VERY RARE 1864 CDV ALBUM: WILLIAMS COLLEGE CLASS OF 1866!!

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Purchased from a private collection of rare antique photography- lovingly collected for decades- this diminutive "Class of 1866" CDV album from Williams College in Massachusetts is one of the collection's most rare gems! This lovely gilt-paged leather-bound album (measuring 3 1/2" x 4 5/8" x 1") belonged to Eugene Delano, a famous New York banker (future co- owner, Brown Bros & Co.), and whose son, William Delano, was to become one of New York's greatest architects! The architectural works collection is curated at Columbia University. Our volume of sixteen albumen prints is worn, but the photographs (CDVs) are pristine, having been protected from light for over a century and a half! Photographer Charles D. Fredericks was one of the fathers of early photography, and was among the first and most well-known New York daguerreotypists. Hopkins Observatory, which is pictured twice in the album, is the oldest observatory in the United States and is still in existence. Our little spruce green album's spine is still intact despite half of the leather binding, as well as its leather strap slip closure, having been worn away. The cover still bears intact and delicately printed end papers in front and back of volume; frontispiece in cream is also intact and has very little soil, with Mr. Delano's pencil script denoting when the album was either read more

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