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Rag Day and Poppy Day events, 1927 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEPH/2/4/11

Scope and Contents

Photographs of Selwyn students participating in Rag Day and Poppy Day events that were precursors of today's charity events. One photo with Wilson, Manthorp and Adler as Bogus Proctor and Bullers (1927); one from the early 1930s showing a band outside Selwyn; also "The Naughty Nineties, Boat Club Poppy Day Rag (1948) - crowd of students dressed as musicians with piano outside Selwyn; "Pieces of eight" (Pirate Ship), Boat Club Poppy Day Rag (1949)

Dates

  • Creation: 1927 - 1949

Extent

1 collection (Several photographs) : Paper and electronic

Former / Other Reference

Box 24 Item 11

Immediate Source of Acquisition

1927 photo found in Archives; 1930s photo from Colin Aubury (SE 1961); two photos of Boat Club rags 1948-1949 sent by David Nicoll-Griffith to be copied for Archives, December 2009 (2009-10/025)

Existence and Location of Copies

Some print outs in box; Electronic copies in Archive picturesAlumni photos and portraits/Nicoll-Griffith; Same image but from different source reproduced in Selwyn Celebrated, p.139 (without proper title); Rag day image on Iamge of the month November 2012

Related Materials

See also Forbes photos at SEPH/2/4/10/5; see also photograph of Rag Day photograph taken outside entrance to Selwyn but date unidentified (c. 1930-3) in SEPP/WOOLER

Date information

DateText: 1927, 1948-1949.

Finding aid date

2007-12-10 12:06:10+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Selwyn College Archives Repository

Contact:
The College Archivist
Selwyn College Archives
Selwyn College, Grange Road
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9DQ United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 762014