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Folder 3

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Scrapbook Pages, ca. 1905

 File — Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Henry C. Balcom collection documents the student life of Henry C. Balcom, mostly as a Purdue University freshman in 1905. The collection includes several photographs and clippings related to the 1905 Tank Scrap and Chain Gang, as well as various campus scenes and buildings. Also included are two newspaper clippings detailing controversies surrounding University President Winthrop Stone's wife Victoria. The collection also contains one later photograph of Balcom from 1946.

Dates: ca. 1905

Scrapbook page 1, 1905

 Item — Folder: 3, Item: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents

Front: Newspaper clippings related to Purdue administrators, the Tank Scrap; Back: clippings related to student riots following a basketball game with Indiana University, the Chain Gang, and Purdue administrators

Dates: 1905

Scrapbook page 2, n.d.

 Item — Folder: 3, Item: 2
Identifier: Item 2
Scope and Contents

Front: Winter campus photos including the Library (University Hall), Physics Building, Fowler Hall, Agriculture Building; Back: photos of unidentified people at a lake or river

Dates: n.d.

Scrapbook page 3, ca. 1905

 Item — Folder: 3, Item: 3
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents

Front: Campus photos including Engineering Building (Heavilon Hall), Physics Building, Chemistry Lab, Civil Engineering Building, Fowler Hall, the Tank, and ROTC drills; Back: “After the scrap”, Forestry class, Parade Bell, marching band, Chain Gang

Dates: ca. 1905

Scrapbook page 4, 1905

 Item — Folder: 3, Item: 4
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents

Front: Tank scrap photos, cemetery near the tank, Waldron St. House--Purdue; Back: “Sham Battle” at Battleground, Happy Hollow, “Henderson, Arnett & Madus”, Freshman House, Gravel Pit

Dates: 1905