University Archives Photograph Collection

Students collaborate on a math problem.

Professor helps student register for classes. Signs for History, Philosophy, and (likely) Architecture are visible near the registration table.

Residents of the Sonoma dorm standing under name sign of the dorm. The students are visibly having a good time, as some smile and some wear different types of glasses and hats. One student wears a towel around his waist. One student holds a volleyball.

There are no actual autographs on the flyer, just a space where autographs could be written

View looking west from behind shop buildings, creamery to the right, Main Buildings in background with Household Arts partially obscured by trees

Front elevations of Household Arts, Weeks Administration Building, Dormitory shot from southwest angle; rock formation in foreground. Sepia toned print; card published by 'Cardinell Vincent Co. Mfg. San Francisco'; address space inscribed to Dr. James T. Culbertson (Cal Poly Faculty ca. 1950s-60s) from Jim Kenshol

Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy looking off into the distance

Banquet in one of the Cal Poly buildings[?]. Men seated and standing around a banquet table, posing for group portrait.(David Starr Jordan may be pictured here. The event has not been identified.)

Front elevation

View looking west toward Main Buildings; color printed. Published exclusively for San Luis Variety Store, San Luis Obispo, Ca. by Newman Post Card Co. Los Angeles. Note: that caption above photo reads 'Polytechnic High School.'

Mrs. Kennedy shaking someone's hand at a meeting

View of San Luis Mountain from Cal Poly (in front of the Weeks Administration Building)

Football game in progress. Photo dates after 1909, for Deuel Hall (right background) and Dining Hall (left background), have both been completed by 1909.

Southwest corner, showing front and south elevations

Southwest corner of dairy barn, silo to the right (southeast)

Front elevation; women students on steps; men on the lawn. Negative on file with postcards

'Palm Street. San Luis Obispo, California.' Unpaved street with palm on either side. Only building in photo (left side) is largely obscured by palms. Published by The Albertype Co. (publisher's location obscured by label)

Students at work in the Carpenter Shop. Published in the Mar. 1915 Bulletin. Note written on the back also says 'Bul. July, 1904' 'no. 9' in lower left corner.

Original Power House, designed by Weeks, situated to north of Main Buildings. Southwest corner showing south and west elevations. 1902-04 Biennial Report notes a Power House designed by Weeks; similarity in design/construction of roofs of Main Bldgs. and Weeks Powerhouse v. roof on 'New' Power House; location of the older/newer Power Houses in relation to Main Bldgs., evident in maps and plans of campus

'Birds-eye view -- San Luis Obispo Cal. -- Cal. Polytechnic School in Distance'; looking north across San Luis; Cerro San Luis and Bishop's Peak in left background

Front of Deuel Hall taken from southwest corner. One student standing on porch; another student visible in second-story window .Caption reads 'J1695 Boy's Dormitory Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, Cal.' Post card is 2-3/4 x 6-1/2 in. (as opposed to standard 3-1/4 x 5 1/2). Emulsion side is damaged. Published for San Luis Variety Store, by J. Bowers Photo Co. Long Beach.

Southwest corner, showing front and south elevations; palm tree in lower right corner

Percheron stallion draft horse in halter, with unidentified man; in front of barn; sign on side of barn: 'No Smoking Allowed'

'Inwood Philomena 2nd' ; in field on lead line

Caption reads: 'The Gymnasium has two separate locker rooms with modern shower rooms, basketball courts with seating for 1,200, space for boxing, gymnastics, fencing, wrestling, badminton, etc. Across the street is the football field with grandstand seating 6,000 persons.'

The Administration Building (Building 1) stands behind the street, across Perimeter Rd.

Students stand on the exterior steps of Whitney Hall. They are wearing a white dress shirt and tie.

Students on the exterior steps of Diablo Hall. They are wearing white shirts and black ties. The original dormitory sign is in the picture.

Sign reads: "WARNING - STUDENTS & NON CONST. - PERSONNEL - KEEP OUT"

Students posing under Tehama dorm sign. They seem to be having fun, as certain students are striking funny poses.