Harvard memorabilia and scrapbooks of Walter Philip Tobey

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Harvard memorabilia and scrapbooks of Walter Philip Tobey

1908-1937

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990079177790203941/catalog

Compiled during Tobey's undergraduate years at Harvard University, the scrapbooks provides a picture of undergraduate student life from 1908-1912. They have high concentrations of ephemera from sporting events and theater programs for Boston and Cambridge theaters. Additional items of interest include material related to the military (including correspondence with Battery A, First Massachusetts Field Artillery and photographs), programs and ephemera related to Harvard events, and letters regarding a disciplinary matter. The memorabilia further documents Tobey's undergraduate years at Harvard University, especially his involvement with clubs and societies. Included are medals from the Owl Club, Hasty Pudding Club, Institute of 1770, and Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE); a DKE iniatition notebook; two large format Owl Club photographs, 1911 and 1912 (photographs themselves are undated); an Institute of 1770 certificate, 1910; 7" x 9" photograph of four characters in the Hasty Pudding Club play "Below Zero," 1912 (including Tobey as a polar bear) and a newspaper review of the play. Other memorabilia documents Commencement and Class Day activities in 1912, as well as later reunion activities. Also included is a souvenir program for Harvard-Yale boat races, 1921, and a special police badge dating from the mobilization of the National Guard in 1919 to counteract strike by the Boston Police Force. Two presentation letters from Tobey's son, Philip H. Tobey (AB 1962), include significant biographical and background information for the memorabilia.

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