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U. S. Civil War Collection
Collection
Identifier: U. S. Civil War Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, court-martial papers, newspaper clippings, printed congressional speeches, photographs, military documents, bound manuscripts, and other miscellaneous documents from the Civil War era. The topics covered in this collection include the court martial of Major General Fitz-John Porter, discussions of army life, camp conditions, and battles in the American South. Also includes forms and documents related to the Dakota Territory and infantry there.
Dates:
1860 - 1889
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Vertical File - Print and Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: Vertical File Print and Manuscripts
Charles Dudley Warner Papers
Collection
Identifier: Charles Dudley Warner papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a multitude of correspondence, as well as manuscript writings; book-length works, articles, addresses, notes, poetry and proofs, twenty travel diaries and notebooks; miscellaneous personal papers, including business and personal documents, scrapbooks; photographs, and ephemera. Correspondents in letters include well-known figures from the 19th century such as Henry Mills Alden, Samuel Bowles III, Anna E. Dickinson, Annie Fields, James T. Fields, Hamlin Garland,...
Dates:
1836 - 1918
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Watkinson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Watkinson family papers
Abstract
This collection includes correspondence, journals, diaries, business records, legal documents, photographs, and watercolor paintings of the Watkinson family; a prominent Middletown, Connecticut family involved in textile production during the early portion of the 19th century. The records begin in 1795 with Samuel Watkinson Sr. (1745-1816), his wife, and twelve children who immigrated to the United States to escape religious persecution in Lavenham, England due to their dissenting views of...
Dates:
1795 - 1873
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Watkinson Library Ornithology Collection
Collection
Identifier: Watkinson Library Ornithology Collection
Scope and Contents
This composite collection consists of correspondence, diaries, notebooks on ornithology, photographs, and slides, as well as some financial records and house bills from numerous other collections related to ornithology. The correspondence primarily transpire between Frank M. Chapman and Swarthmore College mammologist, Robert K. Enders (1899-1988), between ornithologist Herbert Keightley Job and other ornithologists and naturalists including A.C. Bent, John Burroughs, Frank Chapman, Elliott...
Dates:
1831 - 1966
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
William Weber Papers
Collection
Identifier: William Weber papers
Abstract
The William Weber papers primarily deal with material from the late 1940s-late 1960s, with many of the files and their subjects created by Weber himself. Material includes items related to Weber's personal life and career, various functions of the Episcopal church, and larger social issues such as McCarthy-era fear of Communism and the Civil Rights movement.
Dates:
1935 - 1967
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Jerome Pierce Webster Papers
Collection
Identifier: Jerome Pierce Webster Papers
Abstract
Webster graduated from Trinity College in 1910, obtained his medical degree in 1914, and went on to serve as an inspector of prisoner-of-war camps in Berlin, Germany, in 1916. After serving in the U.S. Army Medical Group, he went on to teach at Peking Medical College, and became a pioneer in plastic surgery until his death in 1974. This collection primarily contains material from his time in the war as an inspector and in the medical group. It includes correspondence, camp lists, reports,...
Dates:
1914 - 1919
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Charles P. Wells Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Charles P. Wells family papers
Abstract
Charles P. Wells (1811-1876) was a lifelong resident of Hartford, Connecticut. This collection contains correspondence, business records, and personal effects from his life.
Dates:
1655 - 1870
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
West Chester Bird Club (Pennsylvania) Collection
File
Identifier: West Chester Bird Club (Pennsylvania) Collection
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1880 - 1978
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Nathaniel S. Wheaton Papers
Collection
Identifier: Nathaniel S. Wheaton papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains notebooks, journals, correspondence, account books, records of expenditures, and invoices for books purchased for Trinity College while Nathaniel S. Wheaton (1792-1862) was in Europe. Wheaton's journals cover his life in Europe and his tours of England, Scotland, and France during the 1820s, as well as a trip to continental Europe (including Italy) between 1845 and 1847. The student notebooks contain school materials from 1814-1816, when Wheaton was a student at Yale...
Dates:
1814-1847
Found in:
Trinity College Archives