Sources

Fram
Fram searches for and identifies most items in the collection: letters, diaries, office records, artifacts, recordings, publications, scrapbooks, and photos. It also provides full-text articles from the Alumni Magazine for 1936 to 1974 and abstracts for every issue of the Manitou Messenger, the student newspaper.

First 30 Years of Enrollment
The archives has assembled the names of over 2700 students who were enrolled during the first 30 years of the college's history. This document also includes the dates of each student's enrollment and department.

Digital Sources
The following primary and secondary sources have been digitized and are available in the St. Olaf College Digital Collections:
The Manitou Messenger Collection 1 -29 (1887-1916)
The Viking Year Book 1904-05, and more in progress.
Joseph Shaw, History of St. Olaf 1874-1974 (1974)
Joseph Shaw, Dear Old Hill: The Story of Manitou Heights, the Campus of St. Olaf College (1992)

Recommended Web Sites
Local, state and national web sites to aid researchers.