Rutgers, 1849 he much-reprinted 1849 lithograph of the college is a lush, idealized booster's view of its subject, though many of its details are accurate. The saplings on the curb side of the sidewalk in the foreground, for example, and the rest of the vegetation can be seen in later lithographs and photographs to have grown. The figures on the walk in the left center wear the medieval scholar's gowns mentioned as student's daily dress in accounts of life in the early college. The gowns were just going out of fashion at this time and were revived as graduation dress in the early twentieth century. The figures in the horse-drawn barouche are A. Bruyn Hasbrouck--the president of Rutgers from 1840-1849-- and his wife.