5.21B.1-3

Iowa State College's "Excursion Day," a precursor of VEISHEA, in 1898. Ames's young people are shown meeting the trains at the Ames Duff Avenue depot. Left to right: Mary Tilden is the young woman at the far left; Abbie Tilden is the woman in the long, dark dress; Beulah Bingham is the woman in the center with the parasol; next to Bingham is Bess Reed. Harry Brown, an ISC senior that year, is at the right. (See also: 5/21C.1-3; 7.26B.1; 13.62.1-2; 106.578.4; 148.815.1-5)