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Collections of college and personal papers, as well as a select number of individual documents, have been briefly described in entries available for browsing and searching on this site. All collection descriptions contain a representative image and a summary of the contents. Collection descriptions also include links to an inventory detailing the contents of the collection.
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1952-1957
The Craig Robert Thomas collection is housed in two document boxes, one oversized box, and 893 photograph folders, and is arranged into the following three categories: Correspondence, Photographs, and Miscellaneous. The collection consists almost…
Location: MC 2000.7
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Time Period: 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc2000.07.pdf
1979-1994
Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA) collection consists of the various papers, government documents, legal documents, transcripts, and publications collected and maintained by Three Mile Island Alert, a not-for-profit citizens' organization dedicated…
Location: TMI-TMIA
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government, Three Mile Island
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Audio-Visual Materials, Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: TMI-TMIA.pdf
1819-1979; bulk 1880-1945
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…
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
1860-2003
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…
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
1895-1941
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…
Location: MC 2012.7
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc2012.07.pdf
1880-1938
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…
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
Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2005.02.pdf
1976-1985
Morris King Udall served as a Congressman from Arizona for thirty years. From 1977 to 1991, he chaired the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs where he was instrumental in launching the investigation into the March 1979 accident at Three…
Location: TMI-Udall
Subject: Politics and Government, Three Mile Island
Format: Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports
Time Period: 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: TMI-Udall.pdf
1766-1897
The collection consists of the papers of the families of Jacob and Cornelius Vanderbilt, farmers and tax assessors of Newton Township, Cumberland County, Pa. Accounts of the Civil War are included among family correspondence, bills, accounts, and…
Location: MC 2001.14
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Land and Real Estate, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899
Collection Inventory: mc2001.14.pdf
1914-1985
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…
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
1837-1890
The collection contains papers of Ferdinand de Wilton Ward (1812-1891) concerning the Central Church in Geneseo, New York, the American Bible Society, and the genealogy of the Ward family. Also in the collection are a journal of Ward's voyage to…
Location: MC 2000.6
Subject: Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Reports, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899
Collection Inventory: mc2000.06.pdf
1926-1934
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…
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
1881-1934
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…
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
Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2017.04.pdf
1762-1817
The Anthony Wayne collection consists of four notebooks kept by Anthony, Charles, and Isaac Wayne. The two notebooks belonging to Anthony Wayne, dated 1762 to 1764, contain notes on mathematics and surveying; the notebook of Charles Wayne also…
Location: MC 2003.11
Subject: Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology
Format: Diaries and Journals, Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819
Collection Inventory: mc2003.11.pdf
1797-1841
This collection is comprised of letters written to Isaac Wayne, Dickinson College Class of 1792 and Pennsylvania statesman, on various subjects ranging from biographical information on his father (General Anthony Wayne) to Wayne's service in…
Location: MC 2001.11
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Politics and Government
Format: Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: mc2001.11.pdf
1924-1934
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
1928-1965
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…
Location: MC 2011.5
Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Notes and Notebooks, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc2011.05.pdf
1915-1952
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…
Location: MC 2022.4
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: Ravi D. Goel collection of Herbert Wing, Jr. (1889-1972) Papers
1962-1963
Barbara Stevens Wishmeyer served as Dean of Women at Dickinson College from 1959-1967. She created this scrapbook that documents the lives of the first-year female students living in Metzger Hall during the 1962-1963 academic year.…
Location: SB 2013.7
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: sb2013.07.pdf
1880-c.1950
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:…
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
Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc2009.03.pdf
1786-1801
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,…
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
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819
Collection Inventory: mc2001.05.pdf
1983-2008
These records document the activity and organization of the Zatae Longsdorff's Women's Center, a feminist organization at Dickinson that included student and faculty members.
Location: RG 9/8
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Broadsides and Posters, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: RG 9/8 - Women's Center records
1836-1842
The collection includes correspondence, speeches, essays, notebooks, bills, printed materials, and notes on debates and other such topics as the Light Street Institute and the Washington Temperance Society. The collection spans three main time…
Location: MC 2000.10
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Literary Pursuits, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859
Collection Inventory: mc2000.10.pdf