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Theta Delta Chi House, Amherst College – Antique Wall Art

Theta Delta Chi House, Amherst College, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Theta Delta Chi House, Amherst College, [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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A window into the past: Theta Delta Chi House, Amherst College, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Theta Delta Chi House, Amherst College

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The Theta Delta Chi house at Amherst College is the subject here, a fraternity clubhouse on the college grounds in Amherst, Massachusetts. The glass-plate negative was made between 1900 and 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large-format views of American towns, campuses and landscapes, many of them later hand-colored for sale as postcards and prints. Fraternity houses like this one were central to student social life at New England colleges during these years, and photographs of them show how such clubhouses were built and presented to the wider public. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes4057" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070374. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUniversities & colleges. Fraternities & sororities. Clubhouses.United States--Massachusetts--Amherst.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71964

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