VAN/VU/Campus. Campus History
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Vanderbilt Student Portrait Scrapbook
This collection contains a scrapbook of Vanderbilt student portraits from the late 19th century. There are 37 photographs, the majority on cabinet cards. While the majority of the photos are of college-age students, there are also a few photos of young children or older adults.
Disciples of Christ Historical Society Architectural Drawings
The Disciples of Christ Historical Society Architectural Drawings Collection, 1958, consists of original architectural drawings of the T. W. Phillips Memorial Building, which was built in 1956 as the Disciples of Christ Historical Society and became the Vanderbilt Special Collections and University Archives in 2023.
Nursing School Centennial
This collection includes one flat box which holds the hardback centennial celebration history book, the paperback centennial event schedule, and two commemorative medallions.
Vanderbilt Girls' Club Records
This collection contains two items related to the Vanderbilt Girls' Club, dated 1909-1913.
William O. Batts Jr. Feeder School Project
Vanderbilt Woman's Club Records
This collection consists of materials (1893-present) from the Vanderbilt Woman's Club. It contains correspondence, record books and notebooks, directories, newsletters, minutes and reports for board meetings, constitution and by- laws and revisions of those, photographs and photograph albums, and a few items of memorabilia.
Voices of Vanderbilt Oral History Collection
This collection contains oral history interview tapes and transcripts from the Voices of Vanderbilt project. For a full list of subjects, transcripts, and interviews, contact Special Collections.
"Vandy Goes to War: World War II Remembered" Oral History Collection
This project records the histories and reminiscences of men and women who attended or had connections with Vanderbilt and Peabody during the war years and documents their experiences in the service and on the campus during that time and afterward when some came back to school and attended on the G.I. Bill.
Vanderbilt Garden Club Records
This collection of 2.5 linear feet comprising six boxes contains all materials and records that have been generated and kept by the Vanderbilt Garden Club and includes history essays, minutes, photographs, audio tapes of meetings, programs, a scrapbook, and other items.
Women At Vanderbilt Collection
A small collection consisting primarily of papers on women's history written by students in a history class taught by Professor Barbara Weinstein in Fall 1981 called "Women at Vanderbilt". Altogether there are 13 research papers. This collection also includes a course syllabus and selected readings for the class, as well as newspaper articles relevant to the topics studied.
History of Undergraduate Desegregation at Vanderbilt Collection
William McKendree Papers
Alpha Omicron Pi Collection
This collection contains materials relating to the Alpha Omicron Pi’s Nu Omicron chapter at Vanderbilt University. There are programs, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia arranged by decade from the 1920s through the 1950s. Also included are photographs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Coelebs Club Collection
This collection contains 3 invitations from the Coelebs Club. The invitations list the names of the members. It also includes 1 invitation to a banquet in honor of Joseph Toy Howell.
Women's Organizations At Vanderbilt Collection
This small collection contains records of seven women’s organizations at Vanderbilt University operating during the middle 1970’s until the early 1980’s.
About this Site
This site contains collection guides, or finding aids, to the archival collections held by Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives, the History of Medicine Collection, and the Scarritt Bennett Center. Finding aids describe the context, arrangement, and structure of archival materials, allowing users to identify and request materials relevant to their research.
Requesting Materials
Each finding aid contains a link to request materials from the collections. Collections can also be requested by emailing the repository directly through the library website. Each repository has its own location, hours, and contact information. Please consult the repository with questions about using the materials. Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the repository’s reading room. In many cases, the collections are stored off-site and require advance notice for retrieval.