Materials related to Spirit the Tiger, a live tiger cub that served as the Rochester Institute of Technology's mascot from 1963-1964. The collection includes correspondence, administrative and financial documents, ephemera, and clippings. Also included is a transcript of an oral history interview given by members of the original Tiger Committee in 2005. The Collection on Spirit (Tiger) includes materials related to the tiger's time at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The collection contains administrative documents such as the Tiger Committee's constitution, as well as financial documents such as the Tiger Committee's bank register. Additionally, there are many pieces of correspondence regarding the tiger including letters on his purchase and appearances. When Spirit died, his skin was prepared by a taxidermist and placed in the Archives collection. There is also correspondence regarding this skin. In addition, the collection contains ephemera from Spirit's time at RIT including a "school spirit" stock certificate that went toward purchasing the tiger, a candy bar wrapper with Spirit's likeness, and a mailing that featured the story of Spirit. This series also includes a single photograph of the tiger. In 2005, members of the original Tiger Committee gave an interview on their recollections of Spirit. The transcript for this interview, as well as a written recollection by David Page, are also included in the collection. The collection also contains fliers and an article related to Tiger Day, held on November 10, 1989. During this event, a statue of Spirit was unveiled on RIT's campus in memory of the cub. There are newspaper clippings about Spirit and his successor, Spirit II, located toward the end of the collection. The plaque that hung outside Spirit's cage at the Seneca Park Zoo is also in the collection.
