On September 21, 1889, a new Wellesley student paper called The Wellesley Prelude released its inaugural issue. The Prelude was published weekly during the academic year from September 1889 to June 1892. Annual subscriptions were available for $2.00, and individual issues for $.10. The Prelude picked up where The Courant, its predecessor, left off, and included campus news, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism. It also offered readers editorial content such as student opinion on campus and world affairs.
Recently, all 106 issues have been digitized and ingested into the Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive— the College’s new institutional repository. The digitization was done by the Internet Archive as part of Wellesley College’s collaboration with The Boston Library Consortium. To date, over 2900 of our out-of-copyright books, music scores, and College archival records have been digitized and made freely available as part of this program. Please visit The Internet Archive for the complete collection.
Jenifer Bartle,
Digital Collections Librarian