A group of amateur vaudeville performers are assembled on the stage in the auditorium of the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall. Two performers are dressed as a young girl and a young boy, one woman is draped in the American flag, and one man looks like Charlie Chaplin. The man standing in the center of the back row and looking like George Washington is Anton Schroeder.
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."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Theater performers for a mock wedding play are gathered in the auditorium of the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall. Such plays were held in honor of a couple's wedding anniversary. The man and woman sitting in the front row on the right end are probably the couple celebrating their wedding anniversary.
Members of the audience for a mock wedding play are gathered in the auditorium of the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall. Such plays were held in honor of a couple's wedding anniversary.
Eight female students in white dresses are posed on the lawn and holding crisscrossed ribbons as part of a rehearsal for a commencement ceremony performance.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Student theater performers are assembled in front of two wall panels, one with painted floral decorations on the left and one with a painted landscape on the right. They presented a program for a deaf association. In the front row, from left to right, are Clara Saterlund, Mary Ada Fallow, Ida King, and Emily Swee. In the back row, from left to right, are Berglund, Philip Earl Cadwell, John Archie Benolkin, and Claude Schooley.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum