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​​​​The Ì©¹ú²ÊƱUniversity Archives document the history of Ì©¹ú²ÊƱsince its inception in 1866, until the present. Our collections feature around 1,200 linear feet of archival material relating to every aspect of AUB's history (administrative, academic, and extra-curricular activities, etc.). Besides written documents, our Ì©¹ú²ÊƱArchives comprise photographs, audio-visuals, as well as some Ì©¹ú²ÊƱrelated artifacts. A few noteworthy documents in our Collections include the following: early Ì©¹ú²ÊƱPresidential papers related to the founding of the Syrian Protestant College in 1866, and to the Edwin Lewis Darwin crisis in 1882; records of early Missionaries' educational activities in the region (e.g. papers of the Near East Colleges Association); documents pertaining to WWI; significant students' publications documenting the socio-political climate in the area, including handwritten magazines from as early as 1899, and al-Urwa al-Wuthqah, the archives of the Lee Observatory since its founding in 1873 until its closing in 1979; papers related to many famous AUB-ites and famous Lebanese and Arab intellectuals, journalists, musicians, politicians, and artists, (Jurji Zaidan, Asad Rustum, Constantine Zurayq, Al- AmiÌ„r ShakiÌ„b ArslaÌ„n, Anthony Shadid, Walid Gholmieh, Zaki Nassif, Abdallah Al Yafi, Saeb Salam and Jamil Hammoudi, etc.)