| Topic | Accession # | Description Summary |
| Advancement: 1947 "Rotogravure, The News-Sentinel," | MC2009/99a,b | 1947 photo spread from "The News-Sentinel" that features the Chime Tower, Oakwood Hall, student housing, tennis courts, trailers for married students, the radio station, Manchester College professors, the May Day queen, football players, and the Education/Professional Programs Division. |
| Baldwin, Ferne: Collection | MC2011/231 | Objects in the collection of former Manchester College Archivist and Professor, Ferne Baldwin. The collection includes assorted MC historical materials and records. |
| Basketball, Men's, Coaches, Presidents of College: Newspaper Special | MC2007/216 | Manchester Herald, College Special Vol. 5. No. 19, Wednesday, December 8, 1926. This publication focuses on the College and contains the 1926-1927 basketball schedule along with team photos. It features plans for the "new' gym, write-ups about faculty and staff and interesting advertisements. |
| Books: Student and Professor Created | MU2020/71 | Titltes: "Modern Poetry," modern poems Collected by members of The Modern Poetry Class of 1927-28 - "A Collection of Poems on the Philosophy of Life," compiled by John Edgar Finney, Volumes 1 and II, circa 1926 - "Facts About Latin America" - "Hymn Studies," a compilation by the Class in Sacred Art, 1928-1929 - "Cicero's Library," by Louise Grossnickle, c. 1929 - "Meditation," by Joan Wheeler Krumlauf (book on art) - "Poems on the Lure of the Road," collected by Cecil Snyder, 1925-1926 - "Recreational Projects and Stunts, Recreational Projects and Stunts for Taking the Wreck out of Recreation," prepared by Garrett Eppley and James Newcom - Study Manual for History of the West (The American Frontier, 1607-1890), compiled by C. Ray Keim - Children('s) Literature in Manchester College Library, 1941 - "A Partial Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles of St. Paul," by R. C. Wenger, 1926. |
| Centennial: Historical Slides and Images | MU2014/45 A,B | A group of slides and scanned images focusing on the historical figures and events that formed Manchester College and shaped Manchester University. |
| College Woman's Club | Large Box 32 | Memorabilia, minutes, and records of Manchester's College Woman's Club. |
| Conkling, Fred | MC2007/86 | Fred R. Conkling: "Minimum Essentials in English Composition, Revised." |
| Conkling, Fred | Faculty/Staff Boxes: Conkling, Fred R. | Material related to Fred R. Conkling. According to the records of Ferne Baldwin, Fred Conkling taught English and Debating at Manchester College from 1923-1959. He died 12 February 1962. See also: Manchester College Bulletin June 1950 p.2, Oak Leaves 4 October 1924 p.3, 15 February 1962 p.1 (obit). |
| Conkling, Fred | MC2009/61 | "STIM-YOU-LUS BOOK," prepared by Fred R. Conkling for Freshman composition. |
| English Department: Conkling, 1928, Practice Sheets | MC2007/194 | "Practice Sheets in the Minimum Essentials of English Composition," 1928 by Professor Fred R. Conkling. 1. One bound volume by Professor Fred R. Conkling. |
| Faculty, Trustee and Early Photographs | MU2014/13 | Photographs of many faculty members from what appears to be the early 1900's as well as the 1950's and 1960's. A few other pictures showing trustees, the MC Chorus' oratorio of 1912, and various student groupings. |
| Faculty/Staff Photographs | Photograph Box 142 | Many faculty and staff photographs from the beginning of the 1900's forward. |
| Holl, Carl Waldo: Photographs | MC2004/223 | Carl Holl photograph collection. *Some pictures deaccessioned and given to Carolyn Holl Leffel, sister of Carl W. Holl, Jr. |
| Manchester College Photographs: circa 1926 | MU2018/28 | Manchester College photographs from the collection of Lynn and Mary (Gilbert) Sheller who graduated with the MC Class of 1926: Fred Conkling, Otho Winger, May Day. |
| Manchester College Promotional: "Rotogravure, The News-Sentinel," Saturday, November 8, 1947 | MC2009/99a,b | Trailer Court: Rotogravure, The News-Sentinel, 1947.
Trailer Court: Rotogravure, The News-Sentinel, 1947.
Featured in this newspaper spread are:
- the Chime Tower and Oakwood Hall
- Spartan Halls (barracks for men)
- (the new dormitory to house 100 men and costing an estimated $225,000
- Professor O. W. Neher and Professor Edward Kintner conferring in biology building with crayfish chart
- Tennis courts and 30 trailers for married veterans
- Campus radio station featuring Irvin Hoff, student and Dr. Orland lefforge, speech professor officiating as members of TKA, honorary speech fraternity, broadcast. Photographed are Wayne Miller, from North Manchester; Miss Elsie Rossmanith, Rensselaer; Ralph Yaney and Glen Crago, North Manchester
- Coeds, Miss Anna Mae Ehrmin, Mishawaka and Carlton Stoddard, Louisville, Ohio
- 1947 May Queen Mary Kathryn Cooper, Dayton, Ohio with football players John Krieg, Ft. Wayne and Ellis Lehman, Windbor, PA.
- Miss Mary Jane Penrod, Bluffton, IN, learns how to be a school teacher at Thomas Marshall School with Mrs. Esther Mae Ashley, student teacher director, and Miss Lucille Wright, critic teacher, along with a class of schoolchildren.
- Professors A. R. Eikenberry (Psychology), Fred R. Conkling (English) and Dr. C. S. Morris (Physics) in Administration Building with portrait of Otho Winger, President from 1911 - 1941 in background.
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| Manchester College: Historical Movies | MC2009/147a,b,c,d | Historical videos of 1934 Homecoming, 1934 May Day festivities, sports events, and graduation exercises 1939 and 1941. Camp Mack Day circa that same era.
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| Manchester College: Photograph Album | MC2007/39 | A photograph album containing photographs of Manchester College faculty and staff as well as pictures from theatrical productions/plays ranging from 1916 through 1965-1966. |
| Oak Leaves: Editor's Manual 1946 | MC2008/192 | A handbook for the Oak Leaves editor. A typed, cut and pasted, guide that includes a description of terms as well as many examples. |
| Photographs | MU2013/157 | A conglomeration of decade spanning images reflecting student life and faculty/staff experience at Manchester College. |
| Post War Higher Education | MC2004/251 | Post-War Higher Education Materials. |
| Public Relations: Newspaper Promotional | MC2009/99 | Newspaper spread: Promotional: "Rotogravuer, The News-Sentinel," Saturday, November 8, 1947. |
| Schwalm, Vernon: Correspondence Folders 62-104 | MC2006/13: Schwalm's Confidential Files - Folders 62-104 | Correspondence bidding Schwalm farewell as he leaves Manchester College as Dean and heads west as President of McPherson College in Kansas. Letters of congratulation and support and appreciation regarding his great ability. The return of Schwalm to Manchester College as President and materials related to his inaugural event. Also, The Church of the Brethren celebrates its 250th anniversary, Schwalm gives tribute to Carl Holl, Manchester College experiences challenges during WWII. Correspondence between Schwalm and students in Civilian Public Service and students in the military. Schwalm works with the Board of Trustees, and faces staff and student issues. Schwalm's retirement and gift from the Board of Trustees offering theSchwalms a trip to Europe and Africa. Career following retirement and dedication of Schwalm Hall. Materials surrounding, "My Educational Pilgrimage," by Schwalm and a look into Schwalm's life following his presidency. A small collection on the history of Manchester College. Various writings by Schwalm including but not limited to the drafts, "College Life Since World War II," "Christian Higher Education in the Church of the Brethren at Mid Century," and "The Development of the Sciences at Manchester College." Correspondence with A. Blair Helman. |
| Tau Kappa Alpha: Memorabilia | MU2016/14 | T. K. A. , a speech organization, selected only a very small percentage ofspeech students and select faculty as members.The Archivescollection contains a stencil with the T. K. A. initials and a length of chainon which cards containing the names and initiation dates of members were connected. Names included in description. |
| Winger, Otho: Faculty Prospects | MC2006/13: File Folder Case - Faculty and Prospects Letters | President Otho Winger's correspondence regarding faculty prospects primarily for the 1920's. |
