(BOURKE WHITE MARGARET) Cornell University A Book of Views

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WITH 3 BOURKE-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS (BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET.) Cornell University: A Book of Views. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of photographs by John P. Troy of the Cornell campus, students, and activities. Oblong folio, stamped pictorial leather, lightly soiled; minor wear, otherwise bright and clean. first edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Unversity, 1925

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with--Laid in are 3 views of Cornell's campus by Margaret Bourke-White. Silver prints, 2 approximately 9 1/2x8 inches (24x20.3 cm.) and one 10 1/2x5 1/2 inches (26.7x14 cm.), all signed, in pencil, on recto. Late 1920s.

As a student at Cornell Unversity (who graduated in 1927), Bourke-White made photographic studies of the campus for the Cornell Alumni News, which served as the basis for her first portfolio as a professional photographer. These images may be from that series.