Digital Collections

684 Images

The Marquis de Lafayette Prints Collection includes more than 650 digitized images drawn from the collections at Skillman Library and the Lafayette College Art Collection. Most of the images are contemporaneous with Lafayette’s life (1757-1834) and depict his involvement in the American and French Revolutions, French politics, and his Farewell Tour of America, 1824-25.

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The Lafayette, 1870-

The Lafayette, the oldest college newspaper in Pennsylvania, began publication in September 1870. It has been at times a monthly, a fortnightly, a weekly, and a semi-weekly, and has been published continuously since 1870, except during the last two years of World War II.

Lafayette Magazine, 1930-

The Lafayette Magazine is the signature alumni publication of Lafayette College and highlights more than 85 years of campus life.

College Archives Image Collection

More than 1,100 images selected from the 60,000 photographs in the College Archives documenting the history of Lafayette College. The images serve as a visual record of the individuals associated with the college, campus events, and the physical development of the buildings and grounds.

East Asia Image Collection

An open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of colonial Taiwan (1900-45) and occupied Japan (1947-52). The collection is built around core sub-collections of visual materials donated by the family of Gerald & Rella Warner and Michael Lewis.

Miscellaneous Digital Collections

Special Collections maintains other digital collections, including images of McKelvy House, presidents of Lafayette College, and Lafayette College's World War II casualties. Runs of two newsletters: Skillman Library's Bytes & Books and The Gazette of the American Friends of Lafayette are also available. Special Collections has contributed images from Skillman's Dixie Cup Company Collection to the Beyond Steel project at Lehigh University.

684 Images

Marquis De Lafayette Prints Collection

The Lafayette, 1870-

Lafayette Magazine, 1930-

College Archives Image Collection

East Asia Image Collection

Miscellaneous Digital Collections