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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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 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
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
View of Anne M. Cooke.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Anne M. Cooke, circa 1920
Date Created
1915/1925
Description
View of Anne M. Cooke.
Subject
African American women, Portraits and people, 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
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence, August 31, 1928
Date Created
1928-08-31
Description
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African Americans--Education, African Americans--Education
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence, August 6, 1928
Date Created
1928-08-06
Description
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African Americans--Education, Theatre and dance
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence, August 9, 1928
Date Created
1928-08-09
Description
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African Americans--Education, Theatre and dance
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence, June 1, 1928
Date Created
1928-06-01
Description
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African Americans--Education, African Americans--Education
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Correspondence, May 28, 1928
Date Created
1928-05-28
Description
Correspondence between Anne M. Cooke and Florence M. Read regarding a teaching position at Spelman College.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African Americans--Education, African Americans--Education
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of President Florence Matilda Read signing document at desk with John Hope looking on. Written on verso: President Read (middle) - the signing of the Affiliation Agreement amongst Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Atlanta University - April 1, 1929.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Florence Matilda Read Signing Affiliation Agreement, April 1929
Date Created
1929-04
Description
View of President Florence Matilda Read signing document at desk with John Hope looking on. Written on verso: President Read (middle) - the signing of the Affiliation Agreement amongst Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Atlanta University - April 1, 1929.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, Presidents, Special events
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
Group portrait of 1926 high school graduates.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
High School 1926
Date Created
1926
Description
Group portrait of 1926 high school graduates.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Portraits and people, Commencement ceremonies
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Japanese Girl, circa 1929
Date Created
1928/1929
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
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
Letters of recommendation for Anne M. Cooke.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Letters of Recommendation, 1928
Date Created
1928
Description
Letters of recommendation for Anne M. Cooke.
Subject
African American women, African Americans--Education, College students
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
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
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Passing of the Third Floor Back, circa 1928
Date Created
1925/1931
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts, Interior decoration
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection