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Delta Kappa Epsilon House, Amherst College – Vintage Print

Delta Kappa Epsilon House, Amherst College, c1908. — historic photograph
Delta Kappa Epsilon House, Amherst College, c1908.. 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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Step back in time with Delta Kappa Epsilon House, Amherst College, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Delta Kappa Epsilon house at Amherst College is the subject here, a fraternity clubhouse on the campus in Amherst, Massachusetts, recorded as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative made around 1908. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of American towns, campuses and scenery in the early twentieth century, produced such images to be sold as color-tinted prints, and this plate is one of the company's series. Fraternity houses like this one were central to student social life at New England colleges of the period, so the picture offers a glimpse of the built setting of undergraduate life before the First World War.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30921. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070370. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsFraternities & sororities. Clubhouses.United States--Massachusetts--Amherst.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71960

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