Collections | Archives of Wheaton College

Academic Advisory Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-001

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Academic Advisory Committee

Dates: Created: 1983-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1983-1985

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Affairs Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-037

Scope and Contents

Miniutes of the Academic Affairs Committee

Dates: Created: 1978-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1986

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Computer Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-063

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Academic Computer Committee

Dates: Created: 1977-1977; Other: Majority of material found in 1977

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Council Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-039

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general file of the Academic Council

Dates: Created: 1952-1960; Other: Majority of material found in 1952-1960

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Planning Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-038

Scope and Contents

Minutes and Additional Materials of the Academic Planning Committee

Dates: Created: 1943-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1980

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Ad Hoc Committee on Divorce and Remarriage Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-065

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Ad Hoc Committee on Divorce and Remarriage

Dates: Created: 1979-1979; Other: Majority of material found in 1979

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Adeline Eliza Collins Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-208

Scope and Contents

The Addie Eliza Collins Papers is composed of biographical information about her principalship at Wheaton College, correspondence with Collins' decendants, college manuscripts and family photographs. The bulk of the collection centers around a dozen hand-written college papers in delicate script and family photographs from 1870-1900 including her mother, children and grandchildren.

Dates: Created: 1861-1972; Other: Majority of material found in 1861-1910; Other: Date acquired: 2008

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Adeline Hendricks Scrapbook

Collection — Box: I

Identifier: SC-134

Scope and Contents The Adeline Hendricks (1915) scrapbook is embossed with the words, "The Girl Graduate, Her Own Book." The covers are leather-lined cardboard, faded, and measure 6 x 9 1/4. The first pages are dedicated to photos of familiar campus scenes and faculty. Six photos feature a boating trip. These images include marginal comments. Tucked within are standard scrap items: literary society invitations and programs, alumni banquet notices, recital and concert programs. A few of the light green pages...

Dates: Created: 1911-1926; Other: Majority of material found in 1911-1926

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Administrative Council Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-032

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Administrative Council

Dates: Created: 1967-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1969

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Admissions Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-002

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Admissions Committee

Dates: Created: 1944-1979; Other: Majority of material found in 1973-1979

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Adolf Andrew Brown Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-172

Scope and Contents The A.A. Brown ('21) photo album, composed of gray construction paper, features a few words of description beneath each image, identifying persons and places. Interesting photos include an aerial of Blanchard Hall, the former chapel located in Blanchard Hall, the graduating class of 1919, and images of the severe damage inflicted upon the City of Elgin after a tornado hit in 1920. The book's covers are black, measuring 11 1/2 x 7. Other images show Charles Blanchard, Darien Straw, Elsie Dow,...

Dates: Created: 1917-1921; Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1921

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Adrienne Jones Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-135

Scope and Contents

The Adrienne Jones scrapbook is blue, embossed with a large gold "W" on the cover, and measures 16 x 12 1/4. Tucked into the front are loose photos of Charles Blanchard and his wife. The introductory pages are columns for the citing of names, addresses and comments of classmates. Further photos display family, friends and college faculty. Included are social event invitations and notices. Other photos show the Field Museum and scenes from various travels, such as Washington, DC.

Dates: Created: 1922-1922; Other: Majority of material found in 1922-1922

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Agnes Sanford Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-174

Scope and Contents

The Agnes Sanford Collection is a non-manuscript collection of audio recordings related to healing and spiritual gifts.

Dates: Created: 1897-2009; Other: Date acquired: 2005

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Alan Thornhill Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-100

Scope and Contents Alan Thornhill's Papers highlight the life and work of a British playwright. The collection contains major series of biographical, manuscripts, published, correspondence, media, and secondary materials. The biographical material is primarily obituaries. The manuscript material contains plays, sketches, notebooks, journals, essays, sermons and talks, and wedding and funeral addresses. The largest section of the correspondence is composed of letters Thornhill sent to his mother...

Dates: Created: 1927-1992; Other: Date acquired: 1999

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Alice G. Howard Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-105

Scope and Contents

The Alice G. Howard Collection is composed of memorabilia dating from 1938-1990. The collection contains Red Cross, American Legion, and U.S. Armed Forces pins, patches, medals, and uniform items related to her volunteer service during World War II.

Dates: Created: 1938-1990; Other: Date acquired: 2000

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Allen Lewis Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-060

Scope and Contents The Allen Lewis Collection, measuring over eight feet, highlights the life and work of an American woodblock artist and engraver. The collection contains major series of biographical, correspondence, manuscripts, artwork, media, and secondary materials. The biographical material is mainly that of his professional career, coming from secondary sources, such as a "Who's Who" article. The correspondence is composed of letters sent to Lewis' mother while he was in Paris (1894-1902) and letters...

Dates: Created: 1873-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1894-1947; Other: Date acquired: 1974

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Alzina Stone Dale Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-39

Abstract

The Alzina Stone Dale Collection includes materials relating to her work on Dorothy L. Sayers, including the 1993 Sayers Centenary celebration, the Thrones, Dominations book publishing project, the writing of Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers (a Sayers biography), and a diverse range of correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1967-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1977-1984, 1993; Other: Date acquired: 10/12/2016

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Alzina Stone Dale Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-106

Scope and Contents

The Alzina Stone Dale Papers are composed primarily of correspondence to/from Madeleine L'Engle, as well as, interviews, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, poems, and media material.

Dates: Created: 1981-1999; Other: Date acquired: 2001

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

American Piano Concerti Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-040

Scope and Contents

The American Piano Concerti Collection contains dozens of printed and manuscript concertos from the early (1920s) to late (1990s) twentieth-century. The contents of the American Piano Concerti Collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/40

Dates: Created: 1922-2017; Other: Date acquired: 1989

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-026

Scope and Contents The American Scientific Affiliation Collection, part of the Wheaton College Special Collections, contains a detailed record of the workings and development of this Christian professional organization. The collection includes photographs, brochures, minutes, papers, books, manuscripts, and articles from the origin of the organization in 1941 up to the early 2000s.Pieces of correspondence dating from prior to the foundation of the Affiliation are also included. All material has...

Dates: Created: 1940-2019; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1986; Other: Date acquired: 1986

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

And God Came In / A Love Observed Archive

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-26 through A-28

Abstract This archive contains the materials related to the book "And God Came In" by Lyle W. Dorsett (New York:MacMillan and Co. 1983.), republished as "A Love Observed" (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers. 1998). Dr. Dorsett donated his materials from the research and writing of the book to the Wade Center in 1990. The book is a biography of Joy Davidman Lewis. Joy was married twice, first to Bill Gresham, an American writer and magazine editor with whom she had two sons (Douglas and David...

Dates: Created: 1915-1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1960

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-048

Scope and Contents The Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers comprise eleven series: Biography, Published Material, Unpublished Material, Correspondence/Faxes, Conference, Media, Speeches/Lectures, Ministries, Secondary, WRF, and Memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is found in the latter portions of the series with Ministries, Secondary and WRF occupying three-quarters of the collection. These series document the activities of the Deyneka's various internal and external activities. Ministries includes...

Dates: Created: 1951-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1984-2000; Other: Date acquired: 1992

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Anne Ridler Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-B-1

Abstract

The Anne Ridler Collection contains correspondence and other documents relating to the life and work of Anne Ridler, poetess, playwright, and editor. Materials in the collection are primarily focused on Charles Williams.

Dates: Created: 1920-2011

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Anonymous Devotional Diary

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-203

Dates: Created: 1948-1949

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Anonymous (female) Diary

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-127

Scope and Contents

This five-year, green-pebbled clasped diary measures 4 X 5. The anonymous female diarist begins her entries on Jan. 1, 1935, and writes irregularly until Dec. 31, 1936. The entries, featuring her daily functions at home and school, are routine, chronicling such activities as sleighing, homework, church attendance, shopping, tennis playing, instrument practice, etc... Many pages are blank.

Dates: Created: 1935-1935; Other: Date acquired: 2007

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Anonymous Scrapbook/Photographs

Collection

Identifier: SC-192

Scope and Contents

This black hard-bound anonymous scrapbook measures 12

Dates: Created: 1927-1930; Other: Date acquired: 2007

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Anson and Adelaide Hemingway Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-209

Scope and Contents

The Anson and Adelaide Hemingway Collection is composed of manuscripts, photographs, and secondary material. The bulk of the collection comprises eleven photographs of the Hemingway family from 1900-1920. Another item of note is an original letter dated 1867 from Wheaton College president, Jonathan Blanchard providing a character reference on behalf of Anson.

Dates: Created: 1866-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2008

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Anthropology Artifacts Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-239

Abstract

A digital collection of anthropology artifacts

Dates: Other: -

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Archival Photographs

Collection — Container: Filing Cabinets

Identifier: RG-20-001

Scope and Contents

Over 26,000 photographs of people, places, activities, and things associated with Wheaton College. Photographs grouped by name, department, club, or other subject in photo files.

Individual photographs from the Archival Photographs Collection may be searched by subject or name through the photo database. This link is only accessible while on the Wheaton College network or WiFi.

Dates: Created: 1859-2020

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Art Department Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-010

Scope and Contents

Records of the Art Department include annual reports, syllabi and course information and program materials.

Dates: Created: 1994-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-2002

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Arthur Christy Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-082

Scope and Contents The Arthur Christy collection is categorized according to personal and professional manuscripts. Private papers contain correspondence to and from friends, professors and editors. The public papers contain manuscripts, articles, translations and chapters for books, many with handwritten corrections and jottings by Christy. Class notes and other coursework are also featured, along with essays profiling literary and anthropological subjects. Book and article manuscripts emphasize Christy's...

Dates: Created: 1927-1946

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Arthur F. Holmes Papers

Collection — Container: xBooks

Identifier: SC-183

Scope and Contents

Arthur F. Holmes Papers is composed of published journal articles, book reviews, conference papers and unpublished writings. Professional correspondence between Holmes and Wheaton College Duane Litfin spans the late 1990s. The author's original Master's thesis and Ph.D dissertation are also available.

Dates: Created: 1952-2003; Other: Date acquired: 2008

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Arthur Greeves Diaries Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-5

Abstract

This archive contains the daily diary entries of Arthur Greeves from 1917-1922.

Dates: Created: 1917-1922

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Arthur J. Ammann Papers

Collection — Container: xAccession 2015-0044

Identifier: SC-224

Scope and Contents Dr. Arthur Ammann ’58 was a zoology major at Wheaton. He is a pediatric immunologist who has done extensive research in pediatrics and HIV/AIDS in children and who, in 1982, first described two of the three known means of HIV transmission—mothers to infants and through blood transfusions. He also diagnosed the first children with HIV infection. Dr. Ammann is Founder of Global Strategies, a non‐profit organization dedicated to responding to the health needs of disadvantaged women and child by...

Dates: Created: 1952-2014; Other: Date acquired: 05/20/2015

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Arthur R. Schulert Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-175

Scope and Contents

The Arthur R. Schulert Papers is composed of biographical material and correspondence from his years at Wheaton College (1940-43), Ohio University and Princeton (1944-46). Manuscripts of his published work "Strontium-90 in Man and His Environment" from the 1960s are also available.

Dates: Created: 1940-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1962; Other: Date acquired: 1998

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Athletics Department Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-07-011

Scope and Contents

Records of the Athletics include correspondence, financial information, athletic conference files, agendas and minutes, annual reports and information by sport.

Dates: Created: 1900-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1947-1995

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Audio Recordings

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-12-003

Scope and Contents

Artificial collection of audio recordings of campus events.

Dates: Created: 1955-2019

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Author Societies Archive

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-14 through A-15

Abstract

The materials in this archive relate to groups and societies dedicated to promoting the works and lives of the seven authors in the Wade Center's collections.

Dates: Created: 1965-2019

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Barbara Reynolds Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-B-10 through B-16

Abstract

This archive includes professional and personal documents relating to the life and work of Barbara Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is a noted scholar of Dante, Italian studies, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Dates: Created: 1853-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2000; Other: Date acquired: 03/07/2016

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Barfield Library Publications and Inserts Archive

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-95

Abstract

Publications and inserts from the personal library of Owen Barfield.

Dates: Created: 1909-1997

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Bernard Nelson Collection

Collection — Box: I.A.1

Identifier: SC-120

Scope and Contents

The Bernard A. Nelson Papers are composed of personal awards, diplomas, commencement programs, and photographs from the 1930s.

Dates: Created: 1930-1940; Other: Date acquired: 2002

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Betsy Palmer Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-028

Scope and Contents The Palmer Papers is organized into seven series: Correspondence, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Publications, Radio, Scrapbooks, Television and Oversize. The bulk of the collection falls within the Photographs series with this containing several sub-series: Film Negatives, Film Prints, Home & Family Photographs, Miscellaneous Celebrity, Photographs, Movie Stills, Photo Shoot Photographs, Rehearsal Photographs, Television, and Theatre Photographs. The bulk of the photographs...

Dates: Created: 1954-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1985; Other: Date acquired: 1985

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Biblical and Theological Studies Department Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-012

Scope and Contents

Records of the Biblical and Theological Studies Department include program files, department and committee minutes and correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1980-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1986-1999

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Biographical Files

Collection — Container: No box number

Identifier: RG-11-002

Scope and Contents This record group consists of individual biographical files that were created as student matriculated at Wheaton College and then served as a "central file" for general information as it was received and retained by the college. Upon the student's death files were transferred to the college's archive for permanent retention. Additional files, mainly those of faculty, were created by the archives or the public/media relations office to respond to inquiries by the public or news outlets. Files...

Dates: Created: 1863-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-2001; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2008

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Biology Department Records

Collection — Box: I.1

Identifier: RG-07-013

Scope and Contents

Records of the Biology Department include department and academic committee minutes, transcripts (pre-FERPA), subject files, financial information and course information.

Dates: Created: 1940-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1977-1994

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Black Hills Science Station Records

Collection — Container: A2008-061

Identifier: RG-07-014

Scope and Contents

Memories, correspondence, plaques, general files of the Black Hills Science Station. (includes A2008-061)

Dates: Created: 1995-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1995-1998

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Blanchard Libraries

Collection

Identifier: SC-006

Scope and Contents The private libraries of Jonathan Blanchard and his son Charles Albert Blanchard, the first two presidents of Wheaton College, comprise this collection and includes volumes autographed by these men. This library reflects the interest and activities of their former owners and contains over 300 volumes. The collection contains numerous volumes on Freemasonry, slavery and the temperance movement. The library is an excellent source for the study of nineteenth century American culture and...

Dates: Created: 1734-1928; Other: Date acquired: 1962

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Board of Trustees Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-01-001

Scope and Contents

Records of the Trustees of Wheaton College include minutes, committee files, biographical files and correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1860-2019; Other: Majority of material found in 1916-2018

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Books & Culture Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-235

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 11/01/2016

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Brocard Sewell Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-24

Abstract This archive contains poems by Cecil Edward Chesterton, letters to Father Brocard Sewell, and the typescript of Sewell's biography of Cecil Chesterton. Cecil Chesterton, the younger brother of G.K. Chesterton, was the editor of The New Witness, author of A History of the United States and The Party System, widely known in political circles, member of the Fabian Society and the Christian...

Dates: Created: 1892-1983; Other: Majority of material found in 1972-1975

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

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