Creator: Photographic Laboratory, Information Services

Subjects: People, Presidents, Events, Semi-Centennial

Description:

Michigan Agricultural College celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1907. For commencement activities that year, President Theodore Roosevelt came to East Lansing to deliver the commencement address. Roosevelt rode with MAC President Jonathon Snyder and inventor Ransom E. Olds in a REO Motor Car down east Michigan Avenue to campus. Roosevelt is sitting in the back seat of the car with Snyder. Olds is driving the car. Beside Olds is William Loeb, Roosevelt's secretary.

Date: May 31, 1907

Format: Image/jpg

Original Format: Black and white photograph

Resource Identifier: A001994.jpg

Language: English

Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by Michigan State University and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Contributing Institution: University Archives & Historical Collections

Relation: MSU Photograph Collection

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections