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Celebrating 125 Years of the University of Northern Colorado: Students and classes

Exhibit Guide for the University's 125th Anniversary Gallery Show

Students and classes

Normal school graduates were expected to teach the science through demonstration. These biology student are dress and equipped for a science excursion, circa 1900

Modern Physics class - Laboratory method on the electrical equipment of an automobile, circa 1910.

Students work in the ceramics laboratory in the Normal School building.

Students study inside the library of the Normal School building. The library began as a small closet-size room on the second floor of the Normal School building in 1891.

Students during a psychological laboratory.

Students practice target shooting on campus, circa 1901.

Three male students work in a classroom at the State Normal School.

The Domestic Science department at the State Normal School offered a wide variety of courses aimed at providing a scientific basis for different household activities including the “Study of textiles” and the “Effect of heat upon food.”

President Snyder inspects the clothing created by a group of domestic science students. Each student is wearing the skirt they created.

Science class in 1890.

Students of a cooking class during the summer 1916, class was given by Mrs. MacIntash.

Student's participant in a sloyd laboratory. Sloyd was a handicraft-based education system that focused on teaching children to create a wide variety of hand crafts.

Chemistry laboratory

1891 Graduating Class