Photographs from Carola Lillie Hartley collection.
Carola Lillie Hartley
Publisher and Contributing Writer
Last week we published a photo of the girl’s dorm at the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (SLII) in Lafayette, LA — c. 1907. Today’s photo from the past is a view of the boy’s dormitory at the Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute in about 1907.
The photo below shows some of the cadets from SLII on Jefferson Street in Lafayette about that same time period. Some of these cadets probably lived in that dorm when they attended the Institute.
Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (SLII)
Today called the University of Louisiana (UL), located in Lafayette, LA, the school was originally named the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (SLII), according to the 1898 legislative act that created the school. State Senator Robert Martin, for whom UL’s administrative building is named, authored this legislation.
