Digital CollectionsThe Archives and Special Collections is pleased to offer select items from its collections online. We will continue to develop our digital collections and make them more widely available to the public. Please visit our digital collections in the following areas:
Rare BooksSouth Netherlands Book of Hours
This ca. 1450 illuminated manuscript is attributed to the Utrecht school and
the Dutch translation of Gerd de Groot. Handwritten and decorated on vellum,
this type of religious work was commissioned by a family for home devotional
use. This item is the oldest "book" owned by the library. It was completely
scanned and made available as part of Lehigh University's Digital Library of
Illuminated Manuscripts.
Manuscript CollectionsReynolds Family PapersPortions of the Reynolds Family Papers, particularly those of Civil War general John Fulton Reynolds and Admiral William Reynolds were digitized in 2003 with the support of a 2002 NETShare grant award. The award program is an extention of the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), and is administered in Pennsylvania through the Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries.
George McIlvain 1835 DiaryGeorge McIlvain's personal diary of trip, accompanied by his mother Mary Porter McIlvain, along Pennsylvania Canal (and other waterways) from Williamstown, Lancaster County, PA to Paoli Indiana, April 8 to May 30, 1835. Diary contains itinerary, expenses, and observations. Diary is part of larger Muench Family papers collection. George Duffield McIlvain was born on February 22, 1811 in Lancaster County, PA the son of Robert McIlvain and Mary Porter (b. 1765?). He married Caroline Margaret Slaymaker on November 21, 1837. Their son Robert Porter McIlvaine was born January 12, 1839, died 1918. George ran a limestone quarry and lime kiln in Paradise Township, Lancaster County from about 1832 until he died on February 24, 1857.
Pennsylvania German Fraktur CollectionA component of the Unger-Bassler German-American Imprint Collection, this collection contains fine examples of printed and handcolored taufscheins (birth and baptismal certificates), vorshrifts (writing examples), haus segens (house blessings), bucherzeichen (book plates), and drawings created by Pennsylvania Germans.
College ArchivesFranklin and Marshall College Student NewspaperThe F&M student newspapers the College Reporter and Student Weekly are available as a full-text searchable database covering the years 1915-1964 (Student Weekly) and 1964-2001 (College Reporter). Eventually the database will be expanded to include the Student Weekly's predecessors back to 1873 and more current years of the College Reporter.
Franklin and Marshall College Student Honors ThesesF&M student honors theses from 2005 to 2007.
College and Academy Photo AlbumsSeveral photographic albums of the College and F&M Academy have been digitized and are available.Franklin and Marshall College Founding Documents OnlineA selection of important documents relating to the founding of Franklin College, 1787; Marshall College, 1836 and Franklin and Marshall College, 1853. Includes charters, financial documents, deeds, correspondence and other items.
Franklin and Marshall College Film FootageA selection of streaming video clips is available for viewing online. The clips are taken from the earliest College films dating from 1926-1950 and depict various campus events.Digital CooperativesLancaster County Digitization Project - LCDPF&M is proud to be a founding member of the Lancaster County Digitization Project. Formed in the spring of 2004, LCDP is a county-wide consortium of cultural institutions interested in digitizing Lancaster county newspaper and manuscript collections.updated 02/01/08cmr |