The Class of 1861, Harvard College
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Seller
- Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 31071
- Title
- The Class of 1861, Harvard College
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Photograph Album, Photography, Harvard College, Class of 1861, Pictorial Americana
Terms of Sale
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
About the Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
About Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...