Men in slave costumes carrying litter in Mecca Day parade, The University of Iowa, 1920s

Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes

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Title: Men in slave costumes carrying litter in Mecca Day parade, The University of Iowa, 1920s
Creator: Kent, Frederick W. (Frederick Wallace), 1894-1984
Contributor: University of Iowa. Libraries. University Archives
Description: Mecca Day was put on by the College of Engineering. The name Mecca derives from the first letters of the names of the engineering departments: mechanical, electrical, civil, chemical, and architectural. Mecca Day events included a parade highlighting progress in engineering; in the evening was a play put on by engineering students.
Subjects: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Universities & colleges
Parades & processions
Celebrations
Costumes
Litters
Subjects (Local): Topics: Parades
Subjects: Corporate Bodies: University of Iowa
St. Mary's Catholic Church (Iowa City, Iowa)
Subject: Time: 1920-1930
Subject: Place: United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City
Archival Collection: Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs, 1866-2000
Collection Identifier: RG30.0001.001
Collection Guide: http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/3/resources/1164
Series Title: Prints
Parades, Mecca Day
Subseries: Events and activities
Physical Description: 9 × 14 cm
Digitization Specifications: Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 3228C @ 600 ppi, full color. Master image saved in TIFF format.
Date Digital: 2008-05
Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information: Contact the University Archives at the University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
Item Type (DCMI): Still image
Item Type (AAT): Photographs
postcards
Item Type (IMT): jpeg