{"id":143671,"date":"2022-01-10T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=143671"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:41:40","slug":"spied-curious-things-in-a-circa-1908-bates-dorm-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/10\/spied-curious-things-in-a-circa-1908-bates-dorm-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Spied: 11 curiosities in a Bates student&#8217;s circa 1908 dorm room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is George French, Class of 1908, posing for a self-portrait in his class track uniform, presumably in his dorm room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click or tap the garnet buttons to learn what we spied in French&#8217;s room in Parker Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 100%;\"><div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 126.18%; padding-top: 0; height: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"1188\" height=\"1499\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/view.genial.ly\/61d6fb97d262b80d6560f48d\" type=\"text\/html\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" allownetworking=\"all\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A baseball, football, and track standout, French became the official photographer of the Maine Development Commission. The photo is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmaine.com\/arc_george_french_photos\/\">George French Collection of the Maine State Archives.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of French a bit older:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1554\" height=\"1919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/George_French_015.webp\" alt=\"man with vintage camera\" class=\"wp-image-143880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/George_French_015.webp 1554w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/George_French_015-243x300.webp 243w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/George_French_015-729x900.webp 729w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/George_French_015-1244x1536.webp 1244w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/George_French_015-509x628.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1554px) 100vw, 1554px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Photograph from the George French Collection of the Maine State Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click the garnet buttons of this interactive photograph to learn what we spied in the Parker Hall room of George French, Class of 1908. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":143682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-humanities-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143671"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165942,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143671\/revisions\/165942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}