vihdsc000127Hampden-Sydney Student DaguerreotypesHampden-Sydney Student Daguerreotypes SC.000127Sarah E. AlmondHampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections
2023-08-18
Hampden-Sydney CollegeWalter M. Bortz III LibraryP.O. Box 7Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943salmond@hsc.eduURL: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-09-14 10:48:19 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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Hampden-Sydney Student Daguerreotypes
SC.000127
8 Photographic Prints
1851
English
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Biographical / Historical Note
Scope and Contents
Note from sellerSeven quarter plate daguerreotypes were originally framed together with a hand-written calligraphic label inditifying the students, all members of either the Union or Philanthropic Literary Societies. Photo Credit to G. W. Minnis of Petersburgh, VA, dated June 12, 1851. The images and the label were originally found in an uncased pile of bare daguerreotype plates.
One additional daguerreotype is also included with the collection, provenance unknown, in one half of a photo case dated 1851.
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