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Beta Theta Pi House, Amherst College, Mass. – Historic Print

Beta Theta Pi House, Amherst College, Mass., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Beta Theta Pi House, Amherst College, Mass., [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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Beta Theta Pi House, Amherst College, Mass.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Beta Theta Pi house at Amherst College is the subject here, a fraternity clubhouse photographed on a glass plate negative sometime between 1900 and 1910. Detroit Publishing Company, which made tens of thousands of views of American towns, campuses and landmarks for sale as postcards and prints, produced the image, and the negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado. Fraternity houses like this one were central to student social life at New England colleges in the early 1900s, and the large 8 x 10 inch plate records the building's architecture in fine detail.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes4061" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070376. 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 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71966

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