Album with 33 mounted oval photographs; salt prints and albumen prints, touched up in ink, some with full color applied. The photographs show members of the classes from 1859-1863, Below each image, the sitter signed his name, address and class affiliation. Also included are two hand-colored photographic reproductions of local views. (8vo) 22x15.2 cm (9x6"), embossed full brown morocco, gilt lettering and all edges gilt.

Marietta College, founded in 1832, was one of the earliest schools of higher education in the mid-west. By 1860, the discovery of oil nearby established an economic boom for this Ohio region and its regional college. Many of the young men pictured in this album joined the Union Army. One, Lt. Colonel Rufus R. Dawes, distinguished himself at the battle of Gettysburg.