This collection includes over 2,000 images dating back to the founding of the college as Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867, and continuing into the modern era as Lewis & Clark College in 1940. The collection also includes faculty portraits and campus scenes from 1940 to present.
View of campus looking up Broadalbin Street from 8th Street across the woolen mill canal. Image used as the frontispiece in the 1897-98 college catalog.
1897
Albany College Administration building with staff and students.
1897
This was the first building of the college. It was built in 1867 at a cost of $8,000. The gray building faced the town of Albany and the Willamette River.
1867
View from Quen Avenue looking southwest. The site of the administration building is just beyond the nursery building.
ca. 1900
Albany College faculty portrait, portland unit. Back, left to right: Radka Ivanakeva; ?; Walter Shaw; Victoria Case; Carl Keeler; William Norris. Front: Quirinus Breen; ?; A. A. Groening; Perry Hopper; Robert Case.
1935
Image from Martha Montague's graduation photographs. Martha is fourth from the left.
1910
An image of an exhibit case in the Albany College library, originally taken for the 1902 yearbook.
ca. 1902
A sketch for Albany College on the Monteith Campus, from the 1922 Orange Peal.
1922
Photograph from Lewis & Clark College (1991) by Stephen Dow Beckham. The building was leased from Temple Beth Israel, on Southwest 13th and Main.
1938
Albany College's Portland campus on Southwest 13th and Main leased from Temple Beth Israel.
ca. 1938
View of Administration building and Tremont Hall in background. Published by Meiser & Meiser of Albany, Oregon.
ca. 1912
This postcard, issued around 1905, features Tremont Hall with administration building in the background. There is no publication information on the card. It is postmarked May 9, 1911 and includes a note to Mr. J. E. Chappell of Goldendale, Washington from a student of Albany College (signed R.M.J.).
ca. 1905
This postcard, issued around 1905, features the administration building with Tremont Hall in the background. The postcard was printed for H. J. Jones of Albany, Oregon by M. Rieder of Los Angeles. It is marked as no. 1697.
ca. 1905
This postcard, issued around 1904, features the administration building with Tremont Hall in the background. The postcard is titled "On the Road of a Thousand Wonders (Oregon)" and is no. 2188 of the series published by the Pacific Novelty Company of San Francisco, California.
1904
Image from the Albany College Bulletin (December, 1939).
1939-12