Harvey T. Phillips
Digital image created at the Georgia Tech Library, 2010. Scanned at 600ppi.||Physical Condition: Good Class of 1893 Graduated in Mechanical Engineering. Became president of one of Atlanta s foremost companies dealing in musical instruments and compositions: Phillips & Crew. Recalled that the cl...
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ftgeorgiatech:oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/021091 2023-05-15T16:17:46+02:00 Harvey T. Phillips George C. Griffin https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/agents/people/300 1 gelatin silver print : b/w 10 x 7 1/2 in. image/jpeg image/tiff http://hdl.handle.net/1853/021091 en eng Georgia Tech Archives GP220 https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/repositories/2/resources/133 http://hdl.handle.net/1853/021091 1987.0303 vac002_220 VAC002 Property of the Georgia Institute of Technology. No access restrictions. Permission to publish must be obtained from the Head of Archives and Special Collections. See finding aid for George C. Griffin Photograph Collection George C. Griffin Photograph Collection, VAC002 Portraits Still Image Photograph ftgeorgiatech 2023-02-27T18:48:33Z Digital image created at the Georgia Tech Library, 2010. Scanned at 600ppi.||Physical Condition: Good Class of 1893 Graduated in Mechanical Engineering. Became president of one of Atlanta s foremost companies dealing in musical instruments and compositions: Phillips & Crew. Recalled that the classes were hard, only 13 out of 75 students graduated. After graduation he intended to go north to study architecture, but circumstances made it necessary to start work in Atlanta. He recalls that when the shops burnt down the students had to make up 200 extra hours during vacation, holidays and their spare time. Harvey was at Tech when General Leonard Wood was learning his "stuff" at Fort McPherson. It was at that time that the future general took to football where he was a person of no mean physical ability. He could drag several of his opponents up the field and when they eventually all dropped off of exhaustion he calmly stepped across the goal line. At that time there was a game against Georgia in Athens and Wood saw Tech through to victory. When Georgia fans voiced their disapproval a "free for all" ensued. "And it was some scrap," says Harvey. Resources: Actual photo; The Technique-November 2nd, 1923, pg. 11, vol. 13. Still Image Fort McPherson Georgia Institute of Technology: SMARTech - Scholarly Materials and Research at Georgia Tech Fort McPherson ENVELOPE(-134.826,-134.826,67.433,67.433) |
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Digital image created at the Georgia Tech Library, 2010. Scanned at 600ppi.||Physical Condition: Good Class of 1893 Graduated in Mechanical Engineering. Became president of one of Atlanta s foremost companies dealing in musical instruments and compositions: Phillips & Crew. Recalled that the classes were hard, only 13 out of 75 students graduated. After graduation he intended to go north to study architecture, but circumstances made it necessary to start work in Atlanta. He recalls that when the shops burnt down the students had to make up 200 extra hours during vacation, holidays and their spare time. Harvey was at Tech when General Leonard Wood was learning his "stuff" at Fort McPherson. It was at that time that the future general took to football where he was a person of no mean physical ability. He could drag several of his opponents up the field and when they eventually all dropped off of exhaustion he calmly stepped across the goal line. At that time there was a game against Georgia in Athens and Wood saw Tech through to victory. When Georgia fans voiced their disapproval a "free for all" ensued. "And it was some scrap," says Harvey. Resources: Actual photo; The Technique-November 2nd, 1923, pg. 11, vol. 13. |
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GP220 https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/repositories/2/resources/133 http://hdl.handle.net/1853/021091 1987.0303 vac002_220 VAC002 |
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Property of the Georgia Institute of Technology. No access restrictions. Permission to publish must be obtained from the Head of Archives and Special Collections. |
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