- Title
- Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity members smashing a piano
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- Date
- 1963
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- Description
- Three students in Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity t-shirts using sledgehammers to smash a piano to pieces outdoors in front of the Foley Building. A fourth student in fraternity t-shirt holds pieces of the debris. Loyola Marymount's Lambda chapter of the Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity was chartered in 1952.
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- Names
- Loyola Marymount University; Foley Building; Alpha Delta Gamma. Lambda chapter
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- Format Extent
- 1 photograph: black and white; 20 x 25 cm.
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- Subject
- Fraternities & sororities--California--Los Angeles; Greek letter societies--California--Los Angeles; Pianos
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- Note
- Piano smashing was a traditional fraternity activity especially popular in the 1960s and earlier, in which fraternity brothers took sledgehammers to one or more pianos, sometimes in a timed contest, until all of the pieces can be fit through a hole or ring of a given size.
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- Collection
- Loyola Marymount University Archives, Record Group 7: Student Affairs, Photographic prints box 7B/2
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- Type
- ["Photographs"]
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- Keywords
- ["Fraternities & sororities--California--Los Angeles","Greek letter societies--California--Los Angeles","Pianos"]
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Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity members smashing a piano
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