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Seal says hi.

Creepiest ice cream truck ever. Seriously, that should turn up in a horror movie some day.

Kenyon's Special Collections has put up an impressive amount of photos on Flickr. There are several duplicates, and several that share no obvious connection to Kenyon, but most of them are very cool, especially the ones from before WWII. (Uh, well, they're probably not as cool for people who didn't go there. But fellow alums, you should check them out!)

The steeple burning during the Old Kenyon fire.

The Great Hall from above in black and white.

Back when we used to have an airfield and students could take flying lessons.

Original plans for Old Kenyon, which would have had EVEN MORE steeples.

The Burial of HOMER! By the class of '63. (I mostly just like the random exclamation point. Also the fact that '63 means eighteen-sixty-three.)

Ascension being slowly eaten by ivy. Most of the buildings on south campus have been covered in ivy at some point. I think it was a thing in both the twenties and the fifties.

The back of Peirce prior to Dempsey being built.

Bexley looks so much cooler in black and white (and with ivy) than it does now.

OMG, it used to be painted white!

The building Ransom replaced around 1910. As usual, it burned down. Has there been a building on this campus that has come down without the use of flame?

This...is just special.

Check out the puffed sleeves on this dress.

I want to know these two guys. I'm not sure why.

There are several photos of these two in these costumes. Both seem either very young or extremely gender-ambiguous.

"GOD, Mom, do you have enough pictures already?"

Monsarrat Hall, which I've never heard of...possibly this is from another college? Or maybe the nearby seminary or prep school.

What appears to be the view over the hill from Peirce, looking...not much different from an early March day circa 2006.

Local prep school dorm room. Which possibly means that all the other elaborately-furnished rooms I saw earlier in the photostream were dorm rooms as well, and not rooms in private homes as I assumed.

Ah, here's a real dorm room. Lots of similarities to mine: a desk, tacked-up posters, floor strewn with clothing and books, and...okay, mine didn't have potbellied stove in it.

First of three shots of a massive double in Leonard in 1942. Click to the left in the photostream to see the rest.

Fraternity guys singing their way down Middle Path. You can kind of see Hubbard in the background, and since that burned down in 1910 this must date from before that (but probably not much before it, given the clothing).

I think I've had class in here. It might be the west-facing classroom on the north side of Ascension.

I don't know why this is here, but I like it.

...It was hard putting on plays at an all-male school, okay?

Ascension getting eatn by ivy again, but not as badly.

Now it looks like it's just...emerging from the trees, like some kind of building-shaped leaf monster.

Mad scientist intent on taking over the world?

Why is a stuffed and mounted rabbit head considered an acceptable dorm room decoration even in 1980, whyyyyyy?

Middle Ground used to be a grocery store. Who knew?

Paul Newman in drag. There are lots of other Newman photos covering 1945 to the 1980s around that one.

This somehow manages to look so much more homey than my dorm rooms ever did.

Odd fact: The account is Flickr-friends with Wil Wheaton, of all people. Huh.