Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
James Buchanan was a graduate of Dickinson College, Class of 1809, who went on to become the fifteenth president of the United States. The majority of this collection is comprised of correspondence between Buchanan and his business and political associates; over four hundred letters penned by...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education, International Affairs, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: 
mc1998.10.pdf
This collection is comprised of three journals containing notes on lectures delivered by Pieter Burman during his tenure at the University of Leiden, sometime between 1715 and 1740. It is not known precisely who took these notes. The notebooks themselves are believed to have been donated to...
Location: MC 2012.13
Subject: Education, International Affairs, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Diaries and Journals, Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: Before 1760
Collection Inventory: mc2012.13.pdf
This collection reflects the three year period in which Andrew Curtin served as minister to Russia, and is arranged in two series: Photograph Albums and Loose Photographs. The albums are housed in one document box, while the loose photographs are housed within the Dickinson College Photograph...
Location: MC 2001.21
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc2001.21.pdf
The collection consists primarily of travel journals of Thomas and Jabez Fisher, sons of Joshua Fisher, a businessman in Philadelphia shipping prior to the Revolutionary War. The journals offer detailed accounts of travel to Europe in the 1760s and 1770s. In addition, a small amount of business...
Location: MC 2004.1
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: mc2004.01.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
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
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
This international society was founded in Europe in 1961 and a North American chapter followed ten years later. Dedicated to the study of civilizations, the ISCSC holds annual meetings, usually in an American university setting, in which papers are read, books are discussed, and theories are...
Location: ISCSC
Subject: International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Audio-Visual Materials, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: ISCSC Finding Aid
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
This collection is composed largely of artifacts which the Millers brought back from their nine year mission to Nepal, 1956-1965. Also included in the collection are a scrapbook, picture books of Nepal, and a Nepalese hymnal.
Location: MC 1999.3
Subject: International Affairs, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Maps and Diagrams, Music, Scrapbooks
Collection Inventory: mc1999.03.pdf
This collection is comprised mainly of The Spirit of Britain and Pictorial Shakespeare, two examples of illustrated manuscripts by artist Montagu Frank Modder. Also included are miscellaneous drawings of literary and historical figures, as well as printer's engraving blocks....
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Politics and Government, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Newspapers and Magazines, Scrapbooks
Collection Inventory: mc2002.01.pdf
Julia Morgan (1891-1948), Class of 1911, served as a medical missionary in China from approximately 1924 to 1941. This collection contains correspondence written primarily by Julia to her father, James Henry Morgan, during her time in China. These materials also include photographs of members of...
Location: MC 2008.2
Subject: Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Collection Inventory: mc2008.02.pdf
Hiester Henry Muhlenberg (1812-1886) was a member of the distinguished Muhlenberg family of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1829. This collection contains almost 200 letters, most of which were written by members of Muhlenberg's immediate family. These letters reflect...
Location: MC 2012.3
Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Collection Inventory: mc2012.03.pdf
Myrl Myers graduated from Dickinson College in 1906. Beginning as a student interpreter for the American Legation in Peking (Beijing) in 1907, he spent the next 40 years serving in various U.S. diplomatic posts in China. The journals and other items in this collection reflect some of his earlier...
Location: MC 2017.1
Subject: International Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: mc2017.01.pdf
The collection consists of the papers of Charles Nisbet, first president of Dickinson College, and his family, particularly his son-in-law, William Turnbull. The majority of these papers is correspondence conducted between Nisbet and his daughter, and also between Nisbet and Lady Leven of...
Location: MC 2001.7
Subject: Business and Industry, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Genealogy and Family History, International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc2001.07.pdf
These images were distributed in the United States by the Soyuzfoto Soviet News Agency during the early 1930s. The images themselves date from 1918-1933 and depict notable individuals, places, and scenes from daily life.
Location: Soyuzfoto Collection
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Photographs
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 images are from a collection of photograph albums compiled by James Gordon Steese, an officer in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Steese assembled these albums using photographs he collected on a trip to Europe in 1919 following World War One. Steese served as Assistant Chief of...
Location: MC 2002.4
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Travel and Tourism
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1900-1919
This collection is mostly comprised of correspondence received by Philadelphia printer William Young from Charles Nisbet, President of Dickinson College. Young was a scotsman who settled in Philadelphia and set up a bookshop, a printing press, and later, a paper mill. As the president of a...
Location: MC 2001.5
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Administration, International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Collection Inventory: mc2001.05.pdf
Second Continental Congress Representative John Adams writes to James Warren, a judge in Watertown, Massachusetts, and discusses the arrival of gunpowder, the formation of a continental treasury, and asks if "your new Legislative and Executive feel bold or irresolute?"
Location: I-Purchase-1972-2
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1760-1779
John Dickinson writes Continental Army General Charles Lee to explain his opinion on the Declaration of Independence. "I cannot agree with You, that a Declaration of Independence at this time will...
Location: MC 2001.13, B1, F1
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1760-1779
John Dickinson writes to Benjamin Rush and offers the idea for the commission of William Bingham, a trustee, to solicit funds for Dickinson College in England. Transcript included.
Location: RG 1/1 - 3.2.1.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Economics and Finance, Education, International Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
United States Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris writes to Don Luis Unzaga y Amezago, Governor of Cuba, about the return of Mr. Brown from his secret mission to Havana. Mr. Brown returns with the object that was the purpose of his mission.
Location: I-SellersC-1950-2
Subject: International Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
William Bingham writes from London to John Montgomery in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Bingham discusses the prospect of British aid to the new college and comments on the conflict between the United States and the United Kingdom. "At present the British are smarting under the wounds that the...
Location: RG 1/1 - 3.2.1.2
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Economics and Finance, Education, International Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
William Bingham writes to Thomas Fitzsimons on Britain's attitude toward the United States in political and commercial affairs. Bingham is a member of the Dickinson College Board of Trustees.
Location: I-SpahrB-1960-8
Subject: Business and Industry, International Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
