Students from the Rocky Mountain Club re-enacting a stagecoach holdup in parade, University of Michigan Triennial County Fair
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Description
View of students from the Rocky Mountain Club re-enacting a stagecoach holdup in a parade for the University of Michigan Triennial County Fair in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Students are costumed as cowboys, holding guns. Some men on horseback. Judges' stand and spectators in background. These fairs were held every three years by the Michigan Union, a male-only organization, although fifty different student organizations participated. Funds raised were intended to construct a clubhouse for the Union. Printed on front: "Stage 'hold-up' R.M.C."
Details
- Resource ID:
- bh024865
- Subject:
- Parades--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Cowboys--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Stagecoaches--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Horsemen and horsewomen--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Horses--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Robbery--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Firearms--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- University of Michigan
- College students--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Fairs--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Carnivals--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Spectators--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1908-05
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on stock ; image 7.5 x 9.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- M/Colleges and universities-University of Michigan-Triennial County Fair, 1908
- Content Note:
- From an album of sixteen photographs.
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.