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Monthly Archives: June 2015
“A great half-time show,” 1960
This was in a box of stuff I found last week while cleaning out some storage space in the R Room. (More about this later.) It was, to say the least, a bit of a surprise: There’s not much about … Continue reading
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“Welcome Golden Anniversary Class of 1924”
The only excuse I have for this post is that the women all remind me of what my Nana looked like when I was in high school: Well, I guess it’s also an interesting view of the entrance to Cohen … Continue reading
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Friday Follies: Disoriented
Just home from some minor surgery this morning–everything went fine but I’m feeling weirdly (although not unpleasantly) disoriented. I’m still alert enough to have remembered this off kilter picture, though. It’s actually not the photo itself, which features the great … Continue reading
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Froggy Williams, 1928-2015
I’m not even going to try to recount the deeds of one of the greatest football heroes in Rice’s history, the captain of the great 1949 Cotton Bowl team and to this day the Owls’ leading scorer. You can and … Continue reading
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Autry House, June 1921: UPDATED
Rustling through some oversized materials yesterday I came across this great shot of what seems to be more than a groundbreaking yet much less than an opening of Autry House. A dedication, I’m guessing. It’s dated June 5-6, 1921, which … Continue reading
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Dirt Piles, 1947
One of the small treasures in George Miner’s things is a tidy little notebook he used for Engineering 250, Plane Surveying, in the fall of 1947. One page is of particular interest. On a warm and cloudy October 8th, he … Continue reading
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A Parking Lot Meeting Yields Traces of Love
So the weekend before last I did something I’ve never done before: I met up with a complete stranger in a parking lot in order to get some Rice memorabilia. Ann Pound Hopkins, the a granddaughter of J.H. Pound, (also … Continue reading
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Look at This!
I found this sequence of four shots at the very end of the collection of construction negatives in William Ward Watkins’ papers. They were completely unexpected and I nearly wept when I understood what they were–the immediacy of the images … Continue reading
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Shuttle Bus, 1985
This is actually labeled: “Summer School 1985, Ballet students on shuttle.” I’m prepared to believe they’re ballet students (although I don’t know what they would have been doing at Rice) but that looks like a laundry truck to me. Bonus:
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Hurricane Season
It’s apparently upon us. Not long ago I came across these pictures of serious preparations on campus in advance of a storm. They aren’t dated but based on the images of the aftermath I have to believe this was Hurricane … Continue reading
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