Yale class of 1863 photographic yearbook
- SIGNED 12 large format (approx. 6 x 8 in.) albumen print campus views (8 by George Kendall Warren, with his signature in the negative),
- [New Haven, Ct , 1863
[New Haven, Ct, 1863. 12 large format (approx. 6 x 8 in.) albumen print campus views (8 by George Kendall Warren, with his signature in the negative), including group portrait, captioned in ink identifying 24 students, 89 photographic portraits individually mounted to album leaves, mostly albumen print cartes-de-visite, most signed in ink beneath image, 30 engraved portraits with facsimile signatures. With a manuscript register of student deaths, including 6 from Civil War battles. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full brown contemporary morocco-grained sheep, "Hamilton Wallis" stamped in gilt on upper cover, "Yale College, Class of 1863" stamped in gilt on spine, a.e.g. Binding rubbed, lacking clasps, sporadic foxing to plates. 12 large format (approx. 6 x 8 in.) albumen print campus views (8 by George Kendall Warren, with his signature in the negative), including group portrait, captioned in ink identifying 24 students, 89 photographic portraits individually mounted to album leaves, mostly albumen print cartes-de-visite, most signed in ink beneath image, 30 engraved portraits with facsimile signatures. With a manuscript register of student deaths, including 6 from Civil War battles. 1 vols. 4to. Photographic yearbook for the Yale class of 1863, wtih 12 large (approx. 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 in.) campus views and photographic and engraved portraits of faculty and students. Noted faculty include Benjamin Silliman (father and son) and future President of the University Timothy Dwight V. Eight of the campus views are by George Kendall Warren, including views of South College & Atheneum, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Deke), the Yale College Library, and the Trumball Gallery. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions, including Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point and Harvard.
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Title
Yale class of 1863 photographic yearbook
Author
(YALE) [Warren, George Kendall, photographer]
Binding
12 large format (approx. 6 x 8 in.) albumen print campus views (8 by George Kendall Warren, with his signature in the negative),
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
[New Haven, Ct
Date
1863