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Early photo record of fenwick library opening.

This is an image of white students at GMU in the 1960's participating in a 'slave stale' clearly mocking the past that black people used to live just years before this. There are misleading signs on the three students intended to taunt slavery as the…

Composite photograph created by Richard M. Sparks depicting scenes from a press conference called by Drs. Lee Potter, Joseph Harrison, Fanny-Fern Davis, and Linda Grant DePauw to announce their resignations from George Mason College, May 20, 1965.…

On July 30th, 1860, J.W. Tomlinson, the census taker, recorded forty-six-year-old Solomon Crist working as a laborer on the farm of his eighty-one-year-old Aunt Ann Crist. Solomon was born in Pennsylvania, and his aunt was born in Maryland.

Some of the portraits of the George Mason College freshmen class in 1965. Bernard White was the only African American student portrayed in the yearbook.

1967 George Mason College Yearbook Administration Section to show who was in the administration of the college at the time. Most of the women shown in the images held the role of secretary or assistant, except for four, who were working in the…

The first year for baseball at George Mason College was 1968. The team would finish second in conference play at 7-2 but post a losing record overall at 8-12. Since this first team the baseball team has made 8 NCAA tournaments and had only 4…

On July 1, 1972 George Mason University officially became independent from The University of Virginia, and became its own university. The Image presented is a meeting in 1972 between board members of each institution, where the Virginia House of…

Prospective student flyer for George Mason University, target to minority communities.