Collections | Archives of Wheaton College

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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 are...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Administrative Council Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-032

Scope and Contents Minutes of the Administrative Council

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Admissions Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-002

Scope and Contents Minutes of the Admissions Committee

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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,...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Alzina Stone Dale Collection

Collection — Container: A-39

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.

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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 been...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

And God Came In / A Love Observed Archive

Collection

Identifier: Wade-A-26 through A-27

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 Gresham),...

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 records...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Anne Ridler Collection

Collection — Container: B-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.

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Anonymous Scrapbook/Photographs

Collection

Identifier: SC-192

Scope and Contents This black hard-bound anonymous scrapbook measures 12

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Anthropology Artifacts Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-239

Abstract A digital collection of anthropology artifacts

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Archival Photographs

Collection — Container: Filing Cabinets

Identifier: RG-20-001

Scope and Contents Over 26,000 cataloged photographs of people, places, activities and things associated with Wheaton College.

The contents of the Archival Photographs Collection may be searched in the photo database.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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 focus...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Arthur Greeves Diaries Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-5

Abstract This archive contains the daily diary entries of Arthur Greeves from 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...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Audio Recordings

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-12-003

Scope and Contents Artificial collection of audio recordings of campus events.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Author Societies Archive

Collection

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.

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Barbara Reynolds Papers

Collection

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.

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Barfield Library Publications and Inserts Archive

Collection — Container: A-95

Identifier: Wade-A-95

Abstract Publications and inserts from the personal library of Owen Barfield.

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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 date...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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)

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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 society,...

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

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.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Books & Culture Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-235

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Brocard Sewell Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

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 Socialist...

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Business Office and Accounting Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-015

Scope and Contents Records of the Business Office and Accounting include budget and financial reports, correspondence, legal information, administrative committee minutes, annual reports and audit reports.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Busman’s Honeymoon Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-116

Abstract This archive contains fan correspondence and theater returns from the play version of "Busman's Honeymoon" written by Dorothy L. Sayers and Muriel St. Clare Byrne.

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Byron E. Blair Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-186

Scope and Contents The Byron E. Blair Papers are composed of nearly twenty bound reports from the U.S. Commerce Department, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Radio Science, and other physics publications written by the author on various aspects of rock mechanics, frequency measurement, and phase stability of radio signals.

Found in: Special Collections, Buswell Library

Showing Collections: 1 - 50 of 1062

Filter Results

Additional filters: