Rutgers College Class of "60"
date: label: Date made
content: 1860
name: label: maker
content: Warren, George Kendall
notes: label: Description
content: Photographic album, class book (yearbook), from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1860, photographs by George Kendall Warren, owned by Texan George McNeel. Photographs include professors and college president, students, the photographer, and one woman. Messages to owner of the album occassionally express pre-Civil War tensions.
label: Description
content: This yearbook from 1860 was owned by George McNeel. In the same way that we ask our friends and teachers to sign our yearbooks today, so did McNeel. McNeel was from Texas and was graduating on the eve of the Civil War. The tensions surrounding the potential seccession of the southern states is evident in number of comments made by his professors and fellow students as they ask him to "remember the Union". McNeel and his two brothers, also Rutgers graduates, would die as Confederate officers in the Civil War just a few years later.
label: Description
content: Unlike today's yearbooks, this one was constructed by hand. The owner got to decide what photographs of campus and which people he wanted in the yearbook. The photographer's photograph is even in the yearbook.
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0149.1
label: accession number
content: 2003.0149
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0149.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph, album
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/4 in x 11 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 37.465 cm x 29.21 cm x 4.445 cm