• Unknown (photographer)
• W. E. Decrow (author)

Yale and the City of Elms

1882

This album, intended chiefly as a guide for strangers visiting the University of Yale, New Haven (Connecticut, USA), is illustrated with 34 photogravures of several buildings of the campus. The title page reads : 'Yale and "The "City of Elms" by W.E. Decrow. It is illustrated with heliotypes of all the principal college buildings, a plan of the college grounds, and a map of the city of New Haven. Boston, W.E. Decrow, 238 Washington Street, 1882'. Yale University is portrayed through it's main buildings : South, South Middle, North-Middle, North, the Athenaeum, the old chapel, Lyceum, Battell Chapel, Yale School of Fine Arts, Peabody Museum, Treasury, Reading Room, Old Laboratory, Gymnasium, Library, Student's room in Durfee, West Divinity, Mason Library, Marquand Chapel, Yale Medical School, Yale Boat House, Hamilton Park, The New Haven House and Hopkins Grammar School as well as several halls : Berzelius, Farnam, Durfee, Alumni, North Sheffield, East Divinity, Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Psi Upsilon, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Yale Law School City Hall.

Photogravures

album: 19,5 x 14,8 x 2,2 cm pages: 19 x 13,6 cm

PH1979:0608

• exterior views

- Dark blue fabric covered coverboards with gilt and black lettering and gilt black motifs on front cover.

inscribed, imprinted, dated and numbered

New Haven Connecticut United States

• architecture

• schools
• museum
• library (building)
• halls
• buildings
• churches
• park (grounds)
• college
• map
• boathouse
• university buildings