Alumni organizations
Image View Description: Scene of the passing of the Thorndike Oak Gavel. President of the Alumni Council Donald S. Higgins (Bowdoin 1919) accepts the gavel from his predecessor Adriel U. Bird (Bowdoin 1916).
Photographer: Unknown
1938
Digital Master Date: 2004-07-22T12:00:00+00:00
Minaret Export Date: 2005-09-08T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box M14
Medium of Original: Silver gelatin photoprint
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 18 x 13
Digital Master Format: TIF
600
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Local Call Number: 6989
Local Item Number: 6989
Bird, Adriel Ulmer (Bowdoin 1916).
Image View Description: Scene of Donald S. Higgins (Bowdoin 1919), president of the Alumni Council accepting the Thorndike Oak Gavel from his predecessor Adriel U. Bird (Bowdoin 1916).
College Persons and Groups: Class of 1919
Class of 1916
Personal Names: Bird, Adriel U.
Higgins, Donald S.
Subjects Added: Yes
Photographer: Unknown
1938
Digital Master Date: 2004-08-03T12:00:00+00:00
Minaret Export Date: 2005-09-08T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box M1
Medium of Original: Silver gelatin photoprint
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 18 x 13
Digital Master Format: TIF
600
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Local Call Number: 138
Local Item Number: 138
Bowdoin 1941 Class Day Exercises
Image View Description: photo of Bowdoin 1941 Class Day Exercises which shows crowd under Thorndike Oak
College Buildings and Views: Thorndike Oak
College Events: Class Day Exercises
Subjects Added: Yes
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
1941
Digital Master Date: 2007-06-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: 6.1.13
Medium of Original: Negative, B&W
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 10x8
Digital Master Format: TIFF
800
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Local Call Number: 6.1.13
Local Item Number: na-840
Local Negative Number: na-840
Class Day
Image View Description: Class Day exercises being held under the Thorndike Oak in front of the newly-built Searles Science Building.
Subjects Added: Yes
1894
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Digital Master Location: J:\Library\Departments\Archives\COMMON\images\Gallery\Lantern slides\lantern
Medium of Original: Lantern slide
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 8 x 10
Digital Master Format: TIFF
1200
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Local Call Number: Lantern slides
Local Item Number: lantern 007
Commencement
Image View Description: View of the Chandler's Band at the Commencement of 1939 under the Thorndike Oak.
College Events: Commencement
Condition of Original: 5
Photographer: Unknown
Provenance: Blodgett, Frederic M.
1939
Minaret Export Date: 2004-02-24T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box S5
Medium of Original: Silver gelatin photoprint
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 6 x 9
Digital Master Format: 800
Scan
Local Call Number: 6641
Local Item Number: 6641
Commencement, 1918
Image View Description: Scene from 1918 Bowdoin College Commencement (also President Sills' inaugural) showing seated spectators and speaker under the Thorndike Oak. Loose photo removed from scrapbook in Kenneth C.M. Sills Collection (M166.6).
Photographer: Unknown
1918
Digital Master Date: 2004-02-11T12:00:00+00:00
Minaret Export Date: 2009-02-28T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box S7
Medium of Original: Silver gelatin photoprint (sepia tone)
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 7 X 9
Digital Master Format: TIF
800
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Local Call Number: 9655
Local Item Number: 9655
Higgins, Donald Shackley (Bowdoin 1919)
Image View Description: Donald S. Higgins accepts the Thorndike Oak Gavel from his predecessor, Adriel U. Bird (Bowdoin 1916).
Condition of Original: 3
Photographer: Unknown
1938
Digital Master Date: 2006-10-04T12:00:00+00:00
Minaret Export Date: 2005-12-31T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box L6
Medium of Original: Silver gelatin photoprint
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 17 x 12
Digital Master Format: TIF
600
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Local Call Number: 4026
Local Item Number: 4026
Searles Science Building
Image View Description: Sepia postcard of Searles Science Building as seen from the quad with the Thorndike Oak in the foreground. There is handwriting on the postcard and a 1906 postmark.
College Buildings and Views: Searles Science Building
Thorndike Oak
Subjects Added: Yes
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 3
Photographer: Stevens, Byron
Provenance: Stickney, Fred
Date Notes: Undated
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: M309
Medium of Original: Postcard
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 7 x 11
Digital Master Format: Scan
Local Call Number: 283
Local Item Number: 283
Searles Science Building, Exterior
Image View Description: Exterior view of Searles Science Building, looking northwest with Thorndike Oak in foreground.
College Buildings and Views: Thorndike Oak
Searles Science Building
Subjects Added: Yes
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 2
Photographer: Unknown
1894
Date Notes: Circa
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box J4
Medium of Original: Albumen
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 18 x 23
Mounting Data: Mounted
Digital Master Format: Scan
Local Call Number: 2929
Local Item Number: 2929
Searles Science Building, Exterior
Image View Description: Northwest view of Searles Science Building from the Quad with the Thorndike Oak in the foreground.
College Buildings and Views: Searles Science Building
Thorndike Oak
Subjects Added: Yes
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 4
Studio: Webber, G.B.
1896
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box M9
Medium of Original: Albumen
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 11 x 13
Digital Master Format: Scan
Local Call Number: 2926
Local Item Number: 2926
Searles Science Building, Exterior
Image View Description: Exterior view of Searles Science Building with the Thorndike Oak in the foreground.
College Buildings and Views: Thorndike Oak
Searles Science Building
Subjects Added: Yes
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 1
Photographer: Unknown
Date Notes: Undated
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box L3
Medium of Original: Albumen
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 15 x 10
Mounting Data: Cabinet card
Digital Master Format: Scan
Local Call Number: 2913
Local Item Number: 2913
Searles Science Building, exterior, viewed from the southeast
Image View Description: Searles Science Building with the Thorndike Oak and quad in the foreground. The ground by the building shows evidence of construction.
College Buildings and Views: Quad
Thorndike Oak
Searles Science Building
Subjects Added: Yes
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 4
Photographer: Reed, A.O.
Provenance: Museum of Art
1894
Date Notes: Circa
Minaret Export Date: 2004-02-24T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box L14
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 18 x 24
Mounting Data: Mounted
Digital Master Format: 600
Scan
Local Call Number: 9576
Local Item Number: 9576
Thorndike Oak, base
Image View Description: Close-up of a squirrel eating a nut at the base of the Thorndike Oak.
Condition of Original: 3
Photographer: Strout, L.B.
Digital Master Date: 2004-08-10T12:00:00+00:00
Minaret Export Date: 2004-07-31T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box M10
Medium of Original: Silver gelatin photoprint
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 11 x 15
Digital Master Format: TIF
600
scan
Local Call Number: 299
Local Item Number: 299
Thorndike Oak, looking northeast
Image View Description: Northeast view of the Thorndike Oak and the quad. Massachusetts Hall (l) and Winthrop Hall (r) can be seen in the background.
College Buildings and Views: Thorndike Oak
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 2
Photographer: Unknown
Date Notes: Undated
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box L7
Medium of Original: Albumen
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 11 x 10
Mounting Data: Mounted
Digital Master Format: TIFF
Scan
Local Call Number: 4531
Local Item Number: 4531
Thorndike Oak, looking northwest
Image View Description: Northwest view of the Thorndike Oak; Searles Science Building in the background.
College Buildings and Views: Searles Science Building
Thorndike Oak
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 3
Studio: F.W. Chandler & Son
Date Notes: Undated
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: M309.2
Medium of Original: Postcard
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 20 x 15
Digital Master Format: TIFF
Scan
Local Call Number: 73
Local Item Number: 73
Thorndike Oak, looking southwest
Image View Description: Southwest view of the Thorndike Oak.
Condition of Original: 2
Photographer: Unknown
1874
Date Notes: Circa
Digital Master Date: 2006-10-19T12:00:00+00:00
Minaret Export Date: 2005-12-31T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box J6
Medium of Original: Albumen
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 12 x 19
Mounting Data: Mounted
Digital Master Format: TIF
600
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Local Call Number: 4533
Local Item Number: 4533
Thorndike Oak, looking southwest
Image View Description: Southwest view of the Thorndike Oak, planted by Thorndike (Bowdoin 1806) soon after the college was opened. Buildings across Maine Street can be seen in the background; Burnett House on the left. [Description note on back by A.T. Parker (Bowdoin 1916).]
College Buildings and Views: Thorndike Oak
Subjects Added: Yes
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 2
Studio: Warren's Portraits
Provenance: Parker, A.T.
Date Notes: Undated
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box M10
Medium of Original: Albumen
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 15 x 11
Mounting Data: Cabinet card
Digital Master Format: Scan
Local Call Number: 4527
Local Item Number: 4527
Thorndike Oak, looking southwest
Image View Description: Southwest view of the Thorndike Oak.
College Buildings and Views: Thorndike Oak
Notes: <a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-histories/3/" target="_blank" style="color: #FFF200">Click here </a> for related historical and descriptive narrative from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).
Condition of Original: 2
Photographer: Unknown
1874
Date Notes: Circa
Minaret Export Date: 2003-01-30T12:00:00+00:00
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Location of Original: Box J6
Medium of Original: Albumen
Dimensions of Original (in cm. h x w): 12 x 19
Mounting Data: Mounted
Digital Master Format: TIFF
Scan
Local Call Number: 4532
Local Item Number: 4532