Photographs Collected by Henry Hobson Richardson, 1870-1885 (inclusive): An Inventory.

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Photographs Collected by Henry Hobson Richardson, 1870-1885 (inclusive): An Inventory.

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The photographs which comprise this collection were assembled by Henry Hobson Richardson and include photographs of sites, structures and works of art in Europe, the United States and Asia. The photographs were arranged thematically by Richardson under a variety of rubrics and include building types, components, materials and geographical location. Although the bulk of the photographs were acquired in the 1870s and 1880s, some are of earlier vintages. Photographers represented include Felton, Baldus, Jackson, as well as a number of established specialty studios (i.e., Fratelli Alinari).

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Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

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Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886

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Architect Henry Hobson Richardson was born and raised in Louisiana. He attended Harvard College (class of 1859) and was the second American to enroll in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon his return in 1866, he opened a small office in New York City in partnership with Charles Gambrill. In 1872 he received the design commission for Trinity Church in Boston and in 1874 he moved his home and office to Brookline to handle his growing practice in New England. The following years were to be the ...