Hampden-Sydney Student Daguerreotypes
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-000127
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.
One additional daguerreotype is also included with the collection, provenance unknown, in one half of a photo case dated 1851.
Dates
- 1851
Extent
8 Photographic Prints
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Hampden-Sydney Student Daguerreotypes
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sarah E. Almond
- Date
- 2023-08-18
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
Hampden-Sydney College
Walter M. Bortz III Library
P.O. Box 7
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 United States
(434) 223-7225
dion@hsc.edu
Hampden-Sydney College
Walter M. Bortz III Library
P.O. Box 7
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 United States
(434) 223-7225
dion@hsc.edu