Harriet Rogers Trotting, circa 1927
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Horseback riding
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Harriet Rogers riding a horse at a trot sometime around 1927, presumably on the Sweet Briar College campus.
[written on back in pencil]: “Harriet Rogers – C 1927-8 / Head of Riding & / Phys. Ed”
circa 1927-1928
1920s
1900
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The Pairs Class at the Sweet Briar Horse Show on May Day, 1928
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Horses
Horseback riding
Students
Student riders circling a ring in the pairs class portion of the Sweet Briar Spring Horse Show on May Day, 1928.
[written on back in pencil]: "Horse Show May Day 1928 / Pair Class / In [illegible] – [illegible]"
[stamped on back]: "COPYRIGHT AND ALL NON-COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS MAY BE REPRODUCED FOR THE PRICE CHARGED AND THE FOLLOWING CREDIT LINE UNDER EACH REPRODUCTION. / HARRIS & EWING / WASHINGTON, D. C. / This license is for your use only"
Harris & Ewing
1928-05-01
1920s
1900
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Winners of the First Horse Show, 1928
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Horseback riding
Students
Awards
Horse shows
Two Sweet Briar students, Alice Blake and Ruth Keeler, after winning ribbons from Sweet Briar College's first horse show, circa 1928.
[written on back in pencil]: “Alice Blake / Ruth Keeler”
[written on back in pen]: “Alice Blake ’30 / Ruth Keeler ’30 / Taken in 1928 ? / (1st SB Horse Show)”
1928
1920s
1900
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Gertrude Prior and Others in a Riding Class, 1925-29
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Gertrude Prior (fourth from right?) and other Sweet Briar students in a riding class sometime between 1925 and 1929. From Gertrude Prior's scrapbook.
1925-1929
1920s
1900
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Sweet Briar Hunt Team, 1929
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Horseback riding
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Students
Teachers
Grace Sunderland (left), Mr. Lewis (center), and Winnie West (right) on horseback as the Sweet Briar Hunt Team, 1929.
[written on back in pen]: “Grace Sunderland Mr. Lewis Winnie West / (Hunt Team)”
[on front, lower left, embossed]: “HARRIS & EWING / WASHINGTON, D. C.”
Harris & Ewing
1929
1920s
1900
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Sweet Briar Student Riders, 1929
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Students
Horses
Horseback riding
Three Sweet Briar student riders on campus in 1929.
[stamped on back]: “HESSLER-HENDERSON / INC. / 1526 CONNECTICUT AVE. / WASHINGTON, D. C.”
Hessler-Henderson Inc.
1929
1900
1920s
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A Sweet Briar Fox Hunt, 1928-9
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Students
Horseback riding
Horses
Fox hunting
Riding
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Hunting dogs
A group of Sweet Briar students, riding instructors, and a hound handler preparing to go on a fox hunt, 1928-9.
[written in pen]: “Fox Hunt at SB”
[written in pen]: “left to Right / 1 Jean Saunders / 2 -- / 3 Winnie West on Molly D / 4 Connie Stanbrugh [?] on Ned / 5 Ruth Keeler / 6 ? [“Hulda Williams” scratched out] / 7 [blank] / 8 Eloise Moreley [?] / 9 Gert Prior / 10 Bebe Gilchrist [?] / 11 Harriet Rogers on Misfortune (?) / 12 ? [Hulda Williams scratched out] / 13 Huldah Williams / 14 Mr Lewis / 15 Grace Sunderland / 16 Mr Blackwell / 17 Amelia Woodward"
1928-9
1920s
1900
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Sweet Briar Horse Show, 1927
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Students
Horses
Horse shows
Horseback riding
A group of Sweet Briar students participating in one of the earliest horse shows, 1927.
[written in pen]: “Class of ‘31”
1927
1900
1920s
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Freshmen on a Horse, 1927
Horseback riding
Students
Horses
Universities & colleges
Two students of the Class of 1931 astride a horse, 1931.
[written on back in pen]: “Class of ‘31”
1931
1930s
1900
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The Reading Room, 1929
Libraries (Rooms & spaces)
Reading rooms
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Students
Books
Mary Helen Cochran Library
Libraries
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The reading room with students studying in 1929.
White, E.
1929
1900
1920s
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