Holmes family photographs and memorabilia, 1814-1955.

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Charles Sumner

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Tudor, Henry D. (Henry Dubois), 1874-1962

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Mary Holmes.

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Closson, William Baxter Palmer, 1848-1926

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American painter and engraver. From the description of Manuscript memorandum of agreement between William B. Closson and Harper & Brothers : New York, 1884 Jan. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129904 ...

Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes

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Holmes family.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) was an essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy. He received his A.B. in 1829 and his medical degree in 1836 (both from Harvard), practiced medicine for ten years, spent two years teaching anatomy at Dartmouth College, and then became professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard. Later he was made dean of the Harvard Medical School until 1882. He was notable for his medical research and teaching, especially in calling attention to the contagiou...

Holmes, Edward Jackson.

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Boynton & Heald

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Southworth & Hawes

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Attributed to the photographic firm of Southworth & Hawes. This photographic print was one of a series of prints that formed a panoramic view of the city of Boston taken from the State House in 1858. The individual prints have been reproduced several times; this particular print probably dates from the late nineteenth century. From the description of View from the State House, looking North East [graphic]. [1858] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 70822186 ...

Mary S. Holmes.

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Amelia Jackson.

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Wigglesworth, Thomas.

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E. J. Holmes

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Holmes, Edward J.

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NY Photogravure company.

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Amelia Jackson Holmes Sargent.

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Bufford Eng. & Lith. Co.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...

Notman Photographic Co.

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William Fabens

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Harris & Ewing

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Harris & Ewing was a prominent studio in Washington, D.C., well known for its portraits of government officials. From the description of Group portraits of members of the United States Supreme Court : photographic prints, ca. 1925-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864104 Biographical note Herbert G. Klein (1918-2009) enjoyed a long and successful career in the fields of journalism and communications. He worked a...

William Hunter

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Bushby, Macurdy & Fritz

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Warren

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Silsbee, Case &Co.

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Elliott and Fry

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Allen & Rowell

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Allen & Rowell was a photographic studio in Boston, Massachussetts active between 1874 and 1892. From the description of Allen & Rowell photographs of Civil War paintings, circa 1870s-1890s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367890955 ...

Edward Jackson Holmes

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