Digitized Collections

Girard College works on its own and with partners to provides access to a wide selection of materials digitized from our Historical Collections, along with Girard College content in other collections.

To learn more about the full breadth of our holdings, both digitized and undigitized, see the Catalogs and Finding Aids section.

Books

• Internet Archive
  • Items digitized by Girard College: including all yearbooks published 1930-1985 and annual reports not digitized elsewhere.
  • Items digitized by other institutions: including many Girard College annual reports pre-1923 and other publications about Stephen Girard and Girard College
• Hathitrust Digital Library: items digitized by other institutions, including many Girard College annual reports pre-1923 and other publications about Stephen Girard and Girard College

Architectural Drawings

• Philadelphia Architects and Buildings : All architectural drawings from the competition to design Girard College in 1832 and the subsequent construction 1832-1847 have been digitized in collaboration with the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

Girard college Photographs

• Historical Collections Photo Site: a wide selection of historic photos of Girard College. This is a work in progress and not all school photos are digitized or are suitable for digitization, so if you can’t find what you’re looking for, please contact us.
  • For mobile users, this site works best in landscape mode and to toggle between seeing an image and seeing its comments, tap the “speech bubble” icon.

Stephen Girard Papers

• Revolutionary City Documents from the Stephen Girard Papers up to 1804 are currently being digitized as part of a project with the American Philosophical Society. This work is ongoing.
• For more on the Stephen Girard Papers, see the Find Aiding Aid and Letter Index