Digital Collection

The Gridiron yearbook was published irregularly from 1880 through 1925, after which it was issued annually. Over 100 years of the University's history is now available to browse in digital form.

Christopher D. Roy is Professor of Art History and the Elizabeth M. Stanley Faculty Fellow of African Art History at the University of Iowa, where he teaches courses in the art of Africa, the pre-Columbian Americas, and the Pacific Islands. In 2007, he and his wife, Nora Leonard Roy, donated to St. Lawrence University a group of textiles they collected while conducting research in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. Christopher Roy graduated from St. Lawrence in 1970, and Nora Roy in 1969.

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was born in Tarrytown, NY and spent much of his early life in and around New York City. In his late teens he studied painting with William Merritt Chase. He studied architecture at Columbia University before withdrawing to become an artist. Painters Robert Henri and Abbott Thayer were later teachers. His first solo show was in 1907 in Manhattan.

The Gunnison Memorial Chapel digital exhibit consists of a selection of images from St. Lawrence University Archives' extensive collection of historical photographs. Many of the images available online are also currently on display on the lower level of the Owen D. Young Library. Taken together, these holdings document the 87 year history of this spiritual center of the campus.

This digital collection consists of approximately 100 images selected from the campus photographs housed in the University’s Archives. The originals represent almost all photographic formats from the 1860’s to the present: including various print processes, glass plates, slides and digital. The St Lawrence University campus has evolved in many ways since its founding in 1856. For the first fourteen years the ‘university’ was contained within a single building, College (later renamed Richardson) Hall.

Goodrich was born in Wilna, Jefferson County, New York, practiced law in Madrid, N.Y. and was a Lieutenant Colonel during the Civil War. P. H. Wells was in the Navy stationed in Brooklyn, N.Y. and visited Gouverneur and Madrid, N.Y. where his wife's (Sadie Olin) parents lived.  William Goodrich practiced law in Madrid, N.Y., was judge advocate of the 33rd Regiment NYS Militia, a journalist and part owner of a local newspaper and a Lieutenant Colonel with the 1st Company of the 60th Regiment NYS volunteers during the Civil War where he was killed in the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

Essex County the second largest county in New York State, is the most mountainous of the counties and became a county March 1, 1799. Essex County is bordered on the north by Clinton and Franklin Counties, on the south by Warren County, and the east by Lake Champlain and on the west by Hamilton County. The county has approximately 25 villages and towns with the county seat in Elizabethtown.

Beginning in the 1960s, St. Lawrence County, New York, was one of dozens of rural destinations in the United States to attract the attention of back-to-the-landers, a broad movement of mostly young people seeking anti-materialistic lifestyles in rural settings.