TYPE: Photograph Album
DIMENSIONS: 160 x 100 mm or smaller
COMPONENTS: 200 gelatin silver prints; mostly captioned below; period leather, rubbed.
ITEM ID: 535
University of Arizona Student Photo Album
DATE
Year: 1905
Decade: 1900s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)
Notes: c.1905-1915
An album containing gelatin prints, compiled by a student at Arizona University. The album depicts pre-war college life, including: cross-dressing male students with banner “Not Sufferegettes [sic] But Seniors;” Thanksgiving football game against University of New Mexico; the football team en route to El Paso; a trip to Sabino Canyon; a livestock judging class; bizarre amateur dramatics; “My room in South Hall”; Order of Elks Convention at Tucson with floats and decorated motor cars; UA cadets marching and camping; Flagstaff in 1916; car maintenance; “SandA movie set at Prescott 1914”; and cavalry exercises in Jacksonville, Florida. Some of the album leaves are decorated with drawings of University of Arizona mascots.
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