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Clear static cling decal printed with college seal in red and black
Decade: Unknown
Subject: College Seal, Decal
Format: Miscellaneous
A silver pewter metal plate with scalloped edges and a pewter replica of the college seal placed off center on the bottom of the plate. The manufactorer's mark is stamped on the back of the plate. This object belonged to Velva Diven Daihl, class…
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: Plate
Format: Miscellaneous
Two sets of cut glass butter dishes with flower shaped handles, deep bowls, accompanying plates, and glass drains to separate ice from butter. This set reportedly belonged to Joseph Priestley.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: dish set
Format: Glassware/Ceramics
Two flat metal bookmarks with the College seal printed on them.
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: College Seal, Bookmark
Format: Miscellaneous
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 brass bell with a pink ribbon tied around the wooden handle. It was used at Metzger Hall.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Bell
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
Small oval daguerreotype of unidentified woman in a brown carved box with red velvet interior.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Photography, Daguerreotype
Format: Artwork/Photography
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
Gold Masonic symbol pin which belonged to Mervin Grant Filler.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Pins
Format: Pins/Buttons
A black leather and red velvet flip-top box with three metal feet housing eleven silver knives and two small pronged silver forks. This set was owned by John Dickinson.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: knife set
Format: Miscellaneous
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority pin awarded to Dorothy Harpster.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Sorority Pin, Greek Life, Pins
Format: Pins/Buttons
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority pin awarded to Dorothy Harpster.
Decade: Unknown
Subject: Sorority Pin, Greek Life, Pins
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
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
Phi Alpha Pi sorority pin awarded to Mabel B. Kirk.
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
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 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 white plate with scalloped edges and a gold trim. In the center of the plate is a collage of illustrations in red of important sites in Carlisle, including (clockwise from the top) the Cumberland County Courthouse, Dickinson School of Law's…
Decade: 1950-1959
Subject: Commemorative Plates, Carlisle
Format: Glassware/Ceramics