University Archives Photograph Collection

Clydesdales 'Miss Sloan' and 'Patroness' shown in halter by farm foreman, Samuel C. Griffith. (Published in the Polytechnic J. (v.3, n.9 June 1908) with caption 'The Clydesdales and Sam' and a note: 'Since this picture was taken the School has been so unfortunate as to lose Miss Sloan.')

A class in Forge Work in progress in the Forge Shop. Students heating metal, using hammer and anvil, and working with other tools or apparatus. Instructor (Leo Earl Pearson?) supervising.

Students at work in the Carpenter Shop. Instructor, Oscar Leslie Heald, supervising.

Interior, 'Section of Electrical Laboratory,' machinery only. 'New' Power House

Front elevation taken at angle from northwest; two students on porch; captioned 'Boys Dormitory.' (1 card has correspondence, to 'J.W. Spangler' of San Francisco; postmarked 1909; 'This is the new boys Dormitory [sic] Finished last Spring.' (built 1908])

3 students tending ornamental plants in Greenhouse (Image published in Polytechnic J. (vol. 4, No. 8, May 1909) under 'Horticulture at the Polytechnic' with captions 'Among the Ornamentals')

Stock judging; students learning how to judge draft horses (Clydesdales); students taking notes; one student wearing letter sweater; taken in road, next to a field; one student checking his notes while inspecting horse's leg. Published in Polytechnic J. (Vol. 4, No. 8, May 1909) with caption 'Judging Draft Horses', Catalogue 1908-09

Students in machine shop. Manufacturers names, patent nos. and places of manufacture are visible on two of the machines in the shop. Some students in overalls and other types of work clothes. (Published in Catalogue 1908-09 (May 1909)

Faculty and students operating insecticide sprayer in orchard; appears to be battery powered pump drawing solution from wooden barrel -- whole apparatus is on horse drawn 'flatbed'. Men wearing ties, vests, jackets while working. The same spraying apparatus is in image published in the Polytechnic J. (vol.4, no. 8, May 1909). Spraying insecticides is listed in the description of the class in Horticulture, 1908-09 Catalog.

Clydesdales and Percherons; 7 draft horses held by halter by Samuel C. Griffith (farm foreman) and 2 others; dog lying in grass nearby; Bishop's Peak in background (Published in Catalogue 1908-09 (May 1909) and the Polytechnic J. (v.4, n.8 May 1909)

Women students in classroom; instructor in background; students sewing on sewing machines, stitching by hand, and cutting patterns; seamstress' mannequin in background. This was cropped from a larger image which was published in the 1905 Catalog (June 1905)

Postcard. Early view of Cal Poly Administration Building, Boy's Dormitory, and rock garden

Stock judging; Chester Rubel [?] and Samuel Griffith teaching students how to judge draft horses (Percheron and Clydesdale); students looking on as two students inspecting hoof of Percheron, and two more examine the Clydesdale; taken in front of Dairy Barn.

Front elevations of Household Arts, Weeks Administration Building, and Dormitory; color printed.(Addressed to Miss Edith Bianchi, Cambria, signed 'Joe' (possibly Joseph Bianchi, Class of 1909); postmarked Sep. 1907; Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco, printed in the United States, no. 694)

Stock judging; Chester Rubel [?] and Samuel Griffith teaching students how to judge draft horses (Percheron and Clydesdale); one student checking horse's leg (preparing to inspect hoof?), others taking notes; taken in front of Dairy Barn.

Baseball team (some same members as 1908 team) in uniform with equipment

Faculty v. students, scrimmage in progress; Deuel Hall under construction in background, completed in 1908.

Faculty v. students, Faculty team in formation on the field;

Students on hillside, possibly the hill behind the campus, possibly propagating grapes. Probably 1907-08 school year, with professor of botany and horticulture Ira Judson Condit standing. Likely to also include Jagat Bondhu Dev, Jogadish C Goswami, and Devendra N Guha, three students from India who were enrolled in a one-year special study program in agriculture in the 1907-08 school year.

Students pruning trees. This photo was printed in the 1916-1917 Course Catalog Bulletin, page 29, with the title "Practical Horticulture" and may have been part of the instruction in the course "Horticulture II Principles of Fruit Growing." Probably 1907-08 school year, with professor of botany and horticulture Ira Judson Condit standing. Likely to also include Jagat Bondhu Dev, Jogadish C Goswami, and Devendra N Guha, three students from India who were enrolled in a one-year special study program in agriculture in the 1907-08 school year.

Faculty v. students, scrimmage in progress; Deuel Hall under construction in background, completed in 1908.

Faculty v. students, scrimmage in progress; Deuel Hall under construction in background, completed in 1908.

Front elevations of Household Arts, Weeks Administration Building, and Dormitory; color printed. (Addressed to Mrs. H. Victors, San Jose; postmarked Aug. 1908; M. Rieder, Publ., Los Angeles, no. 4591, Made in Germany)

Rear (west?) elevation of the poultry barn and poultry pens, chickens included. Published in the Polytechnic J. (May 1909) and the 1915-16 Bulletin, with caption 'Prize Winning Poultry.'

Student working at 'a new engine.' Engine made by the Skinner Engine Co., Erie, Pa.