Students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York acting in an unknown play portraying, from left to right, an American Indian girl wrapped in a blanket with feathers in her hair, a performer wearing boots, a skirt and her middy blouse from gym class, a performer wrapped in an animal print blanket wearing sign labeled “Wild Cat” and a cowboy astride a horse over on the right. The sign propped up in front of the stage reading “Saint Louis as easternmost as you can get”. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album Students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York in blackface singing in a minstrel show. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album What appears to be a production of “She Stoops to Conquer,” by Oliver Goldsmith being performed by students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album Students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York acting in an unknown play dressed in costume as farmers and their wives with two rakes for props along with three buckets and tied up vegetation behind them dressing the set along with a backdrop with painted trees. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album Briarcliff College was a women’s college that was located in the Briarcliff Manor resort hotel in New York’s Hudson Valley. These images are much fun especially as the theatre was doing double duty as the school gymnasium as you can see the basketball hoop up over the stage in the first photograph.
