students camouflaged in annual campus flour fight

Above Absurdities abound. This news photograph, from the Guthrie Daily Leader in Guthrie OK (May 25, 1920, p. 4), purports to show freshman students at the University of Pennsylvania, who have “camouflaged themselves for the annual flour fight.” 

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