{"id":11874,"date":"2022-01-31T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=11874&preview=true&preview_id=11874"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:45:34","slug":"new-book-captures-175-years-of-earlham-college-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/new-book-captures-175-years-of-earlham-college-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"New book captures 175 years of Earlham College in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This 1896 image shows the library when it was in Lindley Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first comprehensive pictorial history of Earlham College is now available just in time to celebrate the College\u2019s 175th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by Earlham archivists Tom Hamm and Jenny Freed, Earlham College: The Campus History Series <\/em>(Arcadia Publishing, 2020) features 219 images over 128 pages. It is available from major retailers<\/a> and the Earlham campus store<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The book is organized into chapters chronicling the College\u2019s beginning, the physical campus, campus life, leadership, faculty, off-campus programs, athletics and Earlham in the larger world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEarlham has a very rich history and photography collection,\u201d said Freed, Earlham\u2019s director of special collections and archives. \u201cWe could only include so many, so we tried to make sure there was something for everybody. We had to find a balance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn our initial identification of pictures we\u2019d like to include in the book, we came up with about twice as much as we could include,\u201d added Hamm, a professor of history and the College\u2019s Quaker scholar-in-residence. \u201cI think it\u2019s safe to say we spent almost as much time deciding what not to include as what to include.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamm said the first half of the College\u2019s history was largely captured by students and faculty, especially after the advent of the brownie camera by Eastman Kodak in 1900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter 1900, there was just an explosion of students taking photographs, a lot of which ended up in scrap books,\u201d Hamm said. \u201cWe are fortunate that a lot of alumni or families of our alumni have sent those to us over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince the 1940s, the college has had a staff photographer,\u201d he said. \u201cThe officially generated number of photos increased substantially after that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the City of Richmond extended streetcar service west of the Whitewater River in 1895, Earlham became a stop.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Earlham, one of the nation\u2019s Top 100 national liberal arts colleges, was originally established as a Quaker boarding school by the Religious Society of Friends on June 7, 1847<\/a>. In 1859, a collegiate department was added and the school became Earlham College, named in honor of the home of the eminent English Quaker minister Joseph John Gurney, who had been an early supporter. At the time, Earlham was the second Quaker college in the world, and the first coeducational one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pictorial history is the third book chronicling Earlham\u2019s growth and distinction in higher education. Hamm is the author of Earlham College: A History 1847-1997<\/em> (Indiana University Press, 1997). Fourteen years earlier, the College published Earlham: The story of the College 1847-1962<\/em>, which was written by historian Opal Thornburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlham continues its 175th celebration with a virtual lecture and conversation by author and philosopher Cornel West<\/a> on Friday, Feb. 4.  The first in-person anniversary event is WinterFest<\/a>, on Friday, Feb. 11. The inauguration of Earlham President Anne Houtman is scheduled for October in conjunction with the College\u2019s homecoming and reunion weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Earlham\u2019s milestone year, visit earlham.edu\/175-anniversary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Zimmerman<\/strong>
Assistant vice president of strategic communications
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Email: zimmebr@earlham.edu
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