Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Alexander Biddle, the patriarch of the collection, was born on April 29, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas A. Biddle and Christine Williams Biddle. A member of a prominent and wealthy Philadelphia family, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838 and became a...
Location: MC 2014.1
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Miscellaneous, Photographs
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
An album containing clippings of the serial publication "Harry Ashton's Ramblings," with a handwritten preface, penciled editing notes, photographs, and letters from publishers. The story was published in the Boston Globe in 1873 and concerns the fictional travels of Harry Ashton in...
Location: MC 1998.4
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Scrapbooks
Collection Inventory: 
mc1998.04.pdf
The collection consists mainly of personal correspondence: fifty letters, most of which are from Carolyn Elizabeth Roberts Ayer to her husband Joseph Cullen Ayer (b. 1839) at various points in his life, beginning before their marriage (1861) when he was at Harvard; as a medical officer in the...
Location: MC 1999.4
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Health and Medicine, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: mc1999.04.pdf
Robert Hale Bancroft (?-1918) was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and was educated at Harvard Law School and the University of Bremen in Germany. His travels abroad, as well as his interests in local events in Beverly, are reflected in this scrapbook dated 1864-1901. The bulk of the scrapbook...
Location: MC 1998.5
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Scrapbooks
Collection Inventory: mc1998.05.pdf
The collection consists of the papers of Charles Gilbert Beetem, a Carlisle, PA rug manufacturer, local historian and genealogist, amateur artist, and omnivorous collector. Diaries, manuscripts, letters, advertisements, greeting cards, and extensive runs of Philadelphia and Carlisle turn-of-the-...
Location: MC 2002.7
Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Land and Real Estate, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Fiction and Drama, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc2002.07.pdf
The collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, and photographs of Dr. Annie (Wood) Besant (1847-1933), a prominent and revolutionary freethinker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Besant was a Christian wife and mother who later in life became an Atheist doctor and...
Location: MC 1999.7
Subject: Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc1999.07.pdf
John Black, Jr. (1842-1915) attended Dickinson College between 1858 and 1860, before returning to his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to begin his career as a druggist. During the Civil War, Black served in the 122nd Pennsylvania Volunteers and the 47th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia of...
Collection Inventory: mc2007.02.pdf
The collection consists mainly of correspondence between Arba Blodget (1879-1949), a Philadelphia drama critic and playwright, and his wife Laura and her family. Blodget and his wife had been separated early in their marriage due to his traveling with a theater company; often their only means of...
Location: MC 1998.2
Subject: Business and Industry, Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
Collection Inventory: mc1998.02.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
The collection contains materials relating to family life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and in Ohio. The central figure is Daniel Bowdle (1796-1876), who as a young man moved to Cincinnati and became the successful business man of his family, with real estate and other interests. He aided his...
Location: MC 1998.3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc1998.03.pdf
This collection contains materials documenting the personal and business lives of George W. Bowman (1809-1887) and his son Harry Leader Bowman (1848-1915). It also documents the death of George's wife and Harry's mother, Ann Leader Bowman (1813-1885).
The photographs series in this...
Location: MC 2008.3
Subject: Business and Industry, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life
Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2008.03.pdf
The Robert Bridges Papers Collection provides insight into literary works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and reflects Bridges’ long period of work as an editor and literary critic. The collection spans a date range of 1875-1937, with large portions pertaining to the early 1890s and...
Location: MC 2012.12
Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Fiction and Drama, Financial Documents, Interviews and Oral Histories, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Music, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2012.12.pdf
This collection contains 11 images believed to be owned by Brockey (Blackfeet Piegan), also known as Charles Walter Buck, and his first wife, Spyna Deveraux, both of whom attended the Carlisle Indian School. The collection also contains a copy of the Glacier County Chief, in which his extensive...
Location: CIS-MC-003
Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Native Americans
Format: Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Collection Inventory: CIS-MC-003.pdf
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 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
This collection contains a series of letters received by Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew, a noted surgeon from New York City who was a strong supporter of, and significant donor to, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The majority of the letters were written by Richard Henry Pratt, and discuss a...
Location: CIS-MC-001
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Carlisle Indian School, Education, Native Americans, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Collection Inventory: CIS-MC-001.pdf
These artifacts and oversized items 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
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Broadsides and Posters, Certificates and Diplomas, Engravings and Illustrations, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: CIS-Individual-Artifacts-Oversized.pdf
These items 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 for Call Number
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Carlisle Indian School, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Native Americans, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Broadsides and Posters, Engravings and Illustrations, Interviews and Oral Histories, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Miscellaneous, Newspapers and Magazines, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: Carlisle Indian School Individual Items
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
This collection contains a number of items purchased as a group from Robert Rowe in 2017, and includes a number of photographs, artifacts, and documents related to the Carlisle Indian School. The four court martials in this collection are from the year 1904, and include charges against a total...
Location: CIS-MC-004
Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Education, Native Americans
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Photographs
Collection Inventory: CIS-MC-004.pdf
Images of the Carlisle Indian School held by the Archives and Special Collections.
Location: See Carlisle Indian School Collection Inventories
Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Education
Format: Photographs
This collection contains 39 glass plate negatives, dating from the 1880s, from the studio of John Nicholas Choate. Choate was a photographer based in the town of Carlisle who took thousands of images of Carlisle Indian School students, buildings, and related subjects. The images in this...
Location: CIS-PC-005
Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Native Americans
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
Collection Inventory: CIS-PC-005.pdf
The collections consists of the diaries of Joseph Clemens and his wife, Mary Knapp Strong Clemens. Joseph Clemens was born in Cornwall, England. He left England and entered Dickinson College at the age of 28, graduating in the class of 1894. He entered the Methodist ministry and served as a...
Location: MC 2001.17
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Military Affairs and Conflict, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Collection Inventory: mc2001.17.pdf
Charles Collins (1813-1875) was a native of Maine and a graduate of Wesleyan University (1837); he served as president of Emory and Henry College (1838-1852), of Dickinson College (1852-1860) and as proprietor and President of State Female College in Memphis, Tenn. (1860-1875). The collection...
Location: MC 2003.6
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Poetry and Lyrics, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2003.06.pdf
Moncure Daniel Conway was born into a southern aristocratic family, but ultimately became one of the nation's leading abolitionists and humanitarians. Conway was a graduate of Dickinson College in 1849 and was trained for the ministry at Harvard Divinity School. The collection consists mainly of...
Location: MC 1999.6
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc1999.06.pdf
