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Yale College Yearbook Photograph Album, Class of 1890
by PORTER, Nathan T. (Pach Bros., Photographers)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
[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 of 208 original photographs neatly laid into cut-out frames. Seven (9" x 7") frames are empty or lacking the original prints. The leather boards are worn and scuffed with partial damage at the fore-edge and corners, lacking the leather spine back and lacking one internal cardboard leaf, minor dampstaining at the lower margins, else very good overall, with all 208 photographs in fine condition. After his graduation from Yale, Nathan Porter became a successful dry goods commission merchant for Porter Brothers & Co., located in New York City. He is best known today for his collection of engraved bookplates by Edwin Davis French. In addition to Yale President Noah Porter (an outspoken anti-slavery activist), Porter's album also features portraits of prominent faculty at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School. A unique, especially large yearbook with over 200 photographs.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 541992
- Title
- Yale College Yearbook Photograph Album, Class of 1890
- Author
- PORTER, Nathan T. (Pach Bros., Photographers)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- [New Haven, Connecticut]
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Americana, Photography, Baseball, Music
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Photography; Music; Baseball;
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About the Seller
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- Morocco
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- Folio
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- Beveled
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- New
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Edges
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