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Hampden-Sydney College

Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections
Walter M. Bortz III Library
P.O. Box 7
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
Primary Collecting Areas:
US History
Description:
Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections contains a variety of primary source documents, photographs, blueprints, maps, rare books, and other one-of-a-kind materials reflective of the nearly 250 year history of the institution and its surroundings.
Phone: (434) 223-6302
Phone: (434) 223-7225
Start Over Repository Hampden-Sydney College Date range 1898

Academic Year Drawer 1-4, Folder 76

1. Invitation to HSC Intermediate Celebration, February 22, 1898. 2. HSC student petition (ca. 1898) asking Faculty to change the "Weekly Holiday from Saturday to Monday." 3. Farewell letter from UTS to HSC Faculty, dated May 13, 1898, along with response (no date) from HSC Faculty. 4. Richard McIlwaine's (HSC President) letter to John B. Henneman concerning writing an article on the history of HSC to be printed in the Kaleidoscope, letter dated March 14, 1898. 5. Request for contribution to a J. M. Venable, Esq., dated April 16, 1898, promoting the collection of funds for an oil portrait of President McIlwaine. 6. Photographs: (HSC Class of 1898) James Edward Allen, Eugene Caldwell, Howson White Cole, Eugene Douglas, John Harris Earhart, Howard Lawrence Foster, Lewis M. Gaines, Garrett Gideon Gooch, Barksdale Hamlett, Robert Francis Hutcheson, Lewis Harvie Irving, Thomas Allen Kirk, Clarence Reed Lacy, David Cummins Morton, Virgin Hadley Starbuck, Tecumseh Harvell Thompson, Arthur Douglass Wauchope, two unidentified individuals.

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  2. Paul L. Grier Vertical Files

Academic Year Drawer 1-4, Folder 77

1. Harry Rutherford Houston (HSC Class of 1899); Christmas card, 1946, references to HSC. 2. William Walton Bondurant's (HSC Class of 1899) handwritten request to HSC Faculty to take a late exam. 3. William Walton Bondurant's (HSC Class of 1899) obituary from San Antonio Express and News, February 14, 1959. 4. Frank Ernest Iron's (HSC Class of 1899) biographical material from History of Winter Haven, Florida. 5. Tome Peete Cross' (HSC Class of 1899) assorted writings. 6. HSC Student petition (ca. 1899) to the Faculty requesting the institution of basketball at HSC. 7. HSC student petition (April 22, 1899) protesting a "shameful act of Rowdyism;" see material on Thomas B. Blake, HSC Class of 1901.

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  2. Paul L. Grier Vertical Files

A.J. Morrison Collection 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 Box

The collection contains an unfinished manuscript by A.J. Morrison about Prince Edward County, along with letters, newspaper clippings, and various documents about local history. Dates of materials range from 1754-1975.

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Box 1 Shelf Above Grier Collection

Thomas S. Bocock
Robert B. Dobbins, framed (1799)
T. Oliver Towles
John Luster Brinkley (1959)
Ezekiel V. Adams (1858)
Clem. Carrington
Edward M. Henry
Robert Kincaid Brock, honorary doctorate (1938)
Thompson C. Maupin, framed (1842)
Jos. X. Morton, framed
Hillary H. Land
Henry Hannah McVey, Jr., framed (1912)
WIlliam J. Haskins
[G...?] G. McGruder
William C. Carrington
Jacob H. Cox, framed
Robert Kincaid Brock
James Joseph Harrell, Union Theological Seminary
Robert Goodloe Harper (1847)

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  2. Hampden-Sydney Diploma Collection

Box 2 Shelf Above Grier Collection

John Davidson Ewing, framed (1809)
E. H. McDonald, BA
E. H. McDonald, BS
Meriweather Lewis
Hart Mazey Smith, honorary doctorate (1926)
William Henry Venable
Chapman H. Chilton, BA
Chapman H. Chilton, BS
John Edwards Bryan (1917)
G. L. Williams
Charles Gibbs Johnson (1926)
Francis Maury Allen
Robert Thurston Hubbard, BS (1897)
Robert Thurston Hubbard, BA
Julian Barksdale Jr., BS (1921)
Ernest Randolph Trice, BS (1943)
Henry Tucker Graham, BA (1886)
Henry Tucker Graham, honorary doctorate (1934)
Frederick Bruce Leys, BA (1943)
Henry Tucker Graham, Union Theological Seminary
Curtis Ashby Brown, BA (1924)
Richard Owen Snyder, BA (1974)
Richard McIlwaine, BA
Philip Hortenstine Ropp, BA (1930)

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  2. Hampden-Sydney Diploma Collection

Brock Family Certificate Collection 1 Boxes One legal sized flat box containing rolled diplomas of various sizes.

This artificial collection contains diplomas and certificates from members of the Brock family, including Henry Clay Brock, Robert Kincaid Brock, and Delia Brock.

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