Embosser

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00314
Location
Shelf 21 (housed with AC 00315-00316)

A black iron embosser featuring a stamp of an owl, "Dickinson College" and a caduceus.

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Embosser

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00316
Location
Shelf 21 (housed with 00314-00315)

A black iron embosser featuring a stamp of the Metzger Institute seal.

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Phi Kappa Psi Cup, c.2005

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00683
Location
Shelf 21 (housed with AC 00001, AC 00045, AC 00265-6, AC 00600)

A red-orange plastic cup printed with "Phi Kappa Psi" twice and greek letters in green.

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King Solomon Signet Ring, 1952

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00711
Location
Shelf 26

A replica of King Solomon’s ring worn by Rev. Canon Lewis Douglas Gottschall, Class of 1922. A gold ring fitted with 10 various precious stones and weighing about a half a pound.

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Drinking Dipper

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00303
Location
Shelf 20 (housed with 00297-00308)

A carved wooden dipper, purportedly made of orange root, given to James Buchanan.

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Plaster

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00306
Location
Shelf 20 (housed with 00297-00308)

A plaster rectangle imprint of the Rough Riders commemorative. 

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Freshman Beanie, Name Tag, and Student ID, 1967

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00462
Location
Shelf 19

President William Durden's Dickinson College Freshman red beanie (“dink”) with "71" on the back in white and "A-1" written in black marker on the front. A name tag with the college seal and "Dickinson College" in red and "William Durden" in black, and a red and white student ID with a student photo on the back, all from 1967.  

Alpha Chi Rho Formal Fans, 1952 and 1957

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00523
Location
Shelf 18 (housed with AC 00522-00527)

Two black wood folding fans, with black cloth featuring red flowers and the text "Alpha Chi Rho" in red and white. Small explanation booklets are attached to the fans reading "AXP, A Chinese Garden Spring Formal May 17, 1952" or "AXP, Dickinson Spring Formal, April 27, 1957". These were given out by the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity during the Formal dances of 1952 and 1957.

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John Dickinson Cigar Box

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00522
Location
Shelf 18 (housed with 00523-00527)

A brown, wooden cigar box wrapped in paper with images and name of John Dickinson.  The text on the bottom is the stamped information of the manufacturing company and health notice. 

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Coterie of the Quill Rune Stone, 1995

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00524
Location
Shelf 18 (housed with 00522-00527)

 A polished purple semi-precious rune stone left blank as the symbol for the unknowable or destiny, worn by members of the Coterie of the Quill to identify themselves as members of the group. The stone was accompanied by a handwritten note 'Coterie of the Quill, Rune 1995-1996, members bought runes to make necklaces - this is the blank rune called the "unknowable" and it is the rune of destiny.' and a photocopied worksheet explaining the different Viking rune symbols. 

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Paperweight

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00482
Location
Shelf 18 (housed with 00490)

A paperweight of an artistic rendition of Old West, inscribed with "Dickinson" in black calligraphy, cast in clear plastic.

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Paperweight, 2000

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00490
Location
Shelf 18 (housed with AC 00482)

A paperweight with a metal casting of college seal on a white marble base.  The seal is labeled “Class of 2000, Dickinson College.” On the back of the marble base is the information of the maker.

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Time Capsule, 1857

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00290
Location
Shelf 18

A rectangular metal box with lid originally placed in the cornerstone of Emory Chapel in 1857. The inscription on the paper glued to the top of the lid reads "Box from Corner Stone of Emory Chapel."

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Appointment Book, 1990

Artifact/Collection Number
AC 00514
Location
Shelf 18 (housed with AC 00483, AC 00515, AC 00537)

A Black-bound appointment book, gold-embossed with college seal and text “Metropolitan Diary 1990, The John Dickinson Society, Dickinson College.”

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