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The Beloit College Digital Student Collections contain a variety of works created by current Beloit students and alumni. Throughout the academic year, students are presented with a host of opportunities to create and share research projects, art work, papers, and other original products. For many students, these works serve as capstone projects or senior theses. For others, the projects are the result of independent studies or experiences abroad. These digital collections are a primary means of preserving and disseminating the expanding body of student-created work. Although each of the featured works has been preselected on the basis of academic merit, submission to the digital archives is a voluntary process. Watch for the addition of new collections as this repository grows into a hub of academic creativity and ingenuity for the Beloit College community. |
| In commemoration of the Chamberlin
Hall of Science
(1968-2008), the library is creating a unique digital collection consisting
of digital images of the building and the beloved spaces within taken
by members of the Beloit College community. Your favorite images taken
in or from Chamberlin Hall may be added to the library’s existing collections
of City and College memories currently available in Beloit College Digital
Collections. Submissions will be accepted on the photo sharing site Flickr
beginning now and continuing through October 2008. While photos may still
be submitted to Flickr
after October 2008, it is less likely that these late submissions will
be included in the digital collections. If you would like to submit your
digital photos, please sign up for a Flickr account and follow these guidelines. |
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The T.C.
Chamberlin collection, consists of 726 beautiful black and
white photos from the College Archives’ Chamberlin Collection. These photos
were taken by Rollin Chamberlin during an exploratory trip through China
in 1909-1910 as part of the Oriental Educational Investigation Commission.
T.C. Chamberlin was a graduate of Beloit (class of 1866), a professor
and president of the University of Wisconsin, professor at University
of Chicago and Geologist of the United States. He took the trip with his
son, Rollin T. Chamberlin, who was a University of Chicago professor and
prominent geologist. There are many fascinating and striking photos in
this collection. |
| Herbert Gaytes, Class of 1893, was a gifted amateur photographer who meticulously documented aspects of life during the 1890’s. While a Beloit student, he began photographing College and local scenes and activities. He also visited and photographed the World’s Columbian Exposition as well as Chicago in the early and mid 1890’s. Gaytes life led him to California where he died on October 11, 1959. Several years after his death, a crate arrived at the college, containing his collection of glass plate and nitrate negatives, and photographic prints. Our online collection offers a few of his photos which capture student and College life, as well as the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition. |
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| Beloit - College, city and environs is a growing collection that we are proud to establish with fifteen video files created by College friend Rob Baller. This collection was originally created as PowerPoint slides of images from the Beloit College Archives and Beloit Historical Society. These images, once digitized, were “sewn” or overlaid on one another to create a fading effect. The results are videos of Beloit and College buildings, streets or locations as they looked in the past and present, weaved into short video presentations. |
