[University of Rochester, Class of 1854]
Photograph
[University of Rochester, Class of 1854]
1854
Daguerreotype
Each Small Image: 7.5 x 6.2 cm (1/6 plate)
Large Center Image:16 x 5.5 cm. (1/2 plate)
Overall: 38.8 x 49.5 cm
Frame: 52 x 63 cm
Gift of Miriam Rogachefsky
1975.0026.0001
DescriptionTwenty sixth plate daguerreotype portraits arranged in a grid-format of six images across and four images down. The sixth plates surround a half plate daguerreotype of the University of Rochester president Martin Brewer Anderson (American, 1815–1890). Subjects of photographs include the University of Rochester graduating class of 1854 along with the University's president: G. W. Condron, J. D. Merrell, L. L. Gage, A. J. Barrett, S. P. Fenn, E. J. McKenderic, T. C. Barden, R. H. Fenn, J. H. Phelps, H. Strong, R. C. Brant, H. Lloyd, M. B. Anderson, G. Webster, J. Townsend, N. Robinson, S. Keyes Jr., G. Anderson, A. L. Farr, J. Overhiser, and J. M. Bailey. The wide wooden frame is painted with gold lettering that provides the year and each subject's name.
Inscriptions frame recto (gold paint): Class of 1854
recto (gold paint): [name of each student]
recto (gold paint): [name of each student]
