Photographs
In 1893, Clark University exhibited materials from the University at the World’s Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois.
What survives of this material, in the form of 174 photos, is a unique tie to our institutional past. It represents how our University, in its infancy, represented itself through images that tell the story of the growing campus and our scholarly activities and teaching resources in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology. By identifying who is in the photos, it seems that the images were made during the 1891-92 and 1892-93 academic years. However, it has not known which photographs of the series were actually included in the exhibit.
A majority of the photographs conform to an internal numbering system which functioned as the pagination for a bound volume of the photographs labeled "Columbian Exposition,". The numbers in "( )" parentheses constitute this pagination and are part of each photograph's title listing. Wherever possible the order of pagination is retained. Missing photos within this pagination are as follows: 1, 29, 98, and 141. There were also a number of unnumbered photographs in this collection. Any unnumbered photographs were assigned a number by the Archives. These are delineated by "[ ]" brackets.
Cyanotypes have been referred to by name.
For further inquiries, please contact our Head of Archives and Special Collections Cynthia Shenette at archives@clarku.edu
