Alumni Photograph Collection

 

The Alumni Photograph Collection consists of approximately 5,500 photographic materials, scrapbooks, film reels, correspondence, and news clippings collected by the Colorado State University Office of Alumni Relations. Among the items documented are alumni activities, athletic events, campus life, as well as aerial views of the campus and surrounding Fort Collins area. Series 2 of this collection contains images compiled by Ruth J. Wattles while researching for her manuscript, "The Mile High College: the History of Colorado A&M,” as well as Drama Club scrapbooks which document the club's activities and members under the tutelage of Wattles. (For more information on “Mile High College” see the Papers of Ruth J. Wattles.) This digital collection, with materials dated 1884 to 1970, includes one of former President Charles A. Lory’s family Christmas cards and photographs of students and campus life.

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  • Alpha Zeta fraternity 

    Author(s):Colorado Agricultural College
    Artist(s):Unidentified photographer
    Date:1907
    Format:photographs

  • Mary F. Rausch 

    Date:undated
    Format:photographs
    Photographic reprint of a three-quarter profile image of Mary F. Rausch professor and Head of Domestic Science (later Home Economics) at Colorado Agricultural College beginning in 1907. Rausch is wearing a light, high-collared ...

  • Spruce Hall 

    Date:undated
    Format:photographs
    People standing in front of Spruce Hall. Women are attired in full-length dresses. Men are wearing suits. Nearly all are wearing hats. The building is framed on either side by trees and a path leads up to the people. Spruce ...

  • Company A 

    Date:1916-1917
    Format:photographs
    Twenty-six uniformed men kneel with rifles in hand; behind them are 29 men standing at attention; 2 men (possibly commanders) stand at either end of the row; trees are bare and there are patches of snow on the ground. ...

  • Military band 

    Date:1902
    Format:photographs
    Twenty-five men in uniforms, with instruments, kneeling, seated, or standing together.

  • Lory family Christmas card 

    Date:1939
    Format:photographs
    The front cover of Charles and Carrie Lory's Christmas card featuring a photograph of them.

  • College train depot 

    Date:1920
    Format:photographs
    Two people are reading a sign at Aggie Station, the college's train depot. Another person is in the foreground looking at the camera.

  • Football - championship team 

    Date:1919
    Format:photographs
    The 1919 championship football team.

  • Grace Espy Patton 

    Date:undated
    Format:photographs
    A portrait of Grace Espy Patton, instructor in the Preparatory department.

  • Gary Glick and Colonel Elwood Nye 

    Date:1955?
    Format:photographs
    Football player Gary Glick is receiving a plaque from Colonel Elwood Nye, co-founder of the Nye Trophy. Glick was a championship football player who followed his college career with a career in professional football.

  • Mascot - Teddy the bear 

    Date:1919
    Format:photographs
    Chuck Davis, yell leader for the Aggies football team, and Teddy the Bear, the mascot.

  • Old Main cornerstone 

    Date:1970?
    Format:photographs
    The contents of the time capsule found in the cornerstone following the fire that devastated Old Main. Items include newspapers from 1878, a copy of the New Testament, newspapers, minerals, vials of grain, copies of founding ...

  • Class of 1896 

    Date:1896?
    Format:photographs
    A portrait of the class of 1896 consisting of eleven men and five women posed in front of a curtain with a sign reading "96" and a separate State Agricultural College curtain beside it. Among the students is Grafton St. ...

  • Collegian staff 

    Date:1898
    Format:photographs
    Three women and four men are posed around a table that has books and a copy of the Rocky Mountain Collegian on top.

  • Collegian staff 

    Date:1899
    Format:photographs
    Six men and one woman are gathered around a table reviewing papers.

  • Charles Lory 

    Date:1898
    Format:photographs
    A portrait of Charles Lory, dated 1898. Lory was the fifth president of Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) and served from 1909 to 1940.

  • Military encampment 

    Date:1917?
    Format:photographs
    Men with horses and caissons are gather at a camp in front of the foothills.

  • Military encampment 

    Date:1917?
    Format:photographs
    Twenty-seven to 29 men are standing at a military encampment in front of a tent and a vehicle.

  • R.O.T.C. students 

    Date:1917?
    Format:photographs
    R.O.T.C. students are firing a battery of French 75mm guns.

  • Class of 1901 

    Date:1901?
    Format:photographs
    The class of 1901, consisting of 13 men and 10 women are seated on the steps of an unidentified building.

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