This collection includes over 2,000 images dating back to the founding of the college as Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867, and continuing into the modern era as Lewis & Clark College in 1940. The collection also includes faculty portraits and campus scenes from 1940 to present.
This aerial view of Fir Acres was taken before Lewis & Clark College moved to the property in 1942. Identified features of the estate are as follows: 1) Manor house; 2) reflecting pool; 3) carriage circle; 4) swimming pool; 5) pool house; 6) tennis courts; 7) rose gardens; 8) unidentified; 9 & 10) greenhouses; 11 & 12) stables and service buildings; 13) dolphin fountain
ca. 1940
ca. 1940
ca. 1940
ca. 1940
student musicians performing in the Frank Manor House, Lewis & Clark College
ca. 1944
East side of Fir Acres manor house, designed by Herman Brookman. The house was completed in 1925. The ivy was not fully grown in when the Lewis & Clark occupied the campus in 1942. Similar photographs from the college yearbooks indicate that this photograph was taken in the late 1940s.
ca. 1948