Snapshots of the Past

The Freshman Before and After – Historic Print

The Freshman Before and After — historic image
The Freshman Before and After. Historic image from the Schools collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The Freshman Before and After comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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The Freshman Before and After

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The title frames this picture as a comparison: a new student's appearance at the start of school set against the same person later on. Pairs like this were a familiar device in the early twentieth century, when magazines, schools and advertisers often used them to show how a little time, training or the right clothes could change a young person's look and bearing. Such images also reflected the period's ideas about what a college or school life should make of a newcomer. Looking closely at the clothing, posture and setting in each half can show how those expectations were presented.

Original scan6,973 × 6,603 px · prints to 23 × 22 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif12853_Thefreshmanbeforeandafter

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