Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
The papers of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College, 1833-1879, include correspondence, reports, financial statements, printed materials, and legal documents, and have been arranged into thirteen series.
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Location: RG 1/2
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Certificates and Diplomas, Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Reports
Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: 
RG 1-002.pdf
The Education Fund played a critical role in the success of Dickinson College, especially during the mid-nineteenth century. For thirty years, Dickinson was entirely dependent upon the interest from the Education Fund to support its operations. In subsequent decades Dickinson’s Board of Trustees...
Location: MC 2016.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Collection Inventory: mc2016.01.pdf
These images are a sample of the photographs taken by Charles Francis Himes, a pioneer amateur photographer of the 19th century. Himes took this particular set of photographs while at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
The photographs are from the Charles Francis Himes...
Location: MC 2000.1, B27, F3
Subject: Business and Industry, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
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
These images are a sample of the photographs taken by Charles Francis Himes, a pioneer amateur photographer of the 19th century. Himes took this particular set of photographs while on a family vacation in Europe in 1890. Most of the photographs are from the family's stay in Giessen, Germany....
Location: MC 2000.1, B27, F1-2
Subject: International Affairs, Travel and Tourism
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
The Dickinsoniana Newspaper Collection consists of various newspapers acquired by the Library over the years. These items feature articles which concern mainly Dickinson College: happenings on campus, curriculum offerings, and doings of famous alumni such as James Buchanan and Roger Brooke Taney...
Location: Dickinsoniana – Newspaper Collection 1769-2001
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: Dickinsoniana - Annotated Newspaper List
Collection Inventory: Dickinsoniana - Subject Index
Charles Francis Himes receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on September 23, 1829.
Charles Francis Himes receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on July 12, 1855.
Charles Francis Himes (Class of 1855) receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on July 8, 1858.
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) describes his experience in photographing the solar eclipse in Ottumwa, Iowa on August 7, 1869 for the Evangelical Quarterly Review. "Never before had such an event promised so much of a revelation," Dr. Himes explains.
Location: MC 2000.1, B25, F20
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) describes his experience in photographing the solar eclipse in Ottumwa, Iowa on August 7, 1869 . "Favored as we were with a sky free from cloud or haze, and a beautiful point of view, this phenomenon left an inerasable impression upon...
Location: MC 2000.1, B25, F19
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor of Natural Science Charles Francis Himes writes a letter of recommendation for Wilbur Fisk Horn, Class of 1869.
Location: I-ClarkeW-1962-1
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Charles Himes writes Professor William Fisher a "strictly confidential" letter to discuss several sensitive issues related to Dickinson College. Professor Himes mentions the upcoming Board of Trustee meeting and discusses how they might decide to fill several faculty vacancies. In...
Location: MC 2000.12, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Charles Himes writes Professor William Fisher to discuss various affairs at Dickinson College. Professor Himes notes an allegation that Fisher might soon be directly involved in, and warns him to be cautious of these allegations. Himes ends with some brief information about a mutual...
Location: MC 2000.12, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Charles Francis Himes writes Professor William Fisher to discuss a controversy related to how the Dickinson College Board of Trustees decided to fill faculty positions. Himes also mentions his recent activities and travels as well as prospects for the upcoming year. Himes ('55) and...
Location: MC 2000.12, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Charles F. Himes writes Daniel Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, in order to recommend S. Homer Dosh, a senior at Dickinson, for a program at that institution. Himes discusses Dosh's thesis, "Some Experiments in Taking Transparencies," and assures Gilman that the thesis is...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
This broadside announces that Professor Charles F. Himes will deliver a lecture on "The Telephone" in Carlisle on June 13, 1878.
Location: OC 2000.1, F5
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Science and Technology
Format: Broadsides and Posters
Time Period: 1860-1879
The Carlisle Herald describes Dickinson College Professor Charles F. Himes' lecture on the telephone, held the previous week on June 13, 1878, in this report.
Location: MC 2000.1, B22, F4
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Events, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
Publisher: Harrisburg: Lane's Hart
In this first comprehensive history of the school, Charles F. Himes details the first century of Dickinson College, giving the science program particular attention. Himes, a member of the Class of 1855, works as a science Professor at...
Location: DC 378.748 DEH
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
This broadside announces that Professor Charles F. Himes will deliver a lecture on Thomas Edison's phonograph and the "speaking telephone" at Rheem's Hall in Carlisle on February 18, 1879.
Location: OC 2000.1, F5
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Science and Technology
Format: Broadsides and Posters
Time Period: 1860-1879
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) delivers this address at the opening of the Jacob Tome Scientific Building at Dickinson College on June 24, 1885.
Location: MC 2000.1, B251, F11
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from around 1890.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from around 1890.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from 1893.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
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
