Subseries: Student Portraits and Activities
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Freshman poster stating that “Times are hard,” and “Beware!”

University of Wisconsin Class of 1860

University of Wisconsin Class of 1861
Note

Photographer: Fuller, Madison, Wisconsin

Left to right, back row: William W. Church, Henry Vilas, Farlin Q. Hall, and Michael A. Leahy; front row: William E. Spencer, James B. Britton Jr., Shadrach A. Hall, John D. Parkinson, and Almerin Gillett.

Senior class broadside, 1873
Note: Published by Class of 1873. The names mentioned include many faculty members of that period, including President Twombly, and prominent members of the senior class.

Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, 1875
Note: First sorority on the campus.

Photostat of card “With the compliments of ’85,” and “Order of exercises at the burial of the junior class, University of Wisconsin, 1883 May 18

Chi Psi Fraternity house, 1885
Note: Photographer: J.M. Fowler

Delta Gamma sorority girls and Chi Psi fraternity men, about 1885-1886

Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, charter members, about 1885-1890
Note: Left to right: unidentified, Norma Lawrence (?), Genevieve Pugh, Edna Richardson, Lettie Wood, Laura (Lol) Baxter, Winifred Sercombe, Elinor (Nellie) Leith. In the portrait close-up: unidentified, Norma Lawrence (?), Lettie Wood, Elinor Leith, Winifred Sercombe, Edna Richardson, Laura Baxter and Genevieve Pugh.

University of Wisconsin’s first baseball champions, 1886

Omega chapter of Delta Gamma sorority, 1889
Note

The single portrait is a composite of all the members of the chapter made by superimposing the eye of one, an ear of another, etc. to make the finished portrait. In the photo in the back row, second from left is May Brown: seated directly in front of her is Gene Hand; to Miss Hand’s left is Jessie Call. In the back row, second from right is Belle Brown and reading frontwards in a slight diagonal to the left is Ala Spaulding, Cora Markham (?) and Emma Drinker. The others are unidentified.

Photographer: A.C. Isaacs, Madison, Wisconsin

Omega chapter of Delta Gamma sorority, about 1889
Note: Back row, left to right: Jessie Call, Marie Spaulding, May Brown, Edith Updegraff, Minnie Spaulding. Front row: Ella Spaulding, Gene Hand, Cora Markham, Emma Drinker.

University of Wisconsin women students, about 1890

Members of the Pickwick Club posing outside their house, at the southwest corner of Langdon and Lake Streets, about 1890-1900.
Note

A.H, Sanford is standing at the left end of the top row. The Pickwick Club was a student boarding club. Founded in the 1870s, it was the longest-lived of such organizations, and probably due to its longevity, achieved the most social distinction. Most such clubs were organized by a single enterprising student or group of students, and lost impetus and disbanded when the good managers left school or graduated.

Photographer: Viall Brothers of Madison, Wisconsin

Members of the Pickwick Club posing outside their house on State Street, about 1890-1900

Delta Upsilon fraternity house on the southeast corner of State and Lake Streets, about 1890-1900
Note: Lawrence Whittet (left of bicycle) and Burt Shirly (extreme right)

University of Wisconsin group photograph, about 1890-1900
Note: Photographer: Curtiss, Madison, Wisconsin

Delta Gamma sorority, freshman group, about 1890-1895
Note: Back row, left to right: Meta (?) Goldsmith, Ada Barling, Alice Newbre, Bessie Gernon, Elsie Lunch, Florence Bashford, Helen Dodge, Edna Newbre, and Marth Pound in the front.

University of Wisconsin Glee Club, 1891
Note: Photographer: Curtiss, Madison, Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin football team, 1891
Note: Front row, left to right: Lester Mayhew (Class of 1893), Fred Sull (Class of 1894), Beverly Worden (Class of 1892); second row, left to right: D.H. Walker (Class of 1892), J.B. Kerr (Class of 1892), Dwight Freeman (Class of 1894), E.H. Ahara (Class of 1892), Louis Flower (Class of 1892), C.B. Raymond (Class of 1892), H.M. Coleman (Class of 1895); third row, left to right: Walter Tratt (Class of 1895), Louis Sumner (Class of 1893), J.F.A. Pyre (Class of 1892), R.C. Thiele (Class of 1893), G.N. Knapp (Class of 1894), Willard T. Saucerman (Class of 1892), Frank Bartlett (Class of 1892).

Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, 1892
Note: Back row: Dolly Thatcher; second row, left to right: Edith Locke, Ottilie Schumann; front row, left to right: Helen Thorp and Ann Armstrong.

Paresis Dink, presumably a student at the University of Wisconsin, about 1893

Delta Gamma sorority, class of 1893, photo taken 1889-1890
Note: Clockwise from bottom left: Mary Main (Mrs. Frank McDonough), Helena Lund (Mrs. Vedeler), Bessie riddle, Bird Cassoday (Mrs. Carl Johnson), Amy Young, Carletta Anderson (Mrs. Peter Vedel); center: Carrie Owen (Mrs. Lester Mayhew).

University of Wisconsin baseball team, 1893
Note: Standing, left to right: Spooner, Clarke (Manager), Week, Arms, Dillion, Karel (Ass’t Manager). Seated, left to right: Laurence Whittet, Palmer, Syman, Williams, and Schultz.

Phi Delta Theta group, 1893
Note: Top: Howard Burton (Lake Geneva); Second row: Robert Hackney (Milwaukee) and David Thornton (Joliet, Illinois); middle: Guy Hunner (Eau Claire); third row: Franklyn Sweet (Milwaukee) and Warren Burton (Lake Geneva); front: Ed J, Huber (Fond du Lac).

Original poster directed at “Sophomore Cowards” to “Give us canes or give us death!!” from the Executive Committee of ’97.

University of Wisconsin football team, 1899

University of Wisconsin Sporting event at Camp Randall, 1900
Note: The shorter man is L. “Babe” Spencer, University of Wisconsin mascot. Track equipment is seen in left background.

University of Wisconsin freshman women’s basketball team in the gymnasium of ladies’ hall (now chadbourne hall), 1900
Note: photographer: harper

Original poster giving the freshman warning “which we shall not publish twice,” about 1901

University of Wisconsin’s circus, 1905 March 25
Note: Delta Upsilon’s contribution, “Galulu – Adam’s off-ox.”

Class rush, University of Wisconsin students, 1908
Note: Photographer: Nadeau, Marinette, Wisconsin (Lower photo)

Class rush, University of Wisconsin, 1908

Class rush, University of Wisconsin, 1908
Note: Photographer: Edward O. Nielson, Madison, Wisconsin

Class rush, University of Wisconsin, 1908

Class rush, University of Wisconsin, 1908

Class rush, University of Wisconsin, 1908
Note: In the background can be seen the boat house and the Armory.

University of Wisconsin, 1909

Prize winning side show, 1909
Note: University of Wisconsin Circus presented by the Agricultural Society.

Wisconsin – Minnesota football game crowd, 1909
Note

A cheering section of spectators in the grandstand is waving white objects in a pattern to form a large “W.”.

Photographer: Nadeau, Madison, Wisconsin

Class rush, University of Wisconsin, about 1909

University of Wisconsin, Freshman-Sophomore “water rush” behind the old Y.M.C.A. on lake Mendota, 1909 or 1910

University of Wisconsin parade on Capital Square, looking down Mifflin St. from the corner of Carroll and Mifflin, about 1910

Hazing freshman at the University of Wisconsin, 1910
Note: “Red” Parker, University of Wisconsin cheerleader in grey suit and cap.

University of Wisconsin class rush on lower campus, 1910
Note: Photographer: Nadeau, Madison, Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin class rush, 1910
Note: Located on what is now the Library Mall. The parade down State Street (?) after class rush.

After the class rush, University of Wisconsin students, 1910
Note: Photographer: Photo Shop

University of Wisconsin Circus, 1911 April 8

University of Wisconsin toboggan slide down Bascom Hill on to frozen Lake Mendota, 1911

University of Wisconsin prom, 1911-1912

University of Wisconsin class rush, 1912

Spectators watching the University of Wisconsin class rush, about 1912

University of Wisconsin class rush, 1912
Note: This activity consists of two opposing teams facing each other from the ends of a field of play. At the signal, each group rushes forward and tries to “capture” as many of the large flour sacks in the center of the field as they can. They must then carry these sacks across the opposite team’s starting line. The team ending up with the most sacks across the end of the field line wins the game.

University of Wisconsin May fete, 1913

University of Wisconsin summer pageant on Bascom Hill, 1915 July

University of Wisconsin students on Bascom Hill, about 1915

University of Wisconsin students on the steps of Chadbourne Hall, about 1915
Note: Photographer: William A. Titus

Official reception for freshman on Bascom Hill, about 1916
Note: The new class is greeted by the President and other University of Wisconsin officials.

Lawrence’s Restaurant on State Street, 1916
Note: A favorite after dance snack spot, frequented by the students of the University.

The Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill, 1916 Spring
Note: Photographer: Photoart House, Madison, Wisconsin

The Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill, 1916 Spring
Note: Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north wing, which was finished in 1917. Photo from the University of Wisconsin Archives.

University of Wisconsin, Bascom Hill, about 1917
Note

May Day Queen (?) Similar photos in the series show graduation ceremonies, so this may have been part of the graduation day pageantry.

Photographer: Photoart House, Madison, Wisconsin.

Graduation ceremony at the University of Wisconsin, Bascom Hill, about 1917
Note: This may be the May Fete (note the maypoles), annual spring celebration held on Bascom Hill mid-May for many years, rather than graduation exercise. The scene is very similar to Senior Swingout, an honor ceremony formally instituted in 1921, in which the graduating senior women pass the Torch of Knowledge to their counterparts in the junior class. The seniors are traditionally clad in commencement robes; the juniors in white. Since Senior Swingout is usually held in mid-May also, the custom may have originated with May Fete ceremonies.

University of Wisconsin, Bascom Hill, about 1917
Note

Part of the pageantry of graduation day ceremonies (?).

Photographer: Photoart house, Madison, Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin class rush, 1919 April 19
Note: Photographer: Photoart House, Madison, Wisconsin.

A group of University of Wisconsin students on Lincoln Terrace, performing for the movie camera, 1921-1922
Note

The Edwin Booth Dramatic Society, celebrating its 20th anniversary, began work on “the first college movie,” of which this is a scene. (CF. Wisconsin Badger, 1922, p. 217.)

Photographer: M. E. Diemer

University of Wisconsin campus rush, 1922-1923

Freshman welcome ceremony on Bascom Hill, University of Wisconsin, 1925

University of Wisconsin students playing a game on the lower campus, Madison, Wisconsin, about 1925
Note: In the background is the men’s gymnasium and armory.

Residents of Adams Hall men’s dormitory at the University of Wisconsin posing at the entrance to the dormitory, 1927
Note: Photographer: M.E. Diemer

Members of the Town and Gown Club of Madison, Wisconsin, at Governor Walter Kohler Sr.’s house in Kohler, Wisconsin, about 1930
Note: Left to right: Edwin A. Birge, Charles S. Slitcher, Burr Jones, Edwin B. Fred, Harry L. Butler, Lucien M. Hanks, Walter Kohler, and John R. Commons.

Crowd listening to a speaker on Bascom Hill, University of Wisconsin, about 1930

Marvin B. Rosenberry speaking to University of Wisconsin students on Bascom Hill, Madison, Wisconsin., about 1930

Senior group from the Home Economics Department, University of Wisconsin, 1932 January 13
Note: Photographer: M.E. Diemer

University of Wisconsin freshman women’s basketball team in the gymnasium of Ladies’ Hall (now Chadbourne Hall), 1900
Note: Photographer: Harper

Sitting room, Kappa Alpha Theta Lodge, 630 Langdon Street, 1900-1910 (?)

University of Wisconsin 1907 football team

University of Wisconsin football game fans, about 1909

University of Wisconsin baseball team, 1909 October
Note

Coached by Dr. Charles “Mac” McCarthy, legislative reference librarian, arrived in Yokohama on September 16 to play nine ball games primarily with students from Waseda and Keio Universities in Tokyo. The trip was organized by Genkwan Shibata, U.W. ’09, who travelled as business manager and official interpreter.

While in Japan, the ball team was feted on innumerable occasions. Two of the more memorable affairs are described in detail by Oswald Lupinski, ’10, who wrote an account for The Wisconsin Engineer in February 1910. This could a photograph of the “banquet given by Yokohama miteci at the Chi tose ro (the finest tea house in Yokohama)” on the evening of October 6th, or the farewell banquet given by the Keio alumni at the Kojunsha Club in Tokyo held on October 12th. Two-hundred and fifty people were served, including the UW party, the Keio and Waseda teams, Tokyo businessmen and some newspapermen, and innumerable university officials.

University of Wisconsin baseball team, Japan, September or October, 1909
Note

The baseball team and Coach Dr. Charles McCarthy, “Mac,” probably with officials of Waseda University, Tokyo (since the photographer, F. Suzuki gives his address as Waseda, Tokyo).

The team played nine games during the month of their stay. One team member, Oswald Lupinksi, ’10, wrote an account for The Wisconsin Engineer, published February 1910.

University of Wisconsin Varsity football squad, 1912

University of Wisconsin vs Colorado football game, about 1912

Grandstand crowd at Wisconsin vs. Minnesota football game at Camp Randall stadium, University of Wisconsin, 1913

Class rush, a contest between the freshman and sophomore classes, 1908(?)
Note: The boat house and the Armory are in the background.

University of Wisconsin football squad, 1909

University of Wisconsin football game against University of Indiana, 1910

“Red” Parker, University of Wisconsin cheerleader, 1910

University of Wisconsin football game at Chicago, Illinois, 1910
Note

Clowns performing during intermission.

Photographer: Wadeau, Madison

Psi Upsilon Fraternity house, University of Wisconsin, about 1910-1915
Note: In 1916 they moved to their present (1961) house.

University of Wisconsin, varsity girls’ basketball team, 1920-1925

University of Wisconsin prom party, 1923
Note: Photographer: M.E. Diemer

University of Wisconsin Athletic Field, 1927
Note

Formerly one of the Agricultural School’s pastures. Mr. Diemer named this photo, “My pasture is gone.”

Photographer: M.E. Diemer

Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house party, University of Wisconsin, 1928

Sigma Phi fraternity house, University of Wisconsin, 1930
Note

Louis Sullivan, architect. The house was built in 1909.

Photographer: Photoart House, Madison, Wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin Homecoming Pep Rally, 1946

Coach Williamson with the University of Wisconsin football team, 1954
Note: Photographer: Richard Vesey, Madison

Senior “swing-out” at the University of Wisconsin, 1932

Co-eds on Bascom Hill, University of Wisconsin, 1939

The toboggan slide at the University of Wisconsin, 1934 February 24
Note

The students are unidentified.

Photographer: M.E. Diemer

University of Wisconsin, Langdon Hall’s roof, 1936 July 15
Note

This is one of the women’s dormitories.

Photographer: M.E. Diemer

University of Wisconsin students at the Wesley co-op, a Methodist-Episcopal Church function through the Wesley Foundation, 1949
Note: These eating co-ops give the members good food at low costs, as the students do most of the work, perhaps hiring only a cook.

University of Wisconsin Field House interior, 1952
Note

Senator Robert Taft and Harold E. Stassen were speakers.

Photographer: Richard Vesey, Madison

Graduating seniors from the University of Wisconsin parading past canon in Randall Field