Carte de visite photographs

The Walter H. Downs Wesleyan College and Atalanta Boat Club photographs consists of alumnus Walter H. Downs’s personal photographs from his time on the rowing team.

The collection contains primarily nineteenth century individual portrait photographs. A small portion of photographs are of identified individuals. When the photographer or sitter is known, the identification is noted in the listing. The images include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes (also called ferrotypes), card images, and card images in an album. Most dates are approximate ones determined by internal evidence.