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Album 39: Class album, Yale University, 1873

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1873

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-E-107

GUSN

GUSN-188015

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Description

This album includes 150 cabinet photographs of students and faculty at Yale University. It also includes 20 albumen prints of college buildings, grounds, and some interiors evidently from the same period - circa 1873. Class album belonged to Frank Dewey Allen. The photographer is possibly William Notman, Montreal.

Details

Descriptive Terms

interior spaces
university and college buildings
students
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints
cabinet photographs

Additional Identification Number

album number 39

Physical Description

1 photograph album; 13 x 16 1/4 inches

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Date of Acquisition

1925

Reference Code

PC009.039

Acquisition Type

Library & Archives Purchase

Places

New Haven (New Haven county, Connecticut)

Record Details

Material Type

photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints
cabinet photographs

Other People

Allen, Frank Dewey

Other Organizations

Yale University

Subjects

Yale University
Architectural photography
African American men

Descriptive Terms

Yale University

Description Level

Item

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-E-107

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