February Caption Contest

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All are encouraged to enter captions to a photo in the Archives. The contest winner (as chosen by those sagacious heads at Caption Contest Central) will receive a Fabulous Prize.

Where are the chaperones?? Tsk! And what's going on with that couple in the back, hmm? My! When the students in the IU Training School for Nurses (later School of Nursing) let loose they let loose! Caption this lascivious photo from 1927 and you might win Caption Contest Central's one and only Fabulous Prize!

 

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.

 

Enter a caption today!