Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
This collection contains a number of items purchased as a group from Robert Rowe in 2014, and features the business papers of Milton I. Zeigler, postcards, ephemera, and publications from the Carlisle Indian School. Zeigler served as the industrial instructor for the shoe and harness department...
Location: CIS-MC-002
Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Carlisle Indian School, Education, Literary Pursuits, Native Americans, Politics and Government, Sport and Recreation, Travel and Tourism
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera
Collection Inventory: 
CIS-MC-002.pdf
These photographs about the Carlisle Indian School were acquired by the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections individually and are not part of any larger collection.
Location: See Collection Inventory
Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Education, Native Americans, Personal and Family Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Photographs
Collection Inventory: Carlisle Indian School Individual Photographs
Carlyle Reede Earp attended Conway Hall from 1908 to 1910 and graduated from Dickinson College in 1914. While at Dickinson, he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society, the YMCA, the track team, and the student volunteer band. Earp served as an officer in World War I and World War II. ...
Location: SB 2018.1
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Sport and Recreation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: sb2018.01.pdf
The collection consists of the diaries of Zenanah Gilbert and Dora Gilbert Tompkins; very little else is known about either woman. Gilbert was born in Rome, New York on January 31, 1784; her family ran a guest house in town. Tompkins was born in Knoxville, Illinois, and was a schoolteacher....
Location: MC 1998.9
Subject: Education, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Sport and Recreation
Format: Diaries and Journals
Collection Inventory: mc1998.09.pdf
The bulk of the diaries is a day by day account of Harnish's life in Carlisle - what he did, whom he saw, etc. Four diaries contain accounts of his years at Dickinson College: accounts of the social life, (Theta Chi fraternity), and academic information - not greatly detailed. Also included are...
Location: MC 2003.3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents
Collection Inventory: Walter E. Harnish collection inventory
The collection documents the lives of the members of the Potter, Guererro, James, and Lord families from the 1850s to the 1940s, beginning with Henry Cardwell Potter (1822-1902), a Philadelphia businessman who through his business dealings became Consul of Nicaragua for the city. Potter's...
Location: MC 1998.8
Subject: Business and Industry, Health and Medicine, Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life, Sport and Recreation, Travel and Tourism
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc1998.08.pdf
Paul Walker (1896-1985) was a 1921 graduate of Dickinson College and a longtime contributing editor and columnist with the Harrisburg Patriot-News; his column "Roundabout" appeared for over ten years. This collection is comprised of diaries, commonplace books, newspaper articles and...
Location: MC 2003.10
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2003.10.pdf
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins regarding Dickinson's commencement, the political stir behind selecting Professor James Henry Morgan as President Eugene Allen Noble's successor. "So many petty men are busy having their interests pushed by their little groups of friends," as...
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Sport and Recreation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
This brochure contains the roster of participants and the order of track and field events for the seventh Southern Illinois Interscholastic athletic contest held in Carbondale, Illinois.
Location: MC 2013.3, B6, F14
Subject: Sport and Recreation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
The program for Dickinson's football game against Swarthmore College at Biddle field on October 24, 1936.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
The program for Dickinson's basketball game against Gettysburg College in the Alumni Gymnasium on February 24, 1937.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
The program for Dickinson's football game against Susquehanna University at Biddle field on November 12, 1938.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
Coach Wilbur J. Gobrecht's history of football at Dickinson College from 1885 to 1969. Gobrecht is a member of the Class of 1952.
Location: DC 1952 G575f
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
Coach Wilbur J. Gobrecht's history of basketball at Dickinson between 1899 and 1985. Gobrecht is a member of the Class of 1952.
Location: DC 1952 G575ba
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
Coach Wilber J. Gobrecht's history of football at Dickinson College from 1970 to 1986.
Location: DC 1952 G575f2
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
Coach Wilber J. Gobrecht's history of men's track and field at Dickinson College from 1950 to 1986.
Location: DC 1952 G575la
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
Coach Wilbur J. Gobrecht's history of baseball at Dickinson College.
Location: DC 1952 G575b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
Coach Wilber J. Gobrecht's history of men's track and field at Dickinson College from 1899 to 1996.
Location: DC 1952 G575t
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
Jeff Thompson (class of 1973) recounts Dickinson's basketball game against Georgetown University, held on February 10, 1973 in the Alumni Gymnasium. The game, which Georgetown won 66-65, is part of the celebration of Dickinson's 200th Anniversary.
Location: I-ThompsonJ-2021-1
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Autobiography and Memoir
