My imagination: ‘Chemistry’ was a 1980s new wave/post-punk band (à la ‘The Talking Heads’) and this was the cover of their one and only full length album.
Some selections from the 1967 yearbook of the Pratt Institute of New York. Some of these images could be promotional material for bands or even covers for some post-rock albums. That ‘Mathematics’ image looks like a band that might orbit They Might Be Giants. Hell, the ‘Chemical’ and ‘Mechanical’ engineering photos could be a Ska bands.