Picturing Hampden Sydney Students Before The War

As I'm sitting here editing a chapter on student literary societies and their magazines, I'm happy to report that Rob Luther sent along a most exciting link recently.  It's to a story in the Hampden-Sydney alumni magazine called "Digging Up Daguerreotypes."  The story has a set of photographs of Hampden-Sydney (though I think before the war there was no hyphen) students from the class of 1851.  I wish I had more photographs of colleges, students, faculty, and the people each of those groups owned, from before the War.  So I guess I'm all the more grateful for the photographs we do have.  I spend so much time trying to get inside the minds of students and faculty it's nice on occasion to look at them face to face, as it were.  The image is a dormitory on Hampden-Sydney's campus, which I think was part of the Union Theological Seminary back in the 1850s when it was in Prince Edward County (before its move to Richmond).