Princeton '99." [cover title].

New York: Pach Bros, No date [1899] First edition Commercially published photo album, oblong folio (10.5" x 14") containing 19 thick card leaves (38 pp), with photos (7.75" x 10.5" & smaller) mounted recto & verso. Original half pigskin & cloth. Presents small oval portraits (14 to a page) of 42 administrators & faculty on 3 pages, 224 students in the same format on 16 pages, 14 images (2 to a page) depicting clubs & sports teams on 7 pages, 2 panoramic views of football competition with Yale on 1 page, & 14 images showing campus architecture (1, 2, & 4 to a page) on the final 11 pages.

Binding worn: lacking backstrip, rubbed & scuffed Internally attractive excepting modest foxing & handling smudges mostly in the margins.

Pach Brothers, Photographers was founded in the mid-1860s in New York City by German-born brothers Gustavus, Gotthelf, & Morris Pach, the firm was in business until 1967. Beginning in the 1870s, in addition to their core business photographing famous and ordinary Americans, the Pach Brothers operated studios in college towns where they specialized in photographing alumni, faculty, students, & athletes at the most prestiges colleges & universities in the country including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Vassar, and West Point. This not found via OCLC (as of 8/20/2019) although a 1903 version is represented.