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Throwback Thursday: Costa Rica Edition

March 8th, 2018

Each week we’ll be posting a photograph from University Archives that shows a scene from KU’s past. We’ve also scanned more than 34,800 images from KU’s University Archives and made them available online; be sure to check them out!

This week KU is celebrating sixty years of institutional collaboration with the University of Costa Rica – the longest-standing institutional partnership in the Western Hemisphere.

Photograph of Grupo de Kansas, 1970

KU students studying abroad in Costa Rica, 1970.
University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 12/1 1970 Prints:
International Programs: Study Abroad (Photos).
Click image to enlarge (redirect to Spencer’s digital collections).

Caitlin Donnelly
Head of Public Services