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NO.	PHOTO	CAPTION	DATE
1.		Sabattus High School portrait of Gleason Archer, who would go on to graduate as valedictorian of the Class of 1902 (1899).	1899
2.		Gleason Archer, the year of Suffolk’s founding (1906).	1906
3.		Gleason Archer inscribed this color postcard of the Boston Court House, “Here is where I became a lawyer at 9:30 this morning G.L. Archer August 21 ‘06” (1906).	1906
4.		The diploma of Roland E. Brown. Brown, a machinist, was a member of the first class and the first Suffolk student to pass the Massachusetts Bar. He accomplished this feat as a junior in 1908.	1909
5.		Evening school freshmen (1911).	1911
6.		This building at 45 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, was the Law School’s home beginning in 1914, the year the school received its degree-granting charter and changed its name to Suffolk Law School. Because Archer had mortgaged his home to purchase the building, he and his family moved into the top floor (1914).	1914
7.		Interior, 45 Mount Vernon Street (1914).	1914
8.		Thomas Vreeland Jones was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Suffolk Law School, in 1915 at age 40. His family and friends established a scholarship in his memory (1915).	1915
9.		Suffolk Law School Register (1915).	1915
10.		Suffolk University grew from humble beginnings in the living room of Gleason Archer’s home in Roxbury. Here, on September 19, 1906, the young lawyer began teaching a handful of workingmen who wished to study law in the evenings (1916).	1916
11.		A chair commemorates the spot where Gleason Archer presented his first lecture (1916).	1916
12.		Suffolk Law’s closing exercises brochure (1918).	1918
13.		Catharine C. Caraher was 17 when Gleason Archer hired her as his secretary in 1919. Eventually she became assistant treasurer and director of the executive staff (1919).	1919
14.		Suffolk Law School’s class photo (1920).	1920
15.		Gleason Archer (1920).	1920
16.		Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge delivers his first public address after being nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. The occasion was the laying of the cornerstone for the Archer Building on August 4, 1920.	1920
17.		SULS day division officers (1920).	1920
18.		The Suffolk Law School Register continues as the students’ news vehicle, under the guidance of an eight-member editorial staff (1920).	1920
19.		Suffolk’s senior banquet at the Boston City Club (1922).	1920
20.		Suffolk Law School’s Class of 1922.	1922
21.		Shichiro Hayashi, member of the Class of 1922.	1922
22.		Suffolk Law School’s Class of 1925.	1925
23.		Gleason Archer installed an enormous electric sign atop the Suffolk Law School Building advertising the school (1926).	1926
24.		The Archer family (1926).	1926
25.		Commencement brochure (1927).	1927

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