1915
Citation: 152.837.5-6 (Full image size: 39Kb)
The A.M.E.S. Quartet entertains during an Iowa State College football halftime. This was during a period when the teams and activities were identified as "Ames." The team designation was changed to "Iowa State" in 1929 when the athletic letter "I" replaced the earlier "A." A popular college refrain of this time: "A-M-E-S--I-O-W-A--the girls are the fairest, the boys are the squarest. . . so they say. . ." After 1929 all the schools songs had to be rewritten. (See also: 152.838.1)
Citation: 152.838.5-6 (Full image size: 83Kb)
The 1915 St.Patrick's Day parade at the Douglas Ave.corner of Main Street, in front of the Union National Bank (northwest corner of Main). The engineering students at Iowa State College paraded each St. Patrick's Day, down to Main Street via either the cinder path or Lincoln Way. St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers. These parades were finally halted after the establishment of VEISHEA and the VEISHEA parade in 1922. (See also: 152.839.1)
Citation: 169.946.4 (Full image size: 60Kb)
Iowa State College military band on the steps of the Central Building (Beardshear Hall after 1948). The student third from the top step on the left is O. Russell Bentley. (Photo courtesy of Allan Bentley)
Citation: 186.1052.5 (Full image size: 54Kb)
A streetcar approaches Knoll Road enroute to downtown Ames in 1915. The view is looking north on Knoll Road. The streetcar is shown in the area later occupied by an exit from the Memorial Union parking ramp. Streetcar service continued in Ames until 1929. (See also: 186.108.1-2)
Citation: 21.102.3 (Full image size: 29Kb)
ISC Campustown area looking south from Campus Drive from a point north of bridge crossing College Creek which now (1991) flows into Lake Laverne (to the left). Lake was constructed two years later in 1917. Buildings on Lincoln Way (Boone Road until 1914) include the Champlin building (built in 1909) on southeast corner of Lincoln Way and Welch and a new brick building on the southwest corner. These were only brick buildings in Campustown at the time. Champlin's farm livery barn still on Lincoln Way to the east. (See also: 21.103.2)
Citation: 3.13.4 (Full image size: 71Kb)
Iowa State College's famous horses, the largest and the smallest. From photocard entitled "Dignity and Impertenance" in ISU Archives collection in the Parks Library.
Citation: 78.403.1-3 (Full image size: 52Kb)
Iowa State College freshman and sophomores used to get down and dirty with annual tug-of-war each fall. Men students would dig a hole, fill it with water and try to douse other team in fresh goo. Seen in background of 1915 mud-fest is Dinkey Train Depot and Morrill Hall. (See also: 105.575.2)
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