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The Hamilton Holt
Collection
Dr. Hamilton Holt (1872-1951), the
eighth President of Rollins College, fostered a great legacy of expansion and growth
for the College. Holt established the Spanish Mediterranean architectural style of the campus, founded the Animated Magazine, and launched the Conference Plan that centered the Rollins curriculum on the individual
student. He also brought many great personalities to Rollins including Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and the American philosopher John Dewey. It was during the Holt era that Rollins achieved national prominence as one of the outstanding experimental colleges of the time. The pictures contained in this collection span his tenure at Rollins (1925-1949) and also his life. Here you will find a collection of his
photos, speeches, and writings. Each image explains some aspect of his legacy.
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Faces of Rollins
College
Building on a tradition of excellence, innovation and community, Rollins
College holds a distinctive place in American higher education. For over
a century the College has striven to fulfill its liberal arts
mission of providing education of the complete individual - encompassing
mind, body and spirit. It is the people here who are Rollins College.
This collection contains images of ordinary students, famous alumni,
faculty and staff, and famed scholars and celebrities who visited the
College over the years. It illustrates daily lives and historical events
on campus, and commemorates the landmark achievement of the people of
Rollins in its distinguished history.
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Rollins Architecture & Landscape
Since its founding in 1885, Rollins College has been at the heart of learning, culture and architectural beauty in Central Florida. The establishment of Rollins on Lake Virginia provided the perfect location for a truly beautiful campus to unfold. Over the years, the College's planners have succeeded in combining the man-made beauty of campus buildings with the natural beauty of the lakeside setting. The consistent use of Spanish Mediterranean architecture has created a sense of harmony and
unity that is the essence of the campus. This collection consists of historical photographs of buildings and grounds, including: dedication, construction, exterior and interior design and decoration, and landscape scenes.
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Student
Lives at Rollins
Ever since the Holt's Conference Plan in the early twentieth century, the educational experiences of individual students have been the focus of Rollins experiment. The liberal arts tradition of the College runs deeper than its organizations, publications, and buildings. The tradition lives through the students in their spirit, which embodies what Rollins is today. This collection provides a visual documentation of the student lives at Rollins from a historical
perspective: curriculum, rules and regulations, student groups, diversity and multiculturalism, community services, internationalization, student theatrical plays, physical education programs and so on.
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Winter Park and Florida
Known as the “City of Homes,” Winter Park has been the
home of Rollins since its founding in the late nineteenth century. “Set
like a gem amid the water blue,” the College and the town have grown up
together over the years; each has drawn from and shared with the other
in a symbiotic relationship. This collection includes photos, postcards,
and historical documents that are related to Winter Park and Florida
before the age of theme parks. Through enhanced access to this digital
resource, users will be able to learn about lives of early pioneers,
homes and haunts, events and people who helped shape the histories of
Winter Park and Central Florida communities. |
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Treasures at Rollins Archives
Over the history of Rollins, the College Archives and
Special Collections at Olin Library has been the home for many precious
works, either donated by alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends,
or purchased by the College. This collection is developed to raise the
community awareness and broaden users’ access to those unique historical
materials held at Rollins. They range from a set of presidential
portraits with autographs, to a handwritten note by Walt Whitman, and
the sweater and sneakers worn by Mr. Fred Rogers. Many other historical
documents are included such as a slave sale receipt and land grant
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