Ithaca College Archives and Special Collections

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The College Archives include historical materials relating to Ithaca College and the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. Special collections include the Rod Serling Archives, a collection of television scripts, films and related materials and the Milton Cross Collection, containing radio scripts and memorabilia.

The Ithaca College Archives and Special Collections is a part of the Ithaca College Library.

Our academic year office hours are normally Monday through Friday from 10-12 a.m. and 2-4 p.m and by appointment. Please call 607-274-3096 or email archives@ithaca.edu for an appointment. We are occasionally in meetings elsewhere during our office hours and recommend calling ahead to avoid disappointment.


The Ithacan: Historical Issues in a Digital Version

The historical issues of the Ithacan are now available online. This cutting edge technology makes available a deep vein of historical information about Ithaca College, about Ithaca and Tompkins County and about higher eduction in the 20th century. The design is still a work in progress.


C. Hadley Smith Photograph Collection

Selections from the C. Hadley Smith Photograph Collection are available for viewing online. The images are of Ithaca College: our places, our events, our people. The dates of the collection range from 1950 into the 1970's.


The College Archives, located on the fifth floor of the Gannett Center, is the designated repository for official records of Ithaca College, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music (1892-1926) and the Ithaca Conservatory and Affiliated Schools (1926-1931). The College Archives contains a body of publications, theses, minutes, correspondence, student records, photographs, audio-visual materials and financial records dating back to the founding of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music.

Descriptions of archival records

These links are pointers to information in the Ithaca College Archives. To look at the actual items, you must request them at the Archives office located on the fifth floor of the Gannett Center. These descriptions cover only a small percentage of the records of Ithaca College held in the College Archives, please check the online catalog for additional information about our holdings. If you are looking for other information, please contact the Archivist. Masthead of the first issue of the Ithacan

Rules for the Guidance of Conservatory Pupils is the text of a flyer regulating the behavior of women students of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, circa 1912.

A history of Ithaca College.
A history of presidential inaugurations and transitions at Ithaca College.

The use of these materials is subject to restrictions stipulated by the depositor, whether official or private. The purpose of the Archives is to preserve materials having intrinsic historical, legal, evidential and/or administrative value to the College, thereby providing the College with useful documentation of the people, policies, and events of its past years.



Archival Information (non-Ithaca College)

This is a sampling of homepages of other archives and professional resources.


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Maintained by: B. Bower, College Archivist, Ithaca College Library.
Please email queries to archives@ithaca.edu
Last updated on August 15, 2005