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Nathan S. S. Beman lectures

 Collection
Identifier: 1988-14
Content Description

Three lectures on the topics of habits, motives, and communications of students, given by Nathan S.S. Beman before Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The collection contains handwritten and typescript copies.

Dates: Circa 1850

Ned Harkness sports films

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-26
Content Description

This collection contains 8 mm and 16 mm films, mostly depicting RPI men's hockey and lacrosse games during the period when Ned Harkness coached the teams in the 1940s and 1950s. Highlights include footage of the lacrosse team competing in a demonstration game at the London Olympics in 1948 and the NCAA hockey championships in 1953 and/or 1954. Also included are two undated tributes labeled "Ned Harkness Day" and "Harkness First Family of Lacrosse."

Dates: 1948-1963

Needham Waddell mechanics student notebook

 Item
Identifier: 1991-11
Content Description

This item is a student notebook from 1907, containing mechanical mathematical equations from the course "Notes on Mechanics," taught by Professor Palmer Ricketts. The notebook was kept by Needham Waddell, RPI Class of 1908.

Dates: 1907

Norman Cottrell course notes

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-34
Content Description

This collection contains printed course notes for classes taken by Norman Cottrell, RPI Class of 1907. The booklets cover such topics as algebra, geometry, astronomy, chemistry, technical and rational mechanics, and botany. There is also one booklet of study questions on highways and railway locations.

Dates: circa 1902-1907

Office of the First Year Experience records

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-2
Content Description

Contained in this collection are student orientation publications, Navigating Rensselaer t-shirts, videos and memorabilia, Parents of Rensselaer information packets, and Family Weekend publications.

Dates: 2006-2008

Orville W. Reen RPI photographs and certificates

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-30
Content Description

This collection contains photographs that document student life on the Rensselaer campus, certificates, and RPI commencement programs from Orville W. Reen (RPI Class of 1938).

Dates: 1934-1938

Othniel Foster Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 7
Abstract

The collection contains personal and professional papers, scrapbooks and a photo album primarily related to O. F. Nichols' work on the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges and for the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company.

Dates: Created: 1869-1900; Other: Majority of material found in 1887-1900

Palmer Chamberlain Ricketts professional records

 Collection
Identifier: AC 3
Scope and Contents The Palmer C. Ricketts Papers span the years 1881 to 1955, with the bulk of the material falling into the periods of Rickett’s tenure as President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from 1892 to 1934. The papers have been organized into four series consisting of Administrative Papers, which contains chiefly correspondence, but also includes reports, statistics, and account books; Professional Papers, which consist of...
Dates: Created: 1871-1955

Palmer Ricketts Student Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MC 31
Scope and Contents

The Palmer C. Ricketts' Student notebooks (MC 31) contain a small amount of material documenting Ricketts' education and early teaching experiences at RPI, 1874-1878.  Composed of five notebooks, tthese include two student volumes of drawing exercises, and three professorial notebooks containing notes and problems in mathematics and mechanics.  The last professional notebook also includes problems regarding bridge construction.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1988

Patroons of Rensselaer

 Collection — Container: 1 box
Identifier: AC 44
Dates: Created: 1961-1998

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Martin, Charles Cyril, 1831-1903 2
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Bauer, C. Lloyd (Charles Lloyd) 1
Bauer, K. Jack (Karl Jack), 1926- 1
Bear Mountain Bridge 1
Beck, Lewis C. (Lewis Caleb), 1798-1853 1
Beman, Nathan S. S. (Nathan Sidney Smith), 1785-1871 1
Billmeyer, Fred W., Jr. 1
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Chicago Ship Building Company 1
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Crockett, C. W. (Charles Winthrop), 1862-1936 1
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