University Administration's Gorilla Tactics

The description in our database for this photo is "President Campbell accosted by 'gorilla'." I have no evidence to disprove this theory so will assume Dr. Ralph Campbell was simply on his way out of the Administration Building for a meeting when he was unsuspectingly and irrationally harrassed by this 'gorilla' who was, I assume, wreaking havoc on campus that day.



Whatever differences President Campbell and the 'gorilla' had seemed to be put behind them moments later when he appeared to offer the bearded gentleman on the right as a sacrifice to the 'gorilla' and the three of them posed to capture the moment for posterity.

 

This posting continues a disturbing trend I'm noticing in our photograph collections of costumed hooligans.  See :

http://www.whatthefonds.blogspot.ca/2013/06/hands-up-doc-summerspast.html

http://www.whatthefonds.blogspot.ca/2011/03/you-better-watch-out-you-better-not-cry.html

 

Source: University Relations and Information Office fonds (PC 80, A83-52), Box 1, Folder 6, Items 1-2

Date: April 7, 1977

What a Drag

Date: ca. 1924
Source: Faculty of Human Ecology fonds (PC 49, A.86-42) - Box 2, Folder 45, Item 57

 
Home Economics students Hettie Frances Lyon, Sadie Robson, Louise Pettingell, and Evelyn Scott, dress as creepy looking mustachioed men for what I assume was a very good reason.  It appears as though the flash of the camera has turned them into Frankenstein-like monsters.

You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry ... Or Else!

Date: December 1, 1976; Photographer: University of Winnipeg Media Department

Source: University of Winnipeg Archives - Winnipeg Cinema Gallery photographs [not yet processed]

When Santa couldn't deliver on the chicken's wish, he called in his thugs and things got ugly.  Plush animals are no push overs.

This is the first contribution to What the Fonds? by an institution other than the University of Manitoba Archives.  Thanks to Gabrielle and Daniel at the University of Winnipeg Archives for this great photo.  To see more of this odd, yet cute, collection of photos, check out the photo gallery on the University of Winnipeg Archives' Facebook page.