Otis E. Griner scrapbook

The Otis Edward Griner album is composed of black and white photographs, cyanotypes, and newspaper clippings documenting Otis Griner's time as a student at Purdue University, 1911-1914.� Included are a Purdue tank scrap marshal ribbon (1913) and photographs of a variety of local and Purdue events, such as automobile races, the mechanics burning tradition, the Purdue Circus, May Day festivities, the Canoe Club, Indianapolis 500 race (1913), various Purdue student stunts, Phi Si Rag-Time May Dancers, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house and members, wrestling squad (1914), flooding in Lafayette (1913), the Tippecanoe Battle Ground memorial, images from Happy Hollow, and the 1914 Mechanical Engineering group photograph. Newspaper clippings include Elmer Oliphant's last football game (1913), automobile testing at Purdue (circa 1914), and a clipping on R.P. Laporte, captain of Purdue Cross Country Club.