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Postcards at Colgate, recently added to our digital collections, showcases the campus and the surrounding area as they were in the early part of the 20th century. These black and white photographic postcards were mainly unsent ... collected as souvenirs of a place and time. A few ended up in a scrapbook were the collector made comments to the subject matter. Like this one, where the writer describes the gym (prior to Huntington) with a sentiment that might sound familiar ... "Our dinky little gym. It has long since grown too small for the use of the college men and we are promised a new and bigger one. This is located right at the foot of the hill, beside the lake" (the old gym stood where JC Colgate is now).

A few were sent - like this one, which reminds the recipient, "Hope you are well and being good boy. Daddy".
We hope you enjoy seeing how the campus has changed over the course of the years (almost a full century).