Vintage Map of Yale University, 1906

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The oldest map in our collection. A 1906 bird's-eye of Yale's New Haven campus — America's third-oldest college rendered at the turn of its Collegiate Gothic era. Yale was chartered in 1701, but the campus on this 1906 map is the one most faculty picture when they think "Yale": Old Campus with its quadrangle of Victorian Gothic, the Old Brick Row still partially standing, and Harkness Memorial Tower still fifteen years in the future. Bird's-eye maps of this vintage captured universities at an architectural turning point — right before Yale's wholesale transformation into the stone-and-mullioned campus we recognize today. A rare-year piece. This is the earliest map Ted's catalogs for any American university, and the one humanities and law faculty seem to gravitate toward first. DETAILS - Source map: 1906, New Haven, Connecticut - Cartography: Bird's-eye aerial perspective - Print sizes: 12×18, 18×24, 24×36, 32×48, 40×60 (varies by option) - Finishes: unframed print, black frame, walnut frame, natural frame, canvas ABOUT TED'S VINTAGE ART Ted's digitally restores historic maps and prints each piece to order. Framed versions use solid wood with UV-protective glass; canvas prints are stretched over solid wooden bars. Because each print is made when you order it, allow a few extra days for production.