Digital Collections

To make researching easier, some of the archives’ holdings have been scanned and are available online. 

These include:

 Catalogues and yearbooks: Access the combined catalogues and yearbooks

The 1880 to 1950 catalogues and all volumes of the yearbook, The Liner, are searchable together. The catalogues for those years are especially rich sources since they list the names and hometowns of students, including those attending the preparatory school Hamline ran until 1914. Please note that this site is best accessed through Internet Explorer.

 Yearbooks:  The Liner 

Hamline’s yearbook, The Liner, is also available here. 

 Student Newspaper: The Oracle

Many issues of Hamline’s student newspaper, The Oracle, are available. Currently, the 1888-early 1900s and 1988-2015 issues are available. 

 Brass Rubbings Collection: Brass Rubbings website

 The above link will take you to the main site for the Brass Rubbings Collection, where you will find links to an incredible amount of information about Hamline’s collection and monumental brasses in general.

 Architecture Collection

Historic images and photographs of university buildings and environs – ca. 1880-2000.

 Athletics History

A selection of images that highlight the history of Hamline University athletics.

Photographs and correspondence: Photos and letters

A number of images from Hamline’s early days are available through Minnesota Reflections. Also, searchable there are the letters that Effie Loag Osborn, wife of Henry L. Osborn (Hamline professor and twice acting president), wrote to her mother Emily Taylor Loag, during her first year in Minnesota (1888-1889). Letters that Effie and Henry wrote each other during their engagement (prior to their arrival at Hamline) are available through the archives’ blog. 

School of Law Pictorial Collection 

Photos from Hamline University's former law school, now the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.