Original Photo Album of a Male Student, 1931-1935
- Washington, DC et al. , 1931
Washington, DC et al., 1931. Good. Washington, DC et al: 1931-1935. Oblong folio (29x35.5cm.); hand-made album, upper cover fashioned out of a mustard-yellow blanket (or sweatshirt?) of the First National Bank of Decatur, "Bob" embroidered on the far-left; 32ll. filled to completion with two-hundred and forty (240) photographs captioned in white in images (various measurements from 3.5x4.5cm to 19x25.5cm.); four (4) news clippings; three (3) original drawings; and a small Gallaudet U. flag on first page. Binding rather worn, lacking rear cover, otherwise Good to Very Good, contents clean and legible.
Fabulous photo album of an unnamed deaf California student during his four-year tenure at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Photos include aerial shots of the campus, a view of Florida Avenue from campus, the reflecting pool, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, Washington's 200 Year Celebration, and the 1933 inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The student was a member of the track team and the football team, and the album is peppered with finishing line shots and football scrums from competitions against local adversaries Catholic University and American University. The compiler was additionally a member of the Kappa Gamma Fraternity, which hosted dinners and dances.
Other events and scenes recorded: the train ride from his home in California to Washington, DC; two summer trips to Camp Roosevelt, in Calvert Cuff, Missouri (wiener roasts, sunbathing, swimming in the lake, etc.); trips to the beach (a sign on the boardwalk reads "Lowering shoulders straps PROHIBITED on the beach"); building snowmen; an interior shot of the compiler's dorm room; a visit to the Chicago World's Fair; a Halloween dance (one student impishly points to a hand-painted sign, "Down with faculty and Hoover included"); and two small snapshots of the ill-fated dirigibles the USS Macon and the USS Akron. The Akron crashed into the Atlantic shortly after this shot was taken in 1933; the Macon crashed off the coast of California a couple years later, in 1935.
Also of special note are the photographs of Gallaudet University President Dr. Percival Hall, who served in that role from 1910 to 1945. There are only two other staff or faculty members present in the album, a woman whose name is illegible, and two images of the school's beloved Black custodian Douglas Craig. As a young deaf child during the Reconstruction era, Craig was found abandoned and begging on the street. When it was discovered that he was deaf, he was taken to Edward Miner Gallaudet. Under Gallaudet's tutelage Craig was educated and employed at the University where he remained for the rest of his life. There are two photographs of him in the album, one in which he is surrounded by a group of students, the other a portrait of him standing alone.
A wonderful and storied record of student life at the leading university for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Fabulous photo album of an unnamed deaf California student during his four-year tenure at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Photos include aerial shots of the campus, a view of Florida Avenue from campus, the reflecting pool, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, Washington's 200 Year Celebration, and the 1933 inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The student was a member of the track team and the football team, and the album is peppered with finishing line shots and football scrums from competitions against local adversaries Catholic University and American University. The compiler was additionally a member of the Kappa Gamma Fraternity, which hosted dinners and dances.
Other events and scenes recorded: the train ride from his home in California to Washington, DC; two summer trips to Camp Roosevelt, in Calvert Cuff, Missouri (wiener roasts, sunbathing, swimming in the lake, etc.); trips to the beach (a sign on the boardwalk reads "Lowering shoulders straps PROHIBITED on the beach"); building snowmen; an interior shot of the compiler's dorm room; a visit to the Chicago World's Fair; a Halloween dance (one student impishly points to a hand-painted sign, "Down with faculty and Hoover included"); and two small snapshots of the ill-fated dirigibles the USS Macon and the USS Akron. The Akron crashed into the Atlantic shortly after this shot was taken in 1933; the Macon crashed off the coast of California a couple years later, in 1935.
Also of special note are the photographs of Gallaudet University President Dr. Percival Hall, who served in that role from 1910 to 1945. There are only two other staff or faculty members present in the album, a woman whose name is illegible, and two images of the school's beloved Black custodian Douglas Craig. As a young deaf child during the Reconstruction era, Craig was found abandoned and begging on the street. When it was discovered that he was deaf, he was taken to Edward Miner Gallaudet. Under Gallaudet's tutelage Craig was educated and employed at the University where he remained for the rest of his life. There are two photographs of him in the album, one in which he is surrounded by a group of students, the other a portrait of him standing alone.
A wonderful and storied record of student life at the leading university for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.