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A cream colored metal license plate frame with the college seal and "Dickinson College" in red.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: license plate frame
Format: Miscellaneous
Gold key with cut-out top, with attached tag identifying it as the key to the organ in West College.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: West College (Old West), Key
Format: Miscellaneous
Gold Masonic symbol pin which belonged to Mervin Grant Filler.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Pins
Format: Pins/Buttons
Miniature portrait in watercolor set in a gold frame, of Dickinson College President John Mitchell Mason.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Portraits
Format: Artwork/Photography
A gold metal medallion featuring the profile of a bust of a man embossed in the center. Around the bust is the embossed text that reads "JOHN DREW MAR-XXII MDCCCLXXIII-MCMXXIII".
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Medallion
Format: Currency/Medallions
A wide-bottom mug with a platinum trim and Dickinson text. The mug belonged to Ellis Stern who was a member of the class of 1949.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Mug
Format: Glassware/Ceramics
A black iron embosser with red and yellow painted designs featuring a stamp of the college seal.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Embosser
Format: Miscellaneous
Flat glass ornament with printed gold College seal.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: College Seal
Format: Ornaments
Red plastic pin with “Dickinson” and plastic charms in shape of football and helmet, which belonged to Robert Faddis.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Athletics
Format: Pins/Buttons
Tintype of a family, with hand-painted colors in a green display box.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Photography, Tintype
Format: Artwork/Photography
Two flat metal bookmarks with the College seal printed on them.
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: College Seal, Bookmark
Format: Miscellaneous
Small oval daguerreotype of unidentified woman in a brown carved box with red velvet interior.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Photography, Daguerreotype
Format: Artwork/Photography
Phi Alpha Pi sorority pin awarded to Mabel B. Kirk.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Sorority Pin, Greek Life, Pins
Format: Pins/Buttons
Gold metallic ornament containing college seal encircled by wreath.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: College Seal, Christmas Decorations
Format: Ornaments
One football shaped golden pin with a white ribbon. One football shaped button with "Dickinson Get Gettysburg" in black lettering with a red ribbon.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Button
Format: Pins/Buttons
A red felt pennant with "Dickinson" and the college seal in white lettering.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Pennants
Format: Flags/Pennants/Banners
A brown wooden cane with a carved white ivory handle. On the handle the inscription reads "M. Mengel. Jan 13, 1883". The cane is said to have belonged to James Buchanan.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Cane
Format: Miscellaneous
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority pin awarded to Dorothy Harpster.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Sorority Pin, Greek Life, Pins
Format: Pins/Buttons
Gold circle pin with college seal trimmed in red and white enamel which belonged to Forrest Eugene Craver.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: College Seal
Format: Pins/Buttons
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority pin awarded to Dorothy Harpster.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Sorority Pin, Greek Life, Pins
Format: Pins/Buttons
Gold pennant-shaped pin painted in white enamel with name “Metzger” for the Metzger Institute.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Education, Carlisle, Cumberland County
Format: Pins/Buttons
Phi Beta Kappa key awarded to Mabel B. Kirk.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Honor Societies, Key
Format: Pins/Buttons
Pi Beta Phi sorority pin awarded to Mabel B. Kirk.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Sorority Pin, Greek Life, Pins
Format: Pins/Buttons
A long bar covered by multicolored ribbon with a small bronze colored star glued to the top of the bar. This object was meant to accompany the award medals received by Albert Louther Demaree, class of 1923.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Ribbons, Award Medals, Military
Format: Miscellaneous
A white pin with "Dickinson College Freshman" in red and "Jane Myers" in pencil on both the back and front. Buttons were distributed to freshman women to be worn during new student initiation. Myers was a member of the Class of 1955.
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: Freshman Buttons, Orientation, Nametag
Format: Pins/Buttons
Freshman button worn as name tag by Lewis Gobrecht '55 while attending Dickinson College as a student. Gobrecht majored in Political Science and History at Dickinson and was an active member of the College Choir, Glee Club, and the Dickinson…
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: Freshman Buttons, Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
A large silver teapot with the words "Presented to Women of Dickinson College by Carlisle Branch of American Association of University Women 1951" engraved on it.
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: Silverware, Tea Set
Format: Glassware/Ceramics
A red and white stripped beanie hat with a red rim. On the rim is "Cholly" embroidered in white. This item belonged to Charles Seller, class of 1955.
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: Freshman Beanies
Format: Hats