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An image of a 1946 wrestling match held in the Thompson Cage.

An undated photograph of an unspecified woman teaching tennis in front of an audience in the Thompson Cage.

Williams House became the Academy's first "experiment" in dormitory living on August 24, 1852. The rooms themselves were free, but board was $1.42 per week.

A 1965 portrait of William E. Gillespie (aka Ernie) seated at his desk

A photograph of Watkins House, located on Spring Street. The house was acquired by PEA in 1906 from Elizabeth Watkins. It was originally the smallest dorm on campus, housing just five boys. It currently is a faculty residence.

A photographic portrait of Valentine Bosetto, Instructor in Modern Languages, in his classroom.

A student portrait, likely from around 1910/1911. This image (as well as several others that were offered to the Archives at the same time) was delivered as a badly damaged glass plate negative. Given the poor condition of the glass, which was broken…

Two 1879 stereoscopic images of a dorm Room 13 in old Dunbar Hall, which was destroyed by fire in 1907.

An undated photograph of a male student and female student walking from the athletic fields. Because of their wet hair and clothing, the assumption might be made that they had been bridge-jumping (jumping from the Hill Bridge into the Exeter River).

A photograph of a boy and a girl sitting outside the Davis building.