[Buying "Fish Caps" at Hemphill-Wells 1]

Date

1959

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Digitized by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library.

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1959 image of students purchasing their freshmen caps, called "Fish Caps," at the Hemphill-Wells department store and decorating them. According to early Texas Tech traditions, Freshmen students were required to wear the cap to designate their class standing.

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The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these digital files in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image.

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