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Series VIII: Class Portraits
This series contains mostly large format (oversized), group photographs of
Columbia’s graduating classes from across the various schools, including the
College, School of Mines and Law. Classes represented are mostly from the
late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photos included also depict reunion
dinners for various classes.
Class of 1865
1865
(3 Folders)
Box 181
Class of 1865
ca. 1865
Box OS 1
Class of 1867
ca. 1867
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk.)
Class of 1869
1869
Box OS 1
(Notes : Maison de Punk; Columbia College.)
Class of 1870
1870
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Columbia College.)
Class of 1871
1871
1921
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Dinner with N.M. Butler for 50th anniversary
dinner; Columbia College.)
Class of 1873
1873
Box OS 1
Class of 1874
1874
1891
1910
1915
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; 20th and 45th Annual Dinner at University Club,
Columbia College.)
Class of 1875
1875
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Columbia College.)
Class of 1876
1876
1916
1926
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Annual Dinners; Columbia College.)
Class of 1877
1877
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; James R. Priest, Black student; Mines.)
Class of 1878
1878 19011913 1928
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Mines; Columbia College; 1901 University Club
Dinner.)
Class of 1879
1879
1929
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Arts, School of.)
Class of 1880
1880
1910
1930
Box OS 1
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Mines; Arts; 1910 Dinner; Law School
Luncheon.)
(Notes: Arts; Mines; Arts 50th Anniversary Garrison, NY.)
Class of 1888
1887
1888
1903
1938
Box OS 3
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Cyanotypes; Prof. Hamelin Harrinson class 1886;
1887; 1888; 1938 Arts; Civil Engineers; 1903 Reunion at Columbia
University Club.)
Class of 1889
1889
Box OS 4
(Notes: Law; SLS; Columbia College.)
Class of 1890 (Folder 1 of
2, Folder 2 in OS 5), 1886
1890
1900
1905
1912
1915
1930
1940
Box OS 4
(Notes: Mines; Arts; Physicians & Surgeons; Pharmacy, College of;
35th Reunion, 1934 Law Reunion; P&S Sesqui-Decennial Anniversary
Dinner at New York Athletic Club; P& S 40-year Reunion; 1940
University Club Dinner.)
Class of 1890 (Folder 2 of
2, Folder 1 in OS 4), 1886
1890
1900
1905
1912
1915
1930
1940
Box OS 5
(Notes: Mines; Arts; Physicians & Surgeons; Pharmacy, College of;
35th Reunion, 1934 Law Reunion; P&S Sesqui-Decennial Anniversary
Dinner at New York Athletic Club; P& S 40-year Reunion; 1940
University Club Dinner.)
Class of 1891
1891
1911
1916
1941
Box OS 5
(Notes: Arts; Physicians & Surgeons; Reunions; 1st class in
Electrical Engineering; Pupin; 25th Reunion; Columbia College 50th
Reunion.)
(Notes: 25th Annual Dinner; 30th Reunion at Long Shore Country Club,
Westport, CT; 32nd Reunion Dinner Engineering; Journalism; Architecture;
Columbia College 37th Reunion at Columbia University Club.)
Class of 1916
1916
Box OS 10
(Notes: Columbia College; Low Memorial Library.)
Class of 1917
1914
1917
1922
1924
1931
1941
Box OS 10
(Notes: Journalism Pulitzer Foundation; 5th Annual Dinner; 14th Annual
Dinner; Class Dinner at Hotel Claridge; Journalism and Civil Engineering
Dinner.)
Class of 1918
1918
1931
Box OS 10
(Notes: Naval officers; Optometry; 31Annual Columbia College Dinner.)
Class 1919
1919
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry; Columbia College.)
Class of 1920
1920
1950-1951
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry; 1920 Science Commencement Banquet at Cavanaghs.)
(Notes: Pre-Engineers, Engineering; Columbia College.)
Class of 1927
1923
1927
Box OS 10
(Notes: Columbia College.)
Class of 1928
1927
1928
1978
Box OS 10
(Notes: Physicians & Surgeons; Pre-Engineers, Engineering; Columbia
College; Alumni with lion mascot.)
Class of 1929
1929
Box OS 10
(Notes: Pre-Engineers, Engineering; Columbia College.)
Class of 1930
1930
Box OS 10
(Notes: 8 x 10 copy print Columbia College with Dean Hawkes.)
Class of 1931
1931
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry; Seth Low Students; Columbia College.)
Class of 1932
1932
1962
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry; Columbia College; 30th Anniversary.)
Class of 1933
1931
1933
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry; Columbia College.)
Class of 1934
1931
Box OS 10
(Notes: Columbia College.)
Class of 1935
1935
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1936
undated
Box OS 10
Class of 1940
1940
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1941
1941
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1942
1942
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1946
1946
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1947
1947
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1950
1950
Box OS 10
(Notes: Physicians & Surgeons.)
Class of 1952
1952
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1953
1953
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1954
1954
Box OS 10
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1990
1990
Box OS 10
(Notes: 8x10 color prints, Steps of Low.)
Class of 1995
1995
Box OS 10
(Notes: Law School, photographer John Roemer.)
Class of 1867
1867
Box XL 4
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Columbia College.)
Class of 1871
1871
Box XL 4
(Notes: Maison de Punk; Columbia College.)
Class of 1874
1914
Box XL 4
(Notes: 40th Annual Dinner.)
Class of 1883
1883
Box XL 4
(Notes: St. Paul's Chapel.)
Class of 1887
ca. 1887
1927
1912
Box XL 4
(Notes: Mines, School of; Annual dinner at Union League Club, New York,
December 6.)
Class of 1891
ca. 1891
Box XL 4
(Notes: "The class of 91 and the old administration go out together")
Class of 1897
ca. 1897
Box XL 4
(Notes: Architecture.)
Class of 1898
1923
Box XL 4
(Notes: Commencement costume parade.)
Class of 1899
1913
undated
Box XL 4
(Notes: Columbia College; Dinner given in the honor of the Honorable [JÀ
]ohn Puro[yÀ] Mitchell at Astor Hotel December 19 1913 Reunion;
University HallÀ)
Class of 1902
1937
1942
Box XL 4
(Notes: Thirty-fifth School of Law reunion at Columbia University Club
May 26; Fortieth School of Law reunion at Columbia University Club May
26.)
Class of 1904
ca. 1903
1907
Box XL 4
(Notes: Low Memorial Library; Reunion.)
Class of 1905
1905
Box XL 4
Class of 1911
ca. 1910
1936
Box XL 4
(Notes: St. Paul's Chapel; Columbia College; Twenty-fifth reunion at
Claremont Inn, June 2.)
Class of 1917
1938
Box XL 4
(Notes: Twenty-first Journalism annual dinner at Hotel Lafayette December
16.)
Class of 1918
1923
Box XL 4
(Notes: Commencement costume parade.)
Class 1921
ca. 1921
Box XL 4
(Notes: Optometry; White Studio, N.Y.)
Class of 1922
ca. 1922
Box XL 4
(Notes: Physicians & Surgeons, School of.)
Class of 1923
1920
1933
Box XL 4
(Notes: First annual dinner; reunion at Westchester Country Club May
21.)
Class of 1928
ca. 1928
Box XL 4
(Notes: Physicians & Surgeons, School of.)
Class of 1929
1929
Box XL 4
(Notes: Optometry.)
Class of 1933
1958
Box XL 4
(Notes: Twenty-fifth reunion at Columbia University Club March14.)
Class of 1943
1943
Box XL 4
(Notes: Dinner at the Men's Faculty Club April 30.)
Class of 1865
1913
Box XXL 1
(Notes: Columbia College.)
Class of 1873
1901 March13,
Box XXL 1
(Notes: ""Not Columbia University"""25th Annual Dinner of the old
students of the Royal School of Mines," Hotel Cecil, London.)
Class of 1885
1885
1910 May 31,
Box XXL 1
(Notes: Arts reunion with sunball, School of Mines, Astor Hotel. Upper
left corner missing.)
Class of 1889
1939
Box XXL 1
(Notes: Barnard College 50th Anniversary Dinner.)
Class of 1890
1929 February5
Box XXL 1
(Notes: 35th Reunion, College of Physicians and Surgeons.)
Class of 1900
1925 June,
Box XXL 1
(Notes: 25th Anniversary, Briarcliff Lodge, New York.)
Class of 1901
ca. 1901
Box XXL 1
(Notes: With dog mascot on steps of Low Memorial Library; Class in cap
and gown with Seth Low in front of Fayerweather Hall; Columbia College;
Physics graduatesÀ)
Class of 1903
1928 May 30
Box XXL 1
(Notes: 25th Annual Reunion, Seaview Golf Club.)
Class of 1909
1923
1964
undated
Box XXL 1
(Notes: Costume parade at '23 commencement; Reunions.)