Clyde F. Baldwin, a Whittier resident, traveled with twenty-one other men in north-western Alaska on a gold hunting expedition from 1898 to 1899. Anna Hunnicutt lived in the Alaska territory as a missionary of the Whittier Friends Church for much...

The Case Collection consists of rare and unique books on a variety of subjects.

Whittier College was founded in 1887 as Friends’ College by a group of Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends. In 1895, the first classes were taught under the official name “Whittier College”, and the College was accredited...

Mary Jessamyn West (1902-1984) was an American writer with Quaker roots. She was the cousin to the 37th President of the United States, Richard Milhouse Nixon. West lived in Whittier and Yorba Linda, attended Whittier College as a student, and...

Whittier was generally regarded as the most well-known Quaker in America, prompting the founders of Whittier city to select him as the namesake of their new town. The Collection emphasizes the poet’s life as a demonstration of one particularly well-known...

Lola B. Hoffman was a Whittier College alumna from the class of 1923 and the author of the popular children’s book, California Beginnings (1933), among others. The Hoffman Collection is made up of Hoffman’s personal library, revealing her wide array of interests on a variety of subjects.

The Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends or simply Friends, are a religious group that emphasizes individual relationships with God, abolitionism, pacifism, international volunteer work, and other socially progressive causes. On April 4, 1887, a group of...

United States politician Richard Milhous Nixon served as a member of the House of Representatives, the Senate, as Vice President, and as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He had close ties to Whittier College and the city of...

William Somerset Maugham was a queer playwright and author known for his raw depictions of wartime and working-class life. He served as an ambulance driver during World War Two and was a member of the British Secret Service. The W....

Zilpha Snyder was a 1948 alumna of Whittier College best known for her authorship of children's books, including The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid, and The Witches of Worm. The Snyder Collection consists of books she authored or to which...