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Title |
Glenn Nelson and classmate at the Tank, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1913 |
Catalog Number |
ia-0001-c048-0056 |
Description |
Glenn Nelson (right) and friend pose in front of the tank after the last Tank Scrap in 1913. Painted on the tank is a large "17" for the Class of 1917. The water tower is better known as "The Tank." The "Tank Scrap" tradition began in 1894 with the class of 1897 painting the newly finished tower on the southern edge of the Grand View Cemetery on North Salisbury Street. The event was a freshman-sophomore rivalry that ended in 1913 due to violence. The basis of the tradition was that the Freshman and Sophomore classes would fight to paint their class year on the tank. The students, faculty, and adminstration voted unanimously to end the event after the death of student Fancis Walter Obenchain in 1913. Glenn Nelson's class (Class of 1917) was the last class to paint the tower in 1913. The tower still stands in 2020 next to the caretaker's house and surrounded by a security fence topped with barbed wire. |
Provenance |
Collection photographed by Glenn Mount Nelson (1892-1966) of Crawfordsville. He attended Purdue University in 1913-1914. Nelson served in WWI from July 1918 to June 1919. He married Fern Minnie McDaniel (1897-1991) on September 25, 1919 in Montgomery County. |
Geographic Location |
North Salisbury Street, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States |
Subjects |
Men Students Towers Purdue University West Lafayette (Ind.) Tippecanoe County (Ind.) |
Date of Original |
1913 |
Year Range Begin |
1913 |
Year Range End |
1913 |
Creator (Photographer, Author, etc.) |
Nelson, Glenn Mount, 1892-1966 |
Process |
Glass negatives |
Type |
Still Image |
Collection Name |
Glenn M. Nelson Glass Negatives |
Copyright |
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Rights |
The Indiana Album, Inc. believes that this item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. |
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Catalog date |
2020-06-04 |