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RIT Archives

RIT Archive Collections serves as the official repository for historically valuable records of the university.

05/08/2026

We're not crying...yet! 🥹 Wishing the happiest of graduations to our student employees: Gabi, Jacob, Maya, and Eve! 🎓💐🐅

04/28/2026

It's and you've got this, Tigers! The RIT Archives Research Center is switching to our Summer hours, and we'll have by-appointment availability through August 21, 2026. To schedule, please email us at [email protected]. 🐅😎📚

02/05/2026

On Wednesday, February 11th from 4:30-6:30 PM, we're co-hosting an opening reception with Beyond Fashion (Shop One - RIT Global Village) in University Gallery at RIT! Our newest student-centered exhibit, "Inscription: The Process Work of Albert Paley," will be on display in the Gallery's Grid Space through March 6, 2026.

This exhibit was co-curated by Emelia McCalla (Graphic Design BFA, ‘26) and Kaitlyn Kavanagh (Museum Studies BS and New Media Design BFA, ‘26) for Professor John Monaco’s Spring 2025 MUSE-241 class, and features materials from our recently acquired Albert Paley collection. All graphic design was completed by Michelle Fu (Graphic Design BFA, '26) and Julian Howland (Graphic Design BFA, '26) for Command+g Design Lab —including this reel, which features Paley’s actual handwriting! And as always, our friends from the Imaging Services Lab (ISL) supplied the vinyl prints.

Please join us for the opening reception, and help celebrate our talented student co-curators and designers!

01/29/2026

Tomorrow! Join us for day one of the Engaging Rochester Symposium honoring the life and legacy of Gene DePrez (1940-2025). Gene was a civic innovator and visionary founder of Rochester's Urbanarium, and a very dear friend of the RIT Archives.

From 4:30-6:30 PM, our student club, Archive Collective (ArC) has curated a pop-up exhibit for the reception in the MAGIC Spell Studios Lobby. Come view materials from the Gene DePrez papers (RITArc.0793), and help ArC members flex their docent skills!

All graphic design for this two-day event was completed by Carlos Mosca (Graphic Design BFA, '26) for Command+g Design Lab (RIT Graphic Design) in the RIT College of Art and Design.

01/05/2026

University Archivist Liz Call is on her way to an exciting new job as the Head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State University Libraries and we will miss her dearly. In her 6+ years at RIT, Liz was a champion for access, outreach and collaboration. Students, faculty, staff, and greater Rochester have all benefitted from her drive to build community through archives. She did so much of the hard work of an archival leader: (re)assessing our collections, building our student-centered teaching and exhibits programs, activating donor relationships, starting photo cake traditions (🙂), establishing the RIT Archives StoryBooth oral history initiative, and so much more!

Liz has been a fearless advocate for our department, and a role model for staff and student employees alike. She has left RIT Archives better than she found it, and we know that Liz will go on to do vital, dynamizing work at Penn State and beyond. Congrats, Liz! 🟠🐯⚪️🦁🔵

12/08/2025

That time of the year is here!

The RIT Archives will be open by appointment only starting December 9th through January 12th!

Use this link if you need an appointment!
https://www.rit.edu/archives/contact-and-visit

12/05/2025

It really locks us in not gonna lie☕...

12/03/2025

Temperature is 32° but feels like 12°...The frost does indeed bite 🥶 ❄️

Title: Student activities, members of the Rochester Institute of Technology ski club walking through the snow, 1951

Summary: Members of the Rochester Institute of Technology ski club walking through the snow with their skis and suitcases, playground equipment, cabins, and woods can be seen in the background

12/01/2025

And everyone showed up to the group meeting 💪💪💪💪

Image: Academics, Food Administration Department, cooking class [1945-1950]
Summary:
Mrs. Velma P. Jordan, Instructor in Food Administration with male and female students in a classroom. A male student is pouring batter into a cake pan.

11/21/2025

Since we've announced the second volume in the RIT Archives Chapbook Series, you might be wondering: who was Marcia Ellingson? Let's get an introduction!

Marcia was the daughter of RIT President John Randall, and the wife of RIT President Mark Ellingson. As a woman of many things, she founded the RIT Women's Council, documented our history in scrapbooks, and "gently" advocated for women's rights and dignity.

The Marcia Ellingson chapbook is being written this semester by students in University Archivist Liz Call's Hands-on History (HIST-421) class. Stay tuned for pre-order and release dates in 2026!

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