Halloween party
Students and a faculty member with doughnuts at a "Hallowe'en" party
Students and a faculty member with doughnuts at a "Hallowe'en" party
Helen St. John Perrott Rose, Class of 1918, President of the Vassar Christian Association, standing at a bulletin board
Portrait of Henry Noble MacCracken, seated at desk in office
Portrait of Henry Noble MacCracken, seated at desk in office
Horse and unidentified rider jumping a stone wall
Men cutting ice on Vassar Lake and running it up a belt to be stored in the ice houses
Two men guiding a horse-drawn ice plow on Vassar Lake
Two men using a horse-drawn plow to remove snow from Vassar Lake
Two men with an ice plow hooked to a horse on Vassar Lake
One man guiding a horse-drawn plow to remove snow from Vassar Lake. Raymond Avenue faculty houses are in the background
Students playing ice hockey on Vassar Lake
Ice hockey game on Sunset Lake, possibly part of Winter Carnival
Ice houses on Vassar Lake
Several people ice skating on Vassar Lake
Carolyn Wolfstein (VC 1924), President MacCracken, two unidentified women and Stephen Duggan
Helene Pold, Elizabeth Sornam Cornelius Appasamy, unidentified international student, and Ding Shujing of China's YWCA
Carolyn Wolfstein (VC 1924), Elizabeth Sornam Cornelius Appasamy, two unidentified international students, and Lydia Bucena (VC 1924, Latvia)
Helene Pold, Elizabeth Sornam Cornelius Appasamy, unidentified international student, and Ding Shujing of China's YWCA
President MacCracken, three unidentified women, Stephen Duggan, unidentified woman, W. Carson Ryan. Seated: Samuel Guy Inman, Helen Howell Moorhead, two unidentified women, and Richard Ferris Fitch
Two unidentified participants in the institute
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