Scrapbook, 1922-1929

Containers:

Box 1

Scope and content:

This scrapbook contains autograph pages, correspondence, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia from Kellam's time at Trinity College/Duke University from 1922 to 1929. Most of the photographs are identified. The major subjects of the photographs are as follows:

Trinity and Duke Athletics, including snapshots of baseball players (Duke), basketball players (Trinity), and track and football action shots

1926 commencement, including the class mascot (a bull painted on a brick wall)

Campus Buildings, including the Trinity Library, Alspaugh, Duke gymnasium, Lanier and Branson Halls, the home of Professor Aldridge, Epworth Inn, Aycock, Craven, and East Duke

University of Richmond campus

Eno River

Kellam's memorabilia includes programs from YMCA musical events, Taurian Players shows, May Day and Tombs Initiation events, as well as remnants from the 1926 Senior Banquet (menu, tissue-paper flower, and hat). The scrapbook also includes programs from Watts Hospital-Trinity School of Nurses commencement exercises. The news clippings are primarily of Trinity sports events and of the building plans for Duke University. Also includes badges from Kellam's 25th and 26th reunions at Duke.

Also included are images of two of Trinity/Duke's early international students, Rodolfo Rivera, AM 1929, Ph.D. 1932, from Puerto Rico (3 photos), and Fung Hui So, AB 1926, from China (2 photos and an autograph).

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