Computer Backgrounds for Gittleman Circle Members

In recognition of your consistent support, Gittleman Circle members have access to special Tufts downloads. With these images from the Gittleman Circle wall calendar, you can add some Jumbo spirit to your digital devices and transport yourself back to the Hill.

Click here for phone versions of these backgrounds.

Please note that all photos featuring more than one person were taken prior to 2020.

How to use a downloaded image to customize your Zoom background:

Enable Zoom virtual backgrounds

  1. Sign-in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. Click My Meeting Settings if you are an account administrator, or Meeting Settings if you are an account member.
  3. Navigate to the Virtual Background option on the Meeting tab, and click the Status toggle to enable it.

Select your virtual background in a meeting

  1. In a Zoom meeting, click the ^ arrow next to Start/Stop Video.
  2. Click Choose a virtual background...
  3. Click the + plus sign above the gallery of background image options to add one saved on your computer.
  4. Click the background you would like from the gallery, and it will be applied to your video.

How to use a downloaded image to customize your desktop background:

For Windows

  1. Select the Start button, then select Settings, then Personalization.
  2. Make sure the Background drop-down menu is set to Picture.
  3. Under Choose your picture, select Browse.
  4. Choose the downloaded image from where it is saved on your computer, and it will be applied to your desktop.

For Mac

  1. Open the Photos app.
  2. Control-click or right-click the image you want to use.
  3. Select Share from the shortcut menu, then choose Set Desktop Picture from the sub-menu.

Photographs in the 2021 Gittleman Circle calendar are from the collections of Tufts Digital Collections and Archives.

Sol and Robyn Gittleman with students on the President’s Lawn, J. D. Sloan, UA252.005.022.00045

Jumbo with students sitting at a table, 1948, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/4206

Three Tufts students on the steps of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Capen House, July, 1978, UA113.002.003.00008

Chapel and Ballou Hall, 1884, A. H. Folsom, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/3684

Performers in the musical production of Hair, 1982, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/1693

A thesis project for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, April 23, 1930, Melville S. Munro, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/2185

Painted cannon welcoming incoming freshmen, 1992, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/2831

Construction of Cousens Gymnasium, 1931, Melville S. Munro, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/2556

Breaking soil for war garden, April 26, 1918, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/1779

Room of two Jackson students living in Graves House, May 13, 1932, Melville S. Munro, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/3443

Anderson Hall, 1961, Duette, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/860

Dean Stewart with Students, 1950, http://hdl.handle.net/10427/11948