File:Hardenbergh Queen's College 1774 Commencement Address (Rutgers).jpg

The handwritten draft of the Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh's 1774 Queen's College commencement address, this first graduating class at Queen's (now Rutgers University). Hardenbergh would become the school's first president.

In the collection of Special Collections and University Archives, at Rutgers University's Alexander Library in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

This image is a two-dimensional (2D) scan or photograph of the a work that is in the public domain due to its age (1774). Therefore, it is not eligible for copyright protection, pursuant to Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999).

Original publication: 1774
Immediate source: (page) http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/ru_historical_sketch-p1.shtml - (image) http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/images-ru_historical_sketch/09_HardenberghSpeech.jpg

created 1774, handwritten draft in university archives. no known publication.

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1735/6-1790)
(Life time: 1790)

Created 1774 by individual who died in 1790. This is only a 2D scan of an artifact in the public domain