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1909–1929

1909-1919

Horses and buggies parked outside of a North and South Hall formitory building — Picnic Day, 1909

Crowd of people along a dirt road with horses and a car on the street — Picnic Day, 1910.

Float with agricultural equipment and vines hanging from a wagon canopy frame — Division of Agricultural Engineering forge float, Picnic Day, 1917.

Small girl and goat standing on the back of a milk truck with American flags and a sign that says "World's Record Goat" — Animal Husbandry Division float, 1917

Car passing under an arch of stacked hay bales — Picnic Day Entrance, 1917

Tractor pulling a float through large crowd of people — Parade float, circa 1916

University Farm Agricola newspaper clipping, ninth annual picnic day edition — Ninth Annual Picnic Day Edition, 1917

Main in overalls and a tie standing with a cow — Student Body President Jack Roberts with cow, 1914

Four men in suits sitting in chairs on a raised platform — Left to right, Regent Perry, President of the State Agricultural Society, Hiram Johnson, Governor of California, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California, H.E. Van Norman, Dean of the University Farm, circa 1913-1914

Crowd of people in front of a stage — Picnic Day crowd, circa 1916

Men in uniform standing in a single file line — Baseball team, Hoskins, Cecil O’Hara, Ralph Vawter, Harwood, A. Banta, Emil Pohli, Bosworth, Parker Hall, John M. Roberts, E. Roundtree (Captain), Onstott, W. Brewer, Roy Stettler (Manager), Jay Dwiggins (Coach) 1915

Men in a car with a Picnic Day sign on the back, many sheep in the background — Picnic Day 1917

1920-1929

Cows being led down the parade route through crowds of onlookers — Parade, circa 1920-1929

Many rows of parked cars — Parking lot on the quad, circa 1920

Wagon-based float wrapped in vines being pulled by horses — Viticulture float, circa 1920-1921

Float of shaped hay with a large bear — Agronomy float, 1921

Horses being led down a street of onlookers with campus buildings behind them — Parade, 1921

Man running leading a calf with a rope, onlookers and University Farm Picnic sign behind them — Molly’s Pete making a running start for Berkeley, 1921

Woman giving bottled milk to a calf wearing a 13th annual picnic sign — Molly’s Pete attempting to break her mother’s record of 97 hours and 11 minutes from Davis to Berkeley, 1921

Aerial view of campus buildings, fields, and many Picnic Day attendees lining the streets — Aerial view of Picnic Day, 1921

Man holding a trophy next to a table lined with trophies on a stage — Claude B. Hutchison speaking, circa 1922

Float with pillars of milk bottles holding up rows of smaller milk bottles with sign reading: the foundation of the children's health milk and its products — Milk products float, 1925

Historic Picnic Day Films 1930–1949