[Carte-de-visite album used as Class Book]
Bound volume
N. A. & R. A. Moore
Maker
Nelson Augustus Moore, American, 1824–1902; Roswell A. Moore, American, active 1850s–1860s
[Carte-de-visite album used as Class Book]
ca. 1860
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 6 5/8 × 5 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (16.9 × 14.1 × 4.1 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionAlbum containing 30 cartes-de-visite used as a class book, ca. 1860. Contains student portraits with pencil inscriptions and principal Dr. Taylor, and 5 campus views of unidentified college or theological seminary in the Massachusetts area, likely Phillips Academy in Andover. Binding is brown leather. Cover features gold debossed flowers and spine features gold debossed lettering and decorative elements. Album contains two decorative brass clasps.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold in spine, TC: Album
Inscribed in pencil on page 3. TRC: [illegible] \ 3 25
Inscribed in pencil on title page, TC: Mr. Flagg. Yonkers.
Printed in decorative green and gold lettering on title page, C: Album \ OF \ PHOTOGRAPHS
Printed in gold on page 7, TC: INDEX OF PORTRAITS. \ [list numbered 1-24, 25-30 continued on page 8]
Inscribed in pencil on list on page 7: Father \ Uncle Doc
Inscribed in pencil on page 39, LC: W.W.H.
Inscribed in pencil on page 3. TRC: [illegible] \ 3 25
Inscribed in pencil on title page, TC: Mr. Flagg. Yonkers.
Printed in decorative green and gold lettering on title page, C: Album \ OF \ PHOTOGRAPHS
Printed in gold on page 7, TC: INDEX OF PORTRAITS. \ [list numbered 1-24, 25-30 continued on page 8]
Inscribed in pencil on list on page 7: Father \ Uncle Doc
Inscribed in pencil on page 39, LC: W.W.H.
