Winter 2005

Digital Archives Now Available Online

Videos of campus scenes from the early 1930s, copies of old yearbooks and images of physical objects are among Rose- Hulman archival materials that are now available to the public online through the new Rose-Hulman Digital Archives Project (RHDAP).

The Web site is located at www.rose-hulman.edu/Archives. RHDAP strives to provide free research material to the public pertaining to the history of Rose-Hulman through a variety of formats including images, text, video and sound.

The site includes:

• Pages from old Modulus yearbooks, dating as far back as 1943 for now but eventually goes back to 1892;

• All of Juliet Peddle’s architectural drawings, including Chauncey Rose's home and the first Vigo County courthouse (first published in the Terre Haute Tribune-Star in the early 1940s);

• Videos of campus scenes, featuring students eating in the Templeton Building cafeteria, a 1938 football game and the student union from the 1950s;

• Oral interviews with Rose-Hulman faculty and staff members;

• Early registrar records;

• Images of physical objects, such as the first Heminway gold medal.

The primary audience includes members of the Rose-Hulman community (faculty, staff, students, and alumni) and others researching the history of Rose-Hulman and the events, people and organization of the college.

The project was organized by Rich Bernier, reference and electronic services librarian in Rose-Hulman's Logan Library, after being started in 2001 by Librarian John Robson.