Small Photo Collections: James Harry Cowan scrapbook

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The James Harry Cowan photograph scrapbook is a unique document, and uniquely presented. Each page contains multiple photographs of student life at UA — especially athletics — about a hundred years ago. In Acumen, when you click on the thumbnail for each page, it opens into its own browser window. That way you can see each of the photographs individually and up close, as well as the page as a whole.

Game day!

photo album page

Yep, that’s Woods Hall in the background of that last image. Did you know the Woods Quad was a common gathering place before games?

Woods Hall Quad

Below, the bottom right image shows the other Quad, adjacent to the athletic grounds.

photo album page

But who are those “Rats” in the other picture? You can get a closer look…

UA students

About kgmatheny

I'm Kate Matheny, the Digitization Outreach Coordinator at UA Libraries Digital Services. I work on meeting the needs of the patron community and publicizing our digital collections, in addition to creating digitized content for Acumen.
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