University Archives Photograph Collection

Physics and Electricity faculty member Robert W. Ryder stands far right with a group of young men in the Power House, Electrical Engineering Laboratory, June 1912. Photo has a stamp for Taylor Publishing Co., Job Number 30047.

Huddled football players listening to man in suit crouching and holding football with 14 written on it (bottom right).

M. C. Martinsen (in front of wheel), Ben Holman (feet on table), Dennis Perozzi (far right)

The Johnsons at home near Stenner Creek, 1915. Rodney V. Johnson Sr. and his mother, Jennie W. Johnson. View toward the east. Note Cal Poly buildings, right center. See Stechman, "An Illustrated History of Land Acquisition and Development for Agricultural Education"

A 1908 color postcard shows the Administration Building, center, with Dormitory No. 1 on the left and the Household Arts Building on the right. In 1908, the California Polytechnic School had about 150 students.

Left to Right: Back Row- Adams, Pea[s]e, Pe[zz]ons, Hayward, no name, [Carol], no name. Front row- no name, [Bud], Cox, Manning, Hopkins.

The Journal staff gathered in 1908 for a formal portrait.

Inscription on back: "'Clydes' Santa Barbara, May '08"

Inscription on back: "Week's Buildings - southwest corner and west side (1908)"

Girls' basketball team, 1909 pictured with Margaret Chase

The California Polytechnic School football team, 1909.

"Getting a line on action" Catalogue 1908-1909. Polytechnic Journal May 1909.

Inscription on back: "Lowe's Roundup S.L.O. 1909"

Inscription on back: "Lowe's Round Up, S.L.O. 1909"

Roping event at Lowe's Roundup, 1909

Inscription on back: "Dipping, Lowe's Roundup, 1909"

Ruth Loring, Ruth Sawyer, Vera McMillian, Leona Stenner

Students in the Creamery Building, possibly in the churning room. They are wearing white uniforms with white hats.

A look into the churn room in Short Courses for Farmers, January 1910. In addition to the Perfection machine, there is a Simplex churn machine (possibly a separator?).

Written on front: "San Luis Mountain. View from the school, looking westward. Bishop Mountain."

Director Leroy Anderson and his wife, Isabel, on the front steps of their rented home at 1203 Buchon Street, where they lived while their house on Mill Street was being built.