1910
Citation: 133.730.1 (Full image size: 70Kb)
Iowa State College engineering students march down Main Street between Kellogg and Duff. Later the same year Main Street was to be paved with wooden creosote blocks. Buildings on the left are on the north side of Main Street. Visible is a shoe store, Green's Bakery and the Odd Fellow Building (tallest structure). (See also: 133.731.4-6)
Citation: 144.791.1-3 (Full image size: 108Kb)
Iowa State College engineering students follow the Iowa State College military band along the cinder path, a roadway connecting Ames with the Iowa State campus near what is now Sixth Street and Brookridge Avenue, during the 1910 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ames. St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers and this parade in his honor occurred on St. Patrick's Day every year until the beginning of VEISHEA in 1922. The engineers then became one of the student floats in the VEISHEA parade.
Citation: 150.826.2 (Full image size: 74Kb)
In 1910 the Iowa State College student body march to downtown Ames on the occasion of St. Patrick's Day. Shown here as they passed the horse barn and the judging pavilion. The horse barn was later converted for use as a Landscape Architecture Building. The judging pavilion was used for a time as the Shattuck Theater and was later razed. The college power and heating plant (later to be known as the physical plant) can be seen in the right center of the photograph. Hamilton Hall is today (1995) located on the left beyond the pavilion.
Citation: 150.826.3 (Full image size: 63Kb)
The Civil Engineering Society at Iowa State College march across campus on St. Patrick's Day in 1910.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE
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