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William B. Coxe Glass Plate Negatives Collection, 1915-1933

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Contents List Series I - Furman University

Box 1: 1925

Football

  • Individual, unknown (11)
  • Team (4) 

Box 2: 1926

Football

  • Individual, unknown (5)
  • Team (4)

Other

  • 2 men in costume (2)
  • Small group of men in costume (1) 

Box 3: 1926-1927

Basketball

  • Individual, unknown (1)
  • Pair, unknown (2)
  • Action, unknown (4)
  • Group (4)

Band

  • Band (8) 

Box 4: 1926-1927

Society Presidents

  • Individual, unknown (4)

Baseball

  • Team (5)

Tennis

  • Group (2)

Track

  • Group (3) 

Box 5: 1927-1928

Marching Band

  • Group (2)

Baseball

  • Team (1)

Basketball

  • Team (5)

Cheerleading

  • 4 cheerleaders (2)

Football

  • Individual, unknown (1)
  • Group (2)

Tennis

  • Team (2)

Track

  • Individual, unknown (1)
  • Team (2)

Trophies

  • Trophies (2) 

Box 6: 1927-1928

Fraternity

  • Composite (1)

Graduation

  • Graduates standing (1)
  • Graduates sitting (1)

Unknown Groups

  • Girls (1)
  • Men in tuxedos (1)
  • Men in suits (5)
  • Men in suits on steps (5)
  • 4 men in tuxedos (2)
  • Large group of men in tuxedos (2) 

Box 7: 1928-1929

Football

  • Individual, unknown (22)
  • Posed on field (3)

Basketball

  • Team (2)

Glee club

  • Group (3)

Other

  • Clemson game (3)
  • Pi Kappa Phi house (2) 

Box 8: 1928-1929

Band

  • Band (3)

Unknown Group

  • Group (5)
  • Group on building steps (4)
  • Seated group (4)

Other

  • Governor at football game (1)
  • Boy with football (1) 

Box 9: 1929 and 1929-1930

Basketball 1929-1930

  • Individual, unknown (12)

Basketball 1929

  • Group (2)

Soccer 1929

  • Posing (2)

Campus 1929

  • Aerial view (1)
  • Administration building (2)
  • Charles Webb memorial infirmary (2)
  • Geer hall (1)
  • Home of the president (1)
  • James C. Furman hall (1)
  • Judson Alumni Hall (2)
  • Library and tennis courts (1)
  • Refectory (1)
  • Richard Furman hall (1) 

Box 10: 1930-1931

Basketball

  • Coach (2)
  • Individual shooting (1)
  • Individual with ball (3)
  • Individual passing the ball (3)
  • Individual blocking (2)
  • Individual in defensive stance (1)
  • Individual man in suit (2)
  • KA, group in shorts (2)
  • KA, group in tuxedos on stage (2)
  • Group posed (4)
  • Group in huddle (1)
  • Group creating “F” (1)

Basketball/KA/Glee

  • Men in suits (2)

Football Individual

  • Kicking ball (2)
  • #12 with ball (1)
  • #25 throwing ball (1)
  • Throwing ball (1)
  • Snapping ball (1)
  • In stance (4)
  • With ball (1)
  • Crouching with ball (1)

Track Action

  • Sprinting (4)
  • Close up of hurdles (1)

Tennis

  • Tennis (1) 

Box 11: 1932-1933, 1935, and 1924-1935

Football Individual 1932-1933

  • Unknown (29)
  • Kicker, unknown (1)

Track Individual 1932-1933

  • Unknown (17)

Swimming 1932-1933

  • Team at pool (1)
  • On diving board (1)

Band 1935

  • In dark jackets (2)

Campus 1924-1935

  • Building (1)
  • Charles Webb memorial infirmary (1) 

Box 12: Undated

Baseball

  • Team (4)

Basketball

  • Team (2)
  • Practice 5 players (3)
  • Practice all bent over (1)
  • Practice (1)
  • Practice full team (1)

Football (Freshman)

  • Individual, unknown, with ball (2)
  • Team (2)

Football

  • Individual, unknown (5)
  • Coach or player, unknown (1)
  • Team (5)
  • Team with construction in background (1) 

Box 13: Undated

Golf

  • 3 men (2)
  • 6 men (1)
  • 10 men (1)
  • Group with clubs (1)
  • Group (2)

Tennis

  • Individual, unknown (1)
  • 6 players (2)

Track

  • Individuals, unknown (1)
  • Team (5)
  • Action – hurdles (3)
  • Action – tennis (2)
  • Action – singles tennis (1) 

Box 14: Undated

Band

  • Group (2)

Music

  • One musician, unknown (4)
  • Musical group (5)

Other: Football Game

  • Football stands – band in middle (1)
  • The president and others (1) 

Box 15: Undated

Unknown Groups

  • Individual, unknown (1)
  • Individual photos compiled (1)
  • Group in suits on steps (2)
  • Group on steps (1)
  • Team, unknown (3)
  • Group (3)
  • 4 men (3)
  • 6 men (1)
  • 8 men (1)

Faculty Individual

  • A. E. Putnam (4)
  • Du Pre Rhame (4) 
     

Box 16: 1926 and undated

Unknown Groups 1926

  • Men in suits (1)

Individuals, undated

  • Man dressed like clown (1)
  • Girl, unknown (1)
  • Woman, unknown (1)
  • Man unknown (1)

Unknown Groups, undated

  • Men in suits (3)
  • 10 well-dressed men, sitting (2)
  • Woman and men (1)
  • 30 men in suits (1) 
  • Men in suits, GHS sign in background (1)

Other, undated

  • People dressed up at banquet (1)
  • Group on stage, school play (1)
  • Ferns on a deck (1) 

Box 17: Undated

  • Individuals
  • Individual, unknown (1)
  • Portrait of man, unknown (4) 

Contents List Series 2 - Greenville Woman's College

Box 1: 1927-1928

Feature Groups

  •  usical group (1)
  • Tennis (1)
  • Sports, unknown (4)
  • Large group (1)
  • Unknown (2)

Women’s Portraits

  • Woman’s portrait, unknown (4)

 Box 2: 1928-1929 and 1929

            Graduation 1928-1929

                        Graduation (2)

            Sports Groups 1928-1929

                        Multiple (1)

                        Junior’s (1)

            Groups 1928-1929

                        Unknown (7)

            Choir 1929

                        Choir in Robes (2)

            Sports 1929

                        22 Women Posing on a Field (1)

                        Field Hockey (1)

            May Day 1929

                        May Day (7)

            Faculty 1929

                        Faculty processional (2)

 

 Box 3: 1929-1930

            Basketball

                        Team (3)

            Tennis

                        Team (1)

            Volleyball

                        Team (3)

            Multiple Sport

                        Multiple teams (2)

                        One from each sport – MVP’s? (1)

                        Team(s): some with tennis racquets (1)

            Unknown Sport

                        Basketball? (1)

                        Volleyball or Basketball (2)

                        Posed in varsity sweaters (1)

 

 Box 4: 1929-1930

            Violinists

                        Violinists group(1)

            Features Individual

                        Woman posed, unknown (16)

 

 Box 5: 1929-1930 and 1930

Freshman Individual, 1929-1930

  • Mary Eskew (1)
  • Minnie Moore Hicks (1)
  • Eugenia Keller (2)
  • Martha Johns (1)
  • Louisa Martin (1)
  • Sarah Mitchel (1)
  • Pearl Moore (1)
  • Louis Sanders (1)
  • Frances Taylor (1)
  • Lillian White (3)
  • Pauline ? (1)
  • Unknown (9)

May Day 1930

  • Girls Carrying Garland (1)

 

 Box 6: 1930-1931

            Glee Club?

                        Group Photo (2)

            Violin Ensemble

                        With violins (4)

            Basketball

                        Team (8)

            Cheerleading

                        Team (1)

            Unknown Sport

                        Group (2)

                        Champs (1)

            Unknown Group

                        Women in black (1)

                        Men and women (1)

                        Women on steps with wreath (1)

                        Large number of women on steps (1)

                        Women in sailors’ suits (1)

 

 Box 7:1930-1931

            Features Individual

                        Women, unknown (16)

            Unknown Group

                        On steps of small building (2)

 

 Box 8: 1930-1931

            May Day

                        Girl holding flowers (1)

                        Girls holding flowers (1)

                        Girl dancing (1)

                        Girls dancing (1)

                        May court (3)

                        Girls holding hands (1)

                        Dancing around the may pole (1)

                        Group shot of all the ladies (1)

                        Other (1)

            Faculty

                        Mrs. Adams (1)

                        Miss Bloss (1)

                        Miss Denmark (1)

                        Miss Hayden (1)

                        Miss Reed (1)

                        Miss Smith (1)

                        Female teacher, unknown (4)

            Campus

                        Front gate (1)

                        Main buildings (3)

                        Ramsay building (1)

                        Unidentified buildings (2)

 

 Box 9: 1931-1932

            May Day

                        Girl with flowers (1)

                        Boy (1)

                        Girls in rabbit suits (1)

                        Court (1)

                        Person in bird suit and another (1)

                        Girls in dresses holding hands (1)

                        Women in dresses with flowers and trumpets (1)

 

Box 10: 1932, 1932-1933 and 1933-1934

            Class Day 1932

                        Class day (3)

            May Day 1932

                        May court (2)

                        Girls dancing (2)

                        Flowers (1)

                        Individual (2)

            May Day 1932-1933

                        May court member (1)

                        May court (1)

                        May queen, Mary Inman (2)

                        Woman with Dog (1)

                        Parade on steps of building (2)

                        Women in tunics with balls (1)

                        Outdoor photo (2)

            Faculty, Individual 1933-1934

                        Miss G. Reed (1)

                        Unknown (7)

                        Unknown, 2 2x4’s (10)

 

 Box 11: Undated

            Glee Club?

                        Large group photo (1)

            Orchestral

                        Prof. Schaefer’s orchestra (1)

                        Orchestral group (3)

            Graduation

                        Graduating seniors (5)

            Individual Woman

                        Unknown (16)

 

Box 12: Undated

            Faculty Individual

                        Mrs. M. P. Barton (1)

                        Eula M. Carlsie (1)

                        Miss C. Easton (1)

                        Miss N. K. Hudgens (2)

                        Miss Maud Hunter (2)

                        C. S. Maree

                        Miss M. Rightmire

            Faculty Groups?

                        Group of women on steps (1)

                        Group of men and women on steps (1)

            Unknown Groups

                        Large group of women on steps, students? (1)

                        Group of women with one man (3)

                        Group of women in dresses (1)

            May Day

                        Three girls (1)

                        Girls on steps (1)

                        Girls with bouquets (1)

                        Girls on steps of fine arts building (1)

                        Girl holding flowers (1)

                        Unknown individual (5)

                        Unknown group (2)