Gordon College Archives

Ancient Israel: Artifacts from Tell Dothan
This collection of artifacts from Tell Dothan, an ancient city-mound in the northern Samaria Hills of Israel occupied from the Neolithic period through the Hellenistic period, includes pieces from the Early Bronze Age through late Iron Age. Excavations were made on the site between 1953 and 1964 under the direction of Dr. Joseph Free, Wheaton College Professor of Archaeology. The collection also includes articles written by Free relating to the expedition.

Barrington College
This collection contains materials that document the founding, early life and general history of Barrington College. Founded in 1900 as a Bible training institute, the school's campus settled at locations throughout Massachusetts before moving to Providence, RI. The school eventually expanded to nearby Barrington, RI, in 1950. While preserving its Christian heritage and faith-informed academic programs, Barrington became a liberal arts college before merging with Gordon College in 1985. The collection contains 1948-1959 issues of The P-Bee, the student newspaper of the Providence-Barrington Bible College, information pertaining to The Mountain Top Hour, the oldest continuous religious radio broadcast in New England, Barrington promotional materials, news clippings, photographs and other memorabilia. 

Clarendon Street Baptist Church of Boston
Collection includes records and memorabilia of the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, which is an historic landmark of the Boston South End historic district. From its origins at Federal and Rowe Street locations to its move to the Clarendon Street location in 1868 through the pastorate of Gordon College founder, A. J. Gordon (1869-1895) to the conclusion of the church’s ministry in November 1985, the collection contains records of several of the church’s ministry programs including the Women’s American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, Chinese Sunday School, and the Blind Asylum, a forerunner to the Perkins School for the Blind. It also includes miscellaneous issues of the church newsletter, The Clarendon Light, and various photographs of these ministries. 

Lloyd Coe: Art Collection and Memorabilia
Original cartoons, sketches and drawings from Lloyd Coe (1899-1976), American cartoonist and illustrator of over 35 books, comprise this collection.

Robert Boston Dokes (1904–1986): African American Army Chaplain
Collection of photographs, correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to Rev. Robert Dokes, African-American, World War II Army chaplain, Baptist minister, and 1930 alumnus of Gordon College of Theology. In 1940, Rev. Dokes founded Second Baptist Church of Paterson, NJ, and served there as pastor until 1941 when he was commissioned as one of the first African-American Army chaplains. Rev. Dokes resumed his ministry at Second Baptist in 1946.

Gordon Women
Primary materials and biographical information related to significant women in Gordon College history including faculty, alumnae, staff, donors etc.

March 2009 Women's History Month Featured Women:

• Martha Dodge Frost
  In A School of Christ, former President Dr. Nathan R. Wood recounts Mrs. Frost's early gifts to the college and her emotional and spiritual transformations as a result. Several copies are available in Jenks Library. The archives also contain Board of Trustees records pertaining to the gifts and late photographs.  
  

• Maria Hale Gordon
  Original correspondance, diaries and journals written by Mrs. Gordon as well as photographs and biographical articles. The collection includes Journal of Our Journey, edited by John Beauregard, 1989, an anthology of journal entries from the Gordon's trip to Europe in 1888.
  

• Elisabeth Elliot
  The archives contains a small collection of photographs of Elliot, college publications which give mention to her time as Writer-in-Residence, and a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts donated by Elliot. Jenks Library has copies of several of Elliot's books on her missionary experiences and Christian living.  
  

Funeral Sermons: 1727–1919
Collection of 258 printed and manuscript eulogies and other sermons dated from 1727–1919. The collection includes eulogies for former U.S. Presidents, American statesmen including Timothy Pickering, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Stephen Douglas, Rufus Choate, and several New England ministers. Complete indexes of sermons, funeral speakers and obituaries are included. Alumnus Rev. Al Los gave the collection to the college in January 1994. 

Billy Graham
The collection includes an excellent set of original photographs of the famed evangelist, memorabilia from Graham's Northeast Crusades, Boston newspaper clippings from Graham’s sold-out 1950 Boston Crusade, several copies of "New York Crusade News," and documentation of Graham's ten years of service on the Gordon College Board of Trustees. The collection also includes audiotapes and manuscripts of Rev. Graham's address, "Gordon College in a Revolutionary Age," given at the 1969 inauguration of Dr. Harold John Ockenga, Gordon College and Divinity School president, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary president, 1970-1979.

Nineteenth Century Boston-Area Newspapers and Publications
Collection includes some original issues of the following publications:
American Agriculturist 1867;
Among the Clouds 1899, 1904, 1905, 1907;
Boston Daily Journal 1871, 1872, 1875-78, 1887, 1888;
Boys and Girls Weekly 1867, 1869;
Dollar Weekly Mirror 1863-64;
Harper's Weekly 1865-1877;
Hudson Monitor 1967, 69, 75;
Nashua Telegraph 1871, 73, 75-77, 1924;
New Hampshire Business College 1873-75;
Old Farmer's Almanac 1871, 1891, 1895-97;
The Youth's Companion 1867-70.

Nineteenth Century Christian Publications
 Miscellaneous issues including:
 The Christian (1870-78);
Advent Herald (1857, 1860);
Christian Spectator (1819);
The Little Christian; Religious Intelligencer (1821, ‘25, ‘27, ‘34);
Messiah’s Herald (1877-1893);
The Youth’s Visitor (1864, ’68-‘72);
The Well Spring (1864, ‘66-’69);
Sunday School Times (1890, ‘95-‘97).
 

Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Gordon College Trustee
This collection includes personal and professional correspondence and articles related to Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, Gordon Trustee, 1961-1993, and lead donor for Gordon College’s Ken Olsen Science Center, on which construction began in 2006. Additional materials from Mr. Olsen’s engineering archives are housed in the Ken Olsen Science Center.

Tom Phillips/Raytheon Company
The Tom Phillips/Raytheon archives span his 42-year career with the company, and include a collection of photographs (featuring pictures with five United States presidents), videos, speeches, letters, articles, copies of his eleven honorary degrees, an original Amana microwave, a model of the Hawk missile and relevant publications from his career at Raytheon.

Arthur Tappan Pierson (1837-1911): Gordon College President, Presbyterian Minister, and Foreign Missions Advocate
This collection contains biographical materials and articles related to A.T. Pierson, ministerial friend and confidant of A. J. Gordon who succeeded Gordon as president of Gordon Missionary Training School in 1895. Articles by Pierson, including several from Watchword and Truth, personal correspondence, and references to other Pierson scholars, collections and research are also included.

Prince Family and Prince Family Estate  
Collection includes biographical information and obituaries of stockbroker and investment banker, Frederick Prince (1859-1953), as well as original photographs of Prince and family. Real estate information pertaining to his Newport, RI, estate, Gordon College's purchase of the Prince's Wenham, MA, estate in 1953, as well as the Prince family connections on Boston's North Shore is included. The collection also contains several items of genealogical importance for the Prince family, including documentation of military service of Frederick's son, Norman Prince, founder of the Lafayette Escadrille, an American unit of volunteer fighter pilots in France during World War I.

William Shakespeare Collection
Various studies, biographies and lectures about Shakespeare are included in this collection as well as a variety of his plays, all of which are housed in the archive's Vining and Special collections. Some specific works include:

• Shakespeare's plays (including volumes from 1768): Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida, The Life and Death of King Lear, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, Caius Marcius, Coriolanus, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Henry the IV, V, and VI, The Life and Death of Richard II & III, King Henry the Eighth, Much Ado About Nothing
• Shakespeare "Rare Print Collection": This includes mostly pictures and paintings from scenes of Shakespeare's plays and of cities and buildings referenced
• First, Second and Fourth Folios of Shakespeare, reproduced from 1623, 1632, and 1685 editions.
• 30+ volumes of The Bankside Shakespeare, printed in 1890's by The Shakespeare Society of New York.
• 1883-1911 bound volumes of Shakespeariana, a monthly publication from the Shakespeare Society of New York, which "aims to tell the news, and mirror the progress of the Shakespearian world; to encourage the influence of Shakespeare reading, and to offer suggestive courses of study; to be of use in Colleges and Schools, Libraries and Reading Rooms, and to prove of interest not only to Shakespeare specialists, teachers and reading circles, but to the actor, the dramatist, and the student of general literature."