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Miscellaneous correspondence and material; includes Samuel Hopkins Adams, George H. Brinkerhoff, Alexander C. Soper, Von Steuben -- Added 7/9/02: signature of John Adams; letter from a 19th century Alexander Hamilton; Metamorphosis, a late 18th or early 19th century hand-drawn manuscript of a harlequinade; Phi Beta Kappa keys; Portuguese document signed by Armando de la Palma y Parduzco.

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Items from the President's Office: publications include committee minutes, survey, reports, and profiles.

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Various reports generated by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools between 1958-2006

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12 volumes containing the Laws of Nevis (1680-1773) and the Nevis Council Minutes (1748-1827).

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assorted material not directly related to Hamilton College, all years

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50 episodes of a student-made series of videos, produced and directed by David Gaynes, Class of 1999, for Hamilton College Television in 1995 and 1996, on U-Matic video cassettes. David Gaynes later became an award-winning documentary film-maker.

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Photographs in a variety of formats depicting Hamilton and Kirkland College students, faculty, buildings, activities, athletics, and alumni from the 19th century to the present. Researchers accessing this collection will gain insight into a visual history of Hamilton and Kirkland College.

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Contains personal correspondence with friends, family (Butler and Murray families), and many Hamilton College alumni and employees, business correspondence with Trustees of Hamilton College. Also included are business correspondence and shareholder information for firms in which P.V. Rogers was involved (Eureka Mower Co., Utica Mohawk RR Co., Rome and Utica Plank Road Co., Central Iowa Railway Co., Utica Steam Cotton Mills). Journals and account books are also included.

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Contains professional correspondence of Sidney Wertimer and William A. Jamison with various college offices and administrators while they were Hamilton College Provost and Kirkland College Director of Institutional Affairs, respectively. Correspondence and files provide an excellent description of the operation (Administrative as well as Academic Affairs) of both colleges during the period 1972 - 1980, including the dissoloution of Kirkland College and its merger with Hamilton College.

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The Spectator, Hamilton College's primary news publication, is published weekly. It is distributed in the campus dining halls, mail center, and library. The Spectator covers campus, local, and national news as well as Hamilton sports and campus life. The paper can be found online at http://students.hamilton.edu/spectator.

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A colonial land patent for property in New York with large wax seal of the Province of New York.

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Articles spanning 1985-1987 and 2002-2006

Abstract Established in 1995, The Milton and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College holds a collection of videotaped interviews, numbering over 350 entries, with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics. The collection generally focuses on artists associated with mainstream jazz and the swing era. Members of bands led by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton and the Dorsey brothers are well represented as well as soloists and leaders of small ensembles...

Content Description This collection is comprised of a number of time capsules: nine from the 19th century, buried by different graduating classes, and one from the 21st century, created at the College's bicentennial in 2012. In the late 19th century, it was customary for graduating classes at Hamilton College to plant a tree and commission a stone carved with the year of their graduation. After commencement, the students would bury a box beneath the stone containing newspapers, magazines, and other memorabilia...

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Contains personal correspondence with many individuals over seven decades; primary senders include his father J.J. Johnson, Aunt Clara, George E. Dunham, Sidney Bennett, Robert Treat, Herman Schilz and Peter Cox. Also included are correspondence with the class of 1915 for their 20th reunion, and a small number of professional correspondence.

Scope and Contents The collection includes Pope’s personal journals from August 1812 to October 1832, regarding his travels. It includes 18 letters written to Pope by various correspondents between 1822 and 1851, mostly concerning money owed by Pope and other business matters. It also includes 2 letters written to Chloe by her niece Mrs. Otis in 1832 and 1838, 2 checks written by Pope to a Mr. Croful in 1848, a miscellaneous Vermont land deed copied in 1835, and Pope’s reading glasses.There are...