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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This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 11, 1913 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
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1913 Commencement Program
Andrew Carnegie writes to Funk & Wagnalls Company, a publishing company in New York City, thanking them for their gift of their new standard dictionary. "I placed the new Standard Dictionary at my side-a sure refuge in the day of trouble with...
Location: I-AsbellY-1976-4
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Andrew Carnegie to Funk & Wagnalls Company
Medal of Honor Recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) drafts a letter to President William H. Taft, disagreeing with Taft on the future of the Progressive Party. Includes a photocopy of an earlier letter from Taft to King, in which Taft...
Location: I-HanwayJ-1975-1
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Draft of Letter from Horatio Collins King to William Taft
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins from the SS Potsdam on his way home from a trip to Europe . "We had very bad weather, the fog lasted for four days steadily with the fog horn signal every sixty seconds," as Blakey notes....
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Leonard Blakey to Jane Perkins
Jane Perkins writes to Professor Leonard Blakey regarding their last meeting as well as her recent trip. Transcript included.
Esther Popel Shaw, Class of 1919, was the first African American woman to graduate from Dickinson College. This diary from Esther's senior year of high school documents her daily activities, particularly her interactions with family, friends,...
Location: MC 2013.4, B1, F1 (Diary) ; MC 2013.4, B1, F3 (Transcript of Diary)
Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Esther Popel Shaw Diary (Original Diary), Esther Popel Shaw Diary (Transcript)
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1914-1915 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
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Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins regarding Dickinson's commencement, the political stir behind selecting Professor James Henry Morgan as President Eugene Allen Noble's successor. "So many petty men are busy having their interests...
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Sport and Recreation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Leonard Blakey to Jane Perkins (Draft)
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1914-15
Medal of Honor recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes a five-page composition entitled "Reminiscences" in pencil. He discusses his Dickinson College experience and includes notes of planned citations from his journal.
Location: I-GrayM-1953-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Personal and Family Life
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Reminiscences," by Horatio Collins King
This brochure contains the roster of participants and the order of track and field events for the seventh Southern Illinois Interscholastic athletic contest held in Carbondale, Illinois.
Location: MC 2013.3, B6, F14
Subject: Sport and Recreation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Southern Illinois Interscholastic Athletic Contest program
Helen Katherine Williamson receives her Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 9, 1915.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Master of Arts Diploma - Helen Williamson
In this newspaper clipping, Hanna Butler, prima donna of the Auditorium Hotel, offers advice for how singers can test their tone using their thumb.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F8
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Thumb Better Than Candle for Testing Out Voices" clipping from unknown newspaper
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1915-16
This program is for Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski's recital at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1916.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F5
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: I. J. Paderewski recital program
An unknown student at Dickinson College writes to a Mitchell about the winter and getting ready for the fraternity dances that take place in February. The dances "will be quite a large and informal affair" and, as the student tells Mitchell, "I...
Location: I-AsbellY-2005-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter to Mitchell from Unknown Author
Writer and poet William Rose Benét writes to Lawton Mackall, asking him to contribute to a one-off literary magazine called The Chimaera.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from William Benét to Lawton Mackall
Jay Paul Jameson (Class of 1907) receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 7, 1916.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Master of Arts Diploma - Jay Jameson
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1914-1915 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item:
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
This yearbook includes a fold-out photograph between pages 76 and 77 of students and faculty outside of Conway Hall, which you can...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1916-17
Edgar Rohrer Heckman (Class of 1897) receives this Honorary Doctor of Divinity Diploma from Dickinson College on June 6, 1917.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Honorary Doctor of Divinity Diploma - Edgar Heckman
William Rose Benét writes two letters to Lawton Mackall: the first promises poems and includes a drawing; the second explains Benét's plans to travel for ten days.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
This bulletin for the Mt. Vernon First Methodist Episcopal Church advertises prayer meetings and worship services at the church, including the congregation's Christmas Sunday service on December 22, 1918.
Location: MC 2013.3, B6, F13
Subject: Religion and Spirituality
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Mt. Vernon, Illinois First Methodist Episcopal Church bulletin
A description of this document is not currently available.
Location: DC 1870 B584m
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Moncure D. Conway and Conway Hall," by Edward W. Biddle
This is a concert program for a performance Marguerite Namara and Allen Tanner gave to raise money for the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for the Soldiers and Sailors of the Allies.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F22
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Concert for the benefit of the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund program