Antique Print CCNY CUNY The College of the City of New York corner of Lexington Avenue & 23rd St 1868 Hand Colored Wood Engraving framed The shape is simple

The shape is simple

Thanks to the information written by the artist — Caroline Emmet Heald — on the top wood stretcher

Over the years

1890) in New York by E

we would never have known it was done by a woman artist in Hagerstown

Antique Print CCNY CUNY The College of the City of New York corner of Lexington Avenue & 23rd St 1868 Hand Colored Wood Engraving framed The shape is simpleThe City College of New York ( CCNY CUNY ) was originally founded in 1847 as the Free Academy of the City of New York. It was established to provide children of immigrants and the poor access to free higher education based on academic merit alone. It opened in 1849. In 1866 the Free Academy was renamed The College of the City of New York. This wood engraving was published two years later in the 1868 Shannons Manual. Joseph Shannon was the author of