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Special Collections

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Research Collections--Special Collections

Hiram Authors
Published works by persons affiliated with Hiram College.

Hiram Associations
Published works associated in some way (e.g. ownership) with persons
affiliated with Hiram College.

Hiram Subjects
Published works about persons or other entities affiliated with Hiram
College.

Hiram College Showboat Collection

The Showboat "Majestic" plied the Ohio River during the summers of 1948-58, serving as a laboratory for the Hiram College course "Operating Theatre."  The collection is in two parts.  Part one consists of papers documenting the amazingly complex business arrangements that were conducted in order to successfully operate a summer theatre program on the Ohio River and its tributaries.  Part two consists of programs, play scripts, placards related to each year's theatrical activities, personal memorabilia and photographs of the performers, and newspaper clippings.  This part of the collection was complied by students as well as faculty participants 

Mildred Bennett Memorial Collection of Local History Materials
Documents, records and mss. relating to Hiram Village, Hiram Township and the broader Western Reserve area. Includes paper-based materials donated to the Hiram Historical Society.  One feature of this collection is a compilation of materials which detail the local perspective of early relations between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints and the Hiram Community.  The Mildred Bennett Memorial Collection of Local History Materials is named to honor the memory of a life-long resident of Hiram Village who contributed to this local history collection in a significant way by donating her personal papers to the Hiram College Archives.  

Church History
Publications, mss., and journals relating to the Campbellite
Movement/Disciples of Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints (Mormons). Includes the records of the Hiram Christian Church.

Harold E. Davis World War I Propaganda Collection
Several hundred pieces of W.W.I propaganda originating in Europe and North
America, collected by Hiram College Professor of History and Politcal
Science (1926-48), Harold E. Davis.

Maurice & Ethlynn Fox Map Collection
A collection of historical maps, atlases and travel journals focusing on
the Western Reserve, Ohio, the Great Lakes, and North America, and dating
from 1540 (Munster, "Novae Insulae") to twentieth century railroad maps of
Ohio.

Juvenile Literature Collection
Selected examples of juvenile literature dating from 1821 to 1969.

Grace Nash Collection
Publications in the area of music education by Grace Nash, Carl Orff and
Zoltan Kodaly, collected by Grace Nash (Hiram College, Class of 1930).

Grace E. Pickford Biological Collection
Published works in the field of biology, collected by Grace E. Pickford,
Distinguished Scientist in Residence at Hiram College from 1970-86.

Jessie Brown Pounds Collection
The published works (novels, short stories, hymns) of Jessie Brown Pounds,
well known Disciples of Christ author and hymn writer, who attended Hiram
College in 1884.

Rare Books Collection
A small collection of truly rare books in various subject areas, mostly
donations to the Hiram College Library.

Regional Studies Collection
A growing collection of publications relating to the Western Reserve area
of Ohio.

Albert Galatin Riddle Collection
A collection of the published works of A.G. Riddle, collected by J. Philip
Jones, Hiram College, Class of 1947.

Textbook Collection
A representational collection of textbooks from elementary to college
level, spanning the period from 1681 to 1952. Included are most of the
textbooks used at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute from 1850 to 1867.

Hiram College Chinese Studies Collection

    Mary Bosworth Treudley Chinese Studies Collection 

    A unique collection of documents, publications and correspondence, in both Chinese and English, dating
    largely from the 1920s of Republican mainland China.  These materials were donated to Hiram College by
    Dr. Mary Bosworth Treudley, who was Professor of Political Science at Hiram from 1916 until she left to
    teach at Ginling College in Nanjing, China in 1922.

    Arnold Family China Missions Collection
    1889-1906 and 1921-1926 

    This collection is comprised of letters, photographs, diary entries, books, articles of clothing, miscellaneous
    documents and artifacts saved by two generations of the Arnold Family from their service to China. Thomas
    J. and Elizabeth I. Arnold served the China Missions from 1889 until 1906. Their daughter, Gladys C.
    Arnold, Hiram class of 1920, then served in many of the same mission districts from 1921-1926. The years
    the Arnold family lived and worked in China were ones of great turmoil and historical consequence.  This
    collection was donated to Hiram College by the grandchildren of Thomas and Elizabeth Arnold.:
    Thomas,’45; Raymond,’52; David,’55; and Janice Arnold. 

Mary Louise Vincent Lafcadio Hearn Collection
A collection of the works of Lafcadio Hearn collected by Mary Louise
Vincent, Professor of English at Hiram College from 1939-84, who developed
the collection while working on her doctoral dissertation.

Maintained by Hiram College Archives morrowjs@hiram.edu