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Spencer Bauman Smith (1911-1984) graduated from Dickinson College in 1934. He then attended the Princeton Theological Seminary and served as pastor of the Camp Hill (PA) Presbyterian Church for 34 years. This collection contains correspondence and memorabilia from his college days.
Location: MC 2011.4
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: 
mc2011.04.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
These images are from a collection of photograph albums compiled by James Gordon Steese, an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers. Steese assembled these albums using photographs he collected while serving as president of the Alaska Road Commission during the construction of the Alaska Highway...
Location: MC 2002.4, B6
Subject: Business and Industry, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1920-1939
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 records document the activity and structure of Dickinson's student government.
Location: RG 8/1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government
Format: Financial Documents, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: RG 8/1 - Student Senate Records
Charles Lowe Swift enrolled at Dickinson College in 1900 with the class of 1904, but left in Fall 1903 to become a journalist for the Baltimore Herald. He taught English at Dickinson's Conway Hall and later at the Hill School in Pottstown, PA before joining Dickinson's English Dept....
Location: MC 2018.6
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Collection Inventory: mc2018.06.pdf
These images are from the collection of Illinois-born pianist Allen C. Tanner (1898-1987) who lived in France from 1924 to 1934. This collection reflects Tanner’s interactions with members of his family, as well as with musicians, artists, and literary figures, such as Margaret Anderson,...
Location: MC 2013.3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1920-1939
Allen C. Tanner (1898-1987) was an Illinois-born pianist. At fifteen he was awarded a scholarship to study music in Chicago. There he met Margaret Anderson, editor of the Little Review. Tanner then moved to New York City where he performed in musical salons and accompanied many musical...
Location: MC 2013.3
Subject: LGBT History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Music, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2013.03.pdf
This collection documents several members of the Dum family of Carlisle, PA, particularly Annie Spotts Dum, Blanche L. Dum (Class of 1910), George B. Dum, Miriam Dum Frey (Class of 1913), and ...
Location: MC 2017.3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Miscellaneous, Music
Time Period: 1800-1819, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc2017.03.pdf
Ruth Agnes Trout graduated from Dickinson College with the class of 1936. In 1983, she and her sister, Helen Elizabeth Trout, established the Trout Gallery at the college in honor of their parents, Brook and Mary Agnes Cook Trout. This collection of papers documents Trout's relationship with the...
Location: MC 2005.1
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: mc2005.01.pdf
Thomas W. Troxell (1874-1947) graduated from Dickinson College in 1898. He taught at schools in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia before finishing his career as principal at Gaithersburg High School in Maryland. This small collection contains materials related to Troxell’s...
Location: MC 2012.7
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: mc2012.07.pdf
William Van Bergen Tudor (1832-1916) graduated from Dickinson College in 1850 and earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from Centenary College in Louisiana in 1872. He served as a minister in the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as in the St. Louis and Virginia...
Location: MC 2005.2
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2005.02.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
Eleanor T. Waugh Hanley (19??-1940) was the daughter of Karl Tinsley Waugh, who served as president of Dickinson College from 1932 to 1933. Hanley enrolled in the Dickinson class of 1935 and participated in numerous campus activities, although she did not graduate from Dickinson. Hanley died...
Location: MC 2005.3
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2005.03.pdf
Karl Tinsley Waugh ws born in 1879 in Cawnpore, India. His family moved back to the U.S. when he was a teenager, and he later received degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University and Harvard. He served in teaching and administrative positions at numerous colleges and universities, and he served as...
Location: MC 2017.4
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Economics and Finance, Education, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Miscellaneous, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs
Collection Inventory: mc2017.04.pdf
Emma Catherine Wentzel graduated from Dickinson College in 1934. This collection contains correspondence received during her high school and college years.
Location: MC 2007.1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2007.01.pdf
The Willoughby collection is divided into three series and housed in four document boxes. It is comprised mostly of drafts of literary works, contained in the Literary Productions series, as well as correspondence, mostly relating to his librarian work, and miscellaneous other materials. The...
Collection Inventory: mc2011.05.pdf
The Ravi D. Goel collection of Herbert Wing, Jr. Papers has been organized into one series, Correspondence, and further divided into subseries by recipient. It contains letters, both handwritten and typewritten, and postcards. The collection documents family relationships, and correspondence...
Collection Inventory: Ravi D. Goel collection of Herbert Wing, Jr. (1889-1972) Papers
This collection consists of nine scrapbooks relating to John Perry Wood (1879-1959), Dickinson College class of 1901 and Yale University School of Law class of 1902, and his family. Most of the scrapbooks deal with aspects of family life: correspondence between family members, and memorials to...
Location: MC 2009.3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons
Collection Inventory: mc2009.03.pdf
Publisher: Carlisle: Hamilton Library Association
Edward W. Biddle, President of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College and a graduate of the class of 1870, delivers a talk on the first grammar school and college building in Carlisle.
Location: DC 1870 B584o
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1920-1939
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1919-1920 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment,...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
This program is for Allen Tanner and Harold Barton's joint recital at the Provincetown Players' Theatre-Club on February 2nd. The year is unknown, but approximated.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F58
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
This program is for the Grand Ballet on March 18th. The year is unknown, but approximated. Pavel Tchelitchew is listed as the decor and costume designer.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F60
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
This program is for a song recital by Marguerite d'Alvarez, accompanied by Allen Tanner, at the Provincetown Theatre on March 28th. The year is unknown, but approximated.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F59
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
This program is for a concert in which Allen Tanner, Marguerite Namara, and others performed at the Globe Music Club in New York City.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F51
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
