Historical Findings: Penn State in the early 1910's

My grandfather graduated from Union City High School, class of 1910. That fall he entered Penn State College; he graduated on time in 1914. During those years, he took lots of pictures of the campus, students, his fraternity, etc. I have scanned the pages of the album, which he annotated with some brief captions. Unfortunately, there were few indications of who his friends were, just nicknames in some pictures. Sometimes he lists a location, rarely a date. I have had to supplement with internet research.

I am going to share these pictures in the order they appear in the album, assuming that he had some idea in mind when he created the album. I will annotate and categorize the pictures in the text and share the blog post with appropriate Facebook pages and with family. If there are any named persons, I will quote the name or nickname.

I do hope that, with agreement from the rest of the family, we will be able to donate the album to a historical society and all the pictures will be available to people studying the era.

Hopefully these pictures will be helpful or at least entertaining!

1910 - 1911 - Setting the Scene

The first few pictures show buildings on campus his freshman year, then the fraternity he joined.

They are followed by pictures of his friends and activites his first year, including a trip to Philadelphia about October 22 to see the football game with University of Pennsylvania (which Penn won 10-0). It concludes with more pictures of his friends and roomates who lived at 242 Frazier in State College. According to Google maps, this might have been a location that today is the Mariine Corps recruiting office, located close to the Post Office.