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Collections of college and personal papers, as well as a select number of individual documents, have been briefly described in entries available for browsing and searching on this site. All collection descriptions contain a representative image and a summary of the contents. Collection descriptions also include links to an inventory detailing the contents of the collection.

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Emma Catherine Wentzel
Letters, 1928-1929 (Box 1, folder 5)
1924-1934

Emma Catherine Wentzel graduated from Dickinson College in 1934. This collection contains correspondence received during her high school and college years.

Location: MC 2007.1

Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life

Format: Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera

Time Period: 1920-1939

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2007.01.pdf

Edwin E. Willoughby papers
The Uses of Bibliography, Lecture II: “The Bibliographer and the Makers of the Book” (typescript), 1953
1928-1965

The Willoughby collection is divided into three series and housed in four document boxes. It is comprised mostly of drafts of literary works, contained in the Literary Productions series, as well as correspondence, mostly relating to his...

Location: MC 2011.5

Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Notes and Notebooks, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2011.05.pdf

Barbara Stevens Wishmeyer scrapbook
Page from Barbara Stevens Wishmeyer scrapbook
1962-1963

Barbara Stevens Wishmeyer served as Dean of Women at Dickinson College from 1959-1967. She created this scrapbook that documents the lives of the first-year female students living in Metzger Hall during the 1962-1963 academic year....

Location: MC 2013.1

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Scrapbooks

Time Period: 1960-1979

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2013.01.pdf

John Perry Wood family papers
Ephemera, 1901 (Box 1, folder 71)
1880-c.1950

This collection consists of nine scrapbooks relating to John Perry Wood (1879-1959), Dickinson College class of 1901 and Yale University School of Law class of 1902, and his family. Most of the scrapbooks deal with aspects of family life:...

Location: MC 2009.3

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism

Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2009.03.pdf

William Young papers
Letter, 1791 (Box 1, folder 4)
1786-1801

This collection is mostly comprised of correspondence received by Philadelphia printer William Young from Charles Nisbet, President of Dickinson College. Young was a scotsman who settled in Philadelphia and set up a bookshop, a printing press,...

Location: MC 2001.5

Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Administration, International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2001.05.pdf

Zatae Longsdorff Center for Women Records
Opening of the Women's Center - RG 9/8 4-2-1
1983-2008

These records document the activity and organization of the Zatae Longsdorff's Women's Center, a feminist organization at Dickinson that included student and faculty members. 

Location: RG 9/8

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy

Format: Artifacts and Objects, Broadsides and Posters, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines

Time Period: 1980-1999, 2000-2019

Collection Inventory: PDF icon RG 9/8 - Women's Center records

John Zug papers
Speech, 1837 (Box 1, folder 12)
1836-1842

The collection includes correspondence, speeches, essays, notebooks, bills, printed materials, and notes on debates and other such topics as the Light Street Institute and the Washington Temperance Society. The collection spans three main time...

Location: MC 2000.10

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Literary Pursuits, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2000.10.pdf

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