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Students and teachers from Monaview Elementary School in Greenville, S.C. enjoy a show in the Clemson University Planetarium, June 16, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)(Photo by Ken Scar)
Memorial Hall Tower
It was for generations the focus of Harvard life… Even the townspeople were beholden, for anyone who lived within a quarter mile could see the face of one of the clocks and hear the tolling of the quarter hour.
—Bainbridge Bunting, Harvard An Architectural History
The tower was the last portion of Memorial Hall to be completed. When the building was formally turned over to the Corporation in 1877, the tower soared an impressive one hundred ninety-five feet but was far less ornate than as depicted in the architects final rendering of the building.
In 1878, Ware and Van Bunt were fortunate to have the opportunity to modify the tower design with the addition of dormers, pinnacles, and more elaborate cresting.
The most dramatic change to the tower came in 1897 when the class of 1872, upon the occasion of their twenty-fifth reunion, provided funds for an ornate clock tower.
In 1945, the copper detail and iron cresting were removed from the tower, presumably as part of a metal drive for the second world war. In 1956, the top portion of the tower was lost in a fire that was reportedly ignited by a welder’s torch during maintenance, reducing the overall height of the building by one third and eradicating the building’s great pyramidal shape.
Gifts from Katherine B. Loker and other friends of the University facilitated the reconstruction of the tower in 1999. Historic preservationists supported the architectural team of Childs Bertman Tsekares in a design that reflects the “clockless” tower of 1878. On May 14, 2000, at a ceremony dedicating the reconstructed tower, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles reflected, “At last, Memorial Hall has grown again, and can have the effect that Henry James wrote about in The Bostonian: ‘It looked significant; it covered a large area, and it sprang, majestic into the winter air.’”
The image “Devil Abducts the Witch of Berkeley” is the first known illustration of the devil claiming an evil-spirited sorceress after her death. The image helped popularize the link between the practice of witchcraft and the devil. Versions of this image were reproduced and circulated widely throughout the 16th century.
U.S. Army Master Sgt. Shane Werst, of Lake Forest, Cali., the senior military leadership instructor for Clemson University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, congratulates new 2nd Lt. Robert Gunter after a silver dollar ceremony, Dec. 20, 2017. Clemson University's Army and Air Force Reserve Officer's Training Corps units held a joint commissioning ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Owens, director of the joint staff, South Carolina National Guard, was the featured speaker. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Note the subject header at the top of the page, “Of lending, borrowing, witchcraft, &c.”
Known as the Bishop’s Bible, this English translation of the Bible was first produced under the Church of England in 1568 and served as the precursor to the King James Bible. The 1585 edition shown here is considered to be the most beautiful of the Bishop’s Bible printings. This copy is inscribed to Wm. Wordsworth by his friend John Elliot.
U.S. Army Master Sgt. Shane Werst, of Lake Forest, Cali., the senior military leadership instructor for Clemson University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, takes a selfie with two brand new second lieutenants after their commissioning ceremony, Dec. 20, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Former U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Andrew Lewis, a recipient of the Purple Heart and many other decorations, stands in Clemson University’s Military Heritage Plaza looking majestic af, Oct. 25, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Sandy Edge, president of Clemson Corps, gives a group of veterans a speech about the Scroll of Honor, June 22, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Volunteers with Clemson Hope, a student-led nonprofit (in red shirts) watch as a classroom of children at James M. Brown Elementary School in Walhalla, S.C., unwrap presents Dec. 8, 2017. Clemson Hope collected more than 1,100 gifts over the course of two months to give to local school children in Title 1 elementary schools. (Photo by Ken Scar)
This was for a close-focusing test on the camera. The light poles on the street opposite of West Hall are all numbered like this for maintenance purposes. And I got a bit of a selfie while shooting this.
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
If you're a fan of the Film Photography Project you'll know that they recently released their own Monobath! Well I finally got around to testing out the bottle I was sent and when I pulled out the first roll from the tank, I'll have to say I am pretty impressed! Though I did notice that the film base stayed that lovely TMAX purple, but the images speak for themselves! Wow!
Minolta Maxxum 7000 - Minolta AF 35-70mm 1:4 - Kodak TMax 100 @ ASA-100
FPP Super Monobath (Stock) 5:30 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2018)
Clemson University alumnus Andrew Whitley and performing arts professor Kerrie Seymour pose by the fly lines of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, June 19, 2017. Seymour was Whitley’s theater professor and the two were both cast in a production of “Spring Awakening” at the Warehouse Theater in Greenville after Whitley graduated. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Marine Corps and Navy veterans run down The Hill in Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium as part of an Honoring Their Service event, June 22, 2017 (Photo by Ken Scar)
Satirical frontispiece of standard elements of witchcraft, including flight and the witch’s cauldron. Above the door is a portrait of M. Oufle, the character created in 1710 by Abbé Laurent Bordelon to ridicule witchcraft.
If you're a fan of the Film Photography Project you'll know that they recently released their own Monobath! Well I finally got around to testing out the bottle I was sent and when I pulled out the first roll from the tank, I'll have to say I am pretty impressed! Though I did notice that the film base stayed that lovely TMAX purple, but the images speak for themselves! Wow!
Minolta Maxxum 7000 - Minolta AF 35-70mm 1:4 - Kodak TMax 100 @ ASA-100
FPP Super Monobath (Stock) 5:30 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2018)
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Arguably the most famous treatise on witchcraft, Krämer based it on his investigations of witchcraft in Germany, which were authorized by Pope Innocent VIII. The book was second only to the Bible in terms of sales for almost 200 years. Witchcraft was heresy, the author affirmed, but so, too, was disbelief in witchcraft. The book is open to the first question, which addresses that issue. Today, the book is mainly cited for identifying women as the most likely to be witches.
Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Bill Austin holds a model of an F-4 Phantom II at his home in Seneca, S.C., April 29, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The U.S. Army received a new class of commissioned officers this fall. The dedication and service of these men and women continue to make Clemson's military heritage a rich tradition.
The second floor contains HSL’s magnificent Austin Flint Main Reading Room, as well as our collection of printed books. Several computer stations are also located just off the elevator.
During renovation of Abbott Hall from 1983-85, care was taken to preserve the Reading Room so it currently appears much as it was when first built. The design was modeled from a room in Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, built in the first decade of the 17th century for Sir Robert and William Cecil, Earls of Salisbury.
The oak fireplace mantel is hand-carved and modeled after a 15th Century mantel found in Canonbury Tower, London, England.
The woodwork is not signed, but was carved by the Lipsett brothers, immigrants from Germany who worked for the Kittinger Company, a famous Buffalo institution who produced furniture for the White House. The company still practices its craft in the area.
Both chandeliers were salvaged from the John J. Albright’s Tudor mansion (also built by E.B. Green), which was under demolition during construction of the original Lockwood building in the 1930s.
Based on arguably the most famous fictional representation of the Salem witch trials, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the movie is the most recent in a long line of cinematic interpretations of the play. In contrast to Witch Hunt, The Crucible, also written during the “red scare” unequivocally equates witchhunts with the persecution of alleged communist sympathizers during McCarthyism.
Having moved back to Trafalgar before construction on the Hazel McCallion Campus expansion really got moving, I was a little disappointed that I couldn't capture the place as it grew. But working in IT, I had a slight hand in making sure everything went smoothly after a few hitches happened along the way. I took the chance to visit the new building when it was done.
Nikon F5 - AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm 1:2.8G - Kodak TMax 400 @ ASA-640
Kodak HC-110 Dil. B 7:00 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2015.5)