Vassar College Digitizes Glass Plate Negative Collection
Vassar College has a new digitized collection of glass plate negatives. “Although class trees and the events around them don’t have much presence on campus now, it was a big deal 85 years ago, involving dove-releasing, secret rites and digging the hole using Matthew Vassar’s silver spade. The tree ceremonies were documented by a series of images dating from 1904 to 1935. This series of visual materials can be found in the ‘Glass Plates Negatives’ collection at Vassar’s digital library. With 870 images in total, the collection was recently conserved and digitized at an off-campus conservation center.”