c.1914 CORNELL UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

300+ PHOTOGRAPHS, CAMPUS VIEWS, SPORTS, INTIMATE STUDENT LIFE, FRATERNITY FUNCTIONS, INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP TRAVEL, SAILING, DOMESTIC US TRAVEL, ETC.

c.1914 CORNELL UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. [Various places, including Cornell Campus, Ithaca, NY; the Great Lakes; Newport, RI; Redwood Forest, CA; Norway, Rome, other European cities, numerous ports, etc.]: [No Photographer Identified], [No Dates, but circa 1914]. Photograph album, limp black cloth (10 x 12 inches). Illustrated with more than 300 vintage black-and-white photographs, mostly mounted to album leaves, some loosely laid in. The photographs are various sizes, mostly snapshots, plus a few professional photographs, several real photo postcards, etc. Some of the views of Cornell Campus buildings are circa 8 x 10 inches; many of the snapshots are 2.75 x 1.5  inches. Most of the photographs are of a group of male students, at work and play, on and off campus, at home and traveling abroad.

Some of the highlights are:

• Cornell students mud wrestling, and other “field day” games, playing football?, etc. 

• Cornell crew team group photo

• The Cornell Widow humor magazine crew baseball team in costume: “Widow.”

• Godwin Smith Hall

• Sage Chapel

• Playing football

• Company A Cadet Corps in formation

• Psi Tau Fraternity formal dance group photograph

• Cornell students parade in costume

• Multiple photos of male students theatrically dressed in women’s clothing for dramatic productions or costume parties

• Cornell students' residences, studies, campus buildings, etc.

• Lehigh Valley Railroad

• Steamship photographs

• Yachting and sailing photographs

• Views of European cities and ports, including Norway

The album is quite worn, with several leaves detached, acidic album paper torn and chipped, few photographs detached, etc. It's exactly as I found it. Please examine the photographs provided to help assess condition. This is a wonderful photograph album, richly documenting student life at Cornell, and international steamship and yacht travel, including some private moments and intimate details of an affluent Cornell student's globe-trotting life.

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