Portraits of the Class of 1858, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass
by [ Amherst College ]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Topsfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Portraits one through nine are identified faculty members. The next portrait appears to be a faculty member, but we haven't been able to identify him. The second faculty portrait, and probably best known of the sitters, is Edward Hitchcock, with "best wishes from your friend Edward Hitchcock" in manuscript on opposite page.
Portraits number eleven through sixty-two are identified students from Amherst (with the exception of the 21st member who we haven't been able to identify). There are a few additional signatures without portraits included in the rear.
Owner Andrew Josiah Clapp was a Congregational minister, was born in Massachusetts in 1833. He graduated from Amherst College in 1858, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1861; was ordained February 19, 1862, and was at Shutesbury, Massachusetts, from 1862 until his death, September 13, 1863. See Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, page 218.
In our experience, salt print era photograph albums are much scarcer than the albumen era albums. Often the graduates had to pay for the portraits they wanted in the album, and hence different albums have different contents. With the printed title page and "statistics" leaf in this album, we aren't sure if this is the case or not. It is however, a rare album, with only one copy in OCLC/Worldcat as of this writing, at the American Antiquarian Society (theirs with 63 portraits).
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- Bookseller
- Kuenzig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26554
- Title
- Portraits of the Class of 1858, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass
- Author
- [ Amherst College ]
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. B. Spooner & Co., Photographers
- Place of Publication
- Springfield
- Date Published
- 1858
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BIBLIO-LIVE-1 ABAA-RBMS-2023
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