A modern college scull: graduating with all the honors – Vintage 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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Step back in time with A modern college scull: graduating with all the honors, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A modern college scull: graduating with all the honors
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A modern college scull" sets up a pun: the print turns a rowing boat into a joke about academic honors, with "graduating with all the honors" suggesting both a diploma and the prizes a student might win on the water. Thomas Worth, a caricaturist who drew many comic sheets for the New York firm Currier & Ives, signed the design, and the firm published it around 1876. Such prints mocked college life at a time when competitive rowing had become a popular student pastime, following the first Harvard-Yale race in 1852. Worth's treatment shows how collegiate sport was turned into everyday humor for a broad buying public.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4528 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,205 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114957 |
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