Honorary degree recipients posing after commencement exercises

Item Information

Title:
Honorary degree recipients posing after commencement exercises
Description:
Recipients of honorary degrees at the 77th annual Commencement pose after the ceremonies. From left: Francis A. Bartlett ('05, Agriculture), Minnie Ryan Dwight (Human Letters), Governor Robert F. Bradford, President Hugh P. Baker (Laws), Sidney B. Haskell ('04, Science) and Thornton Clark, who received the diploma and hood for his father, Frank S. Clark (1887) who was granted his B.S. extra ordinem degree posthumously. Mrs. Dwight, an editor for the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript newspaper, was the first woman to be granted a Honorary degree by the institution.
Date:
June 9, 1947
Format:
Photographs
Prints
Genre:
Gelatin silver prints
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
University Photograph Collection
Series:
Record Group 130. Students and Alumni by Class
Subjects:
Commencement ceremonies--Massachusetts--Amherst--Photographs
Massachusetts Agricultural College--Students--Photographs
Massachusetts Agricultural College--Alumni and alumnae--Photographs
Massachusetts State College--Students--Photographs
Massachusetts State College--Alumni and alumnae--Photographs
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Students--Photographs
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Alumni and alumnae--Photographs
Massachusetts State College--Presidents--Photographs
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Presidents--Photographs
Baker, Hugh P. (Hugh Potter), 1878-1950
Bartlett, Francis A.
Bradford, Robert Fiske, 1902-1983
Clark, Thornton
Dwight, Minnie Ryan
Haskell, Sidney B. (Sidney Burritt), 1881-
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampshire (county) > Amherst
Extent:
1 photograph ; 19 x 23 cm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murg130-i0008087
Terms of Use:
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Identifier:
murg130-i0008087