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Throwback Thursday: Cows on Campus Edition

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!

Photograph of cows grazing near Potter Lake, 1918 — Cows grazing near Potter Lake, 1918. University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 0/24/1 Potter Lake 1918 Prints: Campus: Areas and Objects (Photos). Click image to enlarge (redirect to Spencer’s digital collections).

The buildings visible in the background are, from left to right, Dyche Hall, Green (now Lippincott) Hall, Old Fraser Hall, Strong Hall, Robinson Gymnasium, and Old Haworth Hall.

Caitlin Donnelly
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Tags: Caitlin Donnelly, Campus, Dyche Hall, Fraser Hall (Old), Haworth Hall (Old), KU History, Lippincott Hall, photographs, Potter Lake, Robinson Gymnasium, Strong Hall, Throwback Thursday, University Archives, University history, University of Kansas

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