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Alexander Biddle, the patriarch of the collection, was born on April 29, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas A. Biddle and Christine Williams Biddle. A member of a prominent and wealthy Philadelphia family, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838 and became a...
Location: MC 2014.1
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Miscellaneous, Photographs
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Charles Granville Biggs recounts the Quarto-Centennial reunion of the Class of 1870 after commencement in June 1895. "Although we graduated only sixteen members," Biggs notes that "thirteen were present on this auspicious occasion." Biggs explains their shared comradery and describes the events...
Location: I-Original-1895-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
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Location: DC 1870 B584m
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Publisher: Carlisle: Hamilton Library Association
Edward W. Biddle, President of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College and a graduate of the class of 1870, delivers a talk on the first grammar school and college building in Carlisle.
Location: DC 1870 B584o
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1920-1939
Painter Horace Thompson Carpenter writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle, announcing the completion of a portrait of Charles Nisbet commissioned by the College.
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle writes to Cassandra Lee Arnold regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Biddle asks that she go through her family papers and "send them to 'Old Dickinson' to preserved with its collection of historical and personal data."
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Genealogy and Family History
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Cassandra Lee Arnold writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Arnold thanks Biddle for the photograph of it that he sent her and promises "I will certainly go over all of the old letters in my return to the Farm this Summer."...
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Genealogy and Family History, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Lawyer William White writes to Dickinson College Trustee Edward W. Biddle regarding Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of John Dickinson, housed at the Pennsylvania Historical Society. "The enclosed letter has sad news and I am very sorry that it will probably be impossible for Dickinson College...
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
