The Catawba College Palmer Archives Collection

The Library is dedicated to preserving Catawba's heritage by maintaining the College's archival records. The Catawba College collection contains documents and artifacts chronicling the school's founding, growth, and relocation. The archives serve as a source of the institution's memory – a kind of ongoing testimony of the College’s legacy.

While not complete, the collection includes some of the following items:

• Accounts of college presidential inaugurations
• Trustee reports
• Departmental records, programs and publications
• College catalogs
• Issues of the school paper
• Records of early student organizations
• The Student Handbook
• Photographs of students enriching the campus community

Location
The Palmer Archives is housed temporarily on the main floor of the library.