All University Archives
This collection of photographs and prints documents the early history of American University and its campus in northwest Washington D.C., near Ward Circle, at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues. The Collection includes photographs of Fort Gaines, the Civil War era Union Army fortification which was on the site that later became the American University campus. Photographs trace the physical development of the campus from the groundbreaking for its first building in 1896, through rapid growth in the 1920's, up to the mid 1960's. The collection includes photographs from World War I when the campus housed the U.S. Army's Camp Leach and Camp AU and World War II when the campus housed the U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School and an American Red Cross school for nurses. Also present are photographs of the University's founders, chancellors and presidents and prints of prominent officials who visited the campus, including Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, in addition to photographs of commencement ceremonies dating from 1916 through 1970.
Your search has also found results in related AM products.
Show me the resultsCopy the below link to share this set of search criteria with others. Using the link will allow others to see a list of search results on this site with the same parameters as those you've used.