Walter Scott Hendrixson Collection

Scope and Content:
Lantern slides of late nineteenth and early twentieth century chemical apparatus and four notebooks of chemical notes comprise the bulk of the Hendrixson materials. Professor William Oelke suggests that Professor Hendrixson had equipment to copy pictures from books and may have photographed the portraits and laboratory apparatus from published material to use in his class teaching.

Biographical Note:
Walter Scott Hendrixson (1859-1925) received his B.S. degree from Union Christian College, Meron, Indiana, in 1881, taught at Antioch College 1882-1888, and earned his PhD from Harvard in 1903. He also did graduate work in Berlin and Gottingen in the 1890s. He was a chemistry faculty member at Grinnell from 1890 until his sudden death in 1925. More details of his life and work are available in a manuscript by William Oelke and in Grinnell and You June-July 1925.

Provenance: deposited in the Archives in 1980 by Professor William Oelke.

Quantity: The collection is in 5 boxes, occupying about one foot of shelving.

Suggested citation: Walter Scott Hendrixson papers, Grinnell College Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Grinnell, Iowa.Ms.01.14.

Contents:
Notebooks of chemistry, handwritten:
2 labeled “Electro Titration” 1920 and 1921
1 labeled “Chemical Notes:
1 notebook not titled or dated

Lantern slides, 5 boxes:
Chemical apparatus – 178 slides
Grinnell chemistry students, ca 1890s-1906 – 11 slides
Grinnell campus, interior and exterior views – 10 slides
Noted chemists’ portraits – 64 slides
European scenes, ca. 1890s – 40 slides