1 Vassar College Arlington, New York, 1912 – Historic Photograph Print
(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: 1 Vassar College Arlington, New York, 1912, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Vassar College
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1 Vassar College Arlington, New York, 1912
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Vassar College sat on the high ground above Poughkeepsie and the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, in 1912, and the view of its grounds and buildings in Arlington reflects a campus that had been growing for half a century. Matthew Vassar, a brewer, founded the college in 1861 as one of the first institutions to offer a full four-year liberal arts degree to women, and by 1912 it was widely known for that distinction. Poughkeepsie itself was a manufacturing and river town, linked to the rest of the state by steamboat, the New York Central line on the east bank, and the railroad bridge across the Hudson completed in 1889. Students, faculty, and local residents in 1912 would have known the college as a point of pride for the city and a center of women's education in the region.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | thompson photo co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,997 × 1,212 px · prints to 17 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Vassar College |
| Reference | NY 1912 1 Vassar College Arlington |
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