Visual Materials

Harvard College 1871

Image not available

Description: An album of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with photographs of faculty, students, and college buildings. Among the better-known subjects who have been identified are Richard Henry Dana, William Elwood Byerly, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Arthur Rotch. Most of the photographs are studio portraits of individuals, but there are also seven photographs of buildings and the grounds and four group photographs, one of which shows the Harvard baseball team and Everett Athenaeum. The last photograph shows a group of women and three children sitting on steps in front of a brick building.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1871
Call number: photCL 67
Provenance: Purchased, November 6, 1951.
Dimensions: images 12 x 9 cm-15 x 20 cm, sheets 34 x 28 cm, album 35 x 32 cm

Group 498 part a (correspondence, 1904-1930): Harvard College (including correspondence with C. Chester Lane, Harvard University Press, and Harvard University entities)

Manuscripts

Regular correspondence begins in 1906, but this group also includes a separated envelope of correspondence labeled "Correspondence in regard to foundation and equipment of a University Press at Harvard College, 1904-1906."

mssMerrymount

Image not available

HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY -- AD HOC COMMITTEES [17]

Additional Formats

[Material from committees appointed by Harvard to: (1) examine the long-range future of astronomy at Harvard. The members were J. Robert Oppenheimer (chair), RFBacher, ISBowen, CDShane, & BStrömgren; (2) make recommendations with regard to the directorship of the Harvard College Observatory. Members were ISB, Oppenheimer, Edward Mills Purcell, Shane, & Bacher. Corresp: BJBok; Harlow Shapley; Paul H. Buck {HU Provost}; David W. Bailey; Oppenheimer]

Bowen

Image not available

Jesus College, Cambridge

Visual Materials

A photograph album containing scenes in and around Jesus College, Cambridge University, England. Includes views of the various campus buildings and grounds, as well as interiors of student rooms; group portraits of students and pictures of sporting events such as cricket, track, and rowing and crew regattas. Most photographs are embossed with the imprint: "Messrs. Stearn Photos, Cambridge."

photCL 430

Image not available

Ambassador College

Visual Materials

Photographs of Ambassador College students, classrooms, buildings and grounds, and Herbert Armstrong.

photCL MLP 3314

Image not available

[Ambassador College]

Visual Materials

Photographs of Herbert Armstrong in portrait format, teaching classes at Ambassador College, seated in meetings. Also includes views of offices, buildings and grounds, students in classrooms, and educational facilities.

photCL MLP 3321

Image not available

Harvard Library

Visual Materials

A personal photograph album of 104 images with handwritten captions chiefly depicting Chester A. Thomas (1874-1920) and Thomas family members between 1892 and 1898 in mining camps in Nevada (pages 1-29); at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California (pages 30-33); visiting Harvard University and Cambridge, Massachusetts (pages 38-49); and at Camp Merritt at the Presidio, San Francisco, in 1898 (pages 33-37 and 50-65). The album includes 20 cyanotype photographs (12.5 x 16.5 cm) of the mining camps in Virginia City and Sutro, Nevada (where Thomas's father, Charles Thomas, was superintendent of the Sutro tunnel), including: mining equipment, miners, locomotive cars, interior views of the mine shaft, buildings and mules. Some of the images are of Camp Merritt, at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, where California volunteers assembled in May-June 1898 for transport to the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Thomas, a member of Company K of the United States Cavalry Volunteers, is depicted as well as other soldiers, including members of the 51st Iowa Volunteers.

photCL 144

Harvard College 1871

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Group 498 part a (correspondence, 1904-1930): Harvard College (including correspondence with C. Chester Lane, Harvard University Press, and Harvard University entities)

HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY -- AD HOC COMMITTEES [17]

Jesus College, Cambridge

Ambassador College

[Ambassador College]

Harvard Library