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Language
English
Abstract
Photograph album (11 1/2 in. x 7 1/4 in.) of George Orlando Smith (nickname "Red Smith") as student and basketball player,
including family, friends, and activities; contains 280 photos in album, plus 61 loose photos. Subjects include: portraits
of Marietta College, Ohio, basketball team, 1919-1920; Devols Dam, Muskingum River, Ohio; U.S. Army infantry parading in Marietta,
Ohio for Fifth Liberty Loan; two-winged airplanes (biplanes) stunt flying for Fifth Liberty Loan; circuit Redpath Chautauqua,
including the Webster Male Quartet, the Althea Chorus, the "Chocolate Soldier" Company, and others (Smith was a member of
the crew; locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio are identified), summer 1919; portrait of West Virginia Wesleyan basketball team,
1921-1922; portrait of two women at Beechwood School, Clarksburg, WV; and group portraits posed in front of Ladies Hall and
Science Hall, WV Wesleyan. Pages 65-74 appear to contain all or mostly pictures taken during his time as a student at Stills
College of Osteopathy at Des Moines, Iowa, where he also played basketball. Also includes a few clippings regarding his basketball
activities, and Iota Tau Sigma memorabilia (3 items, including medal attached to blue ribbon).
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George O. Smith Photograph Album, A&M 3511, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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