The collection includes bills, receipts, letters, and account books of Josiah Albertson's lime and lumber business in Plymouth, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, which he later held in partnership with his brothers, Jacob and Benjamin. Also...
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1805-1855
Location: MC 1999.14
Subject: Business and Industry, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes
Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: 
mc1999.14.pdf
1928-1970
Hazelle Myra Allen Brooks graduated from Dickinson College in 1934. This collection contains diaries kept by her as a college student and as a young mother during World War II. It also includes diaries kept by her mother, Essie Myra Comstock...
Location: MC 2011.03
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Personal and Family Life
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc2011.03.pdf
1867-1898
An album containing clippings of the serial publication "Harry Ashton's Ramblings," with a handwritten preface, penciled editing notes, photographs, and letters from publishers. The story was published in the Boston Globe in 1873 and...
Location: MC 1998.4
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Travel and Tourism
Format: Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899
Collection Inventory: mc1998.04.pdf
1755-1783
The collection contains papers related to John Armstrong's service as a surveyor in Cumberland County between 1755 and 1783. These papers include correspondence with the Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and Delaware, John Lukens, complaints from...
Location: MC 2001.4
Subject: Business and Industry, Land and Real Estate
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799
Collection Inventory: mc2001.04.pdf
1836-1918
The collection consists mainly of personal correspondence: fifty letters, most of which are from Carolyn Elizabeth Roberts Ayer to her husband Joseph Cullen Ayer (b. 1839) at various points in his life, beginning before their marriage (1861) when...
Location: MC 1999.4
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Health and Medicine, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: mc1999.04.pdf
1868-1873
Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was a Dickinson College graduate (class of 1840) and a professor of natural history and science at the college from 1845 until 1850, when he became assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institute (1850-1878)....
Location: MC 2000.11
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc2000.11.pdf
1864-1901
Robert Hale Bancroft (?-1918) was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and was educated at Harvard Law School and the University of Bremen in Germany. His travels abroad, as well as his interests in local events in Beverly, are reflected in this...
Location: MC 1998.05
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: mc1998.05.pdf
1842-1968
The collection consists of the papers of Charles Gilbert Beetem, a Carlisle, PA rug manufacturer, local historian and genealogist, amateur artist, and omnivorous collector. Diaries, manuscripts, letters, advertisements, greeting cards, and...
Location: MC 2002.07
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Land and Real Estate, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Fiction and Drama, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notebooks, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc2002.07.pdf
1830-1856
The collection contains legal and financial materials related to the settlement of the estates of Ricardo Maria Bell of Santiago, Cuba and Ana Maria Bell de Becerra. Also included are an account ledger of former trustee Robert Ewing, wills,...
Location: MC 1999.15
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: mc1999.15.pdf
1873-1974
The collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, and photographs of Dr. Annie (Wood) Besant (1847-1933), a prominent and revolutionary freethinker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Besant was a Christian wife and mother who...
Location: MC 1999.7
Subject: Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc1999.07.pdf
1855-1917
John Black, Jr. (1842-1915) attended Dickinson College between 1858 and 1860, before returning to his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to begin his career as a druggist. During the Civil War, Black served in the 122nd Pennsylvania Volunteers and...
Location: MC 2007.2
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Photographs
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: mc2007.02.pdf
1803-1861
The collection consists of correspondence and miscellaneous materials relating to Andrew Blair (1789-1861), a layman and founding member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. In 1833, Blair successfully petitioned the Presbyterian Church...
Location: MC 1999.11
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc1999.11.pdf
1859-1919
The collection consists mainly of correspondence between Arba Blodget (1879-1949), a Philadelphia drama critic and playwright, and his wife Laura and her family. Blodget and his wife had been separated early in their marriage due to his traveling...
Location: MC 1998.2
Subject: Business and Industry, Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: mc1998.02.pdf
1977-1981
The collection reflects Scott Blum's (1959- ) interest in the sciences, particularly computers. The documents and materials relate to Blum's time at Dickinson College, especially his academic career, and consist of notes and notebooks, syllabi,...
Location: MC 2003.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Notebooks
Time Period: 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2003.01.pdf
1967-1984
This collection consists of course materials, writings, and translations created by Marianna Bogojavlensky, who taught Russian language and literature at Dickinson College from 1963 to 1981.
Location: MC 2011.2
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Notebooks
Time Period: 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2011.02.pdf
1778-1865
Thomas Emerson Bond, Sr., was a well-known Methodist Episcopal minister and author who served as a trustee of Dickinson College from 1833 until 1835. The collection includes correspondence to and from Bond dating mostly from 1840-1848, as well as...
Location: MC 1999.2
Subject: Religion and Spirituality
Format: Diaries and Journals, Engravings and Illustrations, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc1999.02.pdf
1762-1932
The collection contains materials relating to family life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and in Ohio. The central figure is Daniel Bowdle (1796-1876), who as a young man moved to Cincinnati and became the successful business man of his family,...
Location: MC 1998.3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc1998.03.pdf
1854-1932
This collection contains materials documenting the personal and business lives of George W. Bowman (1809-1887) and his son Harry Leader Bowman (1848-1915). It also documents the death of George's wife and Harry's mother, Ann Leader Bowman (1813-...
Location: MC 2008.3
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2008.03.pdf
1808-1991
James Buchanan was a graduate of Dickinson College, Class of 1809, who went on to become the fifteenth president of the United States. The majority of this collection is comprised of correspondence between Buchanan and his business and political...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc1998.10.pdf
1792-1870
The collection includes business letters and legal papers of the Burd family, early deeds and patents, settlement of the Edward Shippen Burd estate 1848-1870, and correspondence concerning bequests for St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, the Burd...
Location: MC 1999.10
Subject: Business and Industry, Land and Real Estate
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc1999.10.pdf
1857-1861
The collection consists of a scrapbook of clippings from both the Carlisle Herald and the Mechanicsburg Weekly Gazette. The scrapbook was kept by William M. Porter, who succeeded Captain E. Beatty as editor, 1857-1860. The...
Location: MC 1998.6
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc1998.06.pdf
1876-2007
The Carlisle Indian School operated in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1918. This collection contains materials created by the school during its operation, as well as recollections and accounts recorded in later years. It contains photographs...
Location: MC 2008.4
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Education, Literary Pursuits, Native Americans, Politics and Government, Sport and Recreation
Format: Interviews and Oral Histories, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: mc2008.04.pdf
1931-1955
Marcia Chamberlain was a friend and correspondent of poet Marianne Moore. This collection contains letters exchanged between the two women and other acquaintances, as well as a small amount of writings, photographs, and ephemera.
Location: MC 2009.6
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc2009.06.pdf
1833-1854
This collection consists of drafts, letters, manuscripts, notes, financial accounts, and a prospectus for the publication of a book. Specifically, there are lectures and notes on mechanics, as well as drafts for patents on inventions submitted to...
Location: MC 1999.8
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government, Science and Technology, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams, Notebooks, Photographs, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: mc1999.08.pdf
1978-1989
The Edwin K. Charles collection consists of the various papers, government documents, newsletters, transcripts, and publications collected by Charles in the years following the accident at Three Mile Island. Edwin K. Charles, a resident of...
Location: TMI-Charles
Subject: Health and Medicine, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government, Science and Technology, Three Mile Island
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: TMI-Charles.pdf