Small-Town Parade with Cornet Band and Church Floa…
Gruber Wagon Works, Mt. Pleasant, Berks County, Pa…
Whirlpool Humming Spinner
The Globe Lawn Mower
Skiddo Is Always Known by the Numerals 23
I'm Sending You a Lemon
Down and Out Club Membership Card, 1906
Wier's Lemon Seltzer Cures Headaches
Tiajuana Tipplers
Russian Army Harness Oil Blacking
I'm Being Royally Entertained in Elizabethtown, Pa…
Try This on Your Piano
I Will Start You With This Complete Selling Outfit
Mt. Manitou Scenic Incline (Rotated)
Mt. Manitou Scenic Incline
They're Biting Well Here
Heavy Failure Dry Goods
Martin's Susquehanna Eight
Shoe Factory, Middletown, Pa.
Woman Posing with Hats
Guaranteed to Rid Any Cellar of Rats, Roaches, or…
Use This to Keep the Mice and Rats Away
Colburn's Philadelphia Mustard, Philadelphia, Pa.…
Eine kleine Erinnerung an meinen erster Schultag,…
Amish Folks at Dutch Wonderland, Lancaster, Pa.
Real German Sausages, Irvine & Stevenson, St. Geo…
Man and Woman at the Rockefeller Center Roof Studi…
Pansy the Roller-Skating Cow
I Dreamt I Was in a Trance
Hi-Yo-Silver, Roller Skates Away!
Hi-Yo-Silver, Roller Skates Away! (Cropped)
Hercules Baseball Player, Reading, Pa.
Baby in a Basin, Photographed by Galen Piper, Bain…
Mule Barometer
Buzzell Tire Services, Galeton, Pa.
Photobooth Girl in Forty Poses
Photobooth Girl in Forty Poses (Nos. 1-20)
Photobooth Girl in Forty Poses (Nos. 21-40)
Driven to Distraction
I Smiled Until My Face Hurt
Skip and His Birthday Cake
Skip Just Had to Sample His Birthday Cake
Kadin's Birthday Cake, Goofy Ball, and Other Toys
Rewards of Merit with Birds and Flowers
Reward of Merit for Punctuality, Industry, and Goo…
See also...
See more...Keywords
Authorizations, license
-
Visible by: Everyone -
All rights reserved
-
1 570 visits
Alpha Kappa Delta Fraternity, Pennsylvania State College, 1910


A front porch photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.
A group of 36 men and women assembled on and in front of the porch of a fraternity house. I found this photo at an antique mall in Pennsylvania, and judging by the "AKD" banner, the "State" pillow, and the "S[tate] 1910" pillow, this is probably the same men's social fraternity that William Raimond Baird described in Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, 7th ed. (New York: College Fraternity Publishing, 1912), p. 572:
"Alpha Kappa Delta--Organized May 4, 1909, at Pennsylvania State College [now Pennsylvania State University]. The membership is about 50. The badge is an oblong shield displaying the letters forming the society's name in the center in vertical order. The colors are orange and blue. It rents a house."
Perhaps that's the house that the fraternity was renting. The AKD banner on the porch, interestingly enough, includes a skull and crossbones in its upper left-hand corner. And who are the young and middle-aged women in the photo? Girlfriends and chaperones? Students and profs?
Today, Alpha Kappa Delta is the name of a sociology honor society founded in 1920. It would be interesting to know, however, what happened to this fraternity in the decade after this photo was taken.
A group of 36 men and women assembled on and in front of the porch of a fraternity house. I found this photo at an antique mall in Pennsylvania, and judging by the "AKD" banner, the "State" pillow, and the "S[tate] 1910" pillow, this is probably the same men's social fraternity that William Raimond Baird described in Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, 7th ed. (New York: College Fraternity Publishing, 1912), p. 572:
"Alpha Kappa Delta--Organized May 4, 1909, at Pennsylvania State College [now Pennsylvania State University]. The membership is about 50. The badge is an oblong shield displaying the letters forming the society's name in the center in vertical order. The colors are orange and blue. It rents a house."
Perhaps that's the house that the fraternity was renting. The AKD banner on the porch, interestingly enough, includes a skull and crossbones in its upper left-hand corner. And who are the young and middle-aged women in the photo? Girlfriends and chaperones? Students and profs?
Today, Alpha Kappa Delta is the name of a sociology honor society founded in 1920. It would be interesting to know, however, what happened to this fraternity in the decade after this photo was taken.
Smiley Derleth has particularly liked this photo
- Keyboard shortcuts:
Jump to top
RSS feed- Latest comments - Subscribe to the comment feeds of this photo
- ipernity © 2007-2025
- Help & Contact
|
Club news
|
About ipernity
|
History |
ipernity Club & Prices |
Guide of good conduct
Donate | Group guidelines | Privacy policy | Terms of use | Statutes | In memoria -
Facebook
Twitter
Sign-in to write a comment.