Named for Northern New York entrepreneur Thomas S. Clarkson, Clarkson University was founded in 1896 in Potsdam, New York, first as the Thomas S. Clarkson school of Technology, then becoming the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial College of technology, then Clarkson University in 1984.
Scope of Collection
The collection consists of numerous annual issues of the Clarksonian, Clarkson University’s yearbook, dating between the years 1927 and 2008.