Harvard fraternity men initiation – Antique Wall Art
(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: Harvard fraternity men initiation, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Harvard's fraternity houses in Cambridge, just across the river from Boston, were a common subject for the Bain News Service, the photo agency whose glass negatives make up this collection at the Library of Congress. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data written by the agency, so the exact scene and year are uncertain. Still, the subject places it among the early 1900s pictures of student life in the Boston area, when fraternity initiations were a well-known and sometimes rowdy part of college society. Bain's negatives like this one are useful for seeing how such rituals were staged for the press.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,192 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10090 |
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