Hampden-Sydney Student Daguerreotypes

Location of collection:

Hampden-Sydney College

Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections

Walter M. Bortz III Library

P.O. Box 7

Hampden-Sydney VA 23943

Contact for questions and access:

Email: reference@hsc.edu

Phone: (434) 223-6302

Phone: (434) 223-7225

Web: libguides.hsc.edu/archives

Summary

Extent:

8 Photographic Prints

Language:

English .

Background

Scope and content:

Note from sellerSeven quarter plate daguerreotypes were originally framed together with a hand-written calligraphic label inditifying the students, all members of either the Union or Philanthropic Literary Societies. Photo Credit to G. W. Minnis of Petersburgh, VA, dated June 12, 1851. The images and the label were originally found in an uncased pile of bare daguerreotype plates.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Hampden-Sydney College