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Description
Members of the Pomona College class of 1904 file down a dirt road in Claremont behind a small coffin filled with freshman canes, which they are about to burn. The pallbearers are (from back to front): Vernon Wolcott and William Jencks (on the left), and James Culbertons, Alvin Eads, and Edward Milliken (on the right). George Hume is in front of the coffin carrying a wooden stand and Winston Dickson leads the procession with a drum. Mrs. Fischer's house is in the background.
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) College students College freshmen Academic rites and ceremonies Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) Coffins Drum Roads, Earth Electric lines Wolcott, Vernon Henry Jencks, William Leavens Culbertson, James Downer Eads, Alvin Guy Milliken, Edward Redington Hume, George Edwin Dickson, Winston M. C
Source
Glass plate negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches: paper sleeve title, "Caneburning"; The Boynton Collection of Glass Negatives 6043 x 4764
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