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Personal correspondence, biographical material, scripts of radio broadcasts, movie reels, cap and hood, political cartoon hand-drawn and signed by artist: H.M. Talburt; added 7-6-09, copy of Dickens Encyclopaedia given and inscribed to Alexander Woollcott by Jerome Kern, 1924; added 8/21/13: None But a Mule by Barbara Woollcott (niece), Whistler's Room, by Paul Alverdes (printed for Friends of Alexander Woollcott)

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The collection consists of correspondence between Lucille Frieda (Schaefer) Kraus and Elmer Charles Kraus dating 1942-1959. Both were members of the Amana Society.

Content Description assorted audio and visual recordings produced by H.C. including the Winter Carnival, Bobby Peru, athletic events (1960s), fundraising videos (Life in a Small College), microfilm -- 0000.101.1 Audio -- A Concert by the Hamilton College Choir-3 copies -- Songs of Hamilton-2 copies -- Voices of Hamilton's Past-2 copies -- Hamilton College Choir Christmas Greetings-3 copies -- Little Dorrit Microfilms-4 boxes -- Master Return Records -- Hamilton 371.2 Ham cop. 2 -- Means, Craig Mengel '75-film...

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The diary of Azuba Spear tells of two years her life with special emphasis placed on her religious culture. Spear and her family were methodists, and she both describes and reflects on their practices. On multiple occasions she writes about the deaths of girls about her own age, one of whom was her own sister.

Content Description Assorted memorabilia and other material related to B.F. Skinner, class of 1926. Of special interest are a letter from Robert Frost received by B.F. Skinner; letters to Arthur Percy Saunders while Skinner was a graduate student at Harvard and afterwards (from A.P. Saunders Papers); memorabilia collected by college. Organized into three series: (1A-E) Memorabilia, Articles About, and Publications of B.F. Skinner; (2) Letter to B.F. Skinner from Robert Frost; (3) Letters to B.F. Skinner from...

Abstract Taxes, Duties, and others Sources of Revenue; Fees; Revenue and Expenditure; Comparative Yearly Statements of Revenue and Expenditure; Local Revenues; Public Debt; Military Expenditure- Militia; Public Works; Legislation-Laws, Proclamation & C.; Political Franchise; Council and Assembly; Civil Establishment; Officers Who Have Given Security for Discharge of Their Duties; Pensions; Abstract of Expenditure for Civil, Judicial, Ecclesiastical Establishments, & C.; Foreign Consuls;...

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Personal and business correspondence regarding business in Costa Rica, letters of A.E. Brownell to various people, letters of Henry Brownell (Hamilton College class of 1843), and letters of various other members of the Brownell family; letters and financial documents from Minor Cooper Keith pertaining to his railroad and banana businesses. (See also Albert Brownell Photograph Album at http://archives.hamilton.edu/repositories/5/accessions/2002.)

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Bronze bust of Professor Paul Adee Fancher, designed and cast by Sandor Ambrozy, Budapest, Hungary, 1938. Fancher (d. 1964) taught English and directed the College Choir.

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Index to the Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Hamilton College published in the 19th century. Contents are arranged in alphabetical order by names and subjects.

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Burial records from cemeteries around Nevis including the Jewish cemetery and various churches. It also contains a copy of "Grave stone Survey of St. Kitts and Nevis, 1721-1897" by Christy Frank Winstead, 2008.

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Programs from theater productions by the Charlatans. -- most programs date to the early 1900s; some spoof playbills date to the mid-1800s. Also materials through 1979, and a history of the Charlatans.

Content Description Divided into 5 boxes and 1 oversize folder. First box contains graphs, plates, and charts of specific meteorological events with specific names. Highlights include a thorough study of solar protuberances during the solar eclipse of August 1869 which includes drafts and final color prints of a series of 8 diagram plates; a set of 69 large star-charts from Paris in the late 1800s; correspondence between Peters and various international astronomy experts; Peters' collection of large photographs...

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Official records of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, 1940s and 1950s, the early years of Winton Tolles, class of 1928, time as dean.

Content Description 7 boxes of diaries, lectures, articles, clippings, correspondence, and publications by or related to Gilbert Reid. Professional correspondence of the International Institute of China and other material related to that institution and to Gilbert Reid, its director; newspaper clippings and journals. Includes professional correspondence of the I.I.C. to philanthropists (e.g. Carnegie and Rockefeller) and missionary organizations in the U.S. as well as other nations regarding support of the...

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Catalog cards organized alphabetically by last name indexing the Hamilton Alumni Review (1935 - ). Index is available online here: https://www.hamilton.edu/offices/lits/special-collections/college-archives/alumni-review-index

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correspondence and papers from the 1930s and early 1940s: publicity, correspondence, historical data, award dinner 1943, etc., misc. papers

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assorted material related to Hamilton College, all years, organized by subject

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Index to the student publication originally known as "Hamilton Literary Monthly" and later "Hamilton LIterary Magazine," which ran from 1866 to 1920. The collection is organized into three series: I. Names; II. Subjects; and III. Relatives. All materials are arranged in alphabetical order by last name or subject.

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Notes for the German Dictionary originally housed in a wood file cabinet, from Professor of German Hermann C.G. Brandt, Class of 1872. The dictionary was published in 1925: A German-English dictionary, by H. C. G. (Hermann Carl George) Brandt, London, New York etc. G.E. Stechert & Co.

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Audio tapes and manuscript materials documenting the inauguration of John W. Chandler, the 15th President of Hamilton. College.