Yvonne Slyker Cave photograph collection

During the period of most of the photos in this collection, between 1945 and 1948, Yvonne Slyker was a student at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. She is seen at several recognizable location around campus, most notably the Falcon's Nest, a log-cabin style student union, the Women's Building when it was being used for housing, and even a glimpse of the old trailer housing to the west of Oak Grove Cemetery known as "Falcon Heights". Unfortunately, most individuals in the photos are unidentified, but as representative students of the time period the pictures are useful to illustrate how students relaxed, socialized, and interacted on campus. Included in the collection are several images of servicemen in uniform, some who were on campus and others who were probably friends of Yvonne from her home in Huron, Ohio. Those photographs that can't be identified as being on the BGSU campus include views of Geneva, NY with what may have been a YMCA/YWCA gathering, a track meet that appears to have taken place in Sandusky, Ohio around 1942, and a couple of views of locations at the Great Lakes Exhibition, held in Cleveland, Ohio in 1936-1937. Most of the prints in the collection do have a corresponding original negative, but the envelopes containing the negative were in no particular order, so there is no systematic way of finding the negative for an individual print.