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Many girls in a microscopy science class looking through old microscopes in the late 1890's or early 1900s. An undated photo from the collection of the Worcester State College Archives.

Sorting through a box of dusty photographs made up of graduating classes from Worcester State going back to the class of 1890, seemed unexciting. I feared I might not find a picture I made a connection with. Many have been reframed on thick…

Pageants in Worcester Normal School were a big hit before it became Worcester State College. In this 1915 or 1916 photo are a group of girls part of the "May Day Pageant."

At a Worcester State College reunion for the Class of 1917, a person named Marguerite F. McPartlane, with whom John Moran graduated, speaks in his memory and his accomplishments on his one year anniversary of dying in World War I.

In a blue bound year book from 1939, p. 8 is this College Hymn. The page includes both the musical score and the words, as if written on a scroll.

Searching through the archive of Worcester State College can be quite the adventure. After rummaging through it for almost an hour, I stumbled upon an unlabeled scrapbook with leather binding. Inside this scrapbook was a collage of very old newspaper…

The fascinating past history of Worcester State College known as State Normal School, as reported by the Worcester Board of Trade in their 1899 annual report.

Vintage postcard of the administration building of Worcester State College. Worcester Normal School, which stood on St. Anne's Hill, was closed in 1932 and the new building at 486 Chandler Street opened, rechristened Worcester State Teachers School.…

Vintage "Polychrome" postcard of the State Normal School, founded in 1874 and located on St. Anne's Hill in Worcester MA. It is now Worcester State College; the building pictured is no longer standing.

This postcard comes from the contributor's…