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James Gordon Steese (1882-1958) was a member of the Dickinson College class of 1902. Among his many activities, Steese served as president of the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska; the Steese Highway in Alaska is named for him. He later was involved with the development of railroads in both...
Location: MC 2002.4
Subject: Business and Industry, International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Essays and Dissertations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Reports
Collection Inventory: 
mc2002.04.pdf
These records document the activity and structure of Dickinson's student government.
Location: RG 8/1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government
Format: Financial Documents, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: RG 8/1 - Student Senate Records
Allen C. Tanner (1898-1987) was an Illinois-born pianist. At fifteen he was awarded a scholarship to study music in Chicago. There he met Margaret Anderson, editor of the Little Review. Tanner then moved to New York City where he performed in musical salons and accompanied many musical...
Location: MC 2013.3
Subject: LGBT History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Music, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2013.03.pdf
Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA) collection consists of the various papers, government documents, legal documents, transcripts, and publications collected and maintained by Three Mile Island Alert, a not-for-profit citizens' organization dedicated to promotion of safe-energy alternatives to...
Location: TMI-TMIA
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government, Three Mile Island
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Audio-Visual Materials, Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: TMI-TMIA.pdf
Ruth Agnes Trout graduated from Dickinson College with the class of 1936. In 1983, she and her sister, Helen Elizabeth Trout, established the Trout Gallery at the college in honor of their parents, Brook and Mary Agnes Cook Trout. This collection of papers documents Trout's relationship with the...
Location: MC 2005.1
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: mc2005.01.pdf
Thomas W. Troxell (1874-1947) graduated from Dickinson College in 1898. He taught at schools in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia before finishing his career as principal at Gaithersburg High School in Maryland. This small collection contains materials related to Troxell’s...
Location: MC 2012.7
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: mc2012.07.pdf
Morris King Udall served as a Congressman from Arizona for thirty years. From 1977 to 1991, he chaired the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs where he was instrumental in launching the investigation into the March 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. The Morris King Udall collection...
Location: TMI-Udall
Subject: Politics and Government, Three Mile Island
Format: Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports
Collection Inventory: TMI-Udall.pdf
Paul Walker (1896-1985) was a 1921 graduate of Dickinson College and a longtime contributing editor and columnist with the Harrisburg Patriot-News; his column "Roundabout" appeared for over ten years. This collection is comprised of diaries, commonplace books, newspaper articles and...
Location: MC 2003.10
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2003.10.pdf
The collection contains papers of Ferdinand de Wilton Ward (1812-1891) concerning the Central Church in Geneseo, New York, the American Bible Society, and the genealogy of the Ward family. Also in the collection are a journal of Ward's voyage to India in 1837 and a letter book of the Indian...
Collection Inventory: mc2000.06.pdf
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: correspondence between family members, and memorials to...
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
Collection Inventory: mc2009.03.pdf
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.
Collection Inventory: RG 9/8 - Women's Center records
Joseph Priestley writes to Joseph Barrington a few days before his death on February 6, 1804 about his views on Christianity. Almost thirty years later, the National Gazette and Literary Register prints Priestley's letter on November 13, 1833.
Location: OC 1998.1, F1
Subject: Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1800-1819
An anonymous author writes this essay on the history of Dickinson College, which is published in The Port Folio, vol. 5 (March 1811): 239-246. This essay is published with B. Tanner's engraving of West College, which was created from a sketch by A. Brackenridge.
Location: RG 1/1 - 7.3.2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1800-1819
A biographical manuscript of Judge Thomas Cooper, a lecturer at Dickinson College, entitled "Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Carlisle." Composed for the Baltimore Federal Gazette, this manuscript details the judge's pious disposition and the "splendor of his talents." Transcript...
Location: I-McKnightM-1959-1
Subject: Dickinson College History, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1800-1819
While Charles Nisbet wrote "Hints on Education" around the time he became the first President of Dickinson College around 1785, it was not published in The Port Folio until 1812. Transcript included.
Charles Nisbet, "Hints on Education," The Port Folio 8, no. 3 (...
Location: Charles Nisbet Dropfile
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1800-1819
The first issue of the Collegian, Dickinson College's first monthly literary publication. Includes "Nationality," "Machine for Grinding Poetry," "Love in College," "Translation of Cleanthe's Hymn to Jupiter," and "The Spartan Youth."
The Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Literary Pursuits
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
The second issue of the Collegian, Dickinson College's first monthly literary publication. Includes "The Tyrol," "Love and Scholarship," "Communings with the Departed," "The Song of the Wind," "War," and "Ernest Maltravers."
The Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Literary Pursuits
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
The third issue of the Collegian, Dickinson College's first monthly literary publication. Includes "Reflections on the Coats-of-Arms of the States," "The Indian Maiden," "Philosophy of Fashion," "Epidemic Sympathy," "Last Verses of Voltaire," "The Germans of Pennsylvania," and "A Leaf...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Literary Pursuits
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
The fourth issue of the Collegian, Dickinson College's first monthly literary publication. Includes "The Power of Sacrifice," "The 'Me'," "Logan's Revenge," "True Estimate of Self," and "Extract - Prometheus Chained."
The Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies created a...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Literary Pursuits
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
The final issue of the Collegian, Dickinson College's first monthly literary publication. Includes "Gregory VII," "The Breakers," "A Thunder Storm," "The European Crisis," "The College of the Magii," "American Prejudices," "Recollections," "College Reminiscences," and "Letters from the...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Literary Pursuits, Politics and Government
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
Rev. Charles Collins, the eleventh president of Dickinson College, writes this short biography of Rev. Charles Nisbet, the first president of the College, in 1853.
Charles Collins, "Rev. Charles Nisbet, D. D., First President of Dickinson College," The Ladies Repository 13, no....
Location: Special Collections Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
President Charles Collins writes this short history of Dickinson College in 1856.
Charles Collins, "Dickinson College," The Ladies' Repository 16 (August 1856): 449-453.
Location: Special Collections Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
The Carlisle Herald publishes Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin's proclamation on September 11, 1862 in which he calls for "able-bodied loyal men of Pennsylvania" to join military companies in response to the threat of Confederate forces at Hagerstown, Maryland. "By authority of...
Location: I-Original-1862-1
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
A copy of the monthly pamphlet "Young and Old," no. 46, edited by Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858).
Location: I-PfliegerP-2005-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor William Henry Allen delivers a speech, "Dickinson College: An Historical Sketch," about the first 90 years of the College's history to the Philadelphia Conference Historical Society. The Dickinsonian publishes Allen's speech in the April 6, 1875 issue. Transcript included....
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
