Friends Collection and College Archives  Tags: history quaker archives earlham esr  

The Arthur and Kathleen Postle Archives and Friends Collection are named for the late Arthur Postle and his wife, Kathleen, the latter the donor who served the college for many years as a member of the faculty.

The Archives keeps alive the institutional memory of Earlham. The Archives preserves all the material that is judged to be of historical significance for Earlham and Earlhamites.

The many files include official records; collections of publications, such as the College's first printed catalog of 1858; Opinion Board papers dating back to its founding in 1948, and complete runs of the campus newspapers since 1873. The collection includes such interesting and diverse objects as the ink well used by Earlham's first president, Barnabas Hobbs. Chairs used in the Archives today are the same ones used when the student dining hall opened in 1847.