Welcome to the Macalester College Archives and Special Collections

Here you can access and browse our finding aids (guides and catalogs to our collections) to help locate the resources you need for your research. These include documents, photographs, audio and visual materials, ephemera, and other unique artifacts that document the history of Macalester College and its community dating back over 200 years.

You can also visit the Macalester College CONTENTdm digital collections to view our digitized resources, the Macalester College Archives site to learn more about us, or contact an archivist at archives@macalester.edu with any questions you may have or for help navigating the collections online.

Once you have located an item or items of interest, please fill out our Appointment Request Form to visit the Archives in person. Note that the Archives contain many artifacts that are not yet cataloged into ArchivesSpace, so please reach out if you did not find what you were looking for on a particular subject or person and we will search through our unprocessed materials for you.