The newly digitized Grounds and Buildings historical photograph collection of Mudd Manuscript Library makes about 7,000 photographs of the campus available to the public on the Web. Photos range from the late 1850s to the present. Visitors to the site can page through the alphabetized collection or refine their searches by photographer, topic, or genre. It is easy to search for a specific topic or building: Select “Chancellor Green,” for example, and 128 photos are displayed. “This set of photos is consistently the most used of all of the Archives’ photo collections,” said University Archivist Daniel Linke. More than 25,000 photos should be available online in coming years, he said.
To visit the collection, go to the Princeton University Digital Library site at pudl.princeton.edu. Click on the “Collections” tab, then scroll down to “Historical Photograph Collection: Grounds and Buildings Series.”
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David Keddie ’04
8 Years AgoIn a Campus notebook story in the Feb. 8 issue, a photo is captioned: “A snowstorm circa 1890 keeps horse-drawn snowplows working in front of Blair Arch.” The photo is actually of the juncture of Little Hall with the old University Gymnasium, which burned down in the 1950s. Thank you for the link to the historical archive; it’s much appreciated!