This photograph depicts a group of more than 30 men doing a dumb bell push up drill on Pratt Field on the International YMCA College, now Springfield College, campus as part of May Day Festival of 1920. The Festival included a gymnastics show of the skills of students from Springfield College. There can be seen a crowd watching the men standing in the background, some of the men are wearing a jacket with an “S” symbolizing Springfield College. The photograph is part of a collection of nine photographs, all depicting the gymnastics show. The series of photographs are numbered and were taken by photographer John Barnum for a local newspaper, the Springfield Republican. Similar photographs can be found in: SC22691, SC22692, SC22694, SC22695, SC22696, SC22697, SC22698, SC22699
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Photographs are mounted on a cardboard matting. The cardboard matting was not digitized;
Part of a series of photographs taken by John Barnum of the Springfield Republican;
