Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
The collection reflects Scott Blum's (1959- ) interest in the sciences, particularly computers. The documents and materials relate to Blum's time at Dickinson College, especially his academic career, and consist of notes and notebooks, syllabi, exams, and other materials. Blum graduated from...
Location: MC 2003.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: 
mc2003.01.pdf
The papers of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College, 1783-1833, include correspondence, reports, financial statements, printed materials, and legal documents, and have been arranged into seven series.
Series 1 – Membership contains...
Location: RG 1/1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Reports
Collection Inventory: RG 1-001.pdf
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
This collection consists of course materials, writings, and translations created by Marianna Bogojavlensky, who taught Russian language and literature at Dickinson College from 1963 to 1981.
Location: MC 2011.2
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Education
Collection Inventory: mc2011.02.pdf
Thomas Emerson Bond, Sr., was a well-known Methodist Episcopal minister and author who served as a trustee of Dickinson College from 1833 until 1835. The collection includes correspondence to and from Bond dating mostly from 1840-1848, as well as journals and records of the Methodist ministry of...
Location: MC 1999.2
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals, Engravings and Illustrations, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc1999.02.pdf
The records contained in the President Charles Collins record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, no personal papers are included in this record group. For records concerning Collins’ interactions with students, please refer to RG 5/1. The...
Location: RG 2/5
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: RG 2/5 - Charles Collins
Robert Laurenson Dashiell (1825-1880) was born in Salisbury, Md. He attended Dickinson College, graduating in 1846. He received a Divinity degree from Wesleyan University in 1866. In 1868 he became president of Dickinson College and retained that post until 1872. During his tenure as president,...
Location: MC 2000.8
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life
Format: Notes and Notebooks, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: mc2000.08.pdf
The records contained in the President Robert Laurenson Dashiell record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, no personal papers or papers pertaining to Dashiell’s time as a student are included in this record group. For records concerning...
Location: RG 2/7
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
Time Period: 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: RG 2/7 - Robert Laurenson Dashiell
The papers of John Price Durbin contained within this record group pertain only to the years that he spent as president of Dickinson College, from 1834 to 1845. This includes the papers collected during the period of Durbin's sabbatical, during which Robert Emory served as acting president for...
Location: RG 2/2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: RG 2/2 - John Price Durbin
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
The records contained in the President Robert Emory record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, any papers from Emory’s acting presidency during John Price Durbin’s sabbatical are not included here, neither are his personal papers, nor his papers...
Location: RG 2/3
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: RG 2/3 - Robert Emory
The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts of William Righter Fisher, a Dickinson alumnus (class of 1870) and professor of modern languages (1874-1876). These papers reflect Fisher's graduate study in Germany, teaching at Dickinson, business and law, and the writings of Mrs. Fisher...
Location: MC 2000.12
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Business and Industry, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Fiction and Drama, Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc2000.12.pdf
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
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
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
John B. Hood was an educator and writer from Mount Airy, Maryland. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1864, and earned a master's degree from that institution in 1867. The John B. Hood Collection is housed in one document box and contains papers and notes taken by Hood while he was an...
Location: MC 2001.8
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Notes and Notebooks, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2001.08.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
Julius "Steve" Kassovic taught in the Sociology-Anthropology Department at Dickinson from 1979 to 1984. This collection contains assignments from his popular Introduction to Folklore course, during which students gathered jokes, stories, myths, ethnic expressions and other pieces of folkore from...
Location: MC 2010.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Miscellaneous, Music, Poetry and Lyrics
Collection Inventory: mc2010.01.pdf
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
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 records contained in the President James Andrew McCauley record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, no personal papers or papers pertaining to McCauley’s time as a student are included in this record group. For records concerning McCauley’s...
Location: RG 2/8
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Collection Inventory: RG 2/8 - James Andrew McCauley
The records contained in the President Eugene Allen Noble record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, no personal papers are included in this record group. For records concerning Noble’s interactions with students, please refer to RG 5/1. The...
Location: RG 2/10
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: RG 2/10 - Eugene Allen Noble
The records contained in the President Jesse Truesdell Peck record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, no personal papers or papers pertaining to Peck’s tenure as a faculty member are included in this record group. For records concerning Peck’s...
Location: RG 2/4
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: RG 2/4 - Jesse Truesdell Peck
The Presidents 1783-1833 Record Group contains papers related the presidency of the seven men who served at Dickinson from 1783 to 1833. This Record Group corresponds with that of RG 1/1, the Trustees 1783-1833, which also documents the first fifty years of the college. The materials in this...
Location: RG 2/1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
Collection Inventory: RG 2/1 - Presidents
The records contained in the President George Edward Reed record group pertain only to his time and affairs as president of Dickinson College. As such, no personal papers are included in this record group. For records concerning Reed’s interactions with students, please refer to RG 5/1. The Reed...
Location: RG 2/9
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Collection Inventory: RG 2/9 - George Edward Reed
