University Archives Photograph Collection

On back: '1951-1952, "Old" Lab'

On back: 'Poly View Trailers and Cal Poly "P" on Mountain' View of the P

Inscription on back: "Main campus - looking east across Dexter Lawn toward Hillcrest Dormitories and Poly Vue Trailers (ca. 1951-1952)"

Front view of President's House

Portrait of Harold P. Davidson, Music Department director and faculty member. Reproduced in 1950 El Rodeo yearbook.

Front caption reads: 'Inside view of Aero Engr. Shop - Group 3 of Aerial View. Note extremely valuable equipment and character of building construction. High fire hazard.'

Architectural Engineering department head, Ralph Priestley, displaying a floor plan to the students in class, seated at drafting tables.

Ward in campus infirmary which also includes five isolation rooms.

Caption reads: 'Treatment room in campus health unit. Available also are x-ray room, minor surgery, laboratory diet kitchen and equipment for all phases of modern health service.'

Caption reads: 'Examination and treatment room at the campus health center. The infirmary unit includes a 20-bed ward, isolation rooms, and living quarters for two nurses.'

A group of agriculture engineering international students are observing images from a slide projector. They are standing around a large desk that has notebooks, magazines, and a camera spread across it.

Students wait in long lines to get food. On the other side, professors serve the food. On the table, food items include Cal Poly products, including milk bottles with labels that read 'Don't be old at forty: drink milk.'

An ice cream machine sits in a food processing room, next to three large barrels.

Three students work together in a soil science lab. On the counter, there are many vials and flasks that contain different soil samples as well as liquids.

Manager Ray Smith; Back Row: Strathgarn, ?, Simpson, Madsen; Middle Row: Sims, Ross, Nichols, Ustick; Front Row: Frederick, Ziemer, Aguilar, Wood

View of Administration building, Dexter Library, classroom units

On back: "Horse and Beef {Pavilion?) before Cal Poly, looking west"

Inscription on back: "Aerial views: Main Campus: General Views - looking northeast from Business Administration and Education to Ag Mechanics and Machine Shop"

View of US 101, Slack Street, and Grand Avenue - looking north by northeast

View of US 101 and Grand Avenue - looking northeast

On back: "Dormitory Row - looking southeast at Dormitory Row (ca. 1950-1955)"

On back: "Dormitory Row - looking east at Jesperson and Chase Halls." View of Dining Hall to left of Chase Hall, President's House in background. Proper spelling of the family name is 'Jespersen'; it is commonly misspelled 'Jesperson'.