[Troy, New York]
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Bound volume
[Troy, New York]
ca. 1862
Bound volume with albumen silver and salted paper prints
Overall: 14.5 x 12 cm
Gift of Edith Emerson
1981.1280.0001-0054
DescriptionSmall leather covered album containing 14 photographs mounted to the pages and 40 loose prints (which have been sleeved and are contained in 2 wrapped sets). Included are one salted paper print of laboratory instruments, many landscapes, and 1 and 2 part panoramas of the Troy, New York area, probably made from the University campus on a hill. Also included are a self-portrait of Professor Emerson (1823-1908), a professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University and an early member of the American Photographic Exchange Club, and of his wife.
