Photographs : buildings, portraits and subjects, ca. 1970-1985.

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Photographs : buildings, portraits and subjects, ca. 1970-1985.

Contains black-and-white, 8x10 prints, including portraits of faculty, students, visitors, and honorary degree recipients, in addition to photographs of views and events at Harvard. The Harvard 350th folder includes a set of color prints from that event. Also includes historic photographs of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Includes some negatives and contact sheets.

0.7 cubic foot in 3 containers.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7092913

Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Harvard University. News Office

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The Harvard University News Office was established in 1919. From the description of Press releases, 1919-1997. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064162 Paul Julius Weber, a well-known architectural photographer, was born on April 3, 1881 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was married to Florence A. Weber, and the couple had two daughters. Weber worked in the Boston area during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1929, Paul J. Weber was hir...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...