Published Rensselaer Histories
RPI Players
Postcards
Published Rensselaer Histories
Eleven publications dating from 1855 to 2006 that detail the history of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and its predecessors beginning with its founding in 1824 as the Rensselaer School and its later incarnation as the Rensselaer Institute.
RPI Players
Photographs from the RPI Players records highlighting student theatrical productions from 1930 through the 2000s.
Postcards
The collection consists of picture postcards of street scenes, parks, public buildings, businesses, monuments, educational institutions, scenes along the Hudson River, and other views in and around Troy, New York as well as a small set of postcards of bridges built by RPI engineers.
The years 1900 to 1920 are widely regarded as the golden age of postcards, when they began to be used both as souvenirs and as an inexpensive means of communication. The majority of the postcards withi this collection date from that period, and depict a variety of buildings and public spaces in and around Troy, New York and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The images included here are a small fraction of the Postcard Collectionheld by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Archives and Special Collections Department.