are for lots for sale, sale of the tavern, Mrs. Holman's harvest celebration F...
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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...
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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.
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RG2.B1.F17 - Advertisements
This folder contains copies of advertisements and descriptions of the Yellow Springs Spa. The buildings and grounds are described and holiday events like the 4th of July celebration are detailed. The railroad is mentioned as a means of transport. The notice of a sale of the property in 1857 is included along with a plot map of the land with its buildings. Not Original Materials.
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RG2.B1.F18 - Advertisements
This folder contains photocopies of newspaper clippings advertising the Yellow Springs Spa and transportation to it. It also has listings of a sheriff's sale in 1864. An excerpt from Moorman's Mineral Springs of North America 1873 is included along with notices of parties of private families in Chester Springs.
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RG2.B1.F19 - Advertisements
This folder contains an advertising piece from THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC for the appearance of the Siamese Twins Chang and Eng at the Yellow Springs Spa on December 31, 1836. Also included are the jacket flaps of the book THE TWO by Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace and a newspaper clipping of 1997 discussing conjoined twins. Another clipping tells of the statue of them erected in their native country Thailand.
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RG2.B1.F20 - Photographs and etchings
These photocopied images of the Yellow Springs Spa show an etching of the village and a photograph of the Revolutionary War Hospital.
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RG2.B1.F22 - Magazine article
This photocopy of an article in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 34, 1910, describes the settling of East Vincent Township written by local citizen Frederick Sheeder in 1846. He begins at the time of the land grant by William Penn and continues to mention sales of property over time and to whom sold. He also describes the settling of this area with mills, churches, cemeteries. Of special interest is his mention of the Y...
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RG2.B1.F23 - Excerpts
This excerpt is taken from the original and describes the Yellow Springs Spa. It details special visitors, the descriptions of the various springs, and how people were tranported here. He uses quotes from the PORT FOLIO and other publications.
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RG2.B1.F24 - Manuscript
This folder contains a piece written about the Yellow Springs Spa for the Chester County Day News. It describes the yellow water used by the Iroquois and Lenape Indians and later the early settlers in America. It tells of Washington's stay here and the establishment of the military hospital. It contains several quotes about the property and the springs.
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RG2.B1.F25 - Newspaper clippings
This series of articles about the Yellow Springs Spa was written by Peter Martin for the Phoenixville newspaper The Daily Republican. Martin describes the early spa telling about the Revolutionary War hospital and then the series of spa owners. He also describes life and activities at the spa listing several who visited and their experiences. Also included is a column by Jack V. Norris giving the history of West Pikeland Township by local res...
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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...
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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...
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RG2.B1.F28 - Excerpts
These sketches of Elizabeth Drinker provide information about this Philadelphia Quaker lady. The Roark piece provides quotes from Drinker about her visit to the Yellow Spring Spa. The Biddle piece provides a biography of Drinker and highlights her life in a prominent Philadelphia family.
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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 ...
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