(RHODE ISLAND) Photograph album for the Brown University Cla

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(RHODE ISLAND.) Photograph album for the Brown University Class of 1867. 56 mounted photographs by George Kendall Warren (signed in negative), including 9 campus views, 37 members of the Class of 1867, and 10 portraits of the faculty and staff (most signed and the others captioned in manuscript). 4to, original gilt morocco, moderate wear, backstrip partly detached; minor wear to contents; all edges gilt. Providence, RI, 1867

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Highlights include a view up College Street toward University Hall; a group portrait of the Class of 1867 on the college green; three faculty members who have lent their names to dormitories on Wriston Quad (Sears, Harkness, and Diman); and confectionary seller John Reaves ("Prof. of Candy & Sich"). Among the 1867 graduates shown are entomologist Joseph Bridgham; early white NAACP supporter Edward Osgood Brown; composer Lucien G. Chaffin; engineer and library benefactor Elmer Corthell, an artillery captain in the Civil War; Indiana Jewish leader John Mantle Judah; Civil War veteran James McWhinnie, who lost a leg at Chancellorsville; the Rev. Calbraith Bourne Perry, author of "Twelve Years among the Colored People"; and Martin S. Smith, a veteran officer of the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment (Colored).