College Publications

Inventory

• Hamilton College Catalogues - Includes 33 catalogues covering 1819-1872 (incomplete) contain lists of names of students, faculty, and officers, academic calendars, course tiles, textbooks used, obituaries and more.

  • Online version (1996-present) (on the College Web site)

• Commencement Programs - Includes 78 programs covering 1815-1899 (incomplete).

• Complete Alumni Register of Hamilton College (1912-1932)
  - Includes the names of all executives, faculty, and students from 1812 to 1932.

• Hamiltonian (college yearbook) - selected years

• The History of Hamilton College (1922)

Digitization

Digitization of this collection was done in-house on a flatbed scanner scanned at 600 dpi, 24-bit color (or 8-bit grayscale) and saved as uncompressed TIFF images. The TIFF images were converted by CONTENTdm to JPEG2000 images to provide flexible display options.

Transcription

Transcription of the text was accomplished using optical character recognition by ABBYY FineReader as supplied by CONTENTdm. This enables full-text searching. The option to download a PDF version of each catalog or page of the catalog is also provided.