Group photograph of the purported graduating class of the New York State Library School at Albany. A name and date on the back of the image, "Jay Ferguson, 19 May, 1902," may record the photographer and date the picture was taken, but this is not certain. Also on the back of the image are listed the students' names and the name of the municipality in which the student resided before his or her entrance into the school. The students' names and place of residence prior to entrance to the Library School, in the order they appear on the list on the back of the image, are as follows: Zaidee M. Brown (Palo Alto, Calif.), Annie E. Draper (Auburn, N.Y.), Florence T. Blunt (Haverhill, Mass.), Julia M. Whittlesey (Cleveland, Ohio), Ella R. Seligsberg (New York, N.Y.), Malcolm J. Wyer (Excelsior, Minn), Martha Larsen (Kristiania, Norway), Bertha I. Bennett (Ilion, N.Y.), Grace D. Chapman (Cleveland, Ohio), Marian Patterson (Jamestown, N.Y.), Edwin M. Jenks (Boston, Mass.), Louise V. Katz (at large), Charlotte E. Groves (Coudersport, Pa.), June Richardson Donnelly (Cincinnati, Ohio), William M. Hepburn (Pictou, Nova Scotia), Corinne Bacon (New Britain, Conn.), Everett R. Perry (Worcester, Mass.), Walter Lowrie Barnes (Columbus, Ohio), George R. Marvin (Brookline, Mass.), Peter Nelson (Marquette, Mich.), Robert Morrill McCurdy (Andover, Mass.), Mary E. Eastwood (Albany, N.Y.), Caroline E. Waters (Chardon, Ohio).
