Exhibition buggy race

Description

A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority in a borrowed practice buggy from Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity races a member of Sigma Nu fraternity in a buggy titled "Sailboat" up Tech Street during a comical special exhibition heat of the Spring Carnival buggy races. Sigma Nu's buggy is made from an old bathtub with concrete wheels and a sail with the words "Sigma Nude" on it.

Creator

Carnegie Mellon University

Date

1963

Collection

General Photograph Collection

Rights

In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Genre

black-and-white negatives

Original Repository

Carnegie Mellon University Archives

Persistent Link

http://doi.library.cmu.edu/10.1184/pmc/GPC/GPC_63118_032

Subjects

Subject (Topic)

Spring Carnival
Crowds
Competitions
College sorority members
College fraternity members
Carnival games
Buggies
Bathtubs

Subject (Name)

Sigma Nu
Pi Kappa Alpha
Kappa Kappa Gamma

Geographic Subject

Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Graduate School of Industrial Administration (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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