Washington College around 1870
the year that President Robert E. Lee died
and Washington College became
Washington and Lee University
my school

from a 16x20 glass plate negative
taken by photographer Michael Miley
who came to Lexington in 1865
when Gen. Robert E. Lee became
President of the College

I found boxes of these glass plates
carefully stored... many to a box
in the attic of the Journalism Department
and was amazed when I got permission
to take them out and print them

11x14 inches was the largest sheet I had
so this is just a portion of the full plate's image

40 years later I scanned the print in sections
and stitched the sections together in Matlab

A pretty good, 5.4MB JPG is available
here

and the full, 87 MB, 16000x13000 TIF is
HERE


move the cursor over the image to see enlargements
or just click "forward" to take a tour