This collection contains banjo related materials acquired from the Robert Fraker Collection of Nineteenth-Century Banjo Instruction Manuals. The materials are currently held by the Special Collections Department at Hamilton College. The contents of the collection include 36 banjo instruction manuals, 32 minstrel broadsides, 3 published…
This collection contains banjo related materials acquired from the Robert Fraker Collection of Nineteenth-Century Banjo Instruction Manuals. The materials are currently held…
Genre: Ephemera, Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Church of the Messiah was founded by George Jones Adams who was the leader of a splinter sect of the Latter-day Saints formed after the death of the prophet Joseph Smith Jr. Adams initially followed schismatic leader James Jesse Strang, but was excommunicated from his sect in 1851. By the late 1850s he formed the Church of the Messiah, which…
The Church of the Messiah was founded by George Jones Adams who was the leader of a splinter sect of the Latter-day Saints formed after the death of the prophet Joseph Smith…
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Special Collections of Hamilton College include a substantial gathering of primary and secondary source materials relating to Communal Societies: groups of people intentionally living separate from the surrounding general society according to a shared set of principles, whether religious or secular, with common ownership of property. This…
The Special Collections of Hamilton College include a substantial gathering of primary and secondary source materials relating to Communal Societies: groups of people…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English, German
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
This is a collection of correspondence, notes, and publications related to Dr. Edward Robinson (April 10, 1794 – January 27, 1863). Robinson was an American biblical scholar who conducted research in Biblical Geography and Biblical Archaeology in the Ottoman-ruled Palestine region in the late 1830s and 1850s. He was an 1816 graduate of Hamilton…
This is a collection of correspondence, notes, and publications related to Dr. Edward Robinson (April 10, 1794 – January 27, 1863). Robinson was an American biblical scholar…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Realia, Visual Materials
Language: English, German, French
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Father Divine's International Peace Mission Movement is based at Woodmont outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its leader Reverend Major Jealous Divine, usually called Father Divine, began attracting followers in the American South during the 1910s. By 1919 the movement was based at Sayville, New York; and in 1933 Father Divine established a…
Father Divine's International Peace Mission Movement is based at Woodmont outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its leader Reverend Major Jealous Divine, usually called…
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies
Correspondence of the International Institute of China and other material related to that institution and to Gilbert Reid, its director.
Correspondence of the International Institute of China and other material related to that institution and to Gilbert Reid, its director.
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English, Chinese, Simplified, French, German, Arabic, Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Latin
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Archives, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Hamilton College Archives hold Hamilton and Kirkland College records and personal papers of enduring value from administrators, faculty, students, and alumni from the founding of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy to the present.
The Hamilton College Archives hold Hamilton and Kirkland College records and personal papers of enduring value from administrators, faculty, students, and alumni from the…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Hamilton College Archives holds Hamilton and Kirkland College records and personal papers of enduring value from administrators, faculty, students, and alumni from the founding of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy to the present, for the use of members of the Hamilton College community, scholars, and the general public.
The Hamilton College Archives holds Hamilton and Kirkland College records and personal papers of enduring value from administrators, faculty, students, and alumni from the…
Genre: Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Archives, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Catalogues of Hamilton College.
Catalogues of Hamilton College.
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Archives, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Publications of Hamilton College, including official, faculty and student publications.
Publications of Hamilton College, including official, faculty and student publications.
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Archives, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Special Collections of the Hamilton College Library comprise a variety of materials ranging from six Roman-Egyptian Papyri and fifty-four incunabula to contemporary artist's books. The three main collections are the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, the Ezra Pound Collection, and the Communal Societies Collection. We are also strong in Book…
The Special Collections of the Hamilton College Library comprise a variety of materials ranging from six Roman-Egyptian Papyri and fifty-four incunabula to contemporary…
Genre: Manuscripts, Publications
Language: English, Latin
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Hamilton College Student Newspapers.
Hamilton College Student Newspapers.
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Archives, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Hamilton Life was the student newspaper from 1899 until 1942, appearing weekly (but irregularly) during the college year.
Hamilton Life was the student newspaper from 1899 until 1942, appearing weekly (but irregularly) during the college year.
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Student Newspapers, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Arthur Edward Waite was an author and creator or joiner of societies important in the history of modern occultism and mysticism. He edited The Unknown World, proclaiming it would investigate “those mysteries which are called transcendental, occult, and mystic.” Waite was a member of various Golden Dawn and Rosicrucian sects beginning in the 1890s.
Arthur Edward Waite was an author and creator or joiner of societies important in the history of modern occultism and mysticism. He edited The Unknown World, proclaiming it…
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Materials related to The Israelite's House of David and Mary's City of David.
Materials related to The Israelite's House of David and Mary's City of David.
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
These are materials published by the Jezreelite community of Kent, England, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This movement, also known as the "New and Latter House of Israel," inspired Benjamin and Mary Purnell to later establish the Israelite House of David community in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
These are materials published by the Jezreelite community of Kent, England, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This movement, also known as the "New and Latter House…
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Special Collections of Hamilton College have nearly complete runs of four periodicals published by the Koreshan Unity: The Guiding Star (Chicago, 1887-1889); The Plowshare and Pruning Hook (San Francisco, 1891-1895); The Flaming Sword (Chicago and Estero, 1890-1948); and The Salvator and Scientist (Allegheny, Pa., 1895-1896). Altogether the…
The Special Collections of Hamilton College have nearly complete runs of four periodicals published by the Koreshan Unity: The Guiding Star (Chicago, 1887-1889); The Plowshare…
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Lesser Antilles Islands, located in the Caribbean Sea, were a center of European conquest and colonization. Research resources accessible here are drawn from the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, originally developed by Walter Beinecke, Jr., as well as the collection of the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society. The combined collections…
The Lesser Antilles Islands, located in the Caribbean Sea, were a center of European conquest and colonization. Research resources accessible here are drawn from the Beinecke…
Genre: Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
In 2019 and 2022 a team of Hamilton College staff and students traveled to the island of Nevis, birthplace of our namesake Alexander Hamilton. The team worked with staff members from the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society (NHCS) to digitize records in fragile physical condition and/or of significant historical value, including: Minutes of…
In 2019 and 2022 a team of Hamilton College staff and students traveled to the island of Nevis, birthplace of our namesake Alexander Hamilton. The team worked with staff…
Genre: Manuscripts, Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Lesser Antilles
The Oneida Community was a religiously based, socialist group, located in Oneida, New York, of about 250 people dedicated to living as one family and to sharing all property, work, and love. Lead by John Humphrey Noyes, the community flourished from 1848-1880. The OC were also prolific publishers and promoters of socialist and reform causes. Among…
The Oneida Community was a religiously based, socialist group, located in Oneida, New York, of about 250 people dedicated to living as one family and to sharing all property,…
Genre: Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections