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This print is from a rare portfolio of high quality photogravure prints dating from 1897. The printing method was the mechanical photogravure-- an extremely high-end printing method of the Victorian/Edwardian era that delivered incredible detail and no dot matrix pattern.

The print depicts the Nebraska Hall (then the Museum and Science Hall) at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln Nebraska. This was back when it was called Lincoln City and had a population of of 55,000.

You can clearly see details in the buildings.

Nebraska Hall was located at the northeast corner of the original campus at approximately 11th and T. It was constructed of red brick with a limestone foundation, Colorado red sandstone decorative elements, and a slate roof. It contained three stories and housed the old Industrial College, which existed from the 1880's until it was divided to create the separate Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering. Faculty offices, classrooms, the original museum collections, and laboratories were contained in Nebraska Hall. Nebraska Hall was dedicated at Commencement exercises in June1888. Structurally unstable, it was probably constructed of the poor quality limestone that was the ruin of many early Lincoln buildings. Prior to opening of the first Museum in 1906 it housed the collections, and it was reported that the first floor collapsed under the weight of the Museum's collections. By 1913 this building was notoriously unsafe and considered a terrible fire trap. In 1925 the upper floors were removed at the same time the upper floors were removed from University Hall. Nebraska Hall remained on campus in a truncated state for nearly forty years. It was finally demolished in 1961.

This incredibly beautiful photogravure is single-sided. It has tons of detail in this print, and beautiful tones. This would look wonderful framed.

The grey page measures 6.5 x 5. inches (16.4 x 12 cm), and the actual image area is about 5.4 x 3.8 inches (13.7 x 9.8 cm).