Lawrence University Archives

Scope and Contents This collection includes materials documenting the annual convocation series at Lawrence University dating from 1880 to the present. The bulk of the collection consists of convocation programs. Other materials include articles, photographs, and the text of matriculation convocation speeches.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials documenting the houses on the Lawrence University campus, both those currently owned as well as those razed or no longer owned by Lawrence. Materials primarily include correspondence, newspaper articles, and photographs.

Scope and Contents This collection contains records pertaining to the curriculum at Lawrence University dating from 1912 to 1999. Records include administrative materials, budget documents, grant proposals, correspondence, reports, newspaper articles, and photographs. The majority of records document departments or programs that are now defunct, or were proposed but never established.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records created by the Department of Anthropology dating from 1950-2004.  Records include articles, photographs, notes, correspondence, and reports.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records created by the Department of Biology dating from 1907-2005.  Records include correspondence, reports, articles, and photographs. Also included are collected reports from the "Recent Advances in Biology" lecture series, 1974-1976.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records created by the Department of Chemistry dating from 1922-1988. Records include articles, photographs, reports, invoice book, budgets, and correspondence. Also included is a copy of A Laboratory Outline in General Inorganic Chemistry by professor of Chemistry Lewis A. Youtz, 1922.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records created by the Department of Economics from 1924-2005. Records include reports, memoranda, photographs, budgets, and correspondence.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records created by the Department of Education from 1908-1990. Records include reports, articles, photographs, reviews, memoranda, and other correspondence.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records created by the Department of Geology dating from 1912 to 2018. Records include photographs, slides, newsletters, reports, correspondence, and lists of faculty and graduates. A scrapbook documenting summer fieldwork dating from 1953 to 1954 is also included.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records created by the Department of German dating from 1932-2005.  Records include photographs, reports, budget, memoranda, and other correspondence.