Founder's Day
Students in minstrel costume and black face at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in minstrel costume and black face at the faculty-student baseball game
Henry Noble MacCracken and Marjorie Dodd MacCracken at the Founder's Day "County Fair" with students in the background wearing costumes, including one person in blackface
Student in blackface peeking out of a curtain at the Founder's Day "County Fair"
Students in costume and blackface at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in costume and blackface at the faculty-student baseball game
Students performing as a minstrel band in blackface at the faculty-student baseball game
Pageant in honor of the Walt Whitman centennial entitled "At the Call of the Bird". The event was part of an "American Day" themed Founder's Day and included scenes from the country's past, present, and future. This scene includes enslavers and enslaved people and the performers are wearing
Be Yourself, a skit show presented by the Class of 1925 to the Class of 1927. The scene includes one student in blackface and wearing what looks like a West Point cadet jacket
Minstral scene from "County Fair," a skit show presented by the Class of 1919 to the Class of 1921. The scene includes seven students in blackface.
Opening scene of the skit show presented by the Class of 1927 to the Class of 1929. The scene, set in Tennessee, includes 17 students in blackface
Full cast of a skit show presented by the Class of 1927 to the Class of 1929. Several students in blackface can seen in the group
Characters from "County Fair," a skit show presented by the Class of 1919 to the Class of 1921. The scene includes a "wild woman" who is in stereotypical African dress and blackface. There are "gypsy fortune-tellers" and snake charmers, one in brownface. Also included are the "Fat Lady," her
County Fair skit show presented by the Class of 1919 to the Class of 1921. The scene includes students costumed as lions, an elephant, a giraffe and a camel. The camel and giraffe handlers are described as "Ethopian" and are in blackface
Marching band from "County Fair," a skit show presented by the Class of 1919 to the Class of 1921. The group includes two students in blackface
Students portraying French chefs in "Utopian Vassar," a skit show presented by the Class of 1920 to the Class of 1922. The scene includes one student in blackface
American south scene from "Carnival of Nations," a skit show presented by the Class of 1917 to the Class of 1919. The scene includes 15 students in blackface
Three students costumed as rag dolls in the skit show presented by the Class of 1924 to the Class of 1926. One doll is a "long-legged" doll and the other two are golliwog dolls and are in blackface
Scene from Act II of the skit show presented by the Class of 1925 to the Class of 1926. Two students are in blackface and costumed as waiters
Skit show presented by the Class of 1920 to the Class of 1921. Most of the students are in stereotypical Chinese costumes. Two are costumed as "Egyptian slaves" and are in blackface
Full cast of skit show presented by the Class of 1920 to the Class of 1921. Some students are in stereotypical Chinese costumes and one is in blackface
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