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College Year Books with Salt Prints 1855
College Year Books with Salt Prints 1855
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Heading: (Free Academy of New York Class Album/Yearbook)
Author:
Title: Free Academy Souvenir of the Class of 1855 New-York
Place Published: New York
Publisher:
Date Published: 1855
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Extra-illustrated class album, opening with 13 autograph sentiments from professors and staff, followed by 30 mounted oval salt print photograph portraits of individual students (each approx. 9x6.5 cm. (3½x2½"), each on its own leaf, with facsimile signature of the student. Many of the portraits are interleaves with an autograph statement for William Menzies Adams, the original owner of this book. 28x21.5 cm. (11x8½"), full morocco tooled in blind, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.



Yearbook for one of the first tuition-free municipal colleges in the United States, which opened n 1849, and was re-named The City College of New York in 1866. In addition to the original salt print portraits, the volume is especially interesting for the inclusion of a number of items: a lithographed portrait of the school's principal, Horace Webster; attractive original artwork, some in watercolor; William Menzies Adams' diploma signed by Webster; the commencement program from Nilbo's Saloon, and a silk banner reading "Class of '55."

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Some minor scuffing to joints and extremities; fine or nearly so.
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College Year Books with Salt Prints 1855

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