Photos clockwise from top left:

The former Miller farm at the beginning of construction of the IC South Hill campus

The College library, built in 1953, is now the County Board of Elections building.

The Tower Club just after it opened it 1965 as a real club with membership and dues

The men's ice hockey team attained varsity status for a few years in the 1960s.

Accounting class, downtown, 1956

  For more than a quarter century C. Hadley Smith took photographs of Ithaca College. Some of his tens of thousands of IC photos were recently on display in a Handwerker Gallery exhibition, Imaging Ithaca College.

Smith began shooting pictures as a child and selling sports photography as a college student. During World War II he was a naval technical photographer and photography instructor. After the war he settled in Ithaca, setting up his own photography business in 1947, when the IC campus was still downtown.

He did a lot of public relations work for the College, shooting everything from everyday events to football games to visitors of international prestige. He took photos all during the time IC planned and made the move to South Hill, including aerial photos-although he claims to be afraid of heights.

Smith's work was also published in such major publications as Life, Look, Newsweek, and Time.

Photos courtesy of the C. Hadley Smith Photograph Collection, Ithaca College