Antique Print of Memorial Hall in Cambridge, '1887'

Name: Antique Print of Memorial Hall in Cambridge, '1887'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: JAK-733
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1887
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23 × 30 cm (9.1 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Protection sheet attached. Blank verso, please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Massachusetts
Reference: JAK-733

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Memorial Hall at Harvard University in Cambridge, an original print from Voyages and Travels Illustrated, published by E. W. Walker & Co. and dated 1887. The image is a photographic view printed in blue-gray tone on a larger cream sheet, titled "Memorial Hall" in script, with "Cambridge, Mass." beneath.

The hall is seen from across the street at an angle, with the bare trees of winter in the foreground. Its tall central tower with a steep roof and pointed dormers rises over a long brick building with a rounded transept end, banded masonry, tall pointed windows and an ornate gabled front at the left. An iron fence runs along the edge of the grounds, and a street sign is just visible at the left margin.

Memorial Hall was built at Harvard in the 1870s in honor of the university's men who died in the Union cause in the Civil War, in the High Victorian Gothic style.

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