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The Colgate University photograph collection documents student life, academics, faculty, alumni, athletics, special events, and the physical campus at Colgate University over the past 150 years. Most of the photographs are black and white, although some color images are also included. For the vast majority of images, the photographers and the source of the photographs are unidentified.

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This collection contains records of Colgate University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. It includes departmental correspondence and newsletters; brochures advertising public events; photographs; a departmental history written in 1939; and lab manuals, syllabi, readings, and other course material.

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This collection contains published reports from Colgate University's President's Office and Treasurer's Office.

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The President's Office records contain correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, committee records, legal documents, and other administrative records.

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This collection contains publications material used to advertise and promote Colgate, including booklets sent to prospective students. The material highlights the physical campus, student accomplishments, and intellectual and social atmosphere.

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This collection contains photographs, correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, and other material related to the sit-in of April 1968. Also includes a web archive of the activities of the student protest and sit-in that occurred in September 2014. The admissions building sit-in was to protest inequality and demand an inclusive environment on campus.

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This collection includes meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, faculty committee records, and other administrative material. Subjects covered include academics and curricular changes, campus planning and finances, admissions, off-campus study, and experiences of Colgate faculty. Also included is a smaller amount of material addressing student demonstrations, discrimination, disciplinary issues, and fraternities.

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This collection consists of screenplays for television shows and films produced by Ransohoff.

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The Register of Weekly Events provided a daily listing of events for the Colgate communty, including students, faculty, staff, and community members. Events listed included club meetings, muscial and dramatic performances, athletic events, lectures, off-campus trips, conferences, and religious services.

Scope and Contents This collection consists mostly of correspondence between Colgate University Athletic Director William A. Reid and Colgate alumni serving in the armed forces during World War II. Reid generally provided updates on life at Colgate, while the servicemen and their families gave updates on their lives in the armed forces. Also included are a significant number of clippings. In addition to letters addressed to Bill Reid, boxes 3 and 4 also contain letters to Everett Barnes, often referred to as...

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This collection primarily includes meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence of the Committee on the Residential College, along with materials discussing fraternities on campus.

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From "Guide to Special Collections at Colgate University":

1570 letters from Shaw to various correspondents, as well as holograph manuscripts, typescripts, revised proof, play books, art works, photographs and published materials by and about Shaw, and a sampling of Shaw ephemera. The collection also contains six Max Beerbohm cartoons of Shaw. An unpublished catalog is available within the department and specific requests can be made to the Special Collections Librarian.

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Collection contains account books, financial records, photographs, deeds and legal papers, subpoenas, advertising flyers and other ephemera relating to the Richmond family in Poolville, N.Y

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This collection contains materials relating to Rooney's time as a student at Colgate including some of his writings for class and the Banter.