‘Take me out to the ball game!’

Isn’t this a great old photograph? It’s the members of the 1891 Rose Polytechnic Institute baseball team. The photographer really was creative in his positioning of the coach and players. There’s nice balance and you can clearly see each person’s face. And the men’s ascots are a wonderful touch!

This photo of the Rose Polytechnic Institute baseball team, dated as the 1890s, is vastly different than the previous photo. First of all, it’s obviously no studio photograph. It’s much more casual. Many of the players aren’t even looking at the camera! And the mustache is much bigger!

Both of these images are part of the collection of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Archives, Logan Library.

An early version of eHarmony?

“The Inter-dormitory Council provides social organization for men living on campus. During the fall the I.D.C. sponsored a Computer Dance in conjunction with Saint Mary of the Woods, featuring date selection by computer correlation of personal data questionnaires. The Council sponsored mixers with four I.S.U. coed dorms and semi-formal Christmas and Valentine dances were given in the Hulman Memorial Union.”

This was an entry on page 60 of the 1967 issue of Modulus, the official yearbook of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (then called Rose Polytechnic Institute). Modulus is available online here. To view more closely this particular page, click here.

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Logan Library is one of many Wabash Valley Visions & Voices partners. To view Rose-Hulman’s WV3 collection, visit here.

Architectural drawings of Juliet Peddle

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Archives, Logan Library, in Terre Haute is the repository for many of Juliet A. Peddle’s architectural drawings. Juliet, who was born in Terre Haute in 1899 and died in 1979, was an artist and architect.

The drawing at right is of the Vigo County Seminary (Old Seminary) that once stood on the site of the Indiana State Teachers Collegej (Indiana State University today). The transcription that accompanies the image on the WV3 site states, “The style of this building is quite characteristic of the architecture of the day. Greek revival lines which were the keynote of most of the architecture of the period from about 1820 up to 1850 or ’60 are evident in the shape of the structure, the pediment and cornice, and the pilasters or flat columns, all being suggestive of the Greek temple which was the basis of the style.”

To view this drawing from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Archives, click here. To view the entire Rose-Hulman Archives collection, click here.