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Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. – Historic Reproduction

Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., c[between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., c[between 1900 and 1906]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

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Seelye Hall, the oldest surviving building on the Smith College campus in Northampton, Massachusetts, stands at the center of this glass-plate view. Smith was founded in 1871 as a women's college, and Seelye, completed in 1884, was its first major academic building, named for college president L. Clark Seelye. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American towns, landmarks and scenery in the early twentieth century, made this negative around 1900 to 1906, a period when women's colleges were gaining wider public attention. The picture offers a record of the campus as it looked before many later additions.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). 2237" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017749. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSmith College. Universities & colleges. Educational facilities.United States--Massachusetts--Northampton.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61418

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