Syracuse University has archived the unsavory life of a SU Freshmen.
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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The 9:30 Club
The 9:30 Club, in its original location at 930 F Street, was a seminal all-ages nightclub that fed the the 1980’s DC hardcore scene.
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The Girl With The Curl
August 5, 1922: Seventeen-year-old Eva Fridell wins the Washington Tidal Basin Beauty Contest at the Washington Bathing Beach in Washington D.C.
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My Daguerreotype Teenager
The daguerrotype was the first commercially successful photographic process that immortalized many types at the turn of the century.
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Hot Wheels
Before high school car culture, teens peddled their way to freedom.
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Coffee House Rendezvous
httpv://youtu.be/V2NoKCg702g
“We tend to attract a rather circumscribed clientele.
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Non-Violence Training
In 1960, photographer Eve Arnold traveled to Petersburg, Virginia to cover the Petersburg Improvement Association, a part of the non-violent protest movement happening in the South.
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Ladies Have A Smoker
Smoker – (n.) An informal social gathering for men only
Sick of letting the boys have all the fun, the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Connecticut decided to have a “smoker” of their own.
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Hiking Germany
Teenagers hiking across the German countryside is nothing new.
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Mill Girl Murder
From the 1830s-1850s young women in their late teens to early twenties flocked to New England to work in factories.