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Re: College Group Photos



Dear Jan,

Wheaton College (Norton, MA) has about a dozen such large/long format
photos, of May Day pageants, reunions, and commencement.  Some come full
circle around the entire upper campus.  They range in sizes up to 58 x 12,
and are dated 1900-1920s.

At 11:42 AM -0600 10/5/00, Boles, Jan wrote:
>10-5-2000
>
>(Please forgive cross postings)
>
>Lists:
>
>The recent thread (on the Archives list) on early yearbooks and halftone
>reproduction of photographs coincided with a project at our archives
>involving group photographs. I have recently catalogued panoramic student
>body photos made annually from 1912 to 1936. These pictures, made with a
>Cirkut camera by our school's president and founder, Dr. William Judson
>Boone (1860-1936), depict the entire student body. The pictures range in
>width from 30" to 62" (all are printed on 6" paper); the number of persons
>depicted range from less than 100 (1912) to more than 300 in the 1930s.
>
>Because of the extreme format, very few of these panoramas were ever
>included in the college annual (or any other publication, for that matter).
>Now that I have the sequence matted (until recently most were coiled and
>nearly impossible to view), it occurs to me that such a collection may be
>quite rare.
>
>So, my question is: are any list frequenters aware of  comparable sequences
>of entire student bodies or other large groups? I am curious about not only
>panoramas but conventional formats as well.
>
>Any responses will be appreciated.
>
>Jan Boles, Archivist
>The Robert E. Smylie Archives
>Albertson College of Idaho
>Caldwell, ID  83605
><jboles@albertson.edu>
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Zeph Stickney
Archivist & Special Collections Curator
Gebbie Archives
Wallace Library
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766
zstickne@wheatonma.edu

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