Carnegie Lake, Princeton 190, New Jersey – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 historic image of Carnegie Lake, Princeton 190, New Jersey brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: [Four eight-oared shells on Carnegie Lake, Princeton, N.J.]
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Carnegie Lake, Princeton 190, New Jersey
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Carnegie Lake sits on the edge of Princeton University's campus in Mercer County, New Jersey, and in 1908 it was still a fairly new feature of the college. Andrew Carnegie's gift had made it possible in 1906, and the lake was built mainly as a rowing course for the university's crews, so students and alumni tied it closely to athletic pride. The shoreline and boathouses in this view reflect a campus that was expanding quickly under President Woodrow Wilson, whose plans for reforming undergraduate teaching and his bitter quarrels over the proposed graduate college were the talk of the campus that same year. Princeton then was a small college town, and its residents and students would have known the lake as a place for regattas, practice runs, and summer afternoons on the water.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | r.h. rose & son |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New Jersey |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,302 × 1,809 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Four eight-oared shells on Carnegie Lake, Princeton, N.J.] |
| Reference | NJ Carnegie Lake, Princeton 190 |
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