The three members of Carleton's original class of 1874, including Carleton's eventual first graduates, J. J. Dow and Myra Brown. Pictured are: Bayard T. Holmes, Myra A. Brown, and James J. Dow.
Group portrait of Carleton's first fully-sanctioned football team, of 1891. Pictured are: Benn Houghtaling; Albert Lewis Sperry; Stanley Hall Bissell; James Edwin Jenks; Nels Thomas Teigen; Fred May Rounds; Elmer Lanpher Coffeen; Frank Dike Baker; Milton Daily; Charles Henry Shellbach; Ernest Albert Baker; Clark Dean Brown; and William John McCarthy.
Spectators watching action of the annual freshmen-sophomore "cane rush," a scrap on the northwest corner of the Bald Spot, in front of Willis Hall and Sayles-Hill gymnasium.
Group portrait of costumed participants in the Y.M.C.A. carnival held in Sayles-Hill gymnasium April 6, 1911. Visible are the "Dutch band," and principals in a mock boxing match between "Jack Johnson" and the "Hope of the White Race."
Group portrait of the residents of Gridley Hall dormitory during 1887/88, including students and resident college staff. People involved: Lucia Elizabeth Danforth; Emma Lincoln; Charlotte R. Willard; Frances Cousens Gage; Dora Elizabeth Fishback; Mary E. Beach; Nellie Comelia Clark; Linnie Lewis; Mabel Rebecca Colwell; Mary Rebecca Hart
A mock wedding, probably in Gridley Hall, being staged by a number of women of the college. Pictured are: Dora I. Clark; Clara Adams Nutting; Josephine Somsen; Marjorie A. Sawyer; Alzina C. Munger.
Freshman male on his knees to a woman, either singing or making a mock proposal, as part of freshman hazing. The photo is labeled "Oja's persuasive qualities seem to fail him." People pictured are: Jack Oja.
A group of male students tipping their hats to a group of female students in a posed group portrait from the spring of 1895. People pictured are: Mary Elsie VanCampen; Ida Mary Ellis; Glencora Stokes; Mabel Opal Knapp; Frances Crouch; Bessie Mabel Cook; Ruth Annah Haven; Elizabeth Taylor; Harry McFarland Williams; Denny Clough Gates; Allen Harmon Carpenter; James Roger Van Slyke; Malcolm Dana; Normal Lucia Olsen; and Aimee Alice Wells.
Two women dancing the parts of a shepherd and a princess in Carleton's annual May Fete pageant. People involved: Dorothy M. Peterson; Marjorie Houghtaling
Group photograph of participants in a treeplanting ceremony conducted in connection with the inauguration of President William H. Sallmon. Pictured are: William Laird; James Woodward Strong; Alice Trubee Sallmon; William Henry Sallmon.
Parade on the plank sidewalk before Goodsell Observatory celebrating the inauguration of Carleton president William H. Sallmon. Members of the sophomore class ('05) in the foreground.