Hardcover
1890 · [New Haven, Connecticut]
by PORTER, Nathan T. (Pach Bros., Photographers)
[New Haven, Connecticut], 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Large folio (13” x 17 ½”). Metal hinge back album in morocco over beveled boards with metal clasps, “Yale ‘90” stamped in gold on front cover, white moiré endpapers, printed title leaf, all edges gilt. Compiled by Nathan Todd Porter, Jr. of Brooklyn, New York, a member of the graduating class. An unusually large album, containing 190 cabinet card portraits of faculty and students (including a portrait of a young black man); 17 group portraits and campus views (9” x 7”), including the Yale baseball team and a band of musicians; and one large (10” x 14”) outdoor portrait of the class of 1890. A total (truncated)