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MG-271     Bart Self-Culture Society Collection

1 box     2 folders     .2 cubic ft.

Description: Collection of items related to the Bart Self-Culture Society and the Groff family. The purpose of the society was for the members to improve themselves intellectually, morally, and socially.

Gift of Clyde L. Groff.

Folder 1 Minute book. May 1904 to March 1906.

Folder 2 Loose documents from minute book.

Insert 1 Brief history of the Bart Self-Culture Society. Prepared by Clyde L. Groff. No date.

Insert 2 Photocopy of witticisms and original list of questions.

Insert 3 Program of meetings showing date, subject, and presenters. 1905-1906.

Insert 4 Love letter from Gertrude to Mr. Earl Platt at Peach Bottom. No date.

Insert 5 Commencement program for Bart Central High School. 1905.

Insert 6 Obituary statement. Author unknown, but a member of the Groff family. No date.

Insert 7 Letter to Clyde L. Groff from John A. Jarvis. Letterhead of Lancaster Country Day School. 1970.

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