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Woman behind counter smiles at young women holding a cook over the counter in what appears to be a shop.
1959
Meredith O'Gorman, of Kappa Gamma Chi (seated wearing tiara) with prom attendant Beverly Stone Gloven.
1957
Two men at a desk, only their heads are visible. Several small portraits hang on the wall behind then.
1959
Ms. Hunt, wearing headphones, operates a photograph turntable in the WERS radio studio.
1959
Ms. Hunt at the broadcast audio console at WERS, holding a clipboard. Percy Faith's LP, My Fair Lady sits on the desk.
1959
Ms. Hunt receives checks the latest newswire from the teletype machine at WERS radio.
1959
President of the inter-faith council, Chrisanne Done, and Emerson College Dean, Richard Pierce are seated onstage. Between them, a man (Elliot Norton?) stands at a podium before a microphone with the WERS call sign.
1959
A standing crowd with their attention on a man at a podium waring cap and gown. A large image of the cosmos on the wall.
1958
Miss Hunt, wearing headset, operates a Dage television camera. WERS closed-circuit television (CCTV) made it's first broadcast in 1955.
1959
Ms. Hunt sits at a desk with clipboard in hand, in front of a microphone with acoustic tiling on the wall behind her.
1959
Ms. Hunt at the broadcast audio console at WERS, holding a clipboard. Percy Faith's LP, My Fair Lady sits on the desk.
1959
President McKinley with Inter-faith council president, Chrisanne Done, and others (Elliot Norton?).
1959
Wendy Schaffer (seated, wearing tiara) was junior prom queen in 1962. Also pictured, Madeline Beliz and others.
1962
A standing crowd applauds while two men shake hands at a podium, one wearing cap and gown. A large image of the cosmos on the wall.
1958
Two men shake hands at a podium, with other seated nearby including President McKinley, wearing academic regalia. A large image of the cosmos on the wall.
1958
Ms. Hunt sits at a desk with clipboard in hand, speaking into a microphone.
1959
Three men in suits at desks, two are seated. The man in the center may be Maine governor, Edmund Muskie.
1959
Women shake hands over a table. Young woman passes an Emerson College binder to the older woman while others applaud.
1959
Emerson President Samuel Justus McKinley and others seated at a long table. One man is standing.
1959
Three men standing in conversation, holding papers, a portrait hangs on the wall behind them.
1959
Two men seated at a large desk. Donkey figurines on the mantle behind them.
1959
Four people pose for a photo: three men standing and one woman, seated and wearing long black gloves. Trophies are lined up on the wall behind them.
1959
Formally dressed young people seated at a long table. The Greek fraternal letters Phi Alpha Tau are on display. Founded in 1902, Phi Alpha Tau is the nation’s oldest professional communicative arts fraternity.
1959
Three men dressed in graduate's regalia behind a decorative pulpit, before a stained glass window.
1959
Large group of people seated in folding chairs at banquet tables in an timber framed room. The room is most likely the Emerson College Theater, opened in 1936 in a repurposed carriage house behind the 128-130 Beacon Street buildings of the Back Bay.
1959
A woman wearing a hat (possibly Lilla Elizabeth Kelley) stands behind a white-draped table holding a binder titled Emerson College, while others around her applaud. Emerson alum Lilla Elizabeth Kelley was a social worker and author of the book, Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do.
1959
Eight older women seated at a long table, smiling for the photo. All are wearing name tags.
1959
Women shake hands over a table. Young woman passes an Emerson College binder to the older woman.
1959
Three men standing in conversation, holding papers, a portrait hangs on the wall behind them.
1959
Two men seated at a large desk. Donkey figurines on the mantle behind them. Shot from corner of desk.
1959
Three men and one woman, formally dressed. She is seated with a folder piece of paper with the heading, Homecoming.
1959
Three men standing in front of a display of flags, holding briefcases and/or equipment cases. Emerson Broadcasting faculty, Charles Phillips on right.
1959
Haig, seated in office, with a line of people, each holding a pen or pencil.
1961
Two men seated at a long table facing a row of small television monitors, their backs to the camera. One of them wears headphones.
1961
People sitting in folding chairs, some looking at a television in the middle of the room.
1958
Well-dressed man and woman seated on a couch surrounded by other living room furniture with a microphone on the coffee table.
1959
Haig, seated at a small table with several plastic-wrapped sandwiches.
1961
Haig, seated, talks with a woman at a desk. Christmas decorations line the mantle behind him.
1961
Haig, seated at a small table is served from a platter of plastic-wrapped sandwiches.
1961
Two men seated at a long table facing a row of small television monitors, their backs to the camera. One of them wears headphones.
1961
Cameramen onstage with cameras marked, "WERS TV" shoot a man seated on a stool next to a white screen. On the opposite side of the stage, a person sits at a small table wearing a safari hat.
1958
Haig, seated, defends his stack of plastic-wrapped sandwiches from a poacher.
1961
People sitting in folding chairs, facing a small stage where a panel of three sits at a long table.
1958
Architect's rendering of the 2-story Chickering Hall building with the caption, Our New Home. The first floor is defined by a series of five arches. The drawing includes a horse-drawn carriage on the street. In 1901, the College moved to Chickering Hall, 239 Huntington Ave, where it would stay for only ten years. The Emerson community welcomed the move to this Back Bay location near Symphony Hall. The decision to relocate from the College’s previous address was due in large part to safety concerns. Emerson’s Odd Fellows Hall in the South End was troubled with high rates of crime. From A Century of Eloquence: “The college rented the entire second floor of Chickering Hall which provided nine spacious, well lighted and ventilated classrooms, two of which were small lecture halls (40x22ft), each complete with a platform. After 1903, a portrait of Dr. Emerson, presented by the graduating class of that year, hung in the corridor. Six marble stairways with wrought-iron balustrades led to the second floor. The first floor held the library and the school’s administrative offices, and morning lectures were held in the “superb hall on the first floor, which seated 800.” During this period, Boston caterer D. M. Shooshan’s Ladies and Gent’s Cafe also occupied space on the first floor of Chickering Hall at the address 241-243. An ad in the Emerson College Magazine [Vol. 19] described it as a “First-class restaurant, also a choice line of confectionery. Ice cream and fancy baking of all kinds.” Chickering Hall was owned by piano manufacturing company, Chickering & Sons. It was designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for use as an 800-seat concert venue. After Emerson’s departure the hall was expanded and re-opened in 1912 as the 1,600-seat vaudeville and film venue named St. James Theatre, operated by Marcus. In the 1920s, it become a popular stock company stage, and in the 1930s it was renamed the Uptown Theatre, operating as a movie theatre and catering to college students with second-run movies. The building was demolished in 1963.
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