The Williamsport Dickinson Seminary Collection traces the first eighty years of the school's extensive history. Documented here is the early struggle of the founding of the school that leads to more prosperous years as the attendance increases and the facilities expand. Evidence can be found here of the significance the Methodist Church played in the establishment and the continual funding of the school.
Records exist from six of the eight presidents that helped mold the young school.
Events, both social and official are well represented. Music played a very important role as is apparent from the many recital playbills that are filed in the collection. Also very significant in the life of the students were the many societies or organizations. Especially well represented in this collection are three of the more prominent organizations, the Belles Lettres Union Society, the Gamma Epsilon Society and the Triparite Union Society. Many of the catalogs still exist listing both students and faculty and add further details to life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.