Founder's Day
President MacCracken dressed in a stereotypical Middle Eastern costume and Dean C. Mildred Thompson at the festivities after the Founder's Day parade
President MacCracken dressed in a stereotypical Middle Eastern costume and Dean C. Mildred Thompson at the festivities after the Founder's Day parade
Students at the faculty-student baseball game
President James Monroe Taylor's grave at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, visited by a contingent from Vassar on Founder's Day
The students's team at the faculty-student baseball game
Student in costume
Matthew Vassar's grave, Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, which was visited by a contingent from Vassar on Founder's Day
Student in costume at the the faculty-student baseball game
Student dressed in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in 1890s costumes at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in minstrel costume and black face at the faculty-student baseball game
Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon's grave, Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
A student riding in the bicycle contest
Nine-pin game, set up by students in costume
Class of 1924 at the song contest
Class of 1922 marching to the song contest
Student dressed as a pirate at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in costume, two in stereotypical Native American dress, another in what might have been intended to represent Romani dress
Faculty-student baseball game
Students in costume for the Founder's Day Parade, one in stereotypical Native American dress
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