Pictured here is a group of friends posing before the camera outside what appears to be a train station depot in Oskaloosa, Iowa, sometime around the year 1915. What is noteworthy about this picture are the different style of clothing, especially…
Historically, The Hub serves as a wonderful example of American small business at the turn of the 20th Century. Location was the key to American small business success and The Hub definitely had this quality, as it was situated in downtown Oskaloosa…
Old Main, interior image, Physical and Chemical Laboratories, it was the policy "of the department to add each year some first class pieces of apparatus, believing that by this means an excellent working laboratory can be built up.
Old Main, interior image of the Biological Laboratory, on the back is written, Emily's sophomore Biology Class - Prof. Meek, 1909, Penn College, She had charge of the class often times - most often the lab. Female students were able to take all of…
Zoology Class in the Old Main Laboratory, dissecting cats, Mahlon Kirk Teacher, Elmer Jones, Will Terrill, Corwin Oneal, Loren Morgan, Harly Carver, harry Hayes, Bernice Lacy, Charlie George, Ashby, Luella Woodward, Albert Watland, Olive Floger,…
Old Main, Science Class, the students are wearing lab smocks, female students were always able to take the same courses as the male students at Penn College.
