This collection contains over 1100 images dating from 1887 to the present and document Spelmans presidents, commencement ceremonies, and campus building and grounds. Also featured are images from Spelmans Department of Drama and Dance from the 1930s to the present. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.  
Jul 5, 2019

Spelman College Photographs Collection

This collection contains over 1100 images dating from 1887 to the present and document Spelmans presidents, commencement ceremonies, and campus building and grounds. Also featured are images from Spelmans Department of Drama and Dance from the 1930s to the present.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.  
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  • Subjects = Buildings and grounds
  • Decade = 1920-1929
View of Spelman College fountain.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Spelman College Fountain, March 1929
Date Created
1929-03
Description
View of Spelman College fountain.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Group portrait of Presidents in front of building. Written on verso: Presidents. Miss Read of Spelman College, Dr. Hope of Atlanta University, Mr. Archer of Morehouse College.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Presidents Photograph, 1929
Date Created
1929
Description
Group portrait of Presidents in front of building. Written on verso: Presidents. Miss Read of Spelman College, Dr. Hope of Atlanta University, Mr. Archer of Morehouse College.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, Presidents, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of students assisting in moving the library in 1928, outside Packard Hall.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Moving the Library, 1928
Date Created
1928
Description
View of students assisting in moving the library in 1928, outside Packard Hall.
Subject
Buildings and grounds, African American universities and colleges
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Exterior view of Spelman's power plant in 1927.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Power Plant, 1927
Date Created
1927
Description
Exterior view of Spelman's power plant in 1927.
Subject
Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of the dedication plaque inside Sisters Chapel "The Sisters Chapel was built with funds from the estates of Laura Spelman Rockefeller and Lucy Maria Spelman for many years loyal friends of Spelman College and daughters of Lucy Henry Spelman after whom the college was named. May the beautiful Christian spirit of these sisters and their lives of unselfish service ever be an inspiration to those who cross this threshold. Anno Domini 1926."
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Sisters Chapel Dedication Plaque, 1927
Date Created
1927
Description
View of the dedication plaque inside Sisters Chapel "The Sisters Chapel was built with funds from the estates of Laura Spelman Rockefeller and Lucy Maria Spelman for many years loyal friends of Spelman College and daughters of Lucy Henry Spelman after whom the college was named. May the beautiful Christian spirit of these sisters and their lives of unselfish service ever be an inspiration to those who cross this threshold. Anno Domini 1926."
Subject
Buildings and grounds, African American universities and colleges, Church buildings
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Exterior view of Leonard Street Orphans Home in winter.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Leonard Street Orphans Home, circa 1928
Date Created
1925/1931
Description
Exterior view of Leonard Street Orphans Home in winter.
Subject
Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Exterior view of Tapley Hall.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Tapley Hall, September 1925
Date Created
1925-09
Description
Exterior view of Tapley Hall.
Subject
Buildings and grounds, African American universities and colleges
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Exterior view of Giles Hall.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Giles Hall, circa 1925
Date Created
1922/1928
Description
Exterior view of Giles Hall.
Subject
Buildings and grounds, African American universities and colleges
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Exterior view of Chadwick Hall. Written on verso: Chadwick Hall (shows road-street between Chadwick and Spelman campus).
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Chadwick Hall, circa 1925
Date Created
1921/1928
Description
Exterior view of Chadwick Hall. Written on verso: Chadwick Hall (shows road-street between Chadwick and Spelman campus).
Subject
Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of students lined up outside barn on Spelman College campus.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Old Barn, circa 1925
Date Created
1921/1928
Description
View of students lined up outside barn on Spelman College campus.
Subject
Buildings and grounds, African American women
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of students walking with umbrellas into old barn on Spelman College campus. Written on verso: Old Barn (the Barrack number 1), torn down in 1937, built in 1882.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Old Barn, circa 1925
Date Created
1921/1928
Description
View of students walking with umbrellas into old barn on Spelman College campus. Written on verso: Old Barn (the Barrack number 1), torn down in 1937, built in 1882.
Subject
Buildings and grounds, African American women
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Aerial view of Spelman College campus. Written on verso: Bird's eye view of campus.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Aerial Campus View, circa 1920
Date Created
1917/1924
Description
Aerial view of Spelman College campus. Written on verso: Bird's eye view of campus.
Subject
Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Aerial view of Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Clark, Spelman, Housing Projects.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Aerial View of Campus, circa 1920
Date Created
1917/1924
Description
Aerial view of Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Clark, Spelman, Housing Projects.
Subject
Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Aerial view of Spelman College. Written on verso: Aeroplane view of campus.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Aerial Campus View, circa 1920
Date Created
1917/1924
Description
Aerial view of Spelman College. Written on verso: Aeroplane view of campus.
Subject
Buildings and grounds
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection