Students in the Main Building.
The Institute Archives & Special Collections Department is closed to researchers the week of August 13- 17.
Please email lib-archives@rpi.edu with your research question and someone will respond as soon as possible. We will resume normal business hours Monday, August 20th.
The Institute Archives & Special Collections are housed in the Fixman Room on the 3rd floor of Folsom Library. Archival collections provide documentation of the development and growth of the Institute. Materials include: records of the presidents and senior administrators, Board of Trustees minutes, department records, and campus publications.
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth and George M. Low
Special collections – manuscripts and rare books – focus on nineteenth and early twentieth century science and technology. Subject areas include civil engineering, especially bridge, canal, and railroad design and construction; mechanics and mechanical engineering; geology; chemistry; physics; mathematics; and architecture. Among the department’s collections are the materials of John and Washington Roebling, Eben Norton Horsford, Amos Eaton, George Low’s NASA papers, and the Gerald and Sue Friedman History of Geology Rare Book Collection.