# @nauflagstaff on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CxETa6wMx1f
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13222895-nauflagstaff-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-11T21:50:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Northern Arizona University (@nauflagstaff) — https://gondola.cc/nauflagstaff

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🎉 💛💙 Happy 124th Birthday NAU! 💙💛 🎉⁠
Founded in 1899, we have gone through 4 name changes, 17 presidents, and countless Lumberjacks 🪓⁠
Swipe ➡️ for an overview of our history ⁠
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📜 nauclinelibrary's Peter Runge holds the founding document for the Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS)⁠
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⁠🏛 Vacant building that would house the Northern Arizona Normal School (1898)⁠
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⁠📚 Old Main as it stood when we changed our name to Northern Arizona State Teachers College- which changed again in 1929 to Arizona State Teachers College (ASTC)⁠
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🐕 Student standing in front of the newly re-named college, Arizona State College (ASC), with the new mascot, Mike (1945)⁠
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⁠🪓 Students carrying the copper axe, an unofficial mascot of ASC, through a parade on Route 66 (1951)⁠
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⁠👑 Homecoming wheel led by the Chain Gang, carrying the king and queen and the homecoming dedicatee (1966)⁠
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⁠🔁 Workers change the Arizona State College sign to the newly renamed college: Northern Arizona University (1966)⁠
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⁠🏗 One of NAU’s most iconic structures, the Walkup Skydome under construction (1976)⁠
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⁠🌲 Early version of Louie the Lumberjack at the 1997 Homecoming parade.⁠
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⁠✨ The NAU campus today, sitting at 829 acres with locations across Arizona.⁠
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⁠#NAU #NAUHistory #NorthernArizonaUniversity #1899 #NorthernArizona #NAUFlagstaff #History #ArizonaHistory #College #Campus⁠

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