Members of the boys' football team are assembled outside. In the front row, from left to right, are John Mathews, Marvin Olson, Roger Golen, Frank Turk, William Stifter, R. Sund, William Arnold, Curtis Andresen, and Ralph Grommesh. In the second row, from left to right, are student manager Wilfred Lazarz, coach George Hanson, Burnell Rasmussen, Myron Smith, Jack Wright, Warren Bemlott, Rudolph Johnson, Kevin Meagher, Douglas Burke, assistant coach Edwin T. Johnson, and faculty manager Wesley Lauritsen. In the third row, from left to right, are Richard Stifter, Ralph Carty, Kenneth Pelarski, Keith Thompson, Dick Caswell, and Gerald Pelarski.
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Students in the Senior Class of 1926 perform a Gallaudet Day program in the auditorium of Noyes Hall. Two students in the center are posing as the famous American statue of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell. Gallaudet was the founder of the American School for the Deaf, and Alice Cogswell was a student there. Both students are fingerspelling the letter "A" for the name "Alice."
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Members of the boys' Hi-Y Club are posed in front of Tate Hall. The students are wearing military uniforms, and four are also wearing white robes. They are standing with two signs that read "Minnesota School for the Deaf Hi-Y Club" and "Service Mind Body Spirit." The Hi-Y Club name is a contraction of "High School" and "Young Men's Christian Association." The two men with fedora hats in the front row, from left to right, are Wesley Lauritsen and Superintendent Victor O. Skyberg.
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Student theater performers John Fatticci and Audree Bennett pose for a dramatic skit. Audree Bennett Norton went on to become one of the founders of the National Theater of the Deaf, and was the first deaf actor to appear on American television in shows such as Mannix, Family Affairs, and Man and the City.
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The student literary societies are assembled in the Noyes Hall auditorium. The senior society members are on the left side, and the junior society members are on the right side.
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Louis C. Tuck (1851-1949) was a graduate of the American School for the Deaf in Connecticut where he studied under Laurent Clerc, and a graduate of the National Deaf-Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet College) in 1870. He was a teacher and librarian at the Minnesota School for the Deaf during 1882-1922, and served as librarian until 1933. He is shown standing in front of his house in Faribault, which is believed to have been on Fifth Street and was one block from the campus of the Minnesota School for the Deaf.
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Men forming a human pyramid outside. They are wearing delegate ribbons, so they may be attendees at the 4th Convention of the Minnesota Association of the Deaf in 1896 at Roberds Lake in Faribault. The man in the bottom row of the pyramid, second from the right, is Anton Schroeder, who was known to be an attendee at this convention.
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Students are dancing at the Annual Military Band dance in the basement recreation room of the Gymnasium building. Many of the male students are wearing military uniforms. The room is decorated with advertisements to buy United States Savings Bonds.
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Students in military uniform are standing with rifles in front of Mott Hall. Some male students received training in a military drill squad where they wore uniforms and performed routines.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students in military uniform are standing with rifles in front of Mott Hall. Some male students received training in a military drill squad where they wore uniforms and performed routines.
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Male students in military uniform perform an exercise in front of Barron Hall. The students were expected to perform a military march to music played by a student band before every meal.
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Student officers in military uniform are assembled for a portrait. In the front row, from left to right, are unknown, Herman von Hippel, Superintendent James N. Tate, Toivo Lindholm, Frank Niklaus, and Karl Niklaus. In the back row, from left to right, are Gerhard Klein, two unknowns, Guy Tilleskjor, unknown, Ferdinand Liepold, and Paul Senkbeil.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Male students in military uniform are standing in a battalion group on the campus lawn. Some male students received training in a military drill squad where they wore uniforms and performed routines.
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Three senior students in military uniform are standing with swords in front of the south wing of Tate Hall. From left to right are Ferdinand Liepold, John Szczeh, and Guy Tilleskjor.
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Young male students in military uniform are assembled in front of Barron Hall. Some male students received training in a military drill squad where they wore uniforms and performed routines.
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Male students and staff in military uniform are standing in a battalion group on the campus lawn. In the background, from left to right, are Pollard Hall and Mott Hall. In the front row, from left to right, are Frank Turk, Marvin Olson, Curtis Anderson, unknown, Jack Wright, unknown, Edward McCuskey, Wilfred Lazarz, LaVern Hill, five unknowns, Keith Thompson, and Dick Caswell. In the back row, from left to right, are Darwin Younggren, unknown, Ralph Farrar, Principal Carl Smith, Superintendent Leonard M. Elstad, John Fatticci, and Clifford Mood.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Male students in military uniform are standing at attention in three battalion groups on the lawn, with some holding swords, rifles, flags or drums. Some male students received training in a military drill squad where they wore uniforms and performed routines. In the background, from left to right, are Tate Hall, which was the girls' dormitory, and Barron Hall, which was the boys' dormitory.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Minnesota State Fair exhibition booth with art and handcraft works done by Minnesota School for the Deaf students. A sign in the middle of the booth reads: "School for the Deaf Faribault, Minn." Works on display include printings, drawings, paintings, clothing, embroidery and lacework, shoes, furniture and woodwork.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Minnesota State Fair exhibition booth with art and handcraft works done by Minnesota School for the Deaf students. Works on display include printings, embroidery and lacework, furniture and woodwork.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students from the Minnesota School for the Deaf, including some in military uniform, and members of the public are gathered in front of the Opera House on Central Avenue in Faribault on Patriot's Day.
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Students are seated outside around a table for a traditional senior graduation dinner at the home of teacher Dr. James L. Smith and his wife. Dr. Smith is seated at the left of the table, and Thilda P. Smith is standing in back.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Six older female students are carrying luggage in preparation for the trip home for the summer. The date written on the back of the photo reads: "1910 on May 30".
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum