Select postcards and a photograph album from the William I. Baucus papers reflecting the travels and the engineering work in which Baucus was engaged most notably the Panama Canal. The postcards, coll...
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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 Tr...
Items in this collection have been published under a variety of titles from 1929 to the present. Issues typically contain articles about developments at RPI in addition to news regarding student, fac...
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C. Lloyd Bauer was a member of the RPI Class of 1955 who played hockey for the Institute’s first national championship team in 1954. His memorabilia includes three scrapbooks (compiled by his mother)...
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This digital collection comprises select items from the Joseph P. Davis papers (MC 26) which document the professional activities of Davis, a civil engineer hired by the Peruvian government to conduct...
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Select photographs from the Horsford Family papers which comprises a collection of papers created by various members of the Horsford, Gardiner, and L’Hommedieu families spanning more than two centurie...
Select photographs from the Othniel Foster Nichols papers with particular emphasis on photos related to the design and construction of the Williamsburg (New East River) and Manhattan Bridges.
A vast collection of photographs from the Archives that document student life, campus activities and scenes, buildings and their histories, classes and reunions, and various subjects related to scienc...
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Select photographs and drawings from the Roebling collection dating from approximately 1844 to the early 1900s, the period of time when John A. Roebling and Washington A. Roebling was active in the de...
Select drawings, studies, and a small sampling of photographs that provide a fascinating glimpse of Marsh's artistic work. The Marsh collection was donated to RPI by the Hiland G. Batcheller Memorial ...
Photographs of the personal and professional activities of George M. Low, an influential aeronautics and aerospace engineer, federal agency manager, and university president.
Select photographs, postcards, and correspondence from the Paul Harteck papers. This sampling of the material highlights some of Harteck’s professional activities in both Germany and the United States...
Tubeflight was the brainchild of RPI professor Joseph V. Foa beginning in the 1950s. Foa, his colleagues, and students studied a novel means of ground transportation in which a vehicle was propelled ...
Select photographs and advertisements from the Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Company records. The company operated in Waterford, Lansingburgh, and later Troy, New York, between 1861 and 1969.
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In 1887 William H. Young published the Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which was compiled by Henry B. Nason. Young extra illustrated his pers...
Select photographs from the W2SZ Amateur Radio Club records include shots of radio equipment, interior and exterior views of the "shack," photos of club members sending or receiving messages, and snap...
Union Annual Reports are produced by students of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to identify the programs and finances of the student-run Union. Reports include information on student government...
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 l...
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This is the earliest newspaper published by students at Rensselaer, and only one issue (Vol. 1, No. 3, January 21, 1857) is known to exist. It contains articles on courses and examinations, remarks a...
The Poly, as it is known by the Rensselaer community, was first published in 1869 and has been in continuous publication since 1885. It originally featured lengthy articles on scientific and technica...
The Quarterly was intended as a “means of intercommunication to the Alumni, Faculty and Undergraduates.” The lone issue (Vol. I, No. 1, May 1884) presaged the content of The Poly, with articles on mi...
Much like Rod and Leveller, The Surveyor focused on RPI student activities such as parties and a class supper, ladies of the Troy Female Seminary, a deceased student, elections, rushes, a geological t...
This is the earliest newspaper published by students at Rensselaer, and only one issue (Vol. 1, No. 3, January 21, 1857) is known to exist. It contains articles on courses and examinations, remarks a...
Students at Rensselaer have published several newspapers over the years, beginning with four short-lived titles that appeared between 1857 and 1884. A fifth paper, The Rensselaer Polytechnic, first a...