Historical Photo Gallery

Please click the images below to view a historical photo gallery from the 175th anniversary.

 

Samuel Simon Schmucker (1799-1873), founder of Gettysburg College in 1832, was an articulate Lutheran anti-slavery activist.	In February 1905, two cases of "skin eruption" developed on campus, which were thought to be smallpox -- but proved to be chickenpox.	Northwest view of "Old Dorm" (Pennsylvania Hall) in 1903. The building was converted to a dormitory in 1899.
A student room in "Old Dorm," ca. 1905. Note the ATO pennant and a Gettysburg College class picture in the top center.	The Philomathaean and Phrenakosmian literary societies were founded early in the College's history to encourage intellectual pursuits outside the classroom. In 1910 they were located in Glatfelter Hall.	Among the dignitaries to visit the College was former President William Howard Taft (2nd, left), who came to campus in 1918.
The Students' Army Training Corps (SATC), 1918. The College's military band, part of SATC, was directed by F. William Sunderman, Class of 1919.	The College offered an engineering program for more than 25 years, and from 1914 to 1940 about 215 students received engineering degrees.	Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), an ardent advocate for emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century, was influential in helping Gettysburg College obtain its charter and made available the College's original six acres.
Linnaean Hall was located west of Penn Hall and was the second building on campus. Originally "devoted to Natural History," it was converted to a gymnasium in 1890. The building was razed in 1942.	Originally "devoted to Natural History," Linneanan was converted to a gymnasium in 1890. Its condition deteriorated over the years, and the building was razed in 1942.	David Wills is second from the right, front row. Wills became an prominent attorney in Gettysburg, and in November 1863 he invited Abraham Lincoln to stay in his home on the town square when the president came to dedicate the new national cemetery.
The Class of 1851. Class members could not fit into one picture, so two were taken.	John Hopkins (1806-1868), affectionately known to the students as the "Vice President," served as the College's janitor from 1847 until his death in 1868.	Stevens Hall, ca. 1882, housed the "preparatory department" (later called Gettysburg Academy), which educated pupils "for entrance into the regular College Classes."
Gettysburg College in the early 1890s, looking north from town. The building to the left was the original Phi Gamma Delta house.	Cora Hartman, one of the first two females to graduate from Gettysburg College in 1894. Margaret R. Himes graduated with her in the same class.	By June 1904, some 67 women had been enrolled at the College and 17 had graduated -- though the College didn't officially become co-ed until 1934.
The "Sons of Hercules," an intramural gymnastics group, in 1900. The picture was taken in Linnaean Hall, after the building's conversion to a gymnasium.	The College's first football team, 1890. Football debuted on campus in 1879 as a club sport, when Gettysburg beat Dickinson College 11-6.