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Documents

Floor plans, drawings, and blueprints of Lower Merion Academy alterations dating between 1937 and 1939 by Savory, Scheetz & Gilmour, Architects, Philadelphia, PA, at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Accession No. SSG *003.

Floor plans, drawings, and blueprints of Cynwyd Elementary School in the Hutton-Savery, Scheetz & Savery Collection at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

Floor plans and blueprints of Lower Merion Academy, Cynwyd Elementary School, and Bala Cynwyd Elementary School, Facilities and Operations Department, Lower Merion School District, Ardmore, PA.

Minute Books of Lower Merion Academy, Lower Merion Academy and the Lower Merion Historical Society, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Minutes of Lower Merion School Directors, Central Administration Building, Lower Merion School District, Ardmore, PA

Petition of Trustees Under Will of Jacob Jones, Dec'd, of Lower Merion Academy for Authority to Execute a Lease to the School District of Lower Merion Township, dated April 3, 1914, p. 7. Archives of Montgomery County, Norristown, PA OC 69655.

Photographs of Bala Cynwyd Junior High School. James Dillon Collection, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

Scrapbooks of Lower Merion Academy and miscellaneous articles and papers. Lower Merion Academy and the Lower Merion Historical Society, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Will of Jacob Jones, dated September 30, 1803, with a codicil of 1807, proved April 26, 1810. Archives of Montgomery County, Norristown, PA, RW 3195.