did you now that since they could to about 1960 Mount Holyoke College took a full body nude of every women entering the school. We still have all of them in sealed records. Other schools such as Yale and Princeton did the same (they have a picture of a young George Bush naked out there). It was to monitor the health of the students- or something
CRAZY
Victorian Visual Culture 
I have always been fascinated by the Ivy League/Seven Sisters “posture photos”!! I remember reading the accounts of alum who have had photos taken – interesting how many of whom found the experience awkward, but didn’t seem to question the procedures much at all…
Does MHC really still have them sealed in records? I thought they were destroyed for good years ago (I might have inferred this from reading things regarding other schools’ records, though)?!
By: melissayang on October 6, 2010
at 4:36 am
That’s really interesting. Makes me wonder if the practice were to be renewed how the current student population would respond. Probably not too positively, I imagine.
By: ellenlarson on October 6, 2010
at 2:01 pm
I took a drawing class here sophomore year and we had a nude model come in. Our teacher told us that years ago the ‘nude’ assignment did not consist of drawing a model in class but rather of looking in the mirror naked and drawing yourself or taking a nude photo of yourself and drawing it. I thought that seemed a little out there.
By: phane20c on October 6, 2010
at 5:19 pm