Students on the quad, undated. 

57th St in 1992. 

UChicago kids in the dining hall, undated. 

Students in class, 1939. 

Winners of Major C athletic letters, Ed Nelson (left) of the basketball team and Carroll Pyle (right) of the wrestling team [outside Bartlett Gymnasium]. 1941. 

Imagined conversations from bygone times

This sure beats Gen Chem. 

Imagined conversations from bygone times

This pen tastes mightily of the despair of an unfinished essay. 

The Class of 1907 reunite in 1922 in the coolest of hats. 

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Co-ed party, University of Chicago, 1900, Chicago.

The girls even get to wear the boys hats. Scandal.

What?! Amazing. 

Some cool archive photos of campus and Promotionary Point.

Also, can someone please tell us why there’s a “No Parking” sign in the middle of Botany Pond?

57th St. Books, 2001. 

Unidentified 

In the new collection of archive photos from the Maroon, our longest running student newspaper, we’ve found a few that have no context. 

Tambra Black and her two golden retrievers near the University of Chicago’s Bartlett Gymnasium, 1992. 

Nineties UChicago

A day in the life of a UChicagoan: old school style. This was part of a photo-series in the Maroon, and we kinda love it. 

Gabrielle Lyon (center) relaxes in the Classics Café after a musical performance. Students in the Medici Restaurant on 57th Street in Hyde Park. Lisa Laumann, student and daughter of University of Chicago provost Edward Laumann, yawns at the end of a long day spent studying in Regenstein Library. University of Chicago student (the roommate of photographer Chris Dawe) relaxes at the end of the day. Andrew Kornylak pours liquid into a test tube during a laboratory session for Chemistry 122.

Lights installed inside the Walt Whitman sculpture of the University of Chicago’s Harper Memorial Library, 1996.