Description: Dartmouth College Yearbook Photograph Album, Class of 1859 Author: [WARREN, George Kendall, photographer] Title: Dartmouth College Yearbook Photograph Album, Class of 1859 Publication: [Hanover, New Hampshire: 1859] Description: Hardcover. Folio (8 ½" x 11 ½"). Opens with an engraved portrait of Henry Ellis Beecher Stowe (eldest son Harriet Beecher Stowe, who drowned in the Connecticut River on July 9, 1857), followed by 35 oval salted paper print photographs by George K. Warren. All but two photographs are Signed or identified in manuscript below the image. Each print mounted on the recto only of 34 card leaves within a manuscript ruled oval frame. Each image measures approximately 3 ½" x 4 ½". Bound in a later 19th century commercial album (patented 1877) in blind-stamped decorative cloth with an internal metal clasp fastener. The boards are rubbed and moderately soiled, the engraved plate of Stowe is foxed, a few intermittent leaves are toned, very good overall.One of the earliest college yearbook albums illustrated with original photographs, put together by an unidentified member of Dartmouth's class of 1859. Known for the "high quality and strength of his portraits" Warren is credited as the first photographer to specialize in graduating-class photography. He began "his long and prolific photographic career in 1851 in Lowell, Massachusetts, opening one of the city's first daguerreotype studios ... When the portrait business in Lowell began to flag just prior to the Civil War, Warren turned to specializing exclusively in senior class photographs for colleges including Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams, Harvard, Brown, Yale, and Rutgers universities," and he kept a virtual monopoly on Ivy League and elite college yearbook photography for more than twelve years.The portraits in this album appear to be mostly of students, many of whom would go on to serve in the Civil War, including William Alfred Barnard (20th Michigan) who was captured in 1864 and survived seven months in a Confederate prison. Also included is George H. Strong, who moved to San Francisco where he joined the Bohemian Club and Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and served as President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Pacific Coast. A scarce early album featuring many fine portraits by George Warren. Seller ID: 545018 Subject: Americana, Photography Between the Covers Between the Covers has been selling books for more than 30 years. Today we offer a wide ranging inventory, from Modern First Editions to General Used Books to Rare Archival Collections. We are active members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Terms All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail. Expedited and international shipping are also available. We offer combined shipping on multiple orders. All books are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: WARREN, George Kendall, photographer
Publisher: Unknown
Year Printed: 1859
Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Subject: Americana
