VEISHEA; Student Activities; Forestry; Iowa State University;
1923 float from the Forestry Department. ""Problem Volstead Didnt Solve"" on banner above. ""Trained Foresters Can Solve It"" on banner below. A barrel on the float says Our Forest Reservoir 1923.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Landscape Architecture; Iowa State University;
1923 horse-drawn float from the Department of Landscape Architecture. See photograph 1722-5-3 for alternate view of the same float. Potted plants and trellised plants create a garden for two girls to sit inside.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Landscape Architecture; Iowa State University;
1923 horse-drawn float from the Department of Landscape Architecture. See photograph 1722-5-3 for alternate view of the same float. Potted plants and trellised plants create a garden for two girls to sit inside.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Zoology; Iowa State University;
1923 motorized vehicle float from the Zoology Department. Depicts a wildlife scene with plants and animals (waterfowl and an owl) including two humans in costume.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Iowa State University;
1923 motorized vehicle float with three member of ROTC in the front seat. Seated on the flat bed of the float are nine women, with another ROTC member behind them. ROTC members on horseback ride along side the float. Margaret Hall can be seen in...
VEISHEA; Student Activities; R.O.T.C.; Iowa State University;
1923 motorized vehicle float with three member of ROTC in the front seat. Seated on the flat bed of the float are nine women, with another ROTC member behind them. See photograph 1722-5-8 for an alternate view.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Iowa State University;
1923 motorized vehicle float. ""Marathon dance record coast to coast present record Ames 1000,000 hours."" Nine people stand on the flat bed, some with instruments.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Iowa State University
1949 VEISHEA queen and her attendanta. Front row (left to right): Mirm, Keilman, Dorthea Kuschmann; center: Eleanor Rickman, queen; back row (left to right): Joan Wienhardt, Pat Hussey.
World War I, 1914-1918; Military Training; Iowa State University;
""American girls learning to use tractors in order to increase the Country's food supply at the National Service School, Inc., of the Women's Naval Service, Inc."" The tractor and the plow being pulled have all metal wheels without tires. An...
""Catastrophe"", Gamma Phi Beta, Omega Chapter's lawn display, won first place in the Sorority Division. The display features Cy sitting on a fence looking down at a saddened Kansas State Wildcat.
""Dance for Those Who Can't"" on this Homecoming lawn display refers to the Muscular Dystrophy Dance Marathon that occurs close to Veishea. With a model of the campanile in the background, two dolls are shown dancing as well as two football...
""Let's Bury the Buffs"" is the theme of the Alumni Hall's display, a second place winner in the men's residences category. At the center of Homecoming Hill Cemetery is a grave marker that reads, ""1954 Here lies Colorado."" The grave stone to the...
World War I, 1914-1918; Military Training; Iowa State University;
""Sergeant Purdy's section of the 39th military training detachment"" posed for a formal portrait in front of a military transport truck. Twenty- two men in two rows, the front row kneeling, are posed for this photograph.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Iowa State University
A 1920s central lawn event that may or may not be associated with VEISHEA. A number of people are present in the midst of eight simulated columns on the lawn. People are in costume, some holding exhibit like materials, and others holding banners.
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Education; Iowa State University;
A 1923 horse-drawn float from the Education Department. Two horses are pulling a flatbed wagon with a tiered platform with the words ""health,"" ""citizenship,"" ""life work,"" ""use of leisure,"" and ""citizens in making."" Girls sit in chair on...
