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Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896,. 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment carte de visiet album, 1862-ca. 1865.

Title: 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment carte de visiet album, 1862-ca. 1865.

Forty-three carte de visite portraits of members of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of the Civil War, taken from 1862 to ca. 1865. Subjects include Henry Livermore Abbott, Captain William Francis Bartlett, Caspar Crowninshield, Edward N. Hallowell, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William Raymond Lee, James Jackson Lowell, George Brinton McClellan, Francis Palfrey, William Lowell Putnam, Paul Joseph Revere, John Sedgwick, and Edwin Vose Sumner, among many others. There are also a small number of cartes de visite of members of the 9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery and the 7th Michigan Infantry Regiment. Photographers include James Wallace Black, Frederick L. Lay, and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass., as well as Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery of Washington, D.C., among others.

ArchivalResource: 43 photographs in 1 box : cartes de visite, b&w ; 10 x 6 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51443038 View

Adams, Charles Francis, 1866-1954. Crowninshield-Magnus papers, 1834-1965.

Title: Crowninshield-Magnus papers, 1834-1965.

Correspondence and diaries of Gen. Caspar Crowninshield (1837-1897), of Boston, Mass., including letters to his mother describing activities, campaigns, and military responsibilities in the Civil War, during which he served as an officer with the 20th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Company E of the 1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, and the 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry; correspondence (1916-65) of his granddaughter, Constance Crowninshield (Coolidge) Magnus (1892-1973), describing her activities and social life as wife of a U.S. diplomat in Tokyo, Peking, and Paris; and other Crowninshield and Coolidge family papers. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954), Lady Astor, Phillips Brooks, W. Somerset Maugham, H.G. Wells, the Duchess of Windsor, and Leonard Wood. Also included is a notebook containing photocopies of the Civil War letters, 1863-1865.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes and 1 notebook.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17022117 View

Letters to Harold Fletcher from prominent Boston citizens

Title: Letters to Harold Fletcher from prominent Boston citizens

Letters from prominent Boston citizens thanking Harold Fletcher, a prominent artisan, for his work restoring their paintings.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00144 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, oversize, ca. 1829-1985

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, oversize, ca. 1829-1985

Oversized photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic feet; 34 boxes; 880 photographs

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua01009/catalog View