Topic | Accession # | Description Summary |
Administration Building: History | MC General File: Administration Building | History of the Administration Building. |
Administration Building: Postcards | MC2003/59 | Administration Building: Administration Building Postcard Collection |
Administration Building: Postcards | MC2003/59 | Administration Building Postcard Collection. |
Alumni Stories | MU2020/65 | Alumni stories primarily about Otho Winger, yet a few others about the M Club, Mr. Fish, the College basketball team of 1924, |
Bauman Bowman, Weber, Helman: Family Bible | MC2011/134 | One family bible printed in 1773 and 1774 donated to the collection by Howard H. Helman, great great grandson of Marguit (Marguerite?) Bowman. Birth registries are included. |
Brethren Historical Collection, Museum, Archives and African Art Collection | MC2011/133 | The papers pertaining to the creation of the campus Museum, the Brethren Historical Collection, the African Art Collection, and the Archives, including the move of the Museum to the North Manchester Center for History. |
Clock, Grandfather from Oakwood Hall | MC General File: Clock | Material related to the grandfather clock from Oakwood that is currently on the second floor of Funderburg Library. |
Miller, Robert Henry: Minister, Church of the Brethren | MC2009/87 | Elder Robert Henry Miller, minister in the Church of the Brethren had a son, Manchester College Professor Robert Henry Miller, a minister as well. The accession page gives information about both father and son. MC2009/87 is the manuscript of an unpublished book by Professor R. H. Miller, "Comments on the Gospel of John." Miller, Robert Henry (1825-1892) obituary in the Gospel Messenger. |
Mount Morris College: Stover, Miriam | MC2003/371 | Miriam Stover's Mount Morris College Memorabilia Collection, circa 1913 - 1920. |
Nelzey and Grandfather's Clock | Large Faculty/Staff Photo Boxes: Nelzey | Photograph with Ms. Nelzey and Oakwood grandfather's clock. |
Paul and Snoberger: Family Bible | MU2013/24 | A bible [1813] that contains letters related to the Paul and Snoberger (Snowberger) families. List of "Paul" family children and their birthdates. |
Plunkett, Roy: Objects | MC2001/3 | Objects and plaques in the possession of Plunkett that were received as awards, commemorative items, gifts, or as examples of the varied uses of Teflon. Slides and notecards for presentations. Other Plunkett awards and objects are on display on the second floor of the Science Center and are not documented. |
Schutz, J. Raymond | MC2011/227, Folders 45 - 83 | A large collection designated as MC2011/227 and divided into 5 folder groupings; [1-16], [17-22], [23-44], [45-83]. Schutz was a professor at Manchester College, as well as a farmer, public speaker, pastor, candidate for Congress (Indiana,1932) and a contendor in the 1936 Governor's race. He was a Kiwanis Club official and Chairman of the Standard Life Insurance Company of Indiana. The collection describes Indiana before and during WWII. Schutz corresponds with soldiers and provides names of North Manchester men killed in combat. Topics of import include; prohibition, economic recovery from the Great Depression, and Hitler's impact on Europe. Schutz was a contemporary of Andrew Cordier who participated in some of Schutz's political involvements. |
Schwalm, Vernon: Correspondence with Andrew Cordier | MC2006/13: Schwalm's Confidential Files | Decades of correspondence between Vernon Schwalm and Andrew Cordier. Cordier gives detailed accounts of behind-the-scenes activity at the United Nations during the Cold War, and the reader can watch the situation in the Congo unfold. Cordier's role in the Cuban missile Crisis is described to Schwalm as are events on the Columbia University campus during a period of student uprising in the the 1960's. Cordier is always in the thick of things and his descriptions of political figures and events are intriguing. |
Thompson, Robert | MU2018/89 | The Manchester College related photograph collection of Robert Thompson (MC 1934). These photographs give a glimpse at student life between 1930-1934, and an aerial view of the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference at Manchester College held during the summer of 1929. |
Wise, Alma | Faculty/Staff Boxes 46-48: Wise, Alma | A biography of Alma Wise presented during a College Women's Club program (1997). Also included are stories of historical interest regarding Oakwood Hall. |