Transparency of a photograph taken from the western end of campus facing Manhattan, in winter. “We could look out to the west and see the [1939-1940] World’s Fair, the city skyline clearly outlined.”
Transparency shows students in the cafeteria in the "I" building where some appear to be doing school work. "…Christmas and Easter meant long nights with books studying for exams, doing reports or writing term papers. Nobody went to Ft....
Transparency is of a photograph of students at a dance. It is not known if it's on or off campus as some affairs were. "We had Friday night dances. The tickets were fifty cents or even one dollar for a big dance." (Adapted from Allen Dawson,...
Transparency is of a photograph of male students playing basketball behind one of the campus buildings. "But we had fun too. There was table tennis in the gym. There were those athletic boys who snatched ten minutes for basketball between...
Transparency shows a rehearsal of a student review, probably the Varsity show, one of many such student theatricals, performances and costumed festivities put on by Queens College students through the years, particularly until the 1970's. "There...
Transparency shows students lounging in the apple orchard, a legacy of farming on and near the campus site, a hideaway and romantic rendezvous on the eastern ednge of campus, near the present Fitzgerald Gym. "We went to the famous apple orchard." ...
Transparency of a photograph of two students in the left foreground, probably buildings D and E to their right, on a snow covered campus. “Queens College had no large stately trees, no ivy covered edifices, but it was spectacular in the winter...
Transparency of a photograph of male students learning to march at school in anticipation of inevitable World War Two service. This photograph was believed first published in the 1943 Silhouette, the college yearbook. “We were so much more...
Transparency of a news clipping, undated and unidentified, from World War Two with the headline “Queens College Buddies Together on Guam”, with a photograph of three servicemen. “Some of our classmates found each other in strange places far...
Transparency of a photograph believed to show part of a commencement ceremony, Dean Margaret Hielyis is probably the person at the center of the image, with academic regalia. “Many came back [from the war] some did not. It was a different world...
