Photographs of the Harvard University campus and environs taken by William M. Rittase, ca. 1930

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Photographs of the Harvard University campus and environs taken by William M. Rittase, ca. 1930

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William M. Rittase was an American photographer active in the 1920s and 1930sprincipally known as an industrial photographer. This collection consists of 87 black and whitephotographic prints depicting Harvard University buildings in Cambridge and Boston, Massachuettsand the Charles River and Weeks Footbridge.

2.44 cubic feet; (87 photographic prints (4 flat photo boxes ))

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385445

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Rittase, William M., 1894-1968

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William M. Rittase (January 16, 1887-October 28, 1968) was an American photographer active in Philadelphia during the 1920s and 1930s. He was known for his industrial photography commissioned for articles and advertisements and his photographs appeared frequently in Fortune magazine and other periodicals in the 1930s. His work was included in Lincoln Kirstein’s 1930 Harvard Society for Contemporary Art exhibition among numerous other exhibitions. Rittase was affiliated with the Camera Pictoriali...