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Volume VIII: Travel to San Francisco

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4

Scope and Contents

This album was made in 1915, when Alston Waring traveled to San Francisco for a Convention with the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

This album contains c. 140 photographs, and two notes. The photos are identified, and some descriptions include The Rocky Mountains, San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, "The Garden of the Gods," Courtyard Inside Inn, Avenue of Palms, Tower of Jewels, Glenwood Springs, Palmur Lake, Avenue of Palms, Palace of Fine Arts Court of Palms, Exposition by night, Arch of the Eastern [Nations?], Virginia Building, Court of the Universe, Lagoon in front of Fine Arts Palace, Court of Four Seasons, Battleship Oregon, Pracidio [sic] of San Francisco, Liberty Bell (at the fair), Fountain of Energy, South Gardens, State Buildings, Canadian Building, Redwood tree trunks, Fine Arts, Machinery, Exposition, University of California including the Kappa Sigma House there.

The people pictured (and identified) include Clarkson (Georgia Tech.), Skih Cougers (Georgia), Wilmore (Alabama), Froggy Morrison (Georgia Tech.), Williams (W of Georgia), and Mr. McCormack and Mr. Boyd (Founders of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity).

Limitations on Accessing the Collection

This collection is open for research use.

Extent

140 items

Arrangement

This volume was originally named California. There were no blank pages.

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