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February 2026

Citation

Junior class Nursing students Valentines dance 1927 UA24-004804

Black and white photograph. A large group of young men and women are partnered up for a dance inside a spacious hall with wooden floors and high windows. The dancers are frozen in poses, mostly looking toward the camera rather than moving. The men are dressed in dark suits and the women are wearing 1920s-style knee-length dresses and heels. The distinguishing feature is that nearly every person is wearing a comical paper party hat; some are pointed cone shapes, while others resemble military garrison caps. In the foreground left, a woman in a dark dress with a patterned hem holds the hands of a man in glasses. In the center, a man with round glasses and a pointed hat holds a woman in a light-colored dress who smiles at the camera.

Captions

Those white lines on each side of the photo are the cables by which, at the end of the party, they'll pull

Submitted by enejako on Sun, 02/01/2026 - 09:59

Right you are Kathy, that is the longest selfie stick I've ever seen.

Submitted by joppold on Sun, 02/01/2026 - 17:40

“Of course I can use my Health Savings Account for this, darling – you’re a nursing student!”

Submitted by mjhinsma on Sun, 02/01/2026 - 23:22

An event for those who couldn't get a dinner reservation at the Wishard Cafe!

Submitted by isgleich on Mon, 02/02/2026 - 12:18

What they didn't know is just a few short hours after taking this photo a powerful windstorm/tornado would hit West Indianapolis and downtown, destroying most of the 250-foot water company stack, damaging warehouses, and breaking numerous windows at the William H. Block department store.

Submitted by watsjenn on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 12:48

Would everyone who used their paper placemats to make silly hats, please return them to your seats? It's time to set the table.

Submitted by andjsmit on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 13:00

Here's to the end of all work and no play. Why, I bet Jack Torrence would feel right at home with us. Forever. And Ever.

Submitted by lahedger on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 13:21

Gee Helen, you were right! I don't know how it could be, but these hats have drained away all my physical impulses. Let's just stop this awkward dancing. I want to go do my homework.

Submitted by despradl on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 13:21

"Oh Chuck, I want tibia your valentine!"
"Oh Nancy, urine in my thoughts!"

Submitted by greinerb on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 15:27

The first annual meeting of the 'We Forgot to Take Our Hats Off' Society

Submitted by icarson on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 16:00

Everyone's "blind date" was assigned by the head nurse.

Submitted by deriks on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 21:09

Mandatory fun for the class of 1928 nursing students. The entire class was present. Maude (top left) is seen without a date because he fainted earlier in the day in the anatomy lab.

Submitted by deriks on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 21:13

Nursing students cheerily show up en masse for the They Shoot Horses Don't They? casting call, not having actually read the script.

Submitted by dofield on Fri, 02/06/2026 - 11:15