Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of Old West, writes to Dickinson College trustee Hugh Henry Brackenridge and explains his plan as well as his design choices for the building. This letter accompanies his sketches for the new building. Transcript included.
Location: RG 1/1 - 5.4.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Dickinson College trustee Hugh Henry Brackenridge writes to trustee James Hamilton about architect Benjamin Latrobe's plans for a new building (West College). Transcript included.
Location: RG 1/1 - 5.4.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Dickinson College trustee Hugh Henry Brackenridge writes to another trustee, James Hamilton, and further discusses Benjamin Latrobe's design for the new building (West College) at the school. Transcript included.
Location: RG 1/1 - 5.4.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
James Hamilton Sr. uses this letter of attorney to provide John Vaughan of Philadelphia with the legal authority to lease or sell lands that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has granted to Pennsylvania's officers and soldiers. Hamilton signs this document on June 15, 1807 in Charleston, South...
Location: I-Friends-1975-13
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
Hugh Henry Brackenridge's memoir of Charles Nisbet, received in "The Historical Society" on January 22, 1883. This transcript was copied by Professor Joshua Allen Lippincott (class of 1858).
Location: I-Original-1883-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Literary Pursuits
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1880-1899
Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
Volume 1 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Politics and Government
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1940-1959
