View of West College around 1810. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect of West College, likely created this watercolor during travels to western Pennsylvania.
This hand-colored engraving of the building that would later become known as West College accompanied an article about Dickinson College that appeared in March 1811 in a publication titled The Port Folio.
The text beneath the engraving reads: From a Sketch by A. Brackenridge B. Tanner F.S.A. fc. DICKENSON COLLEGE
Alexander Brackenridge was member of Dickinson's graduating class of 1809. Benjamin Tanner was a noted printer and engraver. The college's name was misspelled here on the engraving, but correctly spelled in the article text that this engraving accompanied.
This reverse painting on glass shows West College and East College from W. High Street around 1840.
The painter as well as the date of creation are unknown.
View of West College and East College in 1858. John Churchill Brooking, a member of the Class of 1858, is credited as the artist for this chromolithograph. His initials appear at the lower left of the print, and his name is handwritten, identifying him as the artist, on the lower right. E. Valois is the lithographer (33 Spruce St. in New York), as marked at the lower right of the print.
Students standing outside West College around 1860.
View of the John Dickinson campus around 1870.
The caption on the reverse side reads: "West College and East College as engraved by Louis E. Neuman for the Atlas of Cumberland County, 1872.
View of West College from W. High Street in 1870.
This image is #100 of the oversized photograph collection.
This artistic rendering of Old West, from an unidentified printed source, was created by a Thomas Jones Thurber. The depiction seems to reflect the mid-1870s, though the artwork itself appears to date from around 1900.
The caption reads: “OLD WEST” COLLEGE. Built in 1803, Reproduced from an Old Engraving.
View of the west side of West College around 1875. The steps to East College are visible in the background.
View of the east side of Old West in 1878.
View of West College from across W. High Street, circa 1880. The railroad tracks are visible running down High Street, and a man stands to the right of what would later be dedicated as the Class of 1902 gateway.
View of West College from the corner of W. High and West Streets, circa 1880.
Three men stand along the path running between the street corner and the building. At the left, the Pagoda is visible.
View as a student plays the violin while two other students sit at a table in a dorm room in West College around 1890.
A group of unidentified 21 men and 2 boys pose for a photograph in front of Old West circa 1890.
View of John Dickinson Campus from N. West Street around 1890. The steps of East College and Old West are on the left side of the pathway. Bosler Hall is in the background.
View of John Dickinson Campus around 1890, with Old West and Tome Scientific Building in the background.
Robert Emmet McAlarney (Class of 1893) sits in his dorm room in Old West around 1890.
View of dorm room #41 in West College around 1890.
View as Robert McAlarney (Class of 1893), Virgil Prettyman (Class of 1892), Cornelius Prettyman (Class of 1891), and Harry Stock (Class of 1891) play a card game in room #48 in West College around 1890.
View of West College from the pathway leading from W. High Street, circa 1890.
View of West College after a snow fall around 1890.
Members of Beta Theta Pi pose for a group photograph in Clyde Furst's room in West College in 1892: Paul Appenzellar '95, Edwin Hinchcliffe '93, Clyde B. Furst '93, Charles E. Baker '93, Francis B. Harvey '93, Will Uttley '94, Virgil Prettyman '92, Robert E. McAlarney '92, Fred E. Stilt '95
A sign on the right side of the room reads: "KEEP OFF THE GRASS"
