Yale Class Day -- Class of 1884 – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Yale Class Day -- Class of 1884 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yale Class Day -- Class of 1884
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Yale's Class Day was a spring tradition in which seniors held their own ceremonies before commencement, and this glass negative records one of those occasions as a class of 1884 gathering at the New Haven campus. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs assembled by the Bain News Service in New York, which covered events and people across the country in the early twentieth century. The title is based on information the service recorded on the negative or its caption card, and the record does not confirm the exact date, so the picture should be read as a documented Yale class occasion rather than a precisely dated scene. Its value lies in the way it shows how students marked the end of their college years.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,792 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17603 |
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