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Harvard College 1871

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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
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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
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