[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s

New York: 1951-1955.

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. Small quarto. Measuring 7" x 10". Brad-bound brown leatherette photo album with gilt decorations. Contains 53 black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring around 3" x 3.5", some with captions. Very good with slight mustiness and spotting with near fine photographs.

A photo album kept by a female student at a college in New York in the 1950s. It is unclear where she attended but her roommates and friends are photographed donning Cornell University and Cortland State (in Cortland, New York) sweatshirts throughout the album. The girls are photographed in their dorm rooms, drinking sodas, knitting, and posed together, often sitting on each other’s laps and smiling. Other images show the girls around campus and participating in campus activities such as their 1952 Homecoming. One photo captioned “my birthday 1952” shows girls in a dorm bed eating ice cream. They had Christmas get-togethers, costume parties, and performances which included the compiler doing a hula dance. They are photographed around a skeleton with one woman holding an anatomy book possibly for a yearbook photo. Other images show a girl roller skating, girls studying on blankets in the sun, and on-stage at a comedy performance.

A wonderful collection of photographs depicting a woman’s time in college.


Item #416978

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Item #416978 [Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s
[Photo Album]: Women at College in 1950s