Photographs: Presidents, Faculty, Staff, Trustees, Honorary Degree Recipients, and Others

Most of the photographs of presidents, faculty, staff, trustees and honorary degree recipients were transferred from the Office of the Secretary after the establishment of the Archives in 1966.  Photographs have been received intermittently since that time from various offices on campus, primarily from the Office of Communications, and from private individuals.

The college hired freelance photographers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1917 a college photographer position was created for Arthur Ludwig Princehorn. He and his son Arthur Ewing Princehorn produced nearly all of the college’s negatives and photographs from 1917 to 1969 (see the Princehorn Family Papers, RG 30/416). Sometimes photographers’ names appear stamped or inscribed on the backs of prints.

In 2009, the Communications Office moved to a different building on campus, and a great many photographs, negatives, and other visual materials were transferred to the Archives that year.  Most of this material dated from the 1980s through the early 2000s, and included a small amount of born digital photographs.