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Historical Photos 1920s

1920 A_Senior Scribe Staff_funny.jpg
1920 A_first Tech minstrel show.jpg
1920 A_joke_Bolshevik creed.jpg
1921 A_girls intramural baseball.jpg
1921 O_Talcott Williamson taught English at Tech from the teens to 1950.jpg
1922 A_Faculty.jpg

1922 A_Pirates of Penzance montage.jpg
1922 O_Peter Chu_author of poem about China.jpg
1922 O_Peter Chu_poem about China.jpg
1922_Block T Society_lettermen holding huge T.jpg
1922_Faculty.jpg
1923 A_girls riflery.jpg

1924 A_ Spanish Glee Club.jpg
1924 A_boys swim team.jpg
1924 A_yell leaders.jpg
1926 A_Citizenship award.jpg
1926 A_girl archer.jpg
1927 A_explanation of term Privileged Student.jpg

1927 A_joke 2.jpg
1927 A_paper drive winners shown with paper_yrbk.jpg
1927 A_traffic board_acted as hallway monitors.jpg
1928 A_Koo-Ma-Ti Club and Yell leaders.jpg
1928 A_boys soccer team.jpg
1928 A_gym Pershing Hall history_PAIR WITH PERSHING HALL PIECE AND NOTE IN CAPTION CORRECT DATE IS 1928.jpg

1929 A_ad for Tech savings bank.jpg
1929 A_boys cooking class photo.jpg
1929 A_girls model airplane club formed.jpg
20s A_Trolley accident in front of Tech_unknown year_put anywhere.jpg
1920 A_first TEch minstrel show text.jpg
1920 A_funny yearbook cartoon about missing high schooljpg.jpg

1920 A_koo-ma-ti description.jpg
1920 A_koo-ma-ti fight song lyrics.jpg
1920 A_koo-ma-ti war club history.jpg
1920 A_tree planting campaign at Tech.jpg
1920 B_football_rugby not American team.jpg
1920 C_Turtle Dove_Oriental play description.jpg

1920 C_joke cartoon.jpg
1921 A_Tech students make doll houses for a nursery.jpg
1921 B_girls intramural baseball season kick-off description.jpg
1921 C_junior prom dance card_B W.jpg
1922 B_first opera.jpg
1922 B_production of the play -Belinda- by J. J. Milne.jpg

1922 B_ybk dedication to new spirit.jpg
1922 C_Block T Society_lettermen holding huge T.jpg
1922 C_Girls Gym Complete.jpg
1922 C_program from play in Spanish by Spanish American Club.jpg
1922_ROTC graphic with meaning of letters.jpg
1922_invitation to ROTC ball.jpg

1923 A_Campaign for middies.jpg
1923 A_actual tardy slip showing time of tardiness in the stamp.jpg
1923 A_short and tall_sprint and distance runners_track team.jpg
1923 B_Auditorium dedication program cover.jpg
1923 B_track star.jpg
1923 C_girls playing basketball in bloomers_action shot.jpg

1923 C_graduates with principal.jpg
1924 A_Fisher calls emphasizes Supreme Court decision.jpg
1924 A_bag from Roberts Supply Shop located next to Tech on 42nd.jpg
1924 B_joke from Scribe Annual.jpg
1924 B_new riding club organzied.jpg
1924 C_graduation ticket.jpg

1924 C_on golf club.jpg
1924 D_ comic opera program.jpg
1925 A_Dress Up Day_on roller skates.jpg
1925_dedication_bas relief made to honor parents of Tech students.jpg
1926 A_Technite Tess joke cartoon.jpg
1926 A_earthquake felt at Tech part 2.png

1926 A_woodcut of view of Tech from quarry on 51st Street.jpg
1926 B_earthquake felt at Tech part I.png
1926 B_great year for TEch athletics.jpg
1926 B_joke.jpg
1926 B_poem to the school.jpg
1926 C_baseball team.jpg

1926 C_joke about football game.jpg
1926 C_new Live Wires Club.jpg
1926 C_track team.jpg
1927 A_ROTC from yearbook.jpg
1927 B_boys gym team with explanatory text.jpg
1927 B_girl graduates.jpg

1927 B_girl hockey players.jpg
1927 B_interesting clubs.jpg
1927 C_joke.jpg
1927 C_promotion of girls riding club from Scribe News.jpg
1927 C_student leadership team.jpg
1927_Maynard Dixon mural disappearance_Montclarion article 2004.jpg

1928 A_Dress Up Day 1.jpg
1928 A_Dress Up Day 2.jpg
1928 A_Dress Up Day3.jpg
1928 A_art adorned the hallways of Tech.jpg
1928 A_dress up day text to go with photos.jpg
1928 A_joke cartoon about graduates.jpg

1928 B_gym Pershing Hall called Perishing Hall.jpg
1928 C_boys tennis team.jpg
1928_Woodcut of the stage in the auditorium showing the Maynard Dixon mural above the stage_from 1931 Modes and Manners.jpg
1929 A_Students urged to follow laws.jpg
1929 A_cartoon urgins fans to support football team.jpg
1929 A_club presidents.jpg

1929 A_funny rules for Dress Up Day.jpg
1929 A_junior traffic squad text.jpg
1929 A_junior traffic squad.jpg
1929 A_queen of Afghanistan ousted.jpg
1929 A_radios installed to hear Hoover inaugural.jpg
1929 B_ROTC cadets lowering flag on front lawn.jpg

1929 B_Tech songsters.jpg
1929 B_encouragement to wear middies_Scribe.jpg
1929 B_front lobby with original lighting fixture.jpg
1929 B_poem on youth from Scribe Annual.jpg
1929 B_popularity of girls archery_on front lawn.jpg
1929 C_boys cooking class very popular _Scribe.jpg

1929 C_cartoon urging support for basketball team.jpg
1929 C_introduction of home room period.jpg
1929 C_junior traffic squad.jpg
1929 C_photo of Applied Industires wing of school.jpg
1929 C_poem on war dead from 1929 Tecolote literary magazine.jpg
1929_mural project_Goddard Gale with mural painting for Tech_2.jpg

1922 A_Techs first American football team.jpg
1922 B_Girls Athletic Association.jpg
1924 B_boys basketball team.jpg

Oakland Tech: One Hundred Years Video

You can now view the full-length version of the historical video, narrated by Ted Lange '66, which was shown at the History of Oakland Tech Centennial event on May 22nd, 2015.

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