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Dragon day collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-2758

Scope and content

Articles and recollections, slides, photoprints, videocassettes, and a cardboard piece of the 1994 dragon. Matted color photocopies of Dragon Day parades, used in a Willard Straight Hall exhibit, 1999. A pair of 3D photos from a Dragon Day. USA Today parody "Dragon Defeats Phoenix," 2011. Also a 1982 photograph of the dragon on fire. Clipping from the Ithaca Journal showing the Dragon Day paintings on the fence surrounding the remains of Boardman Hall after workmen painted over a dragon placed there on March 17, April 21, 1959. Digital material includes photographs of dragons from 2014-2019. T-shirts from Dragon Day 1991, 1992, and 1996; three foam balls from Dragon Day 2002, along with a Dragon Day plastic ballon (MU-492, box 1); 1982 Dragon Day pinback button (MU-5094). Video cassette tapes including, Dragon Day 1997 and Rites of Spring Dragon Day 1999 from long time Dragon Day supervisor Brian Beeners.

Dates

  • 1959 - 2019
  • Majority of material found within 1982 - 2019

Biographical / Historical

Dragon Day is an annual project of the freshman class of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning during which a dragon is constructed, paraded through campus, and burned on the Arts Quad. Box 1 and the videos were created as part of an Anthropology Dept. project in 1994.

Extent

.8 cubic feet.

3 videocassettes.

2.8 megabytes.

Language of Materials

English