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 and document descriptions contain a representative image and a summary of the contents.
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“An Assessment of the GPU Nuclear Corporation Organization and Senior Management and Its Competence to Operate TMI-1” by Admiral H. G. Rickover. The report provides an assessment of and recommendations for Three Mile Island following the accident...
Location: Three Mile Island Alert Collection - 4.9.9.14
Subject: Three Mile Island
Format: Reports
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: 
Admiral Hyman George Rickover's Assessment of Three Mile Island
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1984-1985 academic year.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Dickinson College Catalog, 1984-85
The 1984 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Reflections on a Culture,” as the schedule includes numerous lectures and performance from...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F5
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "Reflections on a Culture": Black Arts Festival 1984
The Women's Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Center of Dickinson College.
Selected highlights from this issue include:
Location: RG 9/8, 2.5.3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Mar. 1984)
The Women's Center Executive Committee welcomes students back to campus and asks anyone interested in joining the Board of Directors for the Women's Center to attend a meeting.
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.1
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Fall 1984)
This flier announces upcoming events for the 100th Anniversary of Women at Dickinson, including lectures like "A History of Women at Dickinson," seminars like "American Understandings of College Reunions As Seen In Literature and Film," panel...
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.2
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: 100th Anniversary of Women at Dickinson
In this letter to his Uncle Allen Tanner, Robert Tanner describes his genealogical research and reconnection with distant family members. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F82
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Letter from Robert Tanner to Allen Tanner
This notebook details the process of scheduling and planning the 1985 Black Arts Festival, including information on budget allocations, questions for lecturers, and the formulation of an advertising campaign.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Notebook for Black Arts Festival 1985
The 1985 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "A Cultural Celebration,” as the schedule includes numerous lectures and performance from...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F5
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "A Cultural Celebration": Black Arts Festival 1985
A program for a the Tony Award winning musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, which is performed in Mathers Theatre as part of the 1985 Black Arts Festival.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival: Ain't Misbehavin'
The Women's Center Executive Committee writes President Samuel A. Banks and reports on the activities of the Women's Center during the 1984-85 academic year. This report highlights the discussions on the role of Women's Studies in the liberal...
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.1.1
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Reports
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Report on Activities of the Women’s Center, 1984-85
The Women's Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Center of Dickinson College, this short issue welcomes new students, calls for student feminists for a feminist support group on campus, and informs the student body to watch for...
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.4
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Sep. 1985)
The Hillel Newsletter is produced by the Hillel Council of Dickinson College:
Selected highlights from this issue include:
Location: RG 9/9, Series 5
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Hillel Newsletter (Oct. 1985)
This brochure outlines the schedule for the Dickinson College's Congress of African Students' 18th Black Arts Festival. Events include lectures and workshops by three artists, a jazz ensemble, a disc jockey show, and a “program of gospel music...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival 1986
The 18th Annual Black Artists Festival program highlights the the three artists - Willie Birch, Vincent Smith, and Gilberto Wilson - whose work is on display in the Emil R. Weiss Center of the Arts as part of the “Black Artists Living in the Mid...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "Black Artists Living in the Mid-Atlantic States": Black Arts Festival 1986
This brochure outlines the schedule for the Dickinson College's Congress of African Students' 19th Black Arts Festival. Events include a comedy show, a film festival, a production of the musical One Mo’ Time, and a Catholic mass.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival 1987
The cover of a keepsake book produced for "Form and Content: The Art of the Book in the Pioneer Valley," an exhibition at the Northampton Center for the Arts including works by Weiss Prize recipient Leonard Baskin.
Location: I-Friends-1987-1
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Cover of “Form and Content: The Art of the Book in Pioneer Valley”
In this draft essay, Allen Tanner describes Pavel Tchelitchew's artistic style, comparing his style with neo-romanticism and surrealism. Transcript included.
In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
This newspaper clipping is about French opera singer Georgette LeBlanc.
In this brief essay draft, Allen Tanner describes the ballet "Ode," which Pavel Tchelitchew designed the sets for. Transcript included.
This news clipping describes a piano recital by Allen Tanner at the home of Signor Gianni Parente.
In this draft Allen Tanner describes his trip to Tunisia with Pavel Tchelitchew in 1926. Transcript included.
In this draft Allen Tanner describes his trip to Algeria with Pavel Tchelitchew in 1927. Transcript included.
In this draft, Allen Tanner describes in great detail his relationship with his partner of 12 years, Russian artist Pavel Tchelitchew. Tanner also discusses Tchelitchew's relationship with English poet Edith Sitwell. Transcript included.