Cornerstone laying 6/7/11; N.M. Butler; Seth Low (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Cornerstone laying 6/7/11; N.M. Butler; Seth Low
1911 June 7.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negative.
Photo shows Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947), president of Columbia
University and Seth Low, former Columbia president and former Mayor of
New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009.)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09439
Call Number: LC-B2- 2230-15
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Wystan (39 months ago | reply)
Photo bears date June 7, 1911, as does the cornerstone itself:
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/216 3478442/in/p...
The gentlemen identified by name are Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, and Seth Low, former Columbia president and former Mayor of New York City, who in 1911 was chairman of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The son of a wealthy China trader, Low had donated the Low Memorial Library to Columbia University, naming it for his father.
Anne (LOC P&P) (39 months ago | reply)
Wystan: Thanks for bringing our attention to the date on the negative, and for the more complete information about Butler and Low. We'll add these to the record next time we update.
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