(HARVARD) Class album entitled Harvard College Photographs C

Sale 1947 - Lot 32

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Class album entitled "Harvard College Photographs, Class of 1866" containing 140 photographs comprising 25 of the school's professors and administrators, 102 individual portraits of students, 5 group photographs, and 8 views of the campus. Albumen prints, 7¾x5¾ to 5¾x4½ inches (19.7x14.6 to 14.6x11.4 cm.), some with a Warren Photo credit in the negative. Folio, gilt-stamped brown morocco, lightly worn, contents clean and tight. 1866

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Notable sitters include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, zoologist Louis Agassiz, poet James Russell Lowell, biologist Jeffries Wyman, and former school presidents Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, James Walker, Cornelius C. Felton, Andrew Peabody and Thomas Hill. Also included is a wonderful group portrait, probably of Agassiz's zoology students, with cranes, eagles, a human skeleton, and large jaw bones.<