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.
View from Laird Stadium of the Carleton vs. Luther football game of 1927 or 1928. A portion of the crowd is visible as well as the band seated at the sidelines. Handwritten text on back reads: "From Art Buck, Nov. 1965."
View from the field showing Carleton vs. Luther football game of 1927 or 1928. Severance Hall and Sayles-Hill Gymnasium are visible. Handwritten text on back reads: "From Art Buck, Nov, 1965."
First floor plan of the residence of W. M. Nutting. Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot. Built in 1888 for the John Claudius and Calista (Morse) Nutting family, and given to Carleton College in 1970 by their granddaughters. Contemporary newspaper reports referred to the house as one of the finest in the city. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 due to its status as the only remaining example of a brick home of this size and period in Northfield.
First of a pair of posed images showing the board of the Class of 1893 Algol (Carleton yearbook) in a tidy, energetic "before" stage, and in an exhausted, worn-out "after" stage. Pictured are: Elmer Lanpher Coffeen; Katherine L. Donaldson; Alice E. Andrews; Robert D. Taylor; Elizabeth M. Bissell; Gertrude Woodruff; Luella Turrell; and Albert Lewis Sperry.
Second of a pair of posed images showing the board of the Class of 1893 Algol (Carleton yearbook) in a tidy, energetic "before" stage, and in an exhausted, worn-out "after" stage. Pictured are: Elmer Lanpher Coffeen; Katherine L. Donaldson; Alice E. Andrews; Robert D. Taylor; Elizabeth M. Bissell; Gertrude Woodruff; Luella Turrell; and Albert Lewis Sperry.
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.
A collection of photos collected and organized by Carleton College student, Edith Griffith, Class of 1896. Her album includes photos from 1892 to 1926. She collected the majority of photos while she was at Carleton College until she was graduated in 1896.
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.
A collection of photos collected and organized by Carleton College student, Paul Barney, Class of 1895. Barney later received his D. D. S. from the University of Minnesota and later was a dentist in the Mankato, Minnesota area.
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."
YMCA Carnival company of Carleton students pose in costume and with musical instruments in the Sayles-Hill Gymnasium at Carleton College. Handwritten note on back of postcard reads: "Removed from W. Edwin Dean Scrapbook."
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
An unidentified woman poses in military dress. Handwritten text on back of card reads "Northfield 'Geo Booners (?) friend' " and "From Dorothy Dorn daughter of Howard Clifton Frank (1915)."
Exterior view of Willis Hall with Sayles-Hill Gymnasium on the Carleton College campus. Handwritten text on back reads: "Removed from Ida Norton scrapbook."
Rear view of Willis Hall at Carleton College. Handwritten notes on the back of the postcard read "Willis Hall Chapel" and "Removed from W. Edwin Dean scrapbook."
Tinted postcard of an exterior view of Willis Hall on the Carleton College campus. Handwritten note on back of postcard reads "c. 1910, from Adelbert Wallace."
Colorchrome postcard of a rear view of Willis Hall on the Carleton College campus with Burton Hall and Sayles-Hill Gymnasium also visible. Portion of handwritten text on the back reads "this is one of the not so new buildings on campus here. Chimes sound rather softly from it every quarter hour and of course the hour is struck. These though are in addition to one big clear bell that rings beginning and end of periods (10 min. between) which this year have to begin at 7:30 AM in order to have enough of them in the day for the special army units!" Card is postmarked October 1943 and is from Hazel Ramsay, Assistant Professor of History at Carleton College 1943-44.
Exterior view of Williams Hall in winter on the Carleton College campus. An unidentified man looks out a second storey window. Heating Plant smokestack is visible.
Exterior view of the south side of Scoville Memorial Library at Carleton College. Postcard shows images of two foxes inserted into the photograph. Text on the front of the postcard reads ""We are feeling pretty foxy at Carleton.""
The new observatory opens in 1887; it is named for Charles M. Goodsell in 1891. Transverse section of Goodsell Observatory. Scale 1/4 inch equals to foot.