1904

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   Citation: 27.134.3 (Full image size: 55Kb)

Agricultural Hall, Iowa State College, around 1904. Botany Hall in 1928 when the Botany Department moved its offices into the building and renamed, again, Carrie Chapman Catt Hall in 1991. Tracks of the Dinkey Railroad can be seen in the foreground of 27.134.3. Excursion Day crowd can be seen viewing a parade from steps of hall. When William H. Beardshear became president of Iowa Agricultural College in 1891, he persuaded the railroads throughout Iowa to offer special excursion rates for peple to come to Ames to spend a day on campus. From that program, the VEISHEA tradition developed, starting in 1928. (See also: 27.134.2; 74.384.1-2).

   Citation: 29.146A.2 (Full image size: 57Kb)

Excursion Days (1904/1905 school year) participants posed on and in front of the Agricultural Hall (built in 1892). The Dinkey tracks are in the foreground. (See also: 31.155.1)

   Citation: 30.150.1 (Full image size: 66Kb)

The Agriculture Hall(built 1892) in 1904 from a southwest point. The Dinkey tracks are in the foreground. In 1928 it became Botany Hall; in 1991, Carrie Chapman Catt Hall.

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