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This archives site is managed independently under the direction of the Office of Institutional Advancement.

What's on this site

Yearbooks, student newspapers, catalogs and other pamphlets appear as they are requested by patrons and as might be appropriate for reunion classes. In anticipation of the 200th anniversaries of the schools, materials from past celebrations are now available. See links for AA anniversaries and AAG anniversaries in the right panel.

How to find it

The links in the right panel will open pages in the various item categories.

Recent activities

Honoring the nineteenth century men who led Albany's medical and academic institutions, John McClintock has posted a new article with down-loadable document attachments. Find them in the "current articles" section.

The scanning and processing of anniversary publications has been a year-long project and is nearly complete. You will find the results by using the links for "AA anniversaries" and "AAG anniversaries" in the right panel.

Two history articles by John McClintock have been posted in the "current articles" section. They are separate accounts of the major events in the histories of the two schools, The Albany Academy and Albany Academy for Girls, from the foundings to 2007. These "short versions" are a prelude to the full bicentennial accounts that are still in preparation.

Northeast Document Conservation Center has completed the restoration of several important founding documents of Albany Female Academy. We will have further information about these when funding projects are completed.

What we need

We are surveying the published items. Most collections so far examined are in very good condition and complete. Urgently needed are:

Fish and Pumpkin: issue 1 from 1957-58; donated: thank you!
Academe: 1960, 1973, 1988, 1996
Cue: 1989; donated: thank you!
Cupola, Spring 2001; donated: thank you!
Cupola, Spring 2004 (yellow cover, lower school boys)
Cupola, Winter/Spring 2006 (mixed with lower right blue, "Changing Landscape")

We accept donations of items relating to the experience of past students. Especially interesting are scrapbooks, academic work, and published works of AA and AAG graduates. We can take girl's uniform examples from past decades, but we have sufficient examples of cadet uniforms dating from the 1940s onward.