Charles Francis Himes receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on September 23, 1829.
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September 23, 1829
July 12, 1855
Charles Francis Himes receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on July 12, 1855.
July 8, 1858
Charles Francis Himes (Class of 1855) receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on July 8, 1858.
1869
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) describes his experience in photographing the solar eclipse in Ottumwa, Iowa on August 7, 1869 for the Evangelical Quarterly Review. "Never before had such an event promised so much of a revelation," Dr. Himes explains.
Location: MC 2000.1, B25, F20
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
1869
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) describes his experience in photographing the solar eclipse in Ottumwa, Iowa on August 7, 1869 . "Favored as we were with a sky free from cloud or haze, and a beautiful point of view, this phenomenon left an inerasable impression upon...
Location: MC 2000.1, B25, F19
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
June 13, 1878
This broadside announces that Professor Charles F. Himes will deliver a lecture on "The Telephone" in Carlisle on June 13, 1878.
Location: OC 2000.1, F5
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Science and Technology
Format: Broadsides and Posters
Time Period: 1860-1879
June 20, 1878
The Carlisle Herald describes Dickinson College Professor Charles F. Himes' lecture on the telephone, held the previous week on June 13, 1878, in this report.
Location: MC 2000.1, B22, F4
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Events, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
February 18, 1879
This broadside announces that Professor Charles F. Himes will deliver a lecture on Thomas Edison's phonograph and the "speaking telephone" at Rheem's Hall in Carlisle on February 18, 1879.
Location: OC 2000.1, F5
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Science and Technology
Format: Broadsides and Posters
Time Period: 1860-1879
June 24, 1885
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) delivers this address at the opening of the Jacob Tome Scientific Building at Dickinson College on June 24, 1885.
Location: MC 2000.1, B251, F11
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
circa 1890
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from around 1890.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
circa 1890
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from around 1890.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
1893
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from 1893.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 9, 1896
Charles Francis Himes (Class of 1855) receives his Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma from Dickinson College on June 9, 1896.
circa 1905
Professor Emeritus Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) discusses the history of "the so-called 'Mermaid' that surmounts [Old West's] beautiful belfry as a weather vane."
Location: MC 2000.1, B25, F12
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
