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At a rummage sale yesterday, I found a copy of the 1964 yearbook from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. I figured it might be a source of silly, anachronistic candids for some future project. But then I got to page 67. Read on for more.

“Bobby,” huh. It looks like he was still known to some as Bobby Dylan in 1963/4, even though seminal albums like The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and The Times They Are A-Changin’ were already out.

Anyway, though I love Dylan, I am not a collector of Dylan memorabilia. But I know such collectors are out there by the thousands, so I did 300dpi scans of all five photos (1-2MB JPGs): 1 2 3 4 5 [Update, 7 January 2006: The photos are now hosted on Flickr.]

Because no copyright notice appears anywhere in the yearbook and it was published before 1978, these photos are in the public domain. (Three cheers for formalities.)

UPDATE: Stewart Grant and other members of the Dylan fan community have been trying to figure out when these photos were taken. No show at Saint Lawrence appears on the standard compilations of Dylan concert dates. Here’s the best information so far:

I’d put this in the first two weeks or so of November 1963. Dylan was doing a number of shows in upstate New York about that time, typically at colleges. (There’s also an opening in early spring ’64, but all the known shows from that swing are in New England.) Most of the rest of the school year can be knocked out because he was on the West Coast or touring with Baez. It’s hard to pin it down, though, because Dylan could easily load all his gear into a station wagon and day-trip almost any college in New York State (or nearby).

UPDATE 2: Patricia Jungwirth, an interested Dylan fan from Australia, contacted Mark McMurray, the St. Lawrence Univeristy archivist. He had this to say:

Yep, he was here at St. Lawrence University, Canton NY. He played on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1963 @ 8:15pm. Hope this helps!