Details
Creator Suddards & Fennemore, photographer.
Contributor Prichett, Thomas Barclay, former owner.
Title Class of '78, University of Pennsylvania. [graphic] / Suddards & Fennemore, Photo. 820 Arch St., Phila.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1878
Date [1878]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen mounted on cardboard ; mount 43 x 35 cm (27 x 13.75 in.)
Description Group portrait of male students, attired in suits and most with hats and canes, including an African American man, posed on the steps of College Hall. According to the University's history, the first African American student matriculated in 1879.
Notes Title from mount.
Manuscript note on verso: Prichett. Probably, Thomas Barclay Prichett, University of Pennsylvania, class of 1878.
Purchase 1980.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Suddards & Fennemore, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers William L. Suddards and George H. Fennemore from around 1870 until 1879, specialized in portraiture.
Subject University of Pennsylvania -- Students.
African American college students -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Students.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Group portraits -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Prichett, Thomas Barclay, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *group portrait photographs - education [P.8612]
Accession number P.8612