Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Lewis Daniel Gobrecht graduated from Dickinson College in 1955. This collection primarily represents his academic and extracurricular life as a student, with particular emphasis on his involvement in theatre and music activities.
Location: MC 2012.5
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education, Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Music, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: 
mc2012.05.pdf
Isaac Grier (c.1763-1814) was a member of the class of 1788 of Dickinson College; he studied theology under Charles Nisbet and later served as principal of the grammar school at the college from 1788 until 1790. The core of the collection consists of bound manuscripts of forty sermons given by...
Location: MC 2000.2
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Collection Inventory: mc2000.02.pdf
Thomas Miller Griffith (1834-1898) graduated from Dickinson College in 1858 and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the college in 1891. He was a member of the Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and served Pennsylvania congregations in Carlisle, Chestnut...
Location: MC 2005.4
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Certificates and Diplomas, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2005.04.pdf
Francis Gurney (1738-1815) was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Whiskey Rebellion. A prominent Philadelphia merchant, Gurney held several political offices such as city Alderman and representative and senator to the state legislature. Gurney also served...
Location: MC 2001.6
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Economics and Finance
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Collection Inventory: mc2001.06.pdf
The Thomas Hamilton Collection consists almost exclusively of letters received by James Hamilton from his brother Thomas Hamilton, both of whom were prominent figures in local politics (James in Carlisle, PA and Thomas in Greensburg, PA). The letters range in date from 1789 until 1818 and cover...
Location: MC 2002.6
Subject: Religion and Spirituality, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: mc2002.06.pdf
The collection consists of materials relating to Ethelyn Hardesty's student days at Dickinson College, including a scrapbook, 1899-1902, class and lecture notes, grade reports, and a diary. After graduating in 1902, Hardesty taught high school in Lock Haven, PA. She married Dr. C. Grant Cleaver...
Location: MC 2002.9
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Personal and Family Life
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Collection Inventory: mc2002.09.pdf
James Hargis, a Dickinson alum (Class of 1870) and trustee, worked in education for several years before becoming a clergyman, earning his doctorate of divinity in 1888. The collection consists of essays and orations written by Hargis and miscellaneous materials dealing with the Belles Lettres...
Location: MC 2003.2
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc2003.02.pdf
The collection consists of papers pertaining to Hartigan's military career and to a proposed "Dickinson College School of International Activities." It includes correspondence with Dickinson College, foreign universities, and other institutions regarding similar plans. The collection includes...
Collection Inventory: mc1999.05.pdf
Collection Inventory: pc1999.05-index.pdf
The Hays family papers include correspondence, deeds, and memorabilia of six generations of this prominent Carlisle, Pa. family whose scions include General Ephraim Blaine (1741-1804), Commissary-General in the American Revolution and charter trustee of Dickinson College, and James G. Blaine (...
Location: MC 2001.1
Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Genealogy and Family History, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc2001.01.pdf
The Bevery Hess collection consists of the various papers, newspaper clippings, books, audiotapes and photographs collected by Hess during her most active period of involvement with local anti-nuclear groups. Bevery Hess was a resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania prior to the accident at...
Location: TMI-Hess
Subject: Health and Medicine, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Science and Technology, Three Mile Island
Format: Audio-Visual Materials, Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: TMI-Hess.pdf
This collection primarily provides evidence of the personal and professional life of Charles Francis Himes, student, photographer, scientist, teacher, administrator, amateur historian and father. Also found in this collection is evidence of the lives of family members including, most notably, C...
Location: MC 2000.1
Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2000.01.pdf
This international society was founded in Europe in 1961 and a North American chapter followed ten years later. Dedicated to the study of civilizations, the ISCSC holds annual meetings, usually in an American university setting, in which papers are read, books are discussed, and theories are...
Location: ISCSC
Subject: International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Audio-Visual Materials, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: ISCSC Finding Aid
This collection contains the papers of William Irvine, a physician during the American Revolution, and his family; the papers are housed in one document box and have been arranged into two sections: Correspondence, and Legal and Financial Papers.
The Correspondence section contains...
Location: MC 2001.2
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Collection Inventory: mc2001.02.pdf
The Herman Merrills Johnson papers consist primarily of financial records, bound and unbound, maintained by Johnson during his tenure as president of Dickinson College. The collection also contains correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and the bill of sale for Johnson's library following his death...
Location: MC 2003.9
Subject: Economics and Finance, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2003.09.pdf
The records contained in the President Herman Merrills Johnson record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, no personal papers or papers pertaining to Johnson’s tenure as a faculty member are included in this record group. For records concerning...
Location: RG 2/6
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: RG 2/6 - Herman Merrills Johnson
Charles Flint Kellogg was a member of Dickinson's history department from 1946 to 1975. His scholarship focused on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Kellogg helped to establish black studies courses at the College and taught courses on black history. This...
Location: MC 2011.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Education, Literary Pursuits, Social Reform and Advocacy, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2011.01.pdf
This collection consists of correspondence, journals, photographs, and other personal papers of Kerry Shawn Keys, poet, editor, translator, and cultural liaison. He has authored more than 40 books of poetry and prose and translated more than a dozen other works from Portuguese, Czech, and...
Location: Keys - Vault
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Audio-Visual Materials, Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Fiction and Drama, Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics
Collection Inventory: Keys Collection Inventory 2024
Horatio Collins King was the son of Postmaster General Horatio King and the nephew of Dickinson College President Charles Collins. A graduate of Dickinson College, class of 1858, King was admitted to the bar in 1861 and saw active service in the Civil War from 1862 until 1865. A songwriter, King...
Location: MC 1999.9
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Diaries and Journals, Essays and Dissertations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Poetry and Lyrics, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc1999.09.pdf
These records contain materials related to the termination of Dr. Laurent R. LaVallee, assistant professor of economics. In 1956, the Dickinson Board of Trustees voted unanimously to dismiss LaVallee as a result of his failure to answer questions about his alleged participation in Communist...
Collection Inventory: RG 2/13 President William Wilcox Edel and Dr. Laurent R. LaVallee case papers
The Jane Lee collection consists of the various papers, court dockets, government documents, and newspaper clippings collected by Lee in the years following the accident at Three Mile Island. Jane Lee, a farmer from Etters, Pennsylvania, became active in various public-awareness groups such as...
Location: TMI-Lee
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Three Mile Island
Format: Diaries and Journals, Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports
Collection Inventory: TMI-Lee.pdf
Steven G. Leventhal graduated from Dickinson College in 1984. This collection documents his efforts to gain an honorary degree from Dickinson for Soviet refusenik Dr. Yuri Medvedkov, an effort in which he was not successful. It also contains information regarding Leventhal’s role in establishing...
Location: MC 2012.9
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2012.09.pdf
The collection consists of correspondence, genealogical materials, legal materials, printed and scrapbook materials relating to George Burt Lincoln. Correspondents include Abner Doubleday, Horace Greeley, Julia Ward Howe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Of particular note is a letter from Julia Ward...
Location: MC 2000.3
Subject: Education, Genealogy and Family History, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899
Collection Inventory: mc2000.03.pdf
Zatae Longsdorff Straw (1866-1955) was the first woman graduate of Dickinson College as a member of the class of 1887; she went on to a successful career as a doctor and politician. The collection of her papers includes correspondence, printed and manuscript materials, scrapbooks and scrapbook...
Location: MC 2002.2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Carlisle Indian School, Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Health and Medicine, Native Americans, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Engravings and Illustrations, Fiction and Drama, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc2002.02.pdf
George Armstrong Lyon was a Carlisle lawyer, bank president, Presbyterian elder, and a trustee of Dickinson College. Church affairs are the central concern of these papers, which include accounts of Lyon's hostile view of the Rev. George Duffield's theology and of Lyon's part in the founding of...
Location: MC 2006.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Economics and Finance, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes
Collection Inventory: mc2006.01.pdf
This collection primarily provides evidence of the personal and public life of Frank E. Masland Jr., environmentalist, preservationist, explorer, entrepreneur, author, and community leader. Also found in this collection is correspondence from prominent twentieth-century figures such as leaders...
Location: MC 2009.4
Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Essays and Dissertations, Interviews and Oral Histories, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Reports, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2009.04.pdf
