Description: The Class of 1861, Harvard College Cambridge, Mass., Riverside, 1861, large quarto, yearbook album with 110 oval salt print portraits, measuring 6 x 5 inches, 28 of faculty members, each signed, one of the African American porter, (unsigned), plus 82 portraits of class members, all but four of which are signed by the subject with their hometown, binding worn, backstrip defective, front board missing, images are in good clean condition. The faculty include the photographs and signatures of several prominent scholars and educators including: historian and regent of the Smithsonian Institution Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862), preacher and author Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893), biologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888), philosopher Francis Bowen (1811-1890), musical scholar Francis James Child (1825-1896), modern Greek scholar Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (1807-1883), Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) who would transform Harvard and be its longest-serving president.
Price: 3000 USD
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-11-02T14:54:24.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Type: Photograph
Theme: Colleges & Universities
Production Technique: Salt Print
Year of Production: 1861
Antique: Yes
Size: 6 x 5
Image Color: Black & White
Material: Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: People
Vintage: Yes
Format: Album
Photographer: unknown
Number of Photographs: 110
Style: Portrait
Features: Signed
Time Period Manufactured: 1850-1899
Featured Person/Artist: Harvard Faculty and Students
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
