Antique large photo of University

I got this Thursday last week at a Family estate sale that posted in paper 70 years of stuff. This is the first thing I grabbed and started making a pile, after about 2 hours of rummaging through boxes and yard, my pile was pretty big all for $30.
Anyways, I cannot find this photo online nor have I taken out of frame to see what signature is at bottom.
Any ideas on this photo ?

Thank You

 

Here you go, Billy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_University

Debora

 

Maybe from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada?

Check their coat of arms on this page: http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/convocation/history/coat-arms

It appears that it would be from the department of Arts.

Oooh, Debora just answered with a different link!

 

From Debora's link I see that it was called Queen's College before 1912.

 

Thanks Debora, I seen that but I wanted to know about the photo, I can't find another like it.

 

Very likely there isn't one, Billy. You appear to have a photograph of the Arts Department's graduating class of 1897. Probably only a small number of copies were produced; probably only a small number (if any others) survived.

Debora

 

This format (with small images of a large group of people) is referred to as a "composite." Don't know whether that would make any difference in search terms for another copy.

The nice thing about this one is that the people seem to be identified (originally handwritten signatures were done "in the negative" and not on the copy you have.)

 

Very cool, Thank You Debora