Item 100413 - Staged card game at Bates College, Lewiston, ca. 1901
- Item 100413 - Staged card game at Bates College, Lewiston, ca. 1901
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- Item 100413
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Image Info Free Will Baptists founded Bates College in Lewiston in 1855. Bates administrators promoted the cause of temperance, believing alcohol inhibited a person's free will. Perhaps the Bates students in this staged scene are satirizing the reformist movement with their flasks, spittoon, and gambling.
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Leon Williams likely took this photograph. He attended Bates from 1901-1903, and lived in Parker Hall, the dormitory for men.
