1880s – 1890s Cornell University Class Photo Album owned by Walter Douglas

Description: Walter Douglas Young (1870-1945) ; Album Owner 1880s – 1890s Cornell University Class Photo Album owned by Walter Douglas Young of Aurora, New York and Maryland. [America. Late 19th century]. Full leather photo album with 67 cabinet card photographs. 10½ x 14 inches. Six photos have scuffing and wear and there is scattered light foxing. Overall, images are in very good to fine condition. Cornell University class photograph album owned by Walter Douglas Young (1870-1945) with his portrait and his classmates. Young was born in 1870 in Aurora, New York. After graduating from Cornell, he worked as an electrical engineer for the B&O Railroad and was president of The Electromechanical Company in Baltimore. His was in the Maryland National Guard signal corps and coast artillery. In the First World War he was a major in the Engineer Corps, US Army. Young died in Maryland in 1945. Many of Young’s classmates at Cornell were in fraternities. They autographed their class photographs, giving them to Young. They are: Juan A. Almirall (1891); Raymond Almirall (1891), architect; Leonard Thurlow Beecher (1889), co-founder of Cornell’s Chi Psi chapter; Ethelbert W. Brown, an American painter from Arizona who studied with Whistler and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Pan-Am. Exposition in Buffalo; Albert S. Crane (1891); (W.E. G___ Jr., (1894); F.M. Farwell (1891); Charles P. Knowles (1891), Pennsylvania railroad surgeon; George Milik Mashek; Voyta F. Mashek (1889); George McAlpine (1891); Harry C. Palmer; Charles W. Rassler (1889); Charles Goodwin Sands (1890), the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal is named after Sands; Claude R. Scott (1889), co-founder of Cornell’s Chi Psi chapter and “instrumental in securing for this successful fraternity the Flake-McGraw mansion in Ithaca for the chapter house”; Floyd M. Shoemaker (1888); Zalmon G. Simmons (1888); Milton Smith (1887); John B. Van Cleft (1889) of Norwich, New York; Louis E. White; and a Sidney A. ____ (1895) Eleven additional student portraits are not identified. There are also: 2 photographs that show two men, likely Young’s classmates, costumed in minstrel apparel: one man holds a tennis racked and has a model toy house attached to his costume, the other man has a sword and pistol, both have nose and ear-rings and stand over a guitar case. The other image shows two students dressed as Confederate Civil War officers. Additionally, there are five photographs of young women, alone and in groups, one group costumed; six images of Young’s future wife, Alice Gertrude Eldred (1870–1953); 6 stunning photographs of floral arrangements, likely from their wedding; 16 images of unidentified individuals that were photograph in Auburn, Aurora, and Seneca Falls, New York.Our Stock# 3731848 About Us Established in 1995, Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC buys and sells rare and antiquarian books and historical manuscripts published or created in pre-1900 America. We are located in Wilmington, Delaware. Member Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA). International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). The Manuscript Society. Ephemera Society of America. Guarantee All items are guaranteed to be as described. Authenticity is guaranteed for the lifetime of the original purchaser. As a member of the above-named trade organizations, we abide by their published code of ethics. Any item is returnable for any reason within 30 days(prior notice appreciated). If you have questions regarding our description for this item, please contact us. We will be happy to answer them. Shipping Items are expertly packed in bubble wrap and shipped in new boxes or reinforced envelopes. No International Buyers Please, no buyers outside of the USA. Feedback We leave feedback after receiving feedback from buyers. If you're unhappy with any part of your transaction with us, please let us know. Our priority is to make you happy and resolve issues promptly. © 2024 Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC. All rights reserved.

Price: 1250 USD

Location: Wilmington, DE

End Time: 2024-10-09T17:12:06.000Z

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