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John A. Widstoe, Experiment Station Director and ACU President.
Harry Sanborn, first captain of the ACU football team. Photo by Schmitt and Lang (formerly Cardon's), 3rd St., Logan. (RO)
Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn, first President of the Agricultural College of Utah, and first Director of the Experiment Station
Elmer Darwin Ball, Experiment Station Director.
Architectural drawing of Old Main building at Utah State University, 1889. Drawing by Salt Lake architect C.L. Thompson for "College Building", eventually known as Old Main. From this plan, the south wing was built in 1889 and opened for classes on Sept. 5, 1890. Plan modified in 1892 to greatly enlarge center section. Thompson plan would have centered tower due east of Fifth North St. Size of drawing
Architectural drawing of Old Main building for second plan designed by architect Carl C. Schaub. In Schaub's plan, the center section is enlarged and the building site moved 72 feet north from being due east of Fifth North St. The building was completed in 1893. It had no electrical wiring or plumbing until 1895. On the still treeless campus, Old Main was an imposing structure which dominated the eastern half of Logan. The roof of the South wing was used to send signals to the Signal Corps by a direct telegraphic wire and weather forecasts received from the War Dept. via a flag system. Size of drawing
Daily chapel exercises held in the Auditorium in Old Main building, circa 1891. Student attendance at 8 am daily chapel exercises was mandatory. Exercises were non-sectarian, conducted by the faculty and by members of each of the churches represented in Logan.
The Chapel on the first floor of the south wing in 1892. This was the Auditorium until construction of the center part of the building. The balcony was later removed and a second floor was added to house the Geology Dept.
Football team, 1901. The 1901 football team was the first all-student team, trained by a full-time coach. Earlier teams had faculty and student members.
Football scrimmage in 1907 on lawn west of Old Main where games were played until 1913. Standing at the rear is Captain Edgar B. Brossard, later Chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission.
Edgar B. Brossard in football gear, 1906. Edgar B. Brossard later became Chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission.
House used for smallpox quarantine in early 1900s, located at foot of Old Main Hill, south of present stairs.
Lt. Samuel W. Dunning drilling faculty in 1902 on the Chapel stage in Old Main. Faculty served as an auxiliary to the student corps of cadets. From 1892 to 1955, military science was compulsory for male students.
Photograph from Experiment Station Bulletin, no. 55 showing spraying of fruit trees in the Experiment Station Orchard, March 1898.
View from 7th East and 6th North shows the entire campus of Utah State University in 1902. Multiple privies visible behind College Dormitory.
Originally built in 1897 as the first instructional building on campus other than Old Main, the Mechanic Arts building was gutted by fire on Sept. 11, 1905. Many of the early records of the College were destroyed in the fire. The building was rebuilt as a two-story structure.
North wing of the Mechanic Arts building and south wing of Old Main, circa 1903.
View of orchard, east side of Agricultural College of Utah campus, 1901, taken from roof of Old Main.
Mechanic Arts building after fire of Sept. 11, 1905, taken from south tower of Old Main. The building was partially reconstructed the same year.
Mechanic Arts building after fire of Sept. 11, 1905, taken from west of the building.
Old Main, west tower under construction, summer 1902.
