Photograph album related to University of Michigan student Francis Bulkley Vedder and Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Contents consist of individual and group portraits of various people (including an image showing several young men in blackface), views of the fraternity house, and interior views. Also present are images showing a group of men and women on a vacation in Lakeland and Base Lake, views of a large dam, and group portraits in which the fraternity dog is included. Some of the photographs include blind stamps from the studio of J. Alstrom in Boston, Massachusetts, who seems to have specialized in photographing fraternities and sororities. Numerous items of ephemera are also included such as four "Student Coupons" from the 1913 Interscholastic Committee that list the grades of Francis B. Vedder (accompanied by a photograph of Vedder holding a concertina), a page including clipped articles dedicated to shot putter and fraternity brother A. W. Kohler, a handwritten note instructing "Pea Green Vedder" to perform various tasks culminating in reaching the west goal post of the fairgrounds by 8:15, a program for the 1912 initiation banquet, several dance cards, a menu, envelopes and invitations to Eta Chapter Kappa Alpha Theta dance parties, Vedder's 1912 University of Michigan admission letter, a 1913 invitation to join the sales team of Detroit-based seed trade company D. M. Ferry & Co., a program for the 1914 D. M. Ferry & Co. annual dinner, tickets to the Detroit Opera House, and programs for "Contrarie Mary" and "A Model Daughter" presented by the "Mimes of the Michigan Union." Includes 25 photographs and 43 pieces of ephemera. Volume 34 x 26.5 cm.
