(MASSACHUSETTS) Photograph album yearbook from the Harvard

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Photograph album / yearbook from the Harvard Class of 1864. 142 varnished salt paper prints mounted on paper, each with a brief caption in pencil on mount, bound with printed title page reading "Photographs 1864" and bearing the Harvard seal, and 3 printed section titles. Folio, original full morocco, minor wear, rejointed, with name of class member Prentiss Cummings in gilt on front board; foxing to tissue guards but photographs and mounts generally fresh. [Cambridge, MA, 1864]

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The album begins with 18 "views," most of campus buildings, but also 5 group portraits of student clubs including Hasty Pudding and Phi Beta Kappa, and one of the staff--the "Campus Goodies." Among the 23 "officers" are faculty members James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Agassiz, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's son, is the most noteworthy among the 101 graduate portraits.