Spectators watching action of the annual freshmen-sophomore "cane rush," a scrap on the northwest corner of the Bald Spot, in front of Willis Hall and Sayles-Hill gymnasium.
Group portrait of Carleton's first fully-sanctioned football team, of 1891. Pictured are: Benn Houghtaling; Albert Lewis Sperry; Stanley Hall Bissell; James Edwin Jenks; Nels Thomas Teigen; Fred May Rounds; Elmer Lanpher Coffeen; Frank Dike Baker; Milton Daily; Charles Henry Shellbach; Ernest Albert Baker; Clark Dean Brown; and William John McCarthy.
The three members of Carleton's original class of 1874, including Carleton's eventual first graduates, J. J. Dow and Myra Brown. Pictured are: Bayard T. Holmes, Myra A. Brown, and James J. Dow.
View of the campus from its southwest corner looking northeast, showing Willis Hall, Williams Hall, Carleton's first observatory, and first Music Hall (Seccombe House).
Carleton students who left school for military service during the Spanish-American War, in training with the 12th Minnesota Infantry at Chickamauga. Pictured are: John Gleed Redding. Frank Knapp, Ernest Lundeen, Fred Smith, and George G. Larson.
A group of girls photographed in Wabasha, Minnesota. At least one of the girls became a Carleton student at a later date. Anna Satory Hicks (in the middle of the photo) is a daughter of John and Genevieve Satory, mother of John Hicks and great-aunt of John Satory (La Crosse, Wisconsin).
Group portrait of Carleton students of German, posed with books inside Gridley Hall. Pictured are: Gracia L. Jenks; Carlos Eben Allen; Alice E. Andrews; James E. Jenks; Wiliam J. McCarthy; Maude V. Willsey; William W. Taylor; Gertrude Woodruff; May E. Donovan; May H. Cravath; James F. Chapman; Josie Drucilla Allen; Wilmer E. Griffith; Alfaretta H. Jenkins; Harlan W. Fisk; Katherine L. Donaldson; Paul W. Barney.
Group portrait of the Carleton faculty in 1902. Pictured are: Ernest Jones; Lucia Danforth; Caroline Linnell; Herbert C. Wilson; Margaret J. Evans; James W. Strong; Horace Goodhue; Lucian W. Chaney; Frederick E. Stratton; Anna T. Lincoln; William Wallace Payne; George Huntington; Daniel Magnus; Isabella Watson; Frances Murison; Eugene W. Lyman; Harlan W. Page; Grace L. Robinson; Bruce V. Hill; Wilmot V. Metcalf; Mrs. William L. Gray; and William L. Gray.
Members of Carleton's 1917 state championship football team, posed in formation. Pictured are: J. Maynard Street; Arthur E. Reiter; Walter W. Miller; John Luverne McLaury; Donald James Rogers; Arthur J. Rolfe; Russell Alvin Weblen; Clinton Wells Vaux; Harry G. Barnes; Ray G. Johnson; and Frank L. Pierce, Jr.
Parade on the plank sidewalk before Goodsell Observatory celebrating the inauguration of Carleton president William H. Sallmon. Members of the sophomore class ('05) in the foreground.
Group photograph of participants in a treeplanting ceremony conducted in connection with the inauguration of President William H. Sallmon. Pictured are: William Laird; James Woodward Strong; Alice Trubee Sallmon; William Henry Sallmon.
Two women dancing the parts of a shepherd and a princess in Carleton's annual May Fete pageant. People involved: Dorothy M. Peterson; Marjorie Houghtaling
A group of male students tipping their hats to a group of female students in a posed group portrait from the spring of 1895. People pictured are: Mary Elsie VanCampen; Ida Mary Ellis; Glencora Stokes; Mabel Opal Knapp; Frances Crouch; Bessie Mabel Cook; Ruth Annah Haven; Elizabeth Taylor; Harry McFarland Williams; Denny Clough Gates; Allen Harmon Carpenter; James Roger Van Slyke; Malcolm Dana; Normal Lucia Olsen; and Aimee Alice Wells.
Freshman male on his knees to a woman, either singing or making a mock proposal, as part of freshman hazing. The photo is labeled "Oja's persuasive qualities seem to fail him." People pictured are: Jack Oja.
A mock wedding, probably in Gridley Hall, being staged by a number of women of the college. Pictured are: Dora I. Clark; Clara Adams Nutting; Josephine Somsen; Marjorie A. Sawyer; Alzina C. Munger.
Group portrait of the residents of Gridley Hall dormitory during 1887/88, including students and resident college staff. People involved: Lucia Elizabeth Danforth; Emma Lincoln; Charlotte R. Willard; Frances Cousens Gage; Dora Elizabeth Fishback; Mary E. Beach; Nellie Comelia Clark; Linnie Lewis; Mabel Rebecca Colwell; Mary Rebecca Hart
Group portrait of costumed participants in the Y.M.C.A. carnival held in Sayles-Hill gymnasium April 6, 1911. Visible are the "Dutch band," and principals in a mock boxing match between "Jack Johnson" and the "Hope of the White Race."