Tank Scrap (Purdue University)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: The Tank Scrap, a yearly physical and pugilistic competition between Purdue University freshmen and sophomores, began 1894 after members of the Class of '97 painted a local water tank with their class year. It continued until 1913 when the students, faculty, and administration unanimously voted to end the event.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Berkshire, William T., May 1, 1971
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSO 2, Series 1, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with William T. Berkshire by Robert B. Eckles.
Dates:
May 1, 1971
Carrier Family photo album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 365
Scope and Contents
This album contains photographs of the Carrier family, Smith family, Galeener family, and the Everhart family. These are possibly extended family of the Carriers or married names. Pictures depict individuals as well as houses and landscape in Urbana, Illinois, and Pasadena, California. There are several photos of the 1913 Lafayette flood and one of the Purdue tank painted after a scrap.
Dates:
circa 1913 - 1924
Class of 1909 Meeting Minutes
Collection — Box Communal Collections 48, Placement: 03
Identifier: UA 109
Scope and Contents
This volume contains the Class of 1909 meeting minutes and adopted resolutions relating to class member activities and reunions. Insights into the annual tank scrap between freshmen and sophomores, class business and elections of various positions are described. Class members are listed in the first alumni meeting (pp.76-87). All notes are collected in one bound volume.
Dates:
1905 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1909
Class of 1915 photo album, 1912 - 1939
Item — Box 1, Item: 1
Identifier: MSP 260, Item 1
Scope and Contents
The Class of 1915 photo album documents class activities and Greek events of the Class of 1915, including the Tank Scrap and Greek house parties. Types of materials within the album include black-and-white photographs and newspaper clippings.Of particular interest may be the photographs of campus scenery and buildings, and documentation of the 1913 flood in the Lafayette area. Some photographs identify class members through handwritten notes and captions. Herbert S. O’Brien, class...
Dates:
1912 - 1939; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1915
Purdue University Customs and Traditions collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 151
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University Customs and Traditions collection features, among other memorabilia, a tank scrap chain and padlock from 1913, a label from the first bottle of beer served to a Purdue student after the repeal of prohibition, numerous buttons and pins, including a hatpin with the Purdue seal from 1895 on it (third design), a Reamer's Club "R" from the early 1990s, a Purdue Murad cigarette silk, a 1902-1903 matriculation ticket signed by Purdue President Winthrop E. Stone, along with Junior...
Dates:
1877 - 2014; Other: Majority of material found within 1880 - 1940
Gilbert family papers
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20210615
Dates:
1909 - 1912; 1944 - 1950
Herbert S. O'Brien papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 260
Scope and Contents
The Herbert S. O'Brien papers contain materials that were created by, received by, or that are about Herbert O'Brien. Contents include, but are not limited to, a Class of 1915 photo album, photographs of O'brien, letters, notes, newspaper clippings, and various publications.
Dates:
circa 1912-1982
John Norberg collection
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-018
Dates:
Issued: 1899 - 2019
Tank scrap postcard
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 50
Identifier: 2022-061
Dates:
January 21, 1911