["Faculty Flickers for the Foundlings of Old South Hall" - benefit for the 28 students who lost possessions in the South Hall (old Mabee House) fire of December 20, 1937 - held in the Little Theatre - faculty dressed in the "latest styles" of 1900 - Front row (left to right): Robert Davidson (Art); Joseph Bolton (English); back row (left to right): Louis Edgar Johns (Music); Rachel Pettengill (Ancient and Romance Languages); Guernsey Borst (Business); Luther Rowland (Dramatic Art and Speech); Coleman B. Cheney (Economics); Stanley Saxton (Music); Karl Hyde (Biology)]
gelatin silver print ; 20.3 x 25.4 cm. ; [printed later from original negative]
Local Note
See "Skidmore News," February 9, 1938, p.1 and "Skidmore Alumnae Bulletin," Winter, 1938, p.5 - image appears in 1938 Eromdiks, p.186 - a vintage print of this image is located in the Skidmore College Archives - Vertical Files - Buildings - Scribner Campus - South Hall and Skidmore College Archives - Vertical Files - Faculty Dramatics - Play, Performances Photographs. - 1923-1948 - a ticket stub to the performance can be found on p.17 (verso) of the "Scrap Book" of Jane Thurwood '39.
Archive Location
George S. Bolster Photograph Collection ; Binder #4
