Gargoyles which decorate campus buildings

Historical Photos of Washington University

• Campus in 1899 - Cope and Stewardson's vision for how the campus should look. The main quadrangle will look familiar; Graham Chapel can also be seen.
• Aerial view of campus from 1923. No Bixby and no Givens. The building in the foreground is the British Pavilion, built for the 1904 World's Fair and used as the home of the School of Art for more than 20 years afterward.
• Aerial view of campus from 1948
• Aerial view of campus from 1970
• Panoramic view of the Quadrangle, taken from the top of Brookings Hall. Blewett Hall, completed in 1911 and then used as the chancellor's residence, can be seen in the upper left hand corner. Francis Gate, completed in 1914, is not yet in place.
• An early campus parking lot on the site of what is now Duncker Hall.
• Campus master plan from 1925 showing proposed development of East Campus. (What goes around comes around ...)
• Football team, 1890
• Early baseball team

Artifacts and Publications

1854 Charter and Constitution, Washington Institute in St. Louis - the first publication from Washington University.

Inaugural address of William Greenleaf Eliot, 1872

The first issue of Student Life, from January 1878: page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 | page 5 | page 6 | page 7 | page 8 |

A 17th century map of the Netherlands - the oldest object in University Archives.

Fumihiko Maki, Investigations in Collective Form - first published in 1964.

Frederick Mann, Architecture at the Exposition". Bulletin of the Washington University Association, April 23, 1904. A detailed examination of the architectural program at the 1904 World's Fair.