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Campus Architecture & Photographs

Laying of the Corner-Stone of Busch Hall, 1900.

Architecture at the Exposition, April 23, 1904. Article by Frederick Mann discussing the University Buildings and the 1904 World's Fair.

Dedication of McMillian Hall, 1907. Address given by William K. Bixby, dedicating the first women's dormitory on campus. (WU Alumni Bulletin, April 1907, pages 208 - 212).

Washington University - Illustrated Circular of Information, 1908. Includes information regarding architects and competition for new buildings on Skinker Road (now the Danforth Campus). [Hilltop Campus Architectural Competition, 1899, Information Files: Washington University Campus - Illustrated Circular of Information 1908]

Hilltop Campus Historic District, 1984. Washington University St. Louis, Public Relations Office, 1984 (Library call no. LD5794 .W373 1984 )

Hammond Collection

• Photographs of Campus
• Aerial view of campus, circa 1920 [Photo Services - Buildings: Aerial]
• Aerial view of campus, 1922 by U.S. Army Air Service [Photo Services - Buildings: Aerial]
• Aerial view of campus, 1947 [Photo Services - Buildings: Aerial]
• Aerial view of campus, circa 1964 [Photo Services - Buildings: Aerial]
• Aerial view of campus, 1986 by Peter H. Zimmerman [Photo Services - Buildings: Aerial]

• Campus Construction - building foundation in circa 1901 [Photo Services - Buildings: Campus Construction]
• Campus Construction - University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) archway under construction, April 15, 1901. Photograph by A. Gehrwald. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Construction]
• Campus Construction University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) archway with family standing among building materials in 1901 or 1902. [Photo Services - Buildings: Campus Construction]
• Campus Construction - University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) building materials in front of structure in 1901 or 1902. Photograph by A. Gehrwald. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Construction]
• Campus Construction - University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) people in foundation in 1901. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Construction]
• Campus Construction - University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) with workers standing in front of the structure while working on first floor in 1901 or 1902. [Photo Services - Buildings: Campus Construction]
• Campus Construction - University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) with workers standing in front of the structure while working on second floor in 1901 or 1902. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Construction]
• Campus Construction - University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) with workers standing on top of structure and man in suit standing in front of the structure in 1901 or 1902. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Construction]

• Brookings Hall was originally named University Hall. It was renamed in 1928.
• Brookings Hall - View of construction of Brookings Hall with workman and horses, August 11, 1900. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Construction]
• Brookings Hall - View of construction of Brookings Hall with foundation completed, circa October 6, 1900. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Construction]
• Brookings Hall - Exterior view of Brookings Hall with undeveloped landscaping, circa early 1900s. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall]
• Brookings Hall - Exterior view of Brookings Hall with a few small trees, circa early 1900s. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall]
• Brookings Hall - View of Brookings Hall at the end of tree-lined road, circa early 1900s. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Exteriors]
• Brookings Hall - Six exterior views of Brookings Hall, circa early 1900s. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall]
• Brookings Hall - Image of Brookings Hall on postcard from circa early 1900s. Caption: "Washington University, one of the country's greatest educational institutions and especially famed for its medical school." Back labeled "Blackwell Wielandy, St. Louis; C.T. Art-Colortone, made only by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, U.S.A." [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall]
• Brookings Hall - Exterior view of Brookings Hall towers by photographers Sanders and Melsheimer for Washington University, circa 1914. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall]
• Brookings Hall - View from Brookings Archway by Washington University News Bureau, 1943. [Photo Services - Buildings: Brookings Hall Archway]

• Crow Hall - Rendering of Crow Hall by J.P. Jamieson from 1929. [Photo Services - Buildings: Crow Hall]
• Crow Hall - Interior view of Physics Department in Crow Hall from Washington University News Bureau, October 1, 1954. [Photo Services - Aerial]
• Crow Hall - Machine Shop from Washington University News Bureau, circa pre-1955. Caption: "Here the highly specialized apparatus required for research is built. This sort of work is highly individual, demanding ingenuity and skill on the parts of both the designer and the mechanician." [Photo Services - Buildings: Crow Hall]
• Crow Hall - Second floor corridor of Crow Hall, looking west, from Washington University News Bureau, circa pre-1955. [Photo Services - Buildings: Crow Hall]
• Crow Hall - Exterior view of Crow Hall with snow, circa post-1955. [Photo Services - Buildings: Crow Hall]
• Crow Hall - External doorway into Crow Hall from 1974. [Photo Services - Buildings: Crow Hall, 74-24B/29A]
• Crow Hall - Exterior view of Crow Hall by Peter H. Zimmerman, Washington University Photographic Services, 1978. [Photo Services - Buildings: Crow Hall, 78-368/3]
• Crow Hall - Observatory from 1984. [Photo Services - Buildings: Crow Hall Observatory, 84-94/3]

• Cupples Hall I - Students in Elements of Design Class in the Art Study Room, circa 1920s. [Photo Services - Buildings: Cupples I, folder A]
• Cupples Hall I - Students in the Architecture Library, March 1929. [Photo Services - Buildings: Cupples I, folder A]
• Eads Hall early exterior shot in the early 1900s [Photo Services - Buildings: Eads Hall]
• Eads Hall - Student Life (newspaper) Office in 1935 with several desks and typewriters. [Photo Services - Buildings: Eads Hall]
• Eads Hall - Student Life (newspaper) Office in 1935, view from above of several desks and typewriters. [Photo Services - Buildings: Eads Hall]
• Eads Hall - Student Life (newspaper) Office - Students working at typewriters in circa 1930s. [Photo Services - Buildings: Eads Hall]

• Grotesques ("Gargoyles") on campus buildings

• Ridgley Library was constructed in 1902 and was the first library on the Danforth Campus. It served as the library until Olin Library was opened in 1962.
• Ridgley Library - Exterior view of Ridgley Library, circa 1924 or 1925. [Views of Washington University, St. Louis circa 1924 or 1925.]
• Ridgley Library - View of reading room in Ridgley Library. [Views of Washington University, St. Louis circa 1924 or 1925.

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Chancellor Reports & Messages

Report of the Chancellor, 1910-1911

Chancellor's Quarterly Message, "Who's In Charge Here?" March 1969, T.H. Eliot regarding campus protests and unrest (Chancellor Information Files)

Commencement

Commencement Programs (select years)

The economic and moral value of art to a community; address before the St. Louis school of fine arts commencement 1907

Graduates in front of Ridgely Hall in the early 1900s. [Photo Services - Events: Commencement, 1929 and before]

Graduates in the Quad with Samuel Cupples Hall I in the background in 1906. [Photo Services - Events: Commencement, 1929 and before]

Graduate procession in front of Samuel Cupples Hall I and University Hall (renamed Brookings Hall in 1928) in 1908. [Photo Services - Events: Commencement, 1929 and before]

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Course Catalogs & Lists of Students

Until 1921, each year's catalog included a list of students attending and their home address. After 1922 this information was published in a campus telephone book ("Chimes" or "Ternion").

Course Catalogs of Washington University, 1866-1899 and 1900-1922.
Catalogs of Washington University are also available via Hathi Trust

Graduates of the Manual Training School (MTS), 1908. Listing all graduates from the preparatory school from 1883 - 1907.

Alumni Catalog of 1917 Listing all graduates of the University from 1857 - 1916

Early University History & Founding Documents (in date order)

1853, Letter from Crow to Eliot, is the earliest surviving letter concerning Washington University. A full transcription and further information about this document is available online.

1854, Charter and Constitution, Washington Institute in St. Louis, the first publication from Washington University

1857, Inauguration of Washington University at Saint Louis, Missouri. April 23, 1857

1858, O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute: Its Objects and Present Condition, St. Louis. The early branch of the University devoted to engineering and mechanical / scientific study.

1863, A eulogy on the late Chancellor Joseph Gibson Hoyt of Washington University, delivered at the Hall of the University, St. Louis, Jan. 20, 1863.

1872, Inaugural Addresses delivered before the Government and Alumni of Washington University by Honorable Wayman Crow, vice-president, and William G. Eliot, president. February 29, 1872 (Library Call no. LD 5797.5 1872)

1885, Report of the Deans - Concerning the Work of the Undergraduate Department.

1886, A Plan for the Further Development of the Polytechnic School.

1908, A University for the Southwest, by Chancellor David Huston. Address delivered before the Commercial Club of St. Louis.

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William Greenleaf Eliot Papers

• Letter acknowledging receipt of slave girl and note about her freedom between William Greenleaf Eliot and Johnson Hellen, October 6, 1842. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 02, folder 1842] (See transcript)
• Bond of Indemnity from John A. Kasson to William Greenleaf Eliot for Lydia, April 15, 1850. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 03, folder 1850. 15 April] (See transcript)
• Letter from William Greenleaf Eliot to "Mama" including information about the Civil War and soldiers, December 20, 1862. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 02, folder 1862. 20 Dec. William to Mama]
• Letter from William Greenleaf Eliot to son Thomas Lamb Eliot including mention of a war meeting, August 22, 1862. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 02, folder 1862. 22 Aug. Father to Thom]
• Letter from Samuel J. May to [William Greenleaf Eliot] mentions donation of material for negros to use to make clothes, November 24, 1863. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 02, folder 1863. 24 Nov. Samuel J. May to [WGE]]

• Notes about getting Sarah Green out of Lynch's Slave Yard May 22, 1860, page 34. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 01, folder Notebook 5] (See transcript)
• Notes from meeting of the Western Sanitary Commission January 11, 1871, page 131. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 01, folder Notebook 7] (See transcript)

• Photographs
• William Greenleaf Eliot portrait, n.d. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 07, folder W.G.E. Portraits]
• William Greenleaf Eliot's study at 2660 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, n.d. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 07, folder W.G.E.'s study at 2660 Washington]

• Published Works
• "The Higher-Law Doctrine" North and South, a discourse delivered in St. Louis, Missouri, January 27, 1861, by Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 04, folder 1861]
• "Inaugural Ceremonies of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln" April 14, 1876. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 04, folder (6) Inaugural Ceremonies of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln]
• "The Southern Exodus" The Number, Motives, Needs and Plans of the Refugees, a letter from Dr. William Greenleaf Eliot, 1879. [William Greenleaf Eliot Personal Papers, Series 04, folder 1879]
• Discourses on the unity of God: and other subjects 
• Discourses on the Doctrines of Christianity
• The story of Archer Alexander from slavery to freedom March 30, 1863
• Early religious education considered as the divinely appointed way ...
• Lectures to young women and Lectures to young men
• An address on the temperance cause

Over other 150 documents related to William Greenleaf Eliot are also available online. These items were digitized in conjunction with the Missouri History Museum and Missouri's Civil War commemoration.

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Magazines & Alumni Publications

University Magazines, Various titles, 1903 - present

School of Fine Art

Image Gallery: A selection of early images depicting the St. Louis School of Fine Art from the late 1800s through the 1920s.

Student Life Newspaper

Student Life, the first issue from January 1878

Student Life, May 1886

Student Life, December 1886

Student Life, March 1887

Student Groups and Publications

Women at Washington University

Online Exhibit: A Celebration of Women at Washington University - a beginning look into this history by highlighting some of these women and their accomplishments.

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Yearbooks

Hatchet 1903, Volume 1

Hatchet 1905, Volume 2

Yearbook, School of Architecture 1910-1911

Hatchet 1917 or Hatchet 1917 via Hathi Trust

Hatchet, 1942. Preface page | Sophomore Students |

1943 Hatchet Yearbook, page 140 (Architecture Society & Girls Rifle Club)

1945 Hatchet Yearbook, page 19 (Senior Class)

Year in a Bag, 1969-70 "Life" section [via American Lives Project interface]

Other Collections at University Archives

Gerhard Papers:

Russel Sturgis Collection:

Eads Bridge Drawings:

Selection of images

St. Louis Car Company Collection:

From Series 01 -- PCC sales brochure

From Series 02 -- Specifications for PCC construction, 1941 and 1947.

From Series 04 -- Cardinal Aircraft Sales brochure

From Series 05 - images from the collection are available via the free on-line service, flickr.
There are less than 2% of the thousands of images available in the collection available online.

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