University Archives Photograph Collection

On back: "Gift of Eldon Price, Class of 1949" Names on front: "Dale, Floyd, 'JB,' 'Hank,' 'Dear One,' 'Larry,' Dwight, Senator"

The room seems to be a newsroom, with clocks that read 'Japan Time' and 'Eastern Standard Time'.

Caption reads: 'Mud conditions outside of the Science Classroom,' which is apparently cubical unit V.

A few cars are parked in front of the dorm building, and students are gathered on the front lawn and on the buildings front steps.

These may be housing at Camp San Luis with Hollister Peak in the background.

Caption reads: 'Equipped with blackout drapes, forced ventilation and screen, this is one of several rooms equipped to accommodate large groups when motion pictures are shown. Sliding panels enable this room to be used also as three normal classrooms, if desired.'

Caption reads: 'Classroom units built as temporary solution to rapidly increased post-war enrollment. These units are adequately heated and lighted, even though considered temporary buildings.'

Caption reads: 'Classrooms and Office Annex adjacent to new library. War surplus buildings.'

Caption reads: 'Temporary pre-fab metal classroom buildings. Twenty of these units are equipped and used as lecture classrooms. An additional 20 are distributed over the campus and are used to supplement existing laboratories.'

The caption reads: 'A portion of five dormitories are sown in this grouping. Individual rooms have bunk-type beds for two men per room. Each dormitory has central shower and toilet facilities sufficiently large for the needs of the 50 men who live in each unit.' Catalina Hall sits in the bottom right corner of the image.

The Administration Building (later converted to the School of Education building), Dexter Lawn, some Engineering buildings are also in the background.

Degree certificate of "Pushing Hubby Through"

Caption reads: 'Newest dormitories are five units such as those pictured here with a total capacity of 320. Each suite has an outside entrance and there are no corridors in these units.'

Four students attempt to load or unload equipment at the loading dock. The jeep-style vehicle has the words 'El Mustang' written on driver's side of the hood.

The performance appears to be in a classroom.

The student is looking directly at the camera, while a December 1956 calendar and a sign with the words 'Talk is cheap, action pays off' hangs on the wall next to her.

Cal Poly football game versus Fresno State. The photograph is an action shot of the game where John Madden is seen in the background wearing the jersey number 74.

Back reads: 'Campus views: Agricultural units: looking west from Beef Unit to the 1952 Dairy Unit (ca. 1960)'.

The packaging is a carton of a half gallon of Cal Poly's pasteurized, homogenized milk, and the student wears an inspector's helmet.

A display created to explain the differences between feed for swine and dairy cattle and current feeding techniques. One panel is titled 'Roughage Handling Today'.

A large group gathers at the entrance to the Kennedy Library and lawn.

A large group gathers outside Kennedy Library and the grass adjacent. Dexter Building is visible in the background.

A student walks down the main staircase from the 2nd to the 1st floor in Kennedy Library, while another student walks beside the staircase.

Students ascend the main staircase in Kennedy Library.

A group of Cal Poly staff pose in front of Kennedy Library. Each person wears a hard hat.

Two people descend the unfinished main staircase. There is no glass at this point in the fenestrations.

Students playing trumpets, coronets, and other brass instruments.

Text on back reads: 'Dr. Glenn Noble, on right; BioScience; GUS BECK (2.-INSTR.) 2.3 Liberal Arts F.C.'

A student rides a stationary bicycle, while another student applies a blood pressure arm band. A third student takes down notes of the measurements.

Writing on blackboard reads: 'Bact. 221-02; J. W. Thomas; Office: F.H. 377; Office hours: M 3:10 - 4:30 pm, Th. 11:10 am - 12:00; Quiz and exam schedule for remainder of quarter'.

A student examines a specimen on a microscope, while a professor looks at the microscopic view on a monitor connected to the microscope. Various shells and other ocean specimens are next to the microscope.

Two students examine several rodent cadavers, varying in weight and length.

Bruce Kennelly was the head of the Chemistry Department. He also taught in the Physical Science Department. He was at Cal Poly from 1947-1982.

A student examines several samples. The samples may have been put through a process to analyze them, and an Amdek monitor displays a wave reading that may be associated with the samples.

Accompanying page reads: 'STUDENTS BRING TROUBLE TO MATH OFFICE. Cal Poly maintains a full-time Math department office well staffed with able instructors and Math majors to give help or additional instructions to math students outside of class. Here Dr. Whitson, department head, explains a problem in Analytic Geometry to students Arnold Volney, Darwin Miller, and Henry Berry as instructor, Mr. McIntosh (far right background) looks on. Mr. Elston, instructor of prep and agricultural math, also gives help, in slide-rule operation, to blind G.I student, Lee Beddow, who uses a braille slide rule, and is an outstanding student in spite of his handicap. Instructor Mr. Folsom (far left foreground) answers the busy office phone.'

A male and female student are conversing while walking on the sidewalk in front of a Red Brick Dorm. Another pair of students, also male and female, are walking behind them.

The front entrance of the Red Brick Dorm, Sequoia Hall. The clouds in the sky float above the dorm.

The American and California flags are at half-staff.

A thick hedge stands between the steps and the flagpole. The flagpole, which is near a red brick dorm, has the American and California flag waving with the Poly P and the hillside in the background.

A pathway with foliage beside it leads to several of the red brick dorms, showcasing the different layouts they have. The hillside is in the background.

A pathway is stretched along the West side of the Red Brick Dorm, Sequoia Hall. There are lamp posts and foliage alongside the pathway.