Freshman Camp

  • Victor Animatograph Co.
Publisher
Springfield College

Abstract

This hand-colored lantern slide, "Freshman Camp," shows incoming students at the International YMCA College’s (now Springfield College) Freshman Camp, located “in the pines on the beautiful nature preserve about a mile from the campus on the east end of Massasoit Lake.” During the 1930s, Springfield College used this image in a recruitment pamphlet with two titles: “A Cinema of Springfield College” and “Being the story of a Young Man who elects to go to Springfield College.” Through a series of pictures featuring the campus, students, and faculty, the pamphlet describes the life of a Springfield College student, from his very first day to graduation.Text on border reads, "Before Hurricane about 1930.

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