General Biographical Files collection

The General Biographical Files are primarily collected by the Communications Office and transferred to the Williams College Archives after faculty and staff are deceased, though there are some files for current faculty and staff who are not deceased. The files also include prominent affiliates of Williams including donors, honorary degree recipients, and parents of current students and alumni. This collection contains reports, personal documents, correspondence, email notices, newspaper and article clippings, and digitized material -- all relevant to individual faculty and staff members and prominent affiliates of the college. Papers in this collection date from the late eighteenth century to the present.